If you believe all that I have a bridge to sell you!

Complete bulls... Stop treating the public like idiots If Reform win the Liverpool bye election Starmer will be totally vulnerable if Labour have a disaster in May.

Went to Boots yesterday to pick up regular medication, no aspirin. Assistant said Boots could not get aspirin anywhere in the UK. I bought some online. But aspirin is standard heart medication for those of a certain age. What is going on?

So if there are any cables carrying sensitive information, why don’t they just reroute them? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

House price inflation is happening in other countries too as Banks pump up the mortgage market. Affordability will be an issue till the Banks are reined in

If "the Arctic needs securing", as Mandelson said yesterday, why has the US withdrawn from almost all its bases in Greenland? Why isn't Canada's and Norway's work mentioned? Why doesn't the Denmark, Faroes and Greenland Joint Arctic Command get a look in? NATO is supposed to work together #R4Today

No wonder the Greenlanders don't want to become part of the American empire. They can see how the Inuit are treated in Alaska

Levinson 2 was also promised. Labour are doing nothing here either

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Steve Reed sounding off like the antidiluvian Rees Mogg before him. What is it with Westminster Ministers that they have this compulsive need to tell local government how to run their show.

Labour should be ashamed of themselves. They promised press reform in opposition but reneg on it in power. They are looking increasingly untrustworthy.

Unemployment has hit 5%. No mention of this in the budget or by commentators. That's 308,000 without work

George Osborne set up the OBR to support his policies of Austerity. It has continued to carry out that role. If Labour had any sense they would wind it up and return the economic forecasting function to the Treasury.

When a politician tells you she will be in her job for years to come you sense she is on her way out.

Trump Was Working With Putin The Entire Time open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

No one with a known political affiliation, past or present, should be on the board of the Beeb.

If Robbie Gibb wasn’t on the board with responsibility for editorial decisions I might be tempted to agree

Quick answer: No

Time that Rachel R realised that she can have economic growth or she can pay down the debt. But she can’t do both. She should also know that any government that promises not to raise certain taxes then does so is very likely to lose the next election.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... How much does an air ticket from Addis A to Heathrow cost?

More like a message to Starmer. You fired this woman for telling you how it was. The voters in Caerphilly have also told how they feel. Time to pay attention

Suggest you read Ben Clift's book on the OBR before you get too rosy eyed about the organisation.

At last! A sensible suggestion from the Chancellor

The best response to Burnham is to deliver on the voter's priorities. " Punishment" will simply provoke a civil war within Labour

In the UK we have an NHS number, a passport number, a national insurance number, an income tax number etc, etc. If the Government had the wit to position the digital id in the context simplyfing people's lives they might have got some credit for the digital id proposal

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Roddy Ho would have found those emails

Certainly, look at Google but given the risks of appointing Mandelson those doing the vetting should have asked to see his emails/ messages etc to Epstein. I dont blame Starmer for taking a risk but he should have gone through the vetting with a fine tooth comb.

The misjudgement was not to vet Mandelson's emails. If the Sun could get hold of them.....

So why didn't those doing the vetting ask to see the Mandelson's emails. Seems very careless to me. Given his track record Mandelson's appointment was always going to be risk. The vetting should have been proportionate to the risk.

TikTok open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...

If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.

It's simply because the Tories didn't think of it first

Part of a general scare campaign to suggest increasing taxes on the very rich will lead to the departure of every millionaire in the UK

A better example would be the scare stories that flooded the media on the introduction of the National Minimum Wage.

Israel has acknowledged that Anas and his crew were deliberately targeted. Palestinian reporters are being systematically picked off and slaughtered as the West stands by, issuing anodyne statements and tacitly (or directly) supporting a genocidal campaign. Journalism is not a crime.

The Government can never run out of money so why is it telling the Farmers it can't afford schemes to protect the rural environment

open.substack.com/pub/samdumit... So the spokesperson for BYD was right, the UK's car subsidies are, "stupid".

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Talk about Police wasting Police time!

Compensation for the victims of the Post Office Scandal and the Infected Blood has become a field day for the lawyers. When is Labour going to get a grip?

Perhaps in future she might think a lot harder of following Treasury advice.

Kwasi has no shame. You would think that a guy who had helped to crash the economy might think a decent period of penitential silence was in order rather than slinging mud at the guy who is cleaning up the mess he and his party left the country with.

Blood and Soil open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

‘Welfare reforms still mean a climate of fear. Changes are too little, too late’ labourlist.org/2025/06/comm... – via LabourList

Higham is right to say that the question of whether the UK should produce virgin steel needs careful examination.

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

Labour just needs to get on and nationalise British Steel. Paying for it will not be an issue. Running it effectively will be.

You are right about the media coverage but let’s not pretend there’s no issue here. Let me suggest this is yet another example of under investment by a privatised industry whilst the Government ,whose job it is to defend the public interest, sits on its hands.

R Reeves should be focusing her attention on economic growth. Nothing is less likely to lead to growth than cutting welfare. Starmer should have started his Civil Service restructuring with the Treasury

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

Terrific show.

So how do they think they are going to deliver on their housing promises if they don't start training building tradespeople