- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

A disturbing account of the use of lies to spread hate and division by the Reform candidate in the Makerfield by election He is clearly not a suitable person to play any role in public life

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

So I went on a deep dive last night into the archives of the suspended X account of Reform UK’s Makersfield election candidate, Robert Kenyon. This is what I found… bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

Until recently, Makerfield Reform candidate Robert Kenyon was a Facebook friend of Gary Raikes Raikes was leader of the BNP in Scotland and a leading member of Britain First He set up the New British Union for 'restoring faith in fascism' Spread the word searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

🙄 Price controls on a few foods is the ultimate sticking plaster solution for our broken food system 💪🏽 How about challenging the power of agribusiness and the supermarkets so that producers stand a chance? 🥬🍎🥕🌽 And localising supply chains so we're not dependent on fossil fuel to eat?

Former Greens co-leader and MP Adrian Ramsay throwing his weight behind the argument for the party to *not* put everything into a campaign in Makerfield which could end up helping Reform win. Others disagree.

Not just backing down on sanctions but colluding with those who always busted the sanctions Looks like we're seeing the people of Ukraine sacrificed to save Keir Starmer's skin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Who owns those bonds? Pension funds + insurers: share fell from 50% in 2020 to ∼25-30% in 2025 Hedge funds: share trading volume rose from <20% pre-2022∼60%2025 Increased volatility and impact of short-term political changes against long-term confidence www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...

Keep your elitist cheese photos to yourself, Alex!

£40bn has been spent on HS2 Yet a UK govt review has concluded carrying on with it would cost about the same as abandoning it "Among many tragic consequences of HS2, the most profound is that it will put Treasury off funding smaller & more rational projects for decades” www.ft.com/content/fcee...

It's just one lie after another from this crook Bank-rolled by an ex-patriate tax avoider Reform's commitment to the poor is as genuine as its commitment to the nation www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Weird that Labour politicians are prepared to allow the disastrous decision to leave the EU to be fetishized People change their minds and have seen through the lies Including people in places like Makerfield Why should the worship of a 10-year old decision be more important than their welfare?

We can't allow the bond villains to choose our next prime minister or set our economic policy If rich investors run the country then we're in a plutocracy not a democracy share.google/shwMe38TN3NU...

Lies, damned lies, and Nigel Farage

Something very dispiriting about the lazy assumption that a people in a place that voted a certain way 10 years ago would be incapable of reacting to new information (and of course plenty of the original voters are now in the great polling booth in the sky).

Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com

“.. the programme has not provided a single dollar of cover.” @financialtimes.com #Hormuz www.ft.com/content/eaba...

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

"Labour must remember and reassert what it is we are here to do: address inequality – economic and political... political equality at the ballot box is fundamental to delivering equality everywhere else in society." ✍️ @alexsobel.co.uk in @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

England's High Speed 2 railway expected to cost over £100bn, many years late Result of changing political priorities, & "bespoke, highly engineered design" It's not the fault of some rare bats getting in the way, as you'd think listening to senior members of UK govt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ironic that a research project apparently designed to bring national unity uses as its method millions of people leaving individual 'voice notes' 🙄 It's the descent of our society into a culture of broadcast rather than conversation that is the cause of the problem Turbo-charged by social media

Campaigners threaten legal action over UK-US deal on prices NHS pays for drugs. Govt appeased Trump, agreed to pay £64bn more over the next decade to drugs companies. No impact assessment, no debate in parliament. Higher taxes and cuts in public services loom. Part of unchecked corporate welfare.

Turning rejoining the EU into a political football is the worst possible thing for those of us who know that our best future lies in membership We need a proper public conversation and a strong and persistent majority to rejoin Streeting really isn't helping with that

“Those promoting the rush for hyperscale AI datacentres seem to be living in a parallel reality where the last 50 years of climate science hasn’t happened, and where we aren’t already experiencing the signs of climate breakdown.” #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reform has mastered the language of working-class alienation while advancing a largely pro-market economic agenda | East Anglia Bylines

I believe this is genuine I hope it can survive the machinations of the Labour machine

George, who donated significant sums to refugee charities, would have been proud 👏🏿

What comes next in the fight against excessive executive pay and pay inequality? Please join me in a free public event organized by High Pay Centre. Location: Palace of Westminster, London SW1A 0PW. Date/Time: 09:00 – 10:30, Wednesday 3 June 2026. Free ticket here.

The Labour establishment have been vicious towards Zack since they realized the threat he poses to them And yet they are thinking that the Green Party should stand aside for them in Makerfield? Cooperation is a two-way street as are pluralism and respect

Today sadly seems a good day to remember that the Home Office's social media policy deliberately encourages people to use X/Twitter, and the government keeps on stalling when I suggest they might want to change that: lordseyeview.substack.com/p/the-home-o...

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

The latest from honest Bob The guy Reform would put in charge of our economy bylinetimes.com/2026/04/28/r...

In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out against him — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. www.ft.com/content/edbe...

Despite it being obvious that the time of two-party politics is over, the govt laid out no plans to introduce a fairer voting system in the King's Speech. That's why Green MPs tabled an amendment on the need to bring in proportional representation and make every voice heard.

In Worcester, the Greens have won the most votes in the last 3 local elections. Thanks to chaos and infighting in the Reform group, Green Matt Jenkins has been elected leader of the council. Difficult days ahead, but I'm hopeful we can bring change to Worcester, at last www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This can't be a good headline for Farage He and his latest corrupt party have peaked A bunch of faux patriot crooks endlessly running the country down www.thesun.co.uk/news/3910680...

I can see why some might think these associations qualify Streeting to be PM; millions of voters would disagree Who are they working for? A key question in politics these days

I can see why the metaphor might be superficially appealing, but climbing Everest is not good preparation for being Prime Minister (Nor is being Director of Public Prosecutions)

100% agree with this Plus it means you aren't being used by Musk to spread fascism

Here’s a good news story to kick off the day.

Here's a radical thought Why doesn't the Labour Party follow the programme for government set out by Starmer when he stood to be their leader Public ownership, taxing the rich, abolition of tuition fees, etc etc Sounds pretty good www.clpd.org.uk/resource/kei...

Keir Starmer is bad at the job, to the extent he does it. He came into power with limited preparation, he hired poorly, has never bothered to manage the parliamentary party and for two years he pursued a dreadful strategy that bore its bitter and inevitable fruit last Thursday.

Labour MP Anna Dixon says Labour must look at electoral reform following Local Election results 👇 💥The broken First Past the Post system is handing Reform UK power on tiny fragments of the vote. #Labour4PR 🌹 #ElectoralReform @annadixonmp.bsky.social @bbc-politics.bsky.social

🎯 Whatever you think about Starmer, this attack on Farage and his failed Brexit scam is spot on

In two years Keir Starmer’s government has tried to rob Disabled people of help, kept children in poverty, trashed nature protection, restricted peaceful protest, helped arm genocide, and moved to scrap jury trials. He says that Greens exploit despair. He has created it. We offer only hope.