I'm not sure how a three child benefit cap would be any less unpopular than a two child benefit cap?

Foreign influence is in no-ones interest. Conservatives should back this inquiry too.

What does Starmer mean when he says abolishing ILR is "racist"? Surely it would apply to (white) Ukrainians and (asian) Afghans and (black) Nigerians all the same?

We need to root out corruption like this. Throw the book at him!

If conservatives want to rebuild our trust, we need to back ideas like this that strengthen our electoral system.

A prominent person who (allegedly) supported terrorism can't be charged because the Met Police & CPS ballsed up the paperwork. Regardless of what you think of the case, this is very concerning. Heads should roll at the Met/CPS. news.sky.com/story/terror...

"We don't need a cure for autism" This misses the point. As someone with lots of family with ASD, yes of course autism is a divergence not a disease. BUT - there has been a sharp increase in autism in recent decades. Some may be due to better diagnosis, but not all. We DO need to find out why.

I admire and support what Full Fact does. But on the OSA I fundamentally disagree. Harms are widespread online. That is largely because criminality is widespread and rarely tackled. OSA priority should be illegal actions - including criminal damage, fraud, incitement, threats, hate speech etc.

Garbage. When I studied engineering, top 3 were Cambridge, London (ICL) and Manchester (UMIST). Oxbridge supremacy is a myth.

Wise words from Wes.

People think crime is up even when it's down - why? What many commentators miss is that our _tolerance_ of crime is way down. More people are living alone, fewer know their neighbours - so we are worse affected when crime happens.

Every time a NATO minister says "reckless", Putin smells weakness. It was clearly intentional. Say it.

Disgraceful comments. Good to see Reform has suspended him, but was their vetting enough?

Another eg of a general rule: polarisation causes loss of political principles. Here republicans ditching free speech, previously fiscal responsibility. Why not tomorrow low taxes, right to life - anything?

Great to see this law progressing. Long overdue.

🚨 Will politicians *finally* face real risk of prosecution? The new draft #HillsboroughLaw completely rewrites the UK’s misconduct in public office laws. This is a big win for @spotlightcorruption.org which has campaigned for several years to get this done.

Free Speech is fundamental to our freedoms, prosperity and progress. But I worry that some have missed the point. Open debate - the competition of ideas - drives innovation and improvement and challenges vested interests. But competition of ideas only works if it is based on truth. Freedom...

Political violence "is not a both sides problem' Although a cursory look at this article suggests Democrats have been victims more than Republicans en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

The Triple Lock is both unaffordable and unnecessary. This isn't complex, just maths and logic 1/

Why has the UK agreed a target of 81% reduction in emissions by 2035, when the EU is planning only 66%? Seems madness to criple ourselves like this. #cop30

This is an open and shut case. Why has it taken 2.5 months to reach court? It should have been fast tracked. ground.news/article/firs...

Well, Diane Abbott certainly knows all about racism!

The evidence is overwhelming that these people have broken the law. CPS needs to up it's game, get more charged and convicted so they deter further action.

What empty nonsense. Greens are no different from any other political party when it comes to who or how they appoint to positions of power.

Can't believe the BBC are still getting this so wrong. Guidelines are a mess. BBC censures staff for calling Hamas a ‘terror group’ ground.news/article/why-...

This is supremely depressing. Because every politician knows, if they were out for themselves, they wouldn't be in politics!

Hate speech, incitement, harassment is and has always been illegal. And so it should be. Whether it's said "online" or anywhere else is, and always has been, irrelevant.

These countries are not friends of Britain. How much ODI do we give them every year? Time to grow a backbone and sanction any country supporting stuff like this. www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/...

If you want to know what Reform will be like in government, have a look at their internal democracy.

Vaccines have saved >150,000,000 lives in last 50 years. Vaccine ignorance kills.

Indeed. The Ministerial Code talks about the "highest standards" which might be empty guff but could also be an unreasonable expectation of expecting no mistakes ever.

One of the key strengths of our parliamentary system is that (most) ministers must first come up through the ranks and be an MP. One of the key weaknesses is that so much relies on conventions, which likes of Reform can tear up any time they want.

Co-payment has to be the way. Lots of people want to access this new option. Let them do it!

Tesco customers will no longer have to squeeze their avocados, which will be a relief, I'm sure www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This orwellian doublespeak is depressing. This Labour "devolution" Bill is set to abolish local government where I live, so decisions about Bishops Stortford will be made in towns like Stevenage or Welwyn by people who have never set foot in our town.

If you make rail prices the same, regardless of travel time, then more people will travel peak and trains will be more crowded. Extraordinary how little people understand market economics.

I'd put it another way: it sets a welcome precedent. If western countries can now freely criticise other western countries, its time for Britain to spell out our concerns about the state of democracy in the US.

The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social already has an unfair number of Lords (if "fairness" is based on the % of votes approach agreed in previous reform attempts). Packing the Lords like this strengthens the case @instituteforgovernment.org.uk made recently that PM powers to appoint Lords must be curtailed

Labour starting a welcome rollback of the technocratic deep state. Sentencing guidelines should always have been subject to political vetos - let's hope more will follow.

Next May's elections were always going to be tough for Labour, with Reform expected to advance in metro & London suburbs and LD/Green/Gaza Inds advancing in cosmopolitan inner cities. This result confirms the deep trouble they're in.

This is shocking behaviour. HoC should come down hard on James McMurdock.

It's impressive how quickly they are able to act - hearing to ruling in less than a day.

Likelihood of Gulf Stream collapse gone 10% --> 25% and won't happen for ~100 years. Not exactly worth losing sleep over. #climateanxiety

"the government was appealing the [Epping asylum hotel] ruling so that "the closure of all hotels can be done in a properly managed way" Presumably if they lose in court, HMG can simply rush through emergency legislation that changes planning law. But will they do this? Politically it would hurt.

Where does this leftist fantasy come from that says "the world" (by which they presumably mean, the west) has the power to wave a magic wand and "end" whatever bad thing is happening in the world?

Yes please!

VAT on private school fees caused 10k kids to switch to state sector - far fewer than ca 200k that was feared. Interesting article on the impact below.

A successful policy of misdirection by Boris. Brits want low migration. Boris wanted high migration. So he made a fuss about "small boats" while letting a million legal migrants in.

There are so many dumb headlines reacting to these new rules. Even a mildly effective block will change the experience that children have of online porn.

Let's see...