TM seems to be stuck; still trying to justify Brexit. The evidence doesn’t favour his beliefs. Time to move on. He would be better employed thinking hard about what the UKs relationship with the next decade.

Time for Labour to implement the recommendations of the Leveson Report Honeymoon will be very, very short’: rightwing media is set to turn on Starmer theguardian.com/media/article/…

As usual Boris has his head in the sand. If Trump wins American support for Ukraine will end.

Labour’s fiscal rules are a dead end for the party and for society. Being a good steward of public money isn’t about closing “fiscal holes” and “paying it back.” It’s about closing real deficits—health, infrastructure, education, etc—-and paying it forward for future generations.

Well worth a visit ‘Good evening Halifax’: how a Georgian cloth hall became one of the UK’s biggest open-air music venues theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

"I am not ashamed to stand in front of the camera and say I am hungry due to the famine. Many children in Gaza ask me for something to eat, not knowing that I, like them, can't sleep at night because of hunger." -journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, killed by Israeli army in #Gaza today!

Britain’s ‘broken’ water system: a history of death, denial and diarrhoea theconversation.com/britains-broke… via The Conversation

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New post: If Labour is serious about defeating right wing populism, it needs to reform large parts of the media mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/08/if-lab… Labour cannot let the media landscape become increasingly the plaything of very rich individuals wanting to push a right wing populist agenda.

Reeves has the best chance since Lloyd George of reforming property tax ft.com/content/a3ee95… via @ft

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns about Euston station overcrowding politico.eu/article/uk-rai… Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts from the man’s employer while urging disciplinary action — and asked officials to “deal with him”

Appalling that over ten years after Leveson, people are still suffering press intrusion into grief. Nothing has changed. But the root of the problem is the cowardice of politicians, who could act to end this abuse by implementing the Leveson recommendations, yet lack the courage

I couldn’t even tweet yesterday when I saw the results in Thuringia and Sachsen. This was so predictable. Germany is sleep walking into the abyss, while insisting on a balanced budget in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the 1990s.

Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today theconversation.com/getting-shorte… via The Conversation

Interesting how I'm seeing the criticisms of Donald Trump from Labour politicians are getting remembered all of a sudden. So it's only right to remind everyone about Boris Johnson's 2015 comments...

As opposed to the hard bigotry of the ignorant who seek to impose their prejudices.

‘Why Angela alone can’t fix the housing crisis – and all ministers have a role’ – via LabourList labourlist.org/2024/12/britai…

A glimpse of the blindingly obvious from our economic guru!

theguardian.com/environment/20… Good to see MPs prepared to risk the wrath of Party Apparatchiks when Government is making mistakes

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j… Gardeners beware!!!