🗣️ "The problem for Reeves is that the market thinks this plot twist looks like chaos, rather than a moment for national celebration." 📩 Read our latest newsletter from Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi: channel4news.substack.com/p/reason-beh...

He’s talking about the 1%, the oligarchs, uber wealthy billionaires. Imagine being so wealthy and the only ambition you have is to garner more wealth and power. As Elon Musk says empathy is a serious problem.

Moral maze is a ludicrous program

Lots to like in Chris Grey's latest but I loved this line. "Radio Four’s Moral Maze [...] surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting." chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

“The rape of children is not the tariff disaster. These crimes fill people with revulsion across the political spectrum. It can’t be blanked, wheedled out of with weasel words, equivocated, blustered into submission or drowned out with MAGA slogans.”

Not just in America. The rich and despicable always rise to the top, just like clots in a jug of cream

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

This report is largely about Irish passport applications from people living in GB, but the continuing high number of new passport applications from NI is remarkable. There have been really profound identity shifts enabling huge numbers to formally assert being Irish: www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood: “On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times “ I never thought I’d reach the point where I dread an announcement like this from Labour.

“Economic and environmental justice are inseparable… we’ve always been talking about inequality.” I spoke to the French investigative media outlet Blast about the Green surge. Full article 👉 bit.ly/4i387IM #GreenSurge #SocialJustice

NEW: Tony Hall, who Tim Davie replaced as BBC director general, leads calls for the end of political appointees to the BBC board. PLUS - the Guardian learns Robbie Gibb has the power to unilaterally commission research on bias that worries him. Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Clear enough and succinct

These guys are one of the only voices in the UK economics/tax space campaigning for higher taxes on wealth. They're asking for donations to keep doing this work.

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A GB News presenter has said the BBC should hand “several million pounds” of licence-fee payers money to Donald Trump. We must defend our BBC from those who want to destroy it.

Type 2 diabetes, if you don’t mind.

Everyday Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich dodge taxes. They struggle to get by while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets. They see their voices drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability. There are two sets of rules in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?

Unfortunately, Ofwat seems determined to protect the water companies' shareholders rather than ensure that they carry out their legal duties. Water privatisation has been a disaster, and the government seems determined to allow it to continue.

Single fault at Thames Water sewage works could imperil London’s supply, lead to mass evacuations, military on standby. 60-year-old pumping system not replaced. TW ignored statutory duties, Customer bills hiked to boost exec pay and dividends. removepaywalls.com/https://www....

But James Johnson did a poll showing 700k+ people were going to leave? Surely that wasn't complete and utter obvious bollocks?

Single fault at Thames Water works could imperil London’s supply on.ft.com/4nXFSfZ

The people who own, read and write for the Telegraph are ignorant wealthy people in the main, many of whom did very well out of Thatcher’s neoliberal revolution and don’t really care about the losers.

“5 reasons for non-payment of damages…the programme was not broadcast in the US, the documentary did not cause Trump harm as he was re-elected, clip was not designed to mislead/ or done with malice, clip needed to be seen in context…it was a matter of public concern protected by free speech rights”

Danny Kruger is challenged on the terrible performance of Reform UK-led councils. Ken Clarke: "Some of the people elected didn't even know that it sat during the day. So they resigned quite quickly." "Most of them had no idea what the county council was responsible for."

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

Why the BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump By apologising, the broadcaster has taken the sting out of Trump’s excessive attack By me, at New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

🔴 ‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...

And secondly we’re talking about people that can afford a £15k new heating system, for which the government have been paying half - these are not deprived people, they aren’t choosing ‘heating over eating’.

What’s with the Guardian - claiming 100s of thousands of people are being deprived of heat pump subsides. It’s a massive exaggeration first off, levels of heat pump installations nationally are running at 40k a year - that’s tens of thousands not hundreds. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us? What can our children do to correct our mistakes? These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short. You can preorder it now. sites.prh.com/reich

British intelligence believes Xi Jinping is watching Ukraine. “There’s a real danger that if he sees us being weak on Ukraine, then he will draw conclusions on his own behaviors around the South China Sea, and potentially on Taiwan.”

'As Jesus said, the kingdom of God is among us, or within us. It is there in every act of kindness that we offer or experience; it is there when we give of ourselves for the sake of others; it is there when we face with courage the injustice and oppression of this world.'

Throughout his political and presidential career, Higgins's dedication to a number of causes has been clear. Read 👉 buff.ly/ZsjSZcz #GCNnews

Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’ We have much more on this coming soon but our new paywall allows you to buy just one article or edition subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/77/j...

Wild poliovirus type 1 detected in wastewater sample in Hamburg The genome sequence of the isolate is very similar to a genetic cluster in Afghanistan.

Brits are being urged to check whether they are owed hundreds of pounds after accidentally overpaying on their student loans.

The government must remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC board immediately – and end the practice of political appointments, which so badly undermines the BBC, altogether.

Priorities.

Reform has hired loony-right ex-academic Matthew Goodwin as head of its new student organisation. I take it the BBC and others will no longer be describing him as merely a "commentator" or (wrongly) an "academic"?... leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and Farage is egging him on. To all those who love the BBC, now is the time to speak up.

Yesterday in Parliament I said that the government should leave X.

X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy. It does nothing but harm. So, yes. Government should stop using it.

"Land is power. There is no more consistent reality in history. Those who own the land control the future. On this basis the people of Scotland are some of the least powerful people in the world."

It makes me wonder whether Prescott actually consulted the original source himself & doctored it or simply took dictation from someone else. A person, for example, who had helped insert a right-wing lobbyist who hadn’t done journalism for over 20 years into such a potentially important position…

This is excellent news. You cannot have democratic accountability when nobody knows who the candidates are, what they stand for, what the job involves or how to measure their success.