The ‘Lord’ Matthew Doyle saga somehow epitomises this zombie government app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73126/...

Not "Robbins decided" but "There was...a decision". The passive voice is always a tell. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here's a fact outside the bubble: NOBODY DIED www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But Badenoch has walked back her bold claim Starmer lied www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

interesting to see this resurface in the Sunday Times today

The "economical with the truth" video of Sir Olly and Sir Chris testifying to the FAC is pure Yes Minister. .

Thank goodness we don't qualify as 'older relatives' ...

This is ruining my weekend and it's only just started www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

This is scary www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Starmer was kept in dark about Mandelson’s vetting by two other top civil servants

The government is still pondering crippling the FOI act parliamentary questions suggest My latest blog at Relight My FOIA, on the government's refusal to put to bed speculation it still plans to kneecap the Freedom of Information Act in response to PQs relightmyfoia.blog/2026/04/17/g...

This was published LAST SEPTEMBER. Bit surprising? "... MI6 failed to clear the Labour peer largely because of concerns over his business links to China. However, there were also worries that his past links to the disgraced financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “would compromise him”."

She's a bit late

wow www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So altruistic of Trump to care about us Brits in this way.

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

Hard to overstate what a disaster this would be for public interest journalism

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The first Honda Civic cost $2,100, or $15,100 today. Now, the reliable family car is 3.5 feet longer, three times more powerful — and almost twice as expensive. What happened to the “econobox” cars of the 1970s?

The Sun’s accounts are out and I haven’t seen anyone report on them so… *Pre-tax loss of £31m *Revenue down from £296m to £273m (Sub now in the same ballpark as the Guardian) *Phone hacking costs (now into its third decade) of £36.6m *Big fall in audience but still claim to be UK’s number one brand

Heart-breaking. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/m...

Donald Trump's Trump Media and Technology Group has withdrawn an amended defamation claim filed in Florida against The Guardian over a report about $8m in payments to the company from entities linked to Vladimir Putin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Former environment editor of The Times Ben Webster has launched a legal claim against the Government for withholding documents pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/en...

Normal stuff here, very normal: "As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as 'lunatic' and 'clearly insane'..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

A crucial article, but one quibble. I've been arguing since 1997 that Frank Furedi, Claire Fox and the rest of the gruesome "Revolutionary Communist Party" goons were NEVER on the left: the RCP was a far-right front from the outset. No surprise when they started working for Orbán, Farage & Johnson🧵

Judge dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal lawsuit over Epstein birthday letter story

Fascinating stuff. Before I read this, I didn't realise how much influence Hungary's politics has over ours. If Orbán loses today, it may cut off funding to the far right and have a strong positive impact on us in Britain and the rest of Europe.

Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Frost and money from the "Danube Institute"

More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach. Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping bsky.app/profile/eff....

Is Melania Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein now to distract from her husband’s epic failure on Iran? (This hideous idea was literally a joke just a fortnight ago.)