Peerages. Peerages. Peerages. They make law for us and we pay them. Boris Johnson stayed at Lord Goldsmith's Spanish home for free - BBC News bbc.com/news/uk-591636…

Johnson’s Mustique holiday ‘was worth double the amount declared’ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Behind Boris Johnson stay at Dominican Republic resort pagesix.com/2022/10/23/beh…

Vote Leave fined and referred to the police for breaking electoral law | Electoral Commission electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/v…

Dr Duncan Robertson Stephen Griffin And the good news is that it’s now confirmed that they’ll be using the updated JN.1 formulation for the Autumn booster (rather than the outdated XBB.1.5 one).

Yvette Cooper on the riots. "Don't anyone tell me that was protest.... It was arson! It was racism! It was thuggery! It was crime!" #Lab24

Yvette Cooper: "Disgraceful slurs were treated as a sacking offence for a Tory Home Secretary(Braverman), a year on, those same slurs have become an article of faith for every Tory leadership contender... it's shameful what that party has become..." #Lab24

Yvette Cooper, "Plenty of people have strong views on immigration, on crime, on the NHS, but they don't pick up bricks and throw them at the police. They don't set light to buildings with people inside" "It was arson. It was racism. It was thuggery. It was crime" Well said

Yvette Cooper, "I've been shocked by the response by some of those in political parties on the right who once claimed to care about law and order" "After rioters attacked the police they should have been given full throated backing of our officers" "Instead, too often we have

Yvette Cooper, "The Tories with their mates in Reform are just becoming rightwing wreckers" "Undermining respect for the rules of law. Trying to fracture the bonds that keep communities safe" "They have nothing to offer but fear, division and anger" "But that's not who we are.

Councillors in Tees Valley are attempting to remove Mayor Lord Ben Houchen from his position as chair of South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) because of a possible conflict of interest | Peter Morris northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/… northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/…

Russia is trying to return us to a world of the past. A world of imperialism. A world of redrawing borders by force. A world without the United Nations Charter. We cannot allow that to happen. 🇬🇧🇺🇳 David Lammy in the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.

"Cardiovascular disease (CVD) was the “number one killer” of women but, despite significant progress in its medical management, many were dying “unnecessarily” because they were underdiagnosed, undertreated and under-represented in clinical trials, ..." theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

“The NHS cannot treat its way through an unhealthy population: the burden is too high on an overstretched health service. Prevention is the way to ensure people stay healthy & out of clinics & hospitals – and this prevention has to start in communities.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘We have done more in 11 weeks than the Tories did in 11 years…includes setting up national wealth fund & GB Energy, a new planning framework to encourage…homebuilding & starting recruitment of additional police officers & teachers.” #ToryCriminals theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Vax is good but you can’t vax your way out of increased risk if you keep on getting infected “The number of vaccines and boosters prior to an infection reduced the odds of Long COVID, but their protective effect was diminished by reinfections.”

Elon Musk has finally published a Twitter transparency report. In the last report, covering the second half of 2021, the number of accounts Twitter took action against for posting hateful content was: 1,000,000 Under Musk? 2,600 accounts Says it all wired.com/story/x-twitte…

Yvette Cooper is dead wrong here to reject a Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU. She’s wrong that it’s “free movement”, wrong that it’s been somehow decided upon, wrong to think the public at large supports her position, wrong to think we’ll get anywhere with the EU without it.

RMT members vote to accept pay deals Today RMT members delivered a strong vote in favour of accepting the latest proposals on the train operating companies and Network Rail. rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-membe…