Wow. Electoral Commission warned British government privately that the introduction of voter ID is neither “secure” nor “workable”. The government pushed on with Elections Act regardless. Vital openDemocracy scoop (on Channel 4 News right now too) opendemocracy.net/en/election-wa…

Reality is succeeding where rhetoric failed - exposing the disaster of Brexit. Latest column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

EXCLUSIVE: A businessman made £70m in profit on contract for PPE that was 70% unused — and celebrated his birthday last week by eating “briefcase of cash” cake on private yacht Philip Johnson has paid himself £13m dividend as family lives life of luxury thetimes.co.uk/article/dde89e…

Truss & her budget sent our mortgages soaring… Johnson & his Brexit sent our grocery bills soaring Tory cuts & austerity have left our NHS on its knees and our access to care at risk When are we going to see the Conservatives for what they are? A absolute menace to society.

Obscene waste. £3 million of your money is being shipped to China every month to meet eye-watering storage costs for the useless PPE you’d already stumped up billions for. It’s adding insult to injury. Britain is sick of being ripped off by the Tories. #PPEscandal | The Times and The Sunday Times

He's wrong. One can make a case the political process to try and acquire Single Market membership would be so long, so contentious, and so all-consuming under current circumstances that it's not worth trying right now... but that wasn't the question.

Former PM Gordon Brown calls for an anti-corruption commissioner as he says the scale of 'corruption and cronyism' since Boris Johnson's administration makes the current government the 'worst in living memory'. Andrew Marr | Gordon Brown

Why do the Conservatives want to withdraw from the ECHR?

My column on black belt liability Dominic Raab, and the claim that people died in the shambolic Afghanistan evacuation because he rejected documents that weren’t in his “correct” format theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"And dread is all Braverman creates. The dread that leads to far-right terrorism and Tory fury. The dread that overcomes all of us when we realise that 12-years of Conservative rule, have left us with a country where nothing works".

How many times before have we read judge's comments like this? The implied, 'It could happen to anyone' tone is a direct product of, and contributor to, the fact the road deaths are utterly normalised.

Sadly, the prevailing ethos of UK trade policy is denial. Still mixed with bravado. And that's across the political spectrum. A far cry from the sustained graft that's going to be needed to maintain UK competitiveness compared to others.

Really a bit weird that the BBC News (UK) main (and shortened) bulletin essentially becomes part of the football coverage. I am a football fanatic so heaven knows how non football fans feel.

Excellent article on democracy in the UK and the House of Lords by Andrew Rawnsley theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Abolition of the Lords can't come too soon. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Philippe Sands: "Brexit is the single greatest act of self-harm that probably any country has done to itself in recent living memory, it's an act of economic, diplomatic, political and legal lunacy. It’s an absolute bloody nonsense and everybody knows it." irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

This is a grotesque & revolting statement from PM. There’s nothing “fair” about Rishi Sunak & Suella Braverman’s utter failure to set up safe & legal routes. Let’s be clear - it’s not refugees who are responsible for migration chaos, it’s 12 years of Tory Government

Sure but if you're in Texas selling to Vermont you don't need this paperwork.That was Margaret Thatcher's European Single Market which we have destroyed for our SME trading firms. About 70% have given up as hassle of Johnson-Sunak Red Tape too much. It's OK. We'll just get poorer

I just shopped at Primal Europe and recieved a free discount code. #primaleurope i.refs.cc/iIeo1vOU?smile…

The most idiotic proposal imaginable pleasing only outright xenophobes: theguardian.com/education/2022…