Fee hikes, big bonuses, then bosses exit: the curious case of City & Guilds privatisation

Remarkable how many people this is upsetting on Facebook

Why? 'Blue' Labour. Glasman. McSweeney. Mahmood. This is their doing. Amazing for a party which won a (shallow) landslide 651 days ago to struggle so badly with electability. @darrenpjones.bsky.social

Greens and LibDems voted against this- all it needed was for the left wing of the Labour party to grow a backbone and a moral compass to defeat Starmer's authoritarian ploy. Tories and the majority of Labour MPs are indistinguishable

I thought that this was public knowledge. In fact, if I remember correctly, CPAC itself said they went to Hungary because the government paid for it.

Here are the rebates other EU countries get. It wasn’t unique to the UK commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Keir Starmer has a problem with Kanye West visiting Britain. But is fine about Israeli war criminals coming here, and giving them guarantees not to be prosecuted.

"Kissinger’s 1974 deal held through the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, the financial crisis and a pandemic. The petrodollar loop was always a political arrangement dressed in financial clothing. Now that the politics have changed, the finance is following." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

All being operated by the crizzo fascist Heritage Foundation. Notice how Vance, Farage etc all started talking about 'values' at exactly the same time. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...

Bad vibes. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at how discussion of Brexit and the reset is still saturated with dishonesty, and the latest episodes in the 'vibe politics' that have embedded that dishonesty in British politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/bad-...

Turning the physical world into the worst of the internet. And in the physical world we don’t have ad-blockers.

Just get rid of Mahmood! And possibly get rid of most of the senior Home Office staff at the same time? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If you become a tax exile you lose the right to call yourself part of ‘us’.

Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US

Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time | Nesrine Malik

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs

A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events. Think about that for a second.

For all of the excitement in Westminster around the Danish model of social democracy the Danish Labour Party is heading for its worst election result since 1901. They’ll likely remain in power but the red bloc won’t have a majority. Meanwhile radical left and right parties gain.

"How Brexit screwed the economy – a horror story" Duncan Weldon - 10 years after the decision to leave the EU, the true economic costs are much clearer, & generally worse than the original estimates.

~ The president can’t walk this one back ~ https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/the-president-cant-walk-this-one

This is what evil states do - torture - mass torture of people in detention. “Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.”

Just the once??? Presumably the waffles weren't very good?

Churchill and the wars. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the impact of the Iran war on UK politics, the increasingly unhinged culture war, and whether we might just end up ‘thanking Trump’. Includes a revelation about my past: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/chur...

‘The saddest day for Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem’: al-Aqsa mosque closed at Eid

The US and Israel constitute “a greater threat to the stability of the region than Iran”, former UK ambassador to Iran, Sir Richard Dalton, told us last year. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1pq...

@antikrish.bsky.social sent me this and I’m wetting myself at how easy it was to disprove these “manosphere experts” who speak with total misguided authority 🤣🤣🤣 Share if you find it amusing too 😉

The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex

On the pensioners on less generous DC schemes, we have research our this week with SMF on what could be round the corner when Gen X realise the pension shock they might be in for www.smf.co.uk/events/pensi...

👉 NEW -- They attack, we defend: How the media toes the line on Iran by Prof Des Freedman Unlike Russia’s war on Ukraine, British journalists rarely highlight the illegality of the US-Israeli attack on Iran www.declassifieduk.org/they-attack-...

Starting a war with the people who control the trade lines that brings fertilizer right before spring is how you can tell no one in the WH knows what they're doing.

‘Severe water stress’: why desalination plants are the Gulf’s greatest weakness

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

The worst people in the world.

Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

I really hope Starmer isn't pulling a Tony Blair. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/us-b...

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax

Yodel/InPost you are the worst at this - and you're not even quick! www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/03...

She is full-fat Reform. The rules she wants to implement are among the most extreme in the last 50 years, up there with the Windrush scandal. The “earned settlement” proposals, and the way she wants to apply them retrospectively, will break trust in the immigration system.

It was always about plundering resources

Middle East conflict offers economic lifeline to Russia’s flagging war machine

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

The UK has arrested high-profile figures connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Will the US?

As a former Liberal Democrat, now Green, let's chat about how we make it easier for each other to replace Labour and defeat Reform. open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...