And just incase you thought I was kidding "Environment Secretary Steve Reed says demand for water will outstrip supply in 15 years." Unless of course your name is Affinity Water 🦆 in which case it's more like 10 years. Now might that help explain why AW reneged on their deal with

A message for the new government. Remember all those promises water companies made about reducing sewage dumping by 2025? How's that all working out then?

Reposting here as Mark's not on twitter. The CBA The Bar Council The Law Society Law Society Gazette Catherine Baksi #courtsinchaos

Another day another broken court delayed rape trial Hove Crown Court all 4 court rooms closed No running water today 7 week rape trial stops on day 2 All counsel and witnesses turning back 19 count case 7 young female complainants Will the trial move to a London court? TBC

I'm so glad Rory Smith agreed to write about this for the The New York Times, and that Andrew Testa went with him to take such beautiful photographs

Not only did Sure Start improve lives but saved taxpayers money. 26 years after launch, the long term evidence now mounts up. Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously shown Sure Start led to better health & educational outcomes, now they show how it improved crime and social care outcomes.

This week's Private Eye

Fact: I worked with a Conservative Minister who travelled at his own expense to assist a number of Democrat Presidential campaigns over many years. The current media feeding frenzy over Labour staffers helping in 2024 is a complete non story.

2 year old Ivana Skayki was playing at home in Southern Lebanon when an Israeli airstrike happened on her doorstep. She now has third degree burns on almost half her body. The strike came without warning. Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah. With goktay koraltan wietske burema @angiemrad

The latest Eye reveals Robert Jenrick’s leadership bid is being funded by significant offshore donations, including £35,000 from Quantum Pacific, linked to Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer, and £75,000 from The Spott Fitness, with connections to tax havens like the British Virgin

Tbilisi, Georgia now 📷 Ezz Gaber

Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi now. Protesting the total election fraud this time. Exceeded my expectations for today, to be honest. Until victory! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 📷 Irakli Tabatadze

The government’s Windrush ‘reset’ is disappointing. It doesn’t take the compensation scheme away from the Home Office or include legal aid - two of the key demands of groups like charity Justice4Windrush who are themselves providing free legal aid for victims.

If you haven’t seen our film from the summer with RAF squadron leader Sidney McFarlane please do.

🚨 EXTINCTION ALERT 🚨 The IUCN has just uplisted the African penguin from Endangered to Critically Endangered. I've spent so much time swimming with these precious birds. This is absolutely devastating. 👉📖 sanccob.co.za/news/african-p…

If I were a top campaign surrogate I would simply not admit my candidate plans to crash the economy

"Weak growth in imports and exports over the medium term partly reflect the continuing impact of Brexit, which we expect to reduce the overall trade intensity of the UK economy by 15 per cent in the long term" says the OBR

At some point someone may like to come up with some proposals for fixing this. Just putting it out there.