Interest rates rose EIGHT times under Truss and Sunak – rising from 1.75% to an eye-watering 5.25% – causing misery for mortgage holders. Today’s interest rate cut is the fourth under this Labour government. Our Plan for Change is working, and brighter days are ahead.

STARMER SAYS “BRITONS HAVE MOVED ON FROM BREXIT”. THEY HAVE. THEY WANT IT UNDONE! Tinkering with Johnson’s hard Brexit deal is not ‘moving on from Brexit’! Brexit is still cost ing us £100bn a year and making us all poorer. No bullshit, no half-arsed deal. #Labour

Google Maps should be ashamed of itself. It is, and remains, the Gulf of MEXICO. Just because the Dictator in DC pronounces otherwise, they bow to his ignorance & lunacy, the name remains ONLY the Gulf of Mexico

Care homes will be prevented from recruiting staff from abroad as part of an overhaul of rules to drive down net migration, Yvette Cooper has said today The UK is already facing a desperate shortage of care workers theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

BREXIT IS FARAGE’S ACHILLES HEEL - I’TS YOURS TOO! Just think, Prime Minister, rejoin the SM & CU and you’d win over the middle ground and the majority who loathe you for your refusal to rejoin. You’d save £100bn a year, kick start growth and deliver a fatal blow to Farage.

"A crushing blow" is how Care England has described government plans to scrap the social care visa scheme, which allows carers from abroad to work in the UK. It is a move which care providers say makes the crisis in social care even worse news.sky.com/story/restrict…

The Economist estimates that the annual costs of Reform UK’s manifesto would be around £200bn and savings around £100bn. The gap would amount to a colossal fiscal shock, blowing up the deficit and straining the gilt market to its limit economist.com/britain/2025/0…

Is Starmer trying to put off those who have supported, worked for & been members of the Labour Party for years? Out-Faraging Farage is a REAL turn-off

An excellent piece theconversation.com/trump-sees-him…

Great to hear two impressive & moving national anthems from Cymru and France - beats the dirge from England

Did Homer, in Odyssey, foresee Trump? “If a man is cruel by nature, cruel in action, The mortal world will call down curses on his head While he is still alive & all will mock his memory after death”

Entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine, une relation toxique et opaque lemonde.fr/international/…

I would trust the assurances of our security Minister, Dan Jarvis, who served 14 years in the Parachute Regiment, rather than the snake oil salesman, Nigel Farage, who appears not to have done a worthwhile job in all his lifetime

En direct, Gaza : au moins 15 morts … this is genocide. Shame on Israel! Stop this cycle of killing - it needs to end. lemonde.fr/international/…

Get up when you want, snack whenever you like, lay around all day, nap if you feel like it, have a stroll outside in the sun - this bank holiday is your chance to live like a cat!

Farage launches attack on British Rights and Values. The European Convention on Human Rights was a BRITISH inspired and written document. He wants to reshape Britain into a fascist run hellhole - where subjects have to bow to HIS will. WE FOUGHT FASCISTS in the 20th Century!

Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform UK in Wales, sentenced for taking pro-Russian bribes - live walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Because I ate it for lunch.

Trump is a dangerous imperialist - threatening the (former) friends of the US. He should back off or we should introduce sanctions on the USA theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Nigel Farage blames aide after breaking MPs’ income rules 17 times thetimes.com/article/eaf756…