So many broken promises and missed targets - so 15 years after the ‘watershed’ of Winterbourne View, autistic people & citizens with learning disabilities still suffer state-sanctioned abuse. My @theipaper.com column on a scandal dragging on in plain sight inews.co.uk/opinion/auti...

So many broken promises and missed targets - so 15 years after the ‘watershed’ of Winterbourne View, autistic people & citizens with learning disabilities still suffer state-sanctioned abuse. My @theipaper.com column on a scandal dragging on in plain sight inews.co.uk/opinion/auti...

Farage desperately trying to distance himself from his idol in the Kremlin after spewing Russia's propaganda. But why on earth would Putin want to cause trouble for his prize British disruptor? www.dailymail.com/news/article...

'Despite everything, you are alive' Extraordinary @mattrudd.bsky.social piece interviewing 3 people with Locked-In Syndrome is fascinating - while offering fresh insight into the significance of social care, family pressures, personal budgets and assisted dying. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

'Despite everything, you are alive' Extraordinary @mattrudd.bsky.social piece interviewing 3 people with Locked-In Syndrome is fascinating - while offering fresh insight into the significance of social care, family pressures, personal budgets and assisted dying. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

As I wrote in my column this week, the Tories are sliding into total irrelevance ianbirrell.com/kemi-badenoc...

Farage desperately trying to distance himself from his idol in the Kremlin after spewing Russia's propaganda. But why on earth would Putin want to cause trouble for his prize British disruptor? www.dailymail.com/news/article...

'The humanitarian sector is the only industry where if your performance is very bad, we keep funding you' Another attempt to remake the aid industry www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/05...

Russians are waking up to the economic catastrophe of Putin’s war - good, detailed report by Melissa Lawford www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Disgraceful

How broken children became big business Vulnerable kids are dumped in illegal homes. Strong report by @ianbirrell.bsky.social via @unherd.com unherd.com/2026/05/how-...

Kemi Badenoch’s kidding herself - the Tories are sliding into irrelevance. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/category/442...

Absolutely horrendous, and I thought adult social care was bad.

Kemi Badenoch’s kidding herself - the Tories are sliding into irrelevance. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/category/442...

I am genuinely baffled why this situation is not causing more uproar - unbelievable harm being caused to our most vulnerable children Feels like it sits at the exact centre of the Venn diagram of "how is local government not fit for purpose"

The dumping of at-risk children by local authorities in illegal homes symbolises a broken care system and grotesque state failure. My @unherd.com column on how vulnerable children became big business - with damaging consequences unherd.com/2026/05/how-...

The dumping of at-risk children by local authorities in illegal homes symbolises a broken care system and grotesque state failure. My @unherd.com column on how vulnerable children became big business - with damaging consequences unherd.com/2026/05/how-...

Time is running out. The #SEND consultation closes at 11.59pm tomorrow (Monday 18th). Please take the time to respond if you can. The more of us respond, the harder we are to ignore. #SaveSENDLegalRights #NotInOurName #StrongerTogether

I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

However you cut it, Labour is looking utterly contemptuous of both the country and the electorate at the moment after being elected on a mandate to restore stability to government

So a disgraced MP - sacked from the government for digging dirt on journalists - claims to be acting nobly when attempting to spark an unnecessary by-election & unnecessary mayoral election in revenge. Labour is behaving like the deposed Tories at their worst as they play these dismal games

Typical: no mention of social care in this resignation letter by the health and social care secretary, making huge play of his claimed achievements in the NHS

It remains weird to me that this has become another culture war issue, so the left in both Britain and the US ignore a stunning abuse of power that has undermined faith in both government and science in league with a brutally-repressive Communist dictatorship

Meanwhile in Britain, a central figure in the cover-up is serving as science minister after being placed in the House of Lords ianbirrell.com/deafening-si...

Interesting days re Covid origin investigations; CIA whistleblower claims Fauci orchestrated cover-up; his former top aide David Morens is arrested for concealing data; key gain-of-fuction researcher Ralph Baric 'retires' after government moves to debar funding due to his 'pattern of deception'

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

Very serious allegations - Farage (& Johnson) need to be questioned at every opportunity and by anyone claiming to be a journalist over Harborne’s cash.

It's funny being in Singapore while Starmer is being defenestrated because (for good and bad reasons) it's so completely alien to Singaporeans' conception of politics, and they are all totally baffled by it.

The fourth Reform councillor suspended, expelled or forced to resign since being elected on...Thursday

After only two years in government - having been elected on a platform to restore good governance and stability to our country - Labour is looking like the Tories at their fractious worst. This pathetic failure will benefit only the populist charlatans on political extremes

What a grotesque hypocrite: Polanski - who says it is patriotic to pay tax and savages tax dodgers - admits ducking payment of council tax news.sky.com/story/zack-p...

Whoever is leader, Labour now has one central mission - to stop Farage from winning power and taking the UK down Trump's destructive path. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

Whoever is leader, Labour now has one central mission - to stop Farage from winning power and taking the UK down Trump's destructive path. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

The defeated old dictator is looking to escape his catastrophe… ….but Schroder is his patsy who has been feasting off the Kremlin’s cash for years

Legend!

‘We can see those signs of renewal everywhere that we are standing’ says Kemi Badenoch

Anyone who thinks this is going well for the Tories is lying or needs their head tested.

Initial election results indicate: - Reform doing well (especially in Brexity areas) to delight its billionaire paymasters and millionaire leaders - Labour doing v badly - but less badly than predicted - Tories doing v badly, so Kemi bounce back a myth - Lib Dems floundering - Britain needs PR

'In chess it is known as a Zugzwang: when every move worsens the position.' Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

'In chess it is known as a Zugzwang: when every move worsens the position.' Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Populist grifters to the right.... ....and populist charlatans to the left British Politics, 2026

It pays to follow the money: Farage and his friend Trump are exposing the cynical fraud of populism. My @theipaper.com column on politicians who serve plutocrats while claiming to fight for ordinary folks against the elite inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Lies, fake news, scummy far-right protesters and shameless political fellow travellers - the darkness and dangers for Britain exposed by the Epsom rape case. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/epso...

Repulsive policy from a repulsive man given prominence by a repulsive party. The core message is DO NOT VOTE REFORM Ever…

Repulsive policy from a repulsive man given prominence by a repulsive party. The core message is DO NOT VOTE REFORM Ever…

It pays to follow the money: Farage and his friend Trump are exposing the cynical fraud of populism. My @theipaper.com column on politicians who serve plutocrats while claiming to fight for ordinary folks against the elite inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Lies, fake news, scummy far-right protesters and shameless political fellow travellers - the darkness and dangers for Britain exposed by the Epsom rape case. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/epso...

South Korea’s fertility crisis, a warning for the developed world and the radical feminists who shun dating, heterosexual sex and marriage - my report from Seoul on a country selling more prams for dogs than babies www.dailymail.com/news/article...