I’ve just started Paul Holden’s book The Fraud. The very first page has stopped me in my tracks where he describes the threat made by the The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar that she was about to publish an article that would ‘significantly damage, if not destroy, (Holden’s) professional

The Curse of Private Equity Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores. Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages. Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Assets stripping continues. What next? theguardian.com/business/2025/…

"NHS leaders, senior doctors and the GMC warned that the increased denigration of and abuse directed at migrants in the UK was a significant reason for the rise in foreign medics leaving." #Racism Overseas-trained doctors leaving the NHS in record numbers theguardian.com/society/2025/n…

Shameful. Child poverty is a political choice. The impact of Osborne’s austerity is plain to see.👇

'PFI was a disaster - Labour musn't repeat it' Read our LabourList article, which warns this government against using new NHS private finance - no matter what name it's packaged under. vist.ly/4ffwi

The choice in 2019 was a corrupt, posh drunk or a decent, hard-working socialist. We got the corrupt posh drunk. Well played, UK.

The Standing Charge is now TRIPLE what it was in 2021. £7bn extra for them, taken from you, for their ripoff profits.

The NHS employs twice as many people as UK billionaires do. NHS workers pay between 16-20 billion pounds in tax annually. Let's have more jobs and less billionaires.

13,000,000 people are employed by small businesses 4,400,000 are self-employed 6,150,000 are employed by the public sector However, the right wing always talk about billionaires, but only 700,000 people are employed by billionaires. lets fund the public sector and small

Oh my God! This is a bombshell! “Third, even while SFFN (Stop Funding Fake News) was destroying the careers of journalists at left-wing news outlets with largely unfounded allegations of misinformation, McSweeney worked ‘secretly’ with the Jewish Labour Movement to ‘engineer’

Will UK Chancellor redistribute? End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn. Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn. Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn. Tax capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/this-i…

Today is #EqualPayDay. The Fawcett Society says: "From today, because of the gender pay gap, women in the UK are effectively working for free. That’s not just a number. It’s lost income, missed opportunities, and lasting inequality."

“But the truth, which Mr Johnson has never had a close relationship with, is now clear. He was responsible for thousands of avoidable deaths. The one promise he delivered on was to ‘let the bodies pile high’." independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

ON THIS DAY in 1990, #Thatcher announced that she would resign. Oh, how we danced.

At least 28 covid contracts, worth £4.1bn, went to people with known political connections to the Tories. As the US political aphorism puts it, never let a crisis go to waste.

If Joan Ryan had been filmed discussing a £1 million "donation" from the Russian Embassy with a man subsequently kicked out of the country for plotting to "take down" politicians critical of Russia, she would be halfway through a ten year stretch for treason.

Having Energy sold at cost would save the UK £1,000 per household and be a massive boon to the economy. Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.

The latest Israeli post "ceasefire" massacre in Gaza reduced to a chirpy 28 second clip on the main BBC evening news. The viewer is left with the impression both sides are equally guilty of ceasefire violations and that the claims and counter claims of the 2 sides are equally

“If we’re going to go to war with Venezuela, the president needs to make his case, and they’ve done zero on this,” Nebraska GOP Rep. Don Bacon.” msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…

The US ‘war on terror’ has killed millions. Now Trump is bringing it to Venezuela msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…