What will the water companies do with the sewage now the rivers are running dry? #ukdrought

Five million visitors. One safer city. As London welcomes millions this summer, we're continuing to make our city safer. In Westminster alone, neighbourhood crime is down by 36% in the last year.

Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure

Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

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The New World contributor Richard Luck has been reported missing. His family and friends are concerned for his safety. Richard was last seen in Kensington, London SW5 and it is likely he is still in that area. If you have seen Richard, please contact georgia.anne.lewis@gmail.com

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Londoners hopped on board ten years ago - and we've never looked back. After more than one billion Hopper journeys so far, the new Weekend Hopper arrives this summer. Pay once, travel all day 🐸

Here's a few positive stories that you probably haven't heard about this week

A fortnight of positive news for the UK economy - Labour deserve more credit

We've just had two weeks of positive news stories about the UK economy - and it's about time Labour got some credit for their good work.

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@rspb.bsky.social I have just heard swifts overhead for the first time this year. Very reassuring 🙂

All incentive in the media landscape is for leading practitioners not to be even-handed in their comments but to feed melodrama. It's not known as the attention economy for nothing. Let's therefore abandon the quaint notion that these are mere reporters. They are political actors in their own right.

London has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2026. This prestigious award is global recognition of the work we’ve done to build a better London for everyone. This shows what we can achieve when we work together. youtu.be/PPQD2EZC2oY

London Awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 🏆

YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to Irish Londoners. 🍀 Your contribution to our great city is undeniable. London is richer with you in it. Wishing you and everyone celebrating Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution

Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

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Mobility hire in the lake district by Outdoor Mobility (very cheap - charity supported) was a game changer for M-in-L today! Amazing. Lake District Tramper Hire Locations | Outdoor Mobility share.google/kmjsH2YIQb57...

“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam.bsky.social about AI and its impact on creativity. #Newsnight

Fujitsu has paid nothing toward a £2bn redress bill yet still profits from public contracts. 2,500 sub-postmasters are still waiting for their full claim to be paid; 1,500 are still to receive any money. Business & Trade Committee new report, out today: 👇 committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Just received our Thames Water bill. It is almost a thousand pounds! £913.89 this year!😠 It's an absolute scandal. Why are we paying the dividends of others for polluting our waters?! It feels like robbery #EndSewagePollution

Three years ago we made an early News Agents on the student loan scandal and the sky high marginal tax rates it creates. Three years on, govts since have made it all worse still. We’ve made a special follow up, centred on our listeners own experiences. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

How the government became a student loan shark

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 06/02/2026 · 50m

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While we should all be looking very hard at Starmer’s leadership, this week Nigel Farage decided that the people who vote for him would prefer to have cheaper beer at the expense of children being lifted out of poverty.

A real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives. That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.

Just caught up on the Gordon Brown interview this a.m. on BBC Radio 4 Today programme (from around 8.10am). If you haven’t already listened it is worth the 20 mins to do so. GB apology, analysis & proposals to clean up Uk political corruption are a genuine boon. 👍😊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 07/02/2026 - BBC Sounds

Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 2073 - The modern day WFH enslavement of the poor; ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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The UK’s latest offshore wind auction shows what's possible when public finance is mission oriented. But net zero won't be won on power alone: the decarbonisation of transport, housing and heavy industry must follow.

The green industrial revolution is coming

But the government must make sure local communities feel the benefit

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“There is essentially a global wave of governments being captured by big money, whether that’s big crypto money or big tech money." *Really* recommend this interview I did with @oliverbullough.bsky.social on how money laundering is taking over the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEkK...

The Gucci Loophole: How British High Streets Launder Drug Money

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Redressing imbalance in much of reporting of Starmer's Government.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔴Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Is Much Better Than the Media Admits There is a deep disconnect between the Government’s actions to improve the country and its standing in the polls, argues @prfchrispainter.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/k...

90,000 properties in England/Wales are owned by offshore companies. Almost half unlawfully hide their true ownership We've found them, mapped them, and published everything ▶️ This 60-second video shows how to find secretly owned property near you 📊 Details & stats below

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name. youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?...

Student loans are 'fair', says Rachel Reeves, amid backlash | LBC

YouTube video by LBC

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Reform's opponents need to keep punching this bruise. It's a real problem for a would-be nationalist leader when they start looking like the lapdog of a hostile power. This did a lot of damage to Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, and it could become a serious issue for Farage.

Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 7mo ago

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

The student loan scandal - interest on loans is more than the repayments for many on Plan 2 so debt grows trapping them with extra 9% income tax for up to 30 years bit.ly/3NcgO8o £15.2 billion interest added to student loans last year, only £5 billion repaid.

‘I’ll end up owing £200k’ — a graduate generation trapped and betrayed

All students are stuck with crippling debt, but one group is suffering more than others, reveals Mary Downer

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