The Green Party has changed and not for the better. A former Green councillor in Norfolk has quit the party and the reason should concern anyone who cares about serious politics. Read this: www.edp24.co.uk/news/2596772... 1/6

"Foreign actors will no longer be able to use their money to interfere in the UK’s elections" "The reforms will mean companies making political donations will be required to show that they have a genuine connection to the UK" www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is a 16-year-old British boy who became obsessed with neo-Nazism from his remote Northumberland home When he was 14, he joined a group stoking a race war. But the American man running it lives in Russia, and his activities chime with sabotage efforts in Europe www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Delighted to see the Government announce new guidance for councils on how to make streets safer for women and girls. I led a debate on this in January and I am glad that the Government is listening to the women being pushed out of the public realm for fear of their safety.

Well done Labour Years of decline under the Tories. Less than two years of Labour; waiting lists are falling & satisfaction is rising Well done Labour 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Labour are helping SMEs even more! Small businesses are set to benefit from over £7.4bn of Government money a year by 2028. Departments have, for the first time, set individual targets for the amount they will spend with SMEs - boosting economic growth & delivering on the Plan for Small Business.

The CMA has set out its final reforms – which will start coming into force later this year – to help pet owners better navigate the vet services market.

New in PN: @markjacob.bsky.social on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story "The press decided all of this is normal. They cast aside the idea that this guy’s totally unfit — which he obviously is. The news media could go much farther than they’ve gone so far in stating how unhinged he is."

Another one proving without doubt the Sheffield Hallam study showing 75% of BBC articles frame Labour and Starmer in a negative light ! Probably higher on Sky News, Channel 4News and of course 100% on GB News!

Starmer says defence investment plan is on his desk - but doesn't commit to publishing before recess. "We are finalising it, but... I will not make commitments without being clear where the funding is coming from. That is what's gone on for years, and that's why we're in the mess we're in."

Keir Starmer responds angrily to Tory MP Bernard Jenkin who suggests approach to defence "smacks of enormous complacency". PM says state of UK defence "smacks of the fact that for years there was underinvestment by the last government and the stripping out and hollowing out of our armed forces".

I called into the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show yesterday and have been blown away by the response. Many people have asked for more information since. I wrote this article some time ago that explains more about the mine threat in the Hormuz. Thank you all. www.linkedin.com/posts/ash-or...

Labour again proving they are the greenest party & the greenest government the UK has ever seen! Plug-in solar panels to be made available within months, allowing more households to cut energy bills! The new Future Homes Standard is published today, which will see solar panels as standard... 1/2

Imagine if in your weekly shop, you could pick up plug-in solar panels that help save on your energy bills? Well, in some parts of Europe you can do just that. We’re working with industry to bring plug-in solar to UK shops within months.

"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all," Trump said on Monday. A day earlier, his own mail-in ballot for an upcoming election was received in Palm Beach county.

Tonight live from DC we’ll talk to Rep. Massie who fought for the Epstein files to be published And tomorrow a #Newsnight Special with six incredible, frustrated, weary, fearful and strong women (more details later)

I’m in Washington DC this week spending time with women who describe themselves as businesswomen, healthcare workers, life coaches, podcasters, mums, sisters, friends - and Epstein survivors Some have never spoken publicly before about what the dead paedophile subjected them to - until now 👇

It was Republican Congressman Thomas Massie who posted on X the day after President Trump launched military action against Iran, 'bombing a country on the other side of the world won't make the Epstein files go away' 👇

It's promising that, thanks to this Labour Government, the number of people claiming food parcels locally and nationally is falling. But we need to get to a place where no one in this country has to rely on a food bank. Great to chat with Trussell UK about how we do this.

Food banks - specifically the 1,600 run by Trussel...just how busy are they? Here is the annual data for 2015 to 2025. Other than a blip due to the 1st year of COVID, usage went up in each full year under a Tory government. 2024 was half-Tory, half-Labour - and usage fell. 2025 fell even more.

The joint statement by United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada released on the 19th March about the Strait of Hormuz has had another batch of signatories. The number of countries signing it has now risen to at least 30. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Keir Starmer snaps at Tory MP Bernard Jenkin for suggesting his approach to defence "smacks of enormous complacency" "This smacks of the fact that for years there was underinvestment by the last Government... honestly, 14 years of underinvestment"

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gave Reform UK £12m last year. Nearly two thirds of the party’s £18.8m in donations. Farage’s outfit is not a grassroots movement. It is a political project bankrolled by one billionaire.

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

Why has @Ofcom allowed GB News to become the broadcasting arm of Reform UK? Chris Banatvala literally wrote the rules when he was i/c standards at Ofcom. He's on @mediaconfpod this week with @lionelbarber and me to discuss what's going on www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Anneliese Dodds MP said: “Along with free breakfast clubs for primary school kids and the recent boost in paid-for childcare, these measures will make a real difference for many children and their families. Early years is where we can make the biggest difference to children’s life chances.”

Four schools in East Oxford are to get Government funding to support their nursery provision. John Henry Newman Academy, St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, Littlemore, and Tyndale Community School will all receive cash to open or expand nursery provision from September.

This, this, this a thousand times. It's what I've been saying since Labour got elected, nicely summarised into just a couple of minutes. EVERYONE needs to listen to this 10 times over, or until it all sinks in!

Here’s what Zack Polanski doesn’t want you to see 🫣

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

After a number of years, neither Botham nor Lebedev have shown any inclination to take their responsibilities as legislators seriously. Peers shouldn’t simply be allowed to game the system by attending once a session. The govt’s increased mandatory attendance requirement can’t come soon enough.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

This is an extraordinary saga that Sunder is pursuing indefatigably. The BBC has repeatedly tried to excuse itself from responsibility for allowing Nigel Farage to lie egregiously about immigration without challenge. It is illustrative of a much wider malaise & so very important. Thank you, Sunder.

We are trying to improve on: "unfortunately we did not spot that" [big false claim] - but the presenter did argue with him about anecdotal experiences of crime just after that, if that helps, + we corrected a different false claim. [So: is there a quota of one correction per interview?!?!]

Worth watching. Yet more indicators that a simple age-restriction for social media would fail to address the problems it is supposed to fix As well online harms continuing, by enabling social media companies to push the claim ‘mission accomplished’ it could embed those harms for even longer

Republicans say one of these individuals is the "most divisive president in history"

The (partly X induced) self-immolation of the Tory party continues apace I see www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Take it from me as a former financial crime compliance officer, you don’t act in this way unless you’ve got something to hide. We urgently need to improve the safeguards in our politics from foreign interference and manipulation 👇🏻

I know people are sceptical about journalism right now but this is the kind of story that takes weeks to get to the bottom of. I hope people see the value in what we do

State of our political journalism is one reason we're in this mess. This from a regular newsletter. After disastrous RefUK 'launches' in Scotland and Wales and with their poll rating heading down all the time, is this really the best we can do?

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

There's a twisted cosmic symmetry to both Putin and Trump getting themselves embroilled in endless costly conflicts they're too proud to extracate themselves from, which they failed to warn their allies they'd be fighting, and which they baselessly assumed would be easy victories won within days.

Just as a matter of interest, I don't hear anyone trying to 'silence' Nick Timothy. I see people trying to get Nick Timothy to take responsibility for what he said, and face the consequences of having said it.

NEW: Richard Hermer, the attorney general, has challenged Kemi Badenoch to say whether she would object to Jewish prayer in public, after she backed Nick Timothy, who said an Islamic prayer event was intimidating and un-British. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Our PM has had a very busy week in meetings with world leaders. Yesterday he: Met the President of Nigeria at Dowing Street (part of the State Visit) Called the Crown Prince of Kuwait Made a joint statement on the Strait of Hormuz with France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Japan & Canada 1/4

So, in another ugly little tantrum, Farage has paused his video-grift due to “security concerns”. His own, apparently. Not the national security threat of having a prominent far right tart of a politician saying god knows what to god knows who for money. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform UK Kent Council have just approved a 3.8% pay rise for councillors above the 3.6% recommended. Despite the chaos, the lack of DOGE savings, the increased council tax, the lies - Linden Kemkaran and her team think it’s time to give themselves a raise. That’s Reform UK’s flagship.

Shame on the Warwickshire Conservatives. Conservatives suspend councillor for not backing Reform's George Finch as Warwickshire County Council leader

UK Government increases BBC World Service funding by £33m over three years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...