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My take on Wednesday's underwhelming Northern Powerhouse announcement from Heidi Alexander, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

Labour’s Northern Powerhouse Rail announcement: 10 out of 10 for sheer chutzpah northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
Labour’s Northern Powerhouse Rail announcement: 10 out of 10 for sheer chutzpah
The minister began by saying that she “get(s) why people there are sick to the back teeth of Westminster politicians promising the earth and delivering absolutely nothing.”
northeastbylines.co.uk
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How it started ... How it's going
January 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin.

“No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.”

EVERYTHING has changed.
January 17, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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The further wildly illegal abuse of tariff authority, which violates both US law & our WTO treaty obligations, on top of the violation of our NATO & UN treaty obligations, is also an impeachable offense requiring his immediate removal.
Trump says he’s imposing additional tariffs on Europe until there’s a deal on Greenland:
January 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Large protests broke out in Denmark and Greenland under the slogan “Hands off Greenland.” Crowds gathered in front of Copenhagen’s City Hall before marching to the U.S. Embassy, demanding respect for Greenlanders’ right to self-determination and opposing reported U.S. plans concerning the island.
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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It might have better if they'd chosen a British, let alone a northern picture to illustrate their article
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Just love how British politics has been obsessed about which fortunate party gets hold of a politician with a minus thirty approval rating and favourables of ten percent.
Following his defection, favourability of Robert Jenrick has fallen sharply among Tory voters since our last poll (in Oct), while being largely unchanged among Reform UK voters

2024 Con
Favourable: 23% (-7 from 13-14 Oct)
Unfavourable: 39% (+18)

2024 Ref
Favourable: 32% (+2)
Unfavourable: 22% (-3)
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE. THATS WHY HE’S HIDING/BLOCKING THE EPSTEIN/TRUMP FILES.
January 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Good news:

Darlington Council maintains Net Zero 2040 targets.

Contrast this with their neighbours up the road.

Reform-led Durham, funded by the fossil-fuel lobby, has abandoned them

Darlington climate change and nature plans “remain important priorities” northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
Darlington climate change and nature plans “remain important priorities”
Darlington Borough Council have reiterated their plan to reach net zero carbon emission by 2040 as the climate crisis worsens and there is evidence that getting to net zero will save money
northeastbylines.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Yet more "happy days" reporting from Teesside Live, with a slideshow of Darlington railway station.

What they fail to mention is that you can't visit any of this, because the project didn't open on time in December, and won't open until May at the earliest☹️

www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teessid...
PICTURES: £140m Darlington Station redevelopment progress drone shots
Progress pictures show the development of a new multi-storey car park, which will include parking for over 600 cars
www.gazettelive.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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All the children born this day forward will be so excited to ride this when they turn.

20 🫨🫨🫨
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 16, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
My take on Wednesday's underwhelming Northern Powerhouse announcement from Heidi Alexander, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

Labour’s Northern Powerhouse Rail announcement: 10 out of 10 for sheer chutzpah northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
Labour’s Northern Powerhouse Rail announcement: 10 out of 10 for sheer chutzpah
The minister began by saying that she “get(s) why people there are sick to the back teeth of Westminster politicians promising the earth and delivering absolutely nothing.”
northeastbylines.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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great article about a great topic: "Global Oil Demand Destruction"
January 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Some analogies are so stark it would be remiss to not see them

When was the last time you can remember when insurrectionists like the Proud Boys were rewarded with roles in a new government paramilitary force like ICE?

To help your quest for historical echoes maybe start with the Munich Putsch
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch.
DMs open.
January 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Funniest timeline now is that Jenrick and Farage can’t work out a deal, and Jenrick ends up having to do the full Powell and join the DUP.
January 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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The decent Tories were culled in 2019.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
January 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that “pedophile protector” is going viral worldwide.
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Jenrick is sort of a British Rubio in that he's a clown who thinks he's a great man. He's been sacked from the Shadow Cabinet, whip withdrawn, party membership suspended, because he was seen having dinner with Farage and his aides left a draft resignation speech where people could see it.
@dicknixon.bsky.social Ron, does the President have a comment on the Jenrick situation?
January 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Thousands left without water in the middle of winter in the UK. And those same people are now facing a massive bill hike.

Privatised water is a scam.

I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Jenrick's now faced with quite the dilemma. Deny and fight, claiming it's a smear designed to kneecap Badenoch's biggest rival. Or go all in and jump ship to Reform straight away. Worst option would be to pretend there's nothing in it only to confirm she was right all along by defecting later.
January 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM