I'm going to try a little experiment. It's just gone 9:00am, London and parts of southern England are under an "Amber" weather warning, let's how long it takes for the sewage dumping to start and how it progresses over the next few hours. Oh look, it's only been raining for a

This is extraordinary. A GHF ex contractor, former US special forces lieutenant-colonel, tells Jeremy Bowen he never saw brutality against civilians like he did at the hands of the IDF and US contractors in Gaza - and he fought ISIS and the Taliban bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

As an Italian, as a European, I remind my German friends: you produced Nazism, as we Italians and Spaniards produced fascism. It already brought Europe to ruins once. You are responsible for what happens in your country. CHECK YOUR POLICE. Things are spiraling out of control.

*Almost* speechless at this utter rubbish. Kent has been seriously struggling/barely meeting the needs of SEND children for years. However, having had zero contact from the now Reform-led Kent County Council, my team and I have children facing no school places or transport for next week!

The Israeli authorities are detaining the bodies of 725 Palestinians including 67 children and 10 women. Among them are the bodies of 85 Palestinian prisoners who died or were killed in prison and Israel keeps their bodies to finish their sentences. Some of the bodies are

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Peter Mandelson is out FCO: In light of the additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister has asked the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as Ambassador. The emails show that the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey

Starmer’s sacked Mandelson. Why did he ever appoint him?

Fuel to the fire for an already widespread view among backbenchers and members that McSweeny has too much of a hold over Starmer. Might be something deputy leadership candidates ought to comment on.

Time for McSweeney to go - a complete liability to Labour. And a nasty operator to boot.

“I think you need to really consider what inherent racism and dehumanisation you have in you.” Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Canadian paediatrician who has spent time working on the ground in Gaza, responded to a German politician who questioned reports of famine and genocide.

We can all clutch pearls and carry on clutching them all the way to 2029. Or we can get organised. Never mind Mosley, this is worse. We need immediate unity across Lab left, Greens, Your Party, on basic anti-fascist principles. A few people with big platforms need to step up.

While Israel is still carrying out mass destruction, mass expulsion, & mass murders in Gaza city, it is engaging in a sinister form of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Today it announced that Palestinians in three villages around occupied Jerusalem now need permits from Israel

As its former ambassadors, we urge the EU to sanction Israel now aje.io/s6r6c3 via Al Jazeera English

The revelations in this article are shocking and unacceptable. From Mandelson in Washington to Blair’s TBI writing NHS data policy with Oracle’s billions, to corporate lobbyists sitting on departmental boards - we are watching a state quietly repurposed to a degree not seen

Excellent, as ever. Raising taxes to explicitly raise spending need not lose votes. I might add that myths are often created by those who benefit from them.

Call to action:

New post: Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue-l… It worked in 24 so it will work again. Labours marginals are different. Socially liberal voters will vote for us to stop Reform. Used by Labour to justify Reform like policies, but these arguments are just wrong.

Tonight, after two years with no Christmas tree in Bethlehem or anywhere in the West Bank or Gaza because of the genocide, the tree is being lit again in Bethlehem.