🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...

Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use

Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again

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In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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A new YouGov poll commissioned by Best for Britain found that restoring EU membership is the most popular option for the UK’s relationship with Europe in 628 of GB’s 632 constituencies. The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.

Brexit’s last strongholds? Only Reform and Restore constituencies reject rejoining the EU

The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.

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Burnham edges Labour closer to finally, maybe, being sane about Brexit. Over 10 years, £Billions of cost, thousands of business failures, mountains of red tape, wasted resources and lost opportunities later…. our govt may, at last, cautiously, start to be honest about the Brexit moronathon. Yay.

Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension. Means-testing even though people have paid for it. Proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains tax; cut corporation tax. Enrich the wealthiest. No means-testing. Chaos and cruelty inevitable.

Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension

‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes

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London’s most expensive house, the Reform UK Treasurer, Holly Valance, one of Labour’s biggest donors, a £265m sale, and a curious loophole we’ve uncovered that could slash the taxes earned from elite London properties. London Centric x Dan Neidle collab. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-mo...

London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill

A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?

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🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.

Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

It's that time of year again: annual elections of Council Members for the magnificent National Trust. Should you wish to vote for the Nomination Committee's recommended candidates, they are on page 18 of your booklet. 'Restore' and 'Reclaim' are again in the fray. Votes are due in by 30 October.

A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi...

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The last week has seen multiple incidents of masked mobs trying to subvert the power of the state. Their actions have been illegal and unpleasant. But the treatment has been weak. The police haven't dealt with it, and neither has govt. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

Stop the Louts

The tools exist. The will, so far, doesn't.

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‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’ Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel's extreme… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/09/israels-shrill-attack-on-ed-miliband-exposes-its-weakness/

‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’

Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel's extreme response to the UK shows it is now losing the argument

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Important piece from a great rabbi, Rabbi Jeremy Gordon Do give it read if you want a more balanced understanding of our community - the JLC and BoD do not speak for us all rabbionanarrowbridge.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-o...

An Open Letter on Settler Violence and British Sanctions

I’ve witnessed and experienced settler violence first-hand. On a 2024 visit to the West Bank, a group of rabbis, including myself and Rabbi ...

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“We’re here to stop people flooding into your town.“ No irony or contradiction here. Except. Well done Jennings. apple.news/AaR9knMa7T5y...

Opinion | Ben Jennings on the far-right disturbances in Dover and Portsmouth – cartoon — The Guardian

Black-clad men in balaclavas disrupted traffic and fought with police over the weekend

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Come on Passenger! When you’re ready …. 🤪🎶

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

To me, the most eye-opening bit of this recent Reform scandal is that these knobheads literally say that the reason they need foreign money is because British people won’t support them.

Apparently it’s because this popped up behind Tice on a timer while he was speaking. So, now they are checking for other protests.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · last mo.

Richard Tice introduced Nigel Farage, but Nigel Farage came not. After a few minutes David Bull came out, visibly shaken to say proceedings had been delayed because of "unforeseen circumstances". It's now more than ten minutes later and nobody knows what is going on.

Fun fact - Reform railing against the investigators being a foreign funded group compounds this problem because it confirms that the money they "recieved" was from outside the UK

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

An unusual thing about this undercover operation is £ actually spent + not declared [£30k on polling] = actual offences Lobbygate (July 1998), Dispatches (2015), Led by Donkeys 2023 Hancock/Kwarteng) usually undercover recordings of interest (or not) to break rules for hypothetical £ before reveal

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📢 It’s the Nerve’s inaugural mention in the Guardian! 💪🎉 …In this great interview by Zoe Williams with Nerve columnist and ‘greatest living stand up’ (copyright: the Telegraph) Stewart Lee 1/ www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his life

After a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with p...

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This is good. Especially good to have Scottish and English systems placed in dialogue with each other. Interest free loans won't appeal to everyone, but pragmatically have significant advantages over the current atrocious and unsustainable system.

England and Scotland's funding experiments have both failed

Craig Mahoney argues it's time for a conversation about what higher education is worth, who benefits from it, and who should pay

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Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.

A year ago I wrote one of my most popular posts: "the financial crisis theory of everything". It looks at how the 2008 crash led to Trump, the rise of the radical right, Brexit, the war in Ukraine etc... I've taken off the paywall so it's now free to read. samf.substack.com/p/the-financ...

The financial crisis theory of everything

Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.

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The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Post Mortem by Richard Brooks ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/books/post-m...

We are commissioning discussion papers for our new international policy programme, ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’, inviting creative thinking on interconnected challenges relating to climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainability, development and wellbeing. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA