Black Friday discounts fail to offer cheapest prices, Which? research finds. Pockets picked by hype manufactured in boardrooms. Why are regulators not prosecuting companies and directors for misleading claims?

How will sexual violence stop if the police won't take it seriously? When Nina Cresswell named the man who sexually assaulted her he sued for defamation - and he lost. But why did she have to take that risk? We're helping her sue the police who failed to investigate him. goodlaw.social/vtev

Labour MP Goes Viral After Using Custard Creams To Explain The UK's Ballooning Debt www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Another Johnson decision that wasn’t in the best interests of the country. 38d.gs/w9ae

Woah.

The City & the elites are apparently worried about me. The people who bankrupted this country are spooked. Won't someone think of the billionaires? Join.greenparty.org.uk www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party. Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

From the obvious reality of this two-bit bigot to the orchestrated attacks on the BBC to the pathological arrogance of Johnson & Cummings, it’s oddly ungratifying to see so much of ‘How They Broke Britain’ still resonating this month.

Suspended! Proof if ever it were needed that there’s one rule for those in elite positions and one rules for the rest of us. Nothing has been learned from the COVID enquiry, money for favours is just the way business is done at Westminster. apple.news/AV4nx3_xXSdO...

As Epstein questions linger, Trump falls back into familiar habit: lashing out at female reporters

"Brexit didn’t behave like a normal economic shock. There was no singular collapse or dramatic turning point. Instead, it created a rolling fog of uncertainty that has lasted almost a decade. It made it impossible for thousands of firms to plan." ~AA eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Brexit Party, renamed Reform, were targeted by a Russian spy network, only one traitor Gill has been exposed so far. Well worth a read. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

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,?

Zack Polanski on "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg" announces Green Party has 175,000 members. I also loved his explanation of the difference between 1 million & 1 billion. #GreenSurge

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Gross misconduct in public office! And what recompense? The Covid inquiry this week concluded that the UK’s response to the virus was “too little, too late” & the introduction of a lockdown just a week earlier on 16 March could have saved more than 20,000 lives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.

This is big news! Let’s give this the attention it deserves! 👏👏👏👏 Thank you @libdems.org.uk ❤️

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

Will UK Chancellor redistribute? End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn. Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn. Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn. Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC. Another world is possible.

Households face higher energy bills. No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr. £4.4bn bills arrears. 128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty. Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation. Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.

Trump calling a woman 'piggy' is a point of no return - The i Paper apple.news/Anqp3sMhoRqe...

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members! Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again. Join today to be part of it ⤵️

Why doesn’t anyone from within the Republican Party ever condemn Trump for anything he ever says? Is it cowardice or sycophancy? And nearly the entire cabinet living on military bases isn’t considered odd?

23,000 avoidable deaths. lied constantly, broke his own rules. No remorse. Money is the only thing he cares about, so let’s end the one stream he least deserves! 38d.gs/bojo_all_df

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

"Boris Johnson should be hauled into Downing Street for one last Downing Street press conference to apologise to the whole country and he should be banned from holding public office ever again." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-qu...

Talking of the Reform Party and Crypto currencies, and as Nathan Gill is due to be sentenced… Here’s my piece on how former Reform UK Welsh Leader was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested bylinetimes.com/2025/10/17/w...

Happy New Year! Yet another rise in energy bills Households in Great Britain face surprise rise in energy bills from January - The Guardian apple.news/AW0zWVW4-SuK...

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?

23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found. Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. But I am a historian, so I will close on a historian’s note: History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. 1/3 apple.news/Aim4ZR8Y5QgO...

UK Covid-19 Inquiry says govt response to the pandemic in March 2020 was "too little, too late" Imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in England In 2016 govt knew the NHS couldn't cope with a flu epidemic but had no plan. What did austerity do?

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...