This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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A firm believer in social justice and a fairer society
Excellent by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on Mahmood's settlement proposals “You end up with Reform claiming a woman born in Somalia who's lived here most of her life, worked hard and contributed to our society,somehow isn’t fit to hold elected office.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.
We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London
There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth
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Many who voted Reform at recent elections may be concerned about immigration, Farage and co are othering legal immigrants to win votes, they couldn’t care less if social care vacancies go unfulfilled #ShabanaMahmood you just can’t out Reform Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
It’s Monday & Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood still has no response to hundreds of masked men blocking ports first in Dover now Portsmouth . No speech about keeping our communities safe , increasing the UK terror threat level , a crackdown on protest or calls to proscribe Patriot Platform 😳..
Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · 7d agoCompare and contrast.
A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
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Man in glasses that partook in the assault of young women at a Reform conference identified as Stephen Cooling of Sutton, a Reform member who previously stood as a UKIP candidate in Erdington.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · last wk.The young women assaulted by Reform sycophants while Nigel Farage cheered the attackers on stage.
I wonder if there is a training program for #foreignoffice officials to learn tone deafness. They really are hopeless! And as for the performance of the Spanish local authorities… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Then who or what did we cremate?’ Daughter’s horror at finding bones in British wildfire victims’ car
Danielle Gillam-Kirton claims police botched investigation into her parents’ deaths in Spain and is demanding answers
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I’ve read this report on various news sites but have not seen an explanation as to what motivated the offenders. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Man jumps out of first-floor window to escape kidnappers in Lincoln
Five jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdown
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BBC News report Iceland's EU referendum result, presenting it as an in-out like Brexit They neglect to mention that Iceland is already in the EU Single Market and has free movement of people with Schengen
What the lying Liar said just after the referendum...
No, Iceland’s referendum result does not reject European integration but revamps the attractiveness of the country’s present EEA arrangement -single-market access, free movement, participation in EU programmes without a vote on EU rules My latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/a-lesson-f...
Only took 10 years since Brexit to be the "dirty man of europe" again. All those years of campaigning against red tape really paid off for Nigel and co.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution
I have zero confidence that the government will fix this problem anytime soon. Come on #burnham get on with it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution
Checking for sewage spills has become as normal as checking the weather forecast, say swimmers on East Sussex beaches
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Great letter in The Yorkshire Post from Peter Packham @leedseurope.bsky.social. 'The Brexit elite didn't "take back control" of our borders; they undermined our ability to manage them and incentivised criminal gangs behind the trafficking of desperate, vulnerable migrants.'
Australia says data centres need to bring their own green energy - why isn't the UK insisting on the same? Have a listen to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, "As data centres come on line and bring their own demand for energy, they bring their own supply of power"
Seriously, Burnham had two easy ‘wins’ he’s just blown, on Thames Water and major donors. How does he think this looks?
Yes, there are a lot of politicians who still have not realised how unpopular their receiving such gift is. The last paragraph is worthy of extra contemplation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If MPs want to take on Nigel Farage over his dodgy finances, they need to clean up their own act | Frances Ryan
It’s hard to beat back charges that MPs are ‘all the same’ when they have accepted £400k in freebies this year, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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STOP using X. It’s as simple as that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP
Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content
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If the UK government legislated to control the building and operation as well as greatly restricting the environmental impact and resource consumption of #datacentre s, the tech companies would no doubt find a way to achieve the processing power they desire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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