Samir Shah at the Select Committee looked like a rabbit in the headlights.
Next to him Robbie Gibb looked like the fox behind the wheel.
Next to him Robbie Gibb looked like the fox behind the wheel.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Samir Shah at the Select Committee looked like a rabbit in the headlights.
Next to him Robbie Gibb looked like the fox behind the wheel.
Next to him Robbie Gibb looked like the fox behind the wheel.
Flagship? Very clearly!
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Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
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November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Flagship? Very clearly!
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RIP Jimmy Cliff
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The Harder They Come (1972) Trailer | Jimmy Cliff | Janet Bartley
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
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‘Gill…also enlisted four other European Parliament lawmakers …three Britons and one German, to give interviews to 112 Ukraine, a TV channel owned by an associate of Medvedchuk, with Voloshyn describing his work as "outstanding", London's Old Bailey court was told.’
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November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
‘Gill…also enlisted four other European Parliament lawmakers …three Britons and one German, to give interviews to 112 Ukraine, a TV channel owned by an associate of Medvedchuk, with Voloshyn describing his work as "outstanding", London's Old Bailey court was told.’
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Sign outside a business on a street hit by flagging flagists
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sign outside a business on a street hit by flagging flagists
‘The government isn’t a giant constituency party to be captured by a well-organised clique, then purged of irksome, wrong-thinking members.’
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Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘The government isn’t a giant constituency party to be captured by a well-organised clique, then purged of irksome, wrong-thinking members.’
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wealth tax sounds radical, it has a punitive feel good factor. But it’s not a solution to our problems, scarcely even a contribution.
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What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty
Imposing a 1% levy on the super-rich isn’t a policy, it’s pantomime. Tackling inequality in Britain will require much more far-reaching changes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Wealth tax sounds radical, it has a punitive feel good factor. But it’s not a solution to our problems, scarcely even a contribution.
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Vote unwisely now, pay later. With interest.
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
This special investigation reveals that even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
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November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Vote unwisely now, pay later. With interest.
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‘Since Brexit, this paranoid style has become normalised in Britain. A country once famed for its stability, governing competence and broadly balanced civic culture is now dominated by a paranoid culture.’
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The growing paranoia of British politics
A vacuum exists at the apex of British government, and at some point this weakness will lead to a challenge.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‘Since Brexit, this paranoid style has become normalised in Britain. A country once famed for its stability, governing competence and broadly balanced civic culture is now dominated by a paranoid culture.’
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theconversation.com/the-growing-...
‘For trees, memory is …written into their cells. One of the most remarkable forms this takes is epigenetic memory: the ability of a tree to record its life experiences and allow those experiences to shape its future, without changing the sequence of its DNA.’
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What do trees remember?
Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting environmental pressures.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
‘For trees, memory is …written into their cells. One of the most remarkable forms this takes is epigenetic memory: the ability of a tree to record its life experiences and allow those experiences to shape its future, without changing the sequence of its DNA.’
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Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
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November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
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Can you imagine being at school with him?
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
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November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Can you imagine being at school with him?
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🔴Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood
One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager
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One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager
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Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood
One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager – one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest confidantes
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🔴Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood
One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager
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One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager
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Politico: "The vote for Brexit inflicted a GDP blow of between 6 percent and 8 percent in the decade following the referendum — even worse than predicted beforehand, according to U.S. think tank the National Bureau of Economic Research"
Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...
Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Politico: "The vote for Brexit inflicted a GDP blow of between 6 percent and 8 percent in the decade following the referendum — even worse than predicted beforehand, according to U.S. think tank the National Bureau of Economic Research"
Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...
Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...
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Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.
Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration
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November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.
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“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social
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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social
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This is very concerning. In future the BBC should submit any proposals for the Reith Lectures to Karoline Leavitt at the White House so that President Trump can sign off on them. Maye Pete Hegseth next year?
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is very concerning. In future the BBC should submit any proposals for the Reith Lectures to Karoline Leavitt at the White House so that President Trump can sign off on them. Maye Pete Hegseth next year?
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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
Interesting article, but the question I’m left with is how does the Lib Dem party manage to produce Liz Truss, Mark Littlewood, Paul Marshall and Zack Polanski? I suspect I know the answer, and it’s not primarily political.
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What Zack Polanski told me
And why Your Party could turn out to be nobody's
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November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Interesting article, but the question I’m left with is how does the Lib Dem party manage to produce Liz Truss, Mark Littlewood, Paul Marshall and Zack Polanski? I suspect I know the answer, and it’s not primarily political.
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Opinion and anecdote masquerading as research? A professional researcher assesses the PR man’s efforts.
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Opinion and anecdote masquerading as research? A professional researcher assesses the PR man’s efforts.
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theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
Why depend on growth to bring in the revenue to pay for public goods? Why not organise the economy around other principles including resilience in the face of climate change, and social justice?
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Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all
Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Why depend on growth to bring in the revenue to pay for public goods? Why not organise the economy around other principles including resilience in the face of climate change, and social justice?
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975