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❓How do you get Steve Reed the Environment Secretary to listen to your concerns about the private water industry? ❗⚽Meet him on his home turf.⚽❗ Lois is inviting Steve Reed to the football - fat cat water bosses can do it, so why shouldn't she? #Loisatthepalace

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

submitted 58 days ago • 357 comments

Wow again Rory

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Wow Rory

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In today's Teesside Lead... Ben Houchen to stand down as chair of development corporations after government intervention. Plus an exclusive... TVCA spent over £30,000 sending staff on overseas trips in a single week last month.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Just a pizza company with no experience of PPE equipment landing a lucrative contract…via @bylinetimes.bsky.social. bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

submitted 72 days ago • 27 comments

What can we learn about the Starmer regime from the fate of Anneliese Dodds? Very good piece by the insightful @josh.politics.co.uk. www.politics.co.uk/week-in-revi...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant. The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions. This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

submitted 79 days ago • 382 comments

Bleak new @trusselluk.bsky.social / @yougov.co.uk research that'll only make some Labour MPs feel more uneasy about the prospect of significant welfare cuts this spring Write-up by @nadinebh.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 7 comments

Today seems like a fine day to share (with a free link!) this @washingtonpost.com story I wrote about why your coffee is about to get more expensive. Take some sips with me🧵 wapo.st/41KAnZ9 [1/9]

submitted 109 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 113 days ago • 75 comments

It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.

submitted 137 days ago • 207 comments

Average UK state pension (SP) is £10,500 a year. In 2022, 110,000 pensioners died from fuel poverty. 28% of over 55-year-olds have no other pension saved, will completely rely on SP. 23% of 18-34-year-olds expect to solely rely on SP. Crisis looming. SP must be aligned with the living wage.

submitted 141 days ago • 29 comments

NEW: The savage impact of Labour’s housing benefit cuts has emerged - government figures show they will cost private sector tenants in all but the cheapest properties hundreds of pounds a year on average, with some areas seeing four-figure cuts By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

submitted 141 days ago • 20 comments

Patrick Swayze dances to the theme from Only Fools and Horses.

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Do you remember when we were told after the election “hurray, the grown ups are in charge again” - I’m not sure I like grown ups

submitted 141 days ago • 34 comments

Remarkable: Spain's post-2008 GDP has now grown more in % terms than Germany's, mainly thanks to the last three years (h/t @danielkral.bsky.social).

submitted 143 days ago • 19 comments

Sunderland’s listing on the Music Cities Network website has an image of our superb venue, The Peacock, just ahead of the Sydney Opera House. It’s good to be next to friends and partners. www.musiccitiesnetwork.com/member-cities #SunderlandMusicCity

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NEW Solving the puzzle of why the case of Prince Harry and Lord Watson against News Group Newspapers came to its sudden end How the initial media explanations did not match the facts By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/solving-th... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/solv...

submitted 148 days ago • 26 comments

one of the joys of having a column is the ability to say "actually, this story needs to be told and I don't give a shit if nobody else gives a shit". with that in mind, here's a column on jomel warrican, the west indies' fifth-most famous spin bowler www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

submitted 150 days ago • 20 comments

Now I have stopped applauding, I can repost this.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

submitted 149 days ago • 1058 comments

My favourite Bowie story, as told by William Boyd

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

What a magnificent game at Anfield. The people, companies and states who own and control football clubs today might be awful, but the players care, a lot, and do the fans - and all of us. A reminder that football is too precious to be left to the bastards, who should be fought every inch of the way.

submitted 167 days ago • 13 comments

Former Business Secretary Badenoch’s dept wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over tax breaks. The rich demand tax cuts and changes in law, Ministers jump. Poor get real wage/benefit cuts, NHS queues, crumbling schools ... Minister heap misery. Who governs? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 169 days ago • 38 comments

I don't post much but I'd like to wish everyone a happy, healthy 2025. HTL

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Here is Gisèle Pelicot's full statement outside the court. I share it in honour of her immense courage. ~AA

submitted 184 days ago • 17 comments

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

submitted 201 days ago • 45 comments

👀Is Rishi Sunak trying to avoid public scrutiny? He just switched his new company “The office of Akshata Murty and Rishi Sunak” from a limited company to an “unlimited” company. This means he no longer has to make his company accounts public 👀⤵️

submitted 207 days ago • 10 comments

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

submitted 209 days ago • 35 comments

Competition 🎉 Win one of our 90s Football Mugs! To enter: ➡️ Repost this post ➡️ Follow us It's that simple! Good luck 🤞

submitted 214 days ago • 12 comments

SUNDERLAND really has got the bit between its teeth. When I stayed there in 1983/84 it was all this (below)(Photo ©stuartroyclarke) Now it is a blast furnace of creativity. Going forward.

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King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RP if you want the Monarchy gone. #AbolishTheMonarchy

submitted 211 days ago • 430 comments

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

submitted 211 days ago • 36 comments

Everything you need to know about Brexit and Trump’s tariff war by @chrisgrey.bsky.social. So worth 10-15 minutes of your day. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...

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That the attorney general could be someone who kidnapped a dog isn't a thing I imagined

submitted 211 days ago • 110 comments