Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

From April 2026 the new State Pension standard amount of £241.30= £12,547.60 a year, just £22.40 a year less than the frozen tax-free personal allowance. Old state pension, which 62% of pensioners get, of £184.90=£9614.80 a year or £2832.20 a year less.

He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish. He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation. He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers. But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.

Royal Lodge – or mini-palace? The 30-room house caught up in the Prince Andrew scandal

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Grooming gang inquiry in turmoil before it even begins www.channel4.com/news/groomin...

Grooming gang victim steps down from inquiry and alleges ‘cover-up’ www.channel4.com/news/groomin...

Boris Johnson says government failed to plan for Covid school closures www.channel4.com/news/childre...

Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims

Sounds like the sort of person who would never get involved in fraudulently buying a house in Clacton to avoid tax.

Reform suspends four councillors in Kent following leaked video

Lots of coverage in msm about #Labour and China - and rightly so. But, curiously, less so about #Farage and #Russia An explainer with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Starmer should never have got involved with the decision of the local authorities in Birmingham regarding the Villa match and linking it to anti-semitism was idiotic. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This in FT this morning 👇

Travelodge guest suffers sleepless night as hotel says it is ‘overbooked’

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BREAKING: The Gaza Civil Defence says a number of Israeli air attacks have killed at least 11 Palestinians across the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/inwiaq

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings

"Nigel Farage can call himself a populist all he likes. He's bastardising the word," Zack Polanski tells Lewis Goodall. "The real problem is a small elite group who own the media, who donate to political parties, who are trying to distract and divide" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK? Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

As Israel reneges on deal made with Hezbollah, it flouts terms of truce in Gaza by delaying aid to hungry Palestinians.

BREAKING: A far-right Israeli group, Tsav 9, is blocking trucks from carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza at the Karem Abu Salem crossing. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5gja2w

Three UK neo-Nazis jailed for between eight and 11 years over terror plots

The UK passport has fallen to its lowest-ever position in the global power rankings, having fallen two places since last year. From 2013 to 2015, it ranked number one. So, we are pretty sure you can figure out why if you also consider that almost all European passports now rank higher. #Brexit

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp... This is an excellent and frightening piece - the AI bubble may be built on accounting fraud that the Trump admin is actively encouraging

A story in three parts

💷 Economic crime costs us billions every year, from fraud to money laundering. But law enforcement budgets haven’t kept pace. Watch Lord Cromwell make the case for an Economic Crime Fighting Fund, which would give agencies the tools they need by reinvesting more of the cash taken from criminals 👇

Farage urged to explain anti-abortion links to meeting with Trump officials

The body that regulates solicitors is facing formal public censure over its failure to protect the public against a solicitors’ firm in Sheffield that left consumers owing thousands of pounds over compensation claims for supposed cavity wall insulation defects. rozenberg.substack.com/p/hollow-jus...

Reporters from more than 30 news outlets have vacated the Pentagon, refusing to comply with new reporting restrictions.

No words could ever do Big Mac justice but I tried my best... niallharbison.substack.com/p/farewell-b...

Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press. Back her petition now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions.

Here it is! 💥💥💥 The start of the Tory-Reform election pact. Arch-Brexiter Rees-Mogg is telling Tories in the Caerphilly by-election to vote RefUK. With Plaid Cymru leading in the progressive camp, the other anti-fascist parties have to get behind Plaid!

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

27 people have now been killed by the administration’s boat strikes.

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister? hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

The NYT, Atlantic, WaPo, CNN, Guardian and others have all refused to sign Pete Hegseth new rules on reporting from the Pentagon. As far as I can tell only OAN has signed it. I guess this is Hegseth waving goodbye to their access to the Pentagon and other DOD facilities.

Some Texas National Guard members were sent home from Illinois for not making the cut.

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

New post just out: The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed. In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...