The High Court has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the name of the man who raped her mother. Women and children harmed by sexual violence need protection, not more harm. We’re nearly halfway to our target to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights: https://goodlaw.social/y9pp

The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK. Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.

NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

Q13 — What profit do founders receive? Shiv Malik — 80 acres of land, gifted to the consortium. "Albion City Development Corp... gets a gift of 80 acres. That's the reward for risking 200m of private money." 80 acres within a million-person SEZ masterplan = tens of millions in uplift value. Thread

This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur. heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...

Curse of Private Equity. Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years, Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services. Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist. No govt curbs profiteering.

In case you missed it: our investigation into how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of thing is often reported as "perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken". But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken. 🧵

⚠️BE WARNED. Charter cities are coming to Brexit ravaged UK, this was the whole reason why the Tories' and Labour colluded on installing deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity. youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...

.....and Green Party membership is rising yet again! If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires: Join.greenparty.org.uk #BBCLauraK

Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.

Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Thousands died. Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners. He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’. Will he be held to account,?

Up to 7m extra working-age people could be denied minimum standard of living in retirement if UK state pension triple lock is ditched. Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension. Thousands will die prematurely. State pension must not be less than the minimum wage archive.ph/UaHIw

We’re working with @glanlaw.bsky.social and our claimants SOS UK, @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Save Hemsby Coastline to challenge the UK government. Starmer’s climate framework is so full of holes that it breaches our right to family life. Support our challenge here: https://goodlaw.social/h5ik

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. Asset stripping continues. Company losing market share. What next?

The UK political system is corrupt. Political donations enable corporations/rich to buy parties, hand consultancies to legislators. Normal people are disillusioned, increasingly don't register to vote or vote. How will the govt cleanse the system? Watch the Minister's reply.

School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation. Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust. Govt doing more PFI deals.

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me: the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disrespect, racism and misogyny are running rampant in America because of this parasite of a president‼️

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer" "The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"

Genocidal Israel further advances illegal and discriminatory bill to execute only Palestinian and other Arab prisoners. Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco, to hold complicit companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system. loom.ly/rj5iKvA

StubHub, Viagogo, AA Driving School, BSM Driving School, Gold's Gym, Wayfair, Appliances Direct and Marks Electrical investigated for online pricing. Practices such as mandatory additional charges, time limited sales and automatic opt-ins rip people off. Why can't companies be ethical?

“The ban on puberty blockers last year has left trans youth and their families feeling desperate and gives a message ‘you cannot be trans’. But of course we are trans regardless. The first thing these young people need to see and hear is that it’s ok to be who they are.” https://bit.ly/3LFSrzc

Adverts from Hilton hotel group, Travelodge, Booking. com and Accor banned for misleading minimum prices for rooms. It is that "from" price which you rarely get. All part of the plan to entrap customers, boost profits, exec pay. Execs not fined for misleading ads. So it goes on

A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights. But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

New investigation: how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of tax planning is often reported as "clever, but perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken". But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken. 🧵

👁️ MI5 snooping on phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources MI5 repeatedly tried to obtain a BBC journalist’s phone records unlawfully, a London tribunal has heard.

Israel’s military is this week holding an “international seminar” on lessons learned from Gaza “The seminar is being attended by commanders and officers from various armies around the world, who came to learn from the IDF’s experience over the past two years” Britain is invited

EXCLUSIVE - The UK gathered vast intelligence over Gaza. But a Byline Times FOI via @iainoverton.bsky.social reveals the Government cannot show it took any steps to ensure that material wasn’t used against civilians. 600 RAF flights. 0 safeguards. 0 paperwork. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Trump vs The BBC. Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

National Insurance Dodge UK employers pay national insurance on employee/director wages. That doesn't apply to profits (instead of wages) extracted by partners in partnerships. Billions dodged. I asked the Minister whether that policy was wrong. Watch how he dodges the question.

There are 3m people in the UK on Universal Credit looking for work. There are 720,000 jobs the lowest number ever. 150,000 are for the NHS who lists but doesn't hire. There aren't any jobs for people to work. But they will keep blaming you.

🚨Since the pandemic 1million+ pallets of unused PPE have been incinerated costing the taxpayer £8.6billion! Pallets would stretch from Lands End to John O'Groats - Up in smoke 🤯 My book VIP Lane exposes the shocking scandal. viplanebook.com 🎥ITV: The Covid Contracts

45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform. 71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform. And immigration has fallen 50% in a year. What possible reason is there for this mess?

Proof, too, that how you are towards trans people is compelling evidence of whether you are a good quality human being.

Inside SPIEF: Jeffrey Epstein, Russian Influence Networks and the Kremlinomics of Elite Capture The Russian doctrine of hybrid warfare includes economic weapons. Epstein’s emails suggest the St Petersburg International Economic Forum was a key front open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

It is 90 years since George Orwell travelled to the north of England to learn about the living conditions of the northern working-class, during the long Depression of the 1930s. Today’s figures show not much has changed.

What have I been warning about for the last several years? Tories and Labour's collusion on freeports and SEZs would form stepping stones for charter cities. The latest proposal for a new city named "Forest City" exemplifies the stealth trajectory of the zonification of Britain. www.forestcity.uk

PSA From Epstein Survivors - Please Share

The purpose of probation is to protect the public. It does so by managing the risk of offenders committing further offences. But an unstable system with demoralised staff is undermining rehabilitation. J J Jackson reports

Cheshire East Council is being forced to do MPs ‘dirty work’ and produce a future ‘environmentally damaging’ local plan to dig up fields | LDRS Press release

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe76.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Government’s last chance to keep control of digital Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data By Philip O'Brien @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3