New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.
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The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 4 August 2026
We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...
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Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThe campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
Japan News, English language version of country's largest daily, reviews my book Post Mortem - "important read when looking at technology we rely on and the attitudes of govts and tech firms, including Fujitsu...". Let's hope the company's bosses read it. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book...
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In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money, Bank of England eases capital rules for banks at same time as its financial stability report warns of risky asset valuations and members of its financial policy committee worry about dangers of the move…
A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
Special Report: Stripped Tees
IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...
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What do the tycoons funding the new hard right want?Take GB News owner Paul Marshall. once a LibDem busy pushing that party in more Thatcherite directions: Is his conversion to hard right anti-migrant politics just a new cloak to cover his neoliberal economics morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Worth repeating, the 'tough new visa rules' were designed specifically for care workers and their family members. If it's not going to work for them, it won't work for anyone else caught by the cruelty of the rules. Bin the whole thing.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 7d agoGood news. But Rayner's point that it is un-British and unfair, as well as economically and politically counterproductive, to change the rules retrospectively applies to other workers on medium- skilled work visas (technicians/chefs/etc) www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
False reports about migrant care workers came from Conservative party 'research' The Times was forced to issue a correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 dependants to UK
False migrant care worker data came from Conservative Party
The Times is forced to issue correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 family members to UK
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Robert Jenrick's biggest donor is a formerly Tory supporting fund manager who prefers investing in Europe to the UK - he does like investing in rule breaking online gambling firms, in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Andy Burnham hires Political Director : A corporate lobbyist (co.clients inc. Data Centres, outsourcers, British Gas) who was pushing NHS privatisation. Before lobbying he helped run New Zealand Labour when they scrapped a wealth tax, moved right + lost an election. In @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Why did a bunch of free marketeer Thatcherite businessmen start funding the new racist right - is it just trying to cloak their unpopular politics in sexy bigotry, or was it always how they felt ? morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain’s free-market elite have embraced the culture war
ENGLISH politics has taken a sharp turn towards racism. Political positions once held by the National Front are now regularly broadcast on national television.But many of the leading businessmen and p...
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Calling people traitors in your Afrikaner accent, no less. Imagine showing this to somebody from circa 1987 or so.
It’s by no means the worst thing going on here, but imagine flying eight thousand miles to live in another country and calling millions of people who are actually from there “traitors”
👉NEW -- Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow by Phil Miller, Alex Morris & Hanna-Johara Dokal Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-arms...
Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow
Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny
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(1)A couple of recent FT pieces arguing Burnham - with Healey as Chancellor- is not making structural changes, instead its a bit "continuity Reeves" using a bit of public spending to try ameliorate Cost-of-Living , but leaving the basic economic/business/(housing) structure unchanged...
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoWill Burnham go big or go home? ft.trib.al/DZdeGG1 | opinion
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(1)Mahmood's "reforms" are a bigger attack on workers rights than Cameron excluding workers from Employment Tribunals (2 yr limit)- some Labour people think they are "only" attacks on migrant workers rights- but it doesn't work like that. Remove some 1m migrant workers rights + all workers suffer..
As yet Andy Burnham hasn't appointed anyone to the left of...Andy Burnham. He has appointed big "reassuring" (the markets/media/right) Centrist Ministers. So just by gravity/maths he will drift rightwards from this point, unless he has loads of left Ministerial appointments up his sleeve
Burnham enters No.10 greeted by Steve Rotherham (a good guy) after hugging Josh Simons (a bad guy) - shows the ok influences, and awful influences, on Burnham- lets see which win out
(1)Broadly imo the difference between Starmer and Burnham is Starmer lied, pretended to be left, planned to sharply turn right, attack disabled folk, arrest protesters, grab freebies etc..a fraud. Burnham isn't lying, wants to move away from neoliberalism, but with Starmer's fraudsters on board..
Raise the Colours, an organisation which has had one of its founders charged with murder, has been heavily implicated in a hit and run (currently under investigation), and another "leading light" faces trial for 22 indecent images charges.
Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 2w agoThis may be a relatively minor thing for people, it may not but the whole phenomenon of 'Raise the Colours' and the shrug with which the government greeted it (IIRC at one point RtC was even tacitly endorsed?) continues to blow my mind.
"... what is expected to be a brief conversation, conducted using words, some of them nouns, though traditionally on such occasions one might expect to hear one or two verbs in there as well from the King..."
"... where he will be invited to sit, we're told most likely on a chair, one of the many, many pieces of furniture contained in that palace you can see on your screens right now..."
"And the prime minister's car just driving up the Mall now, all four wheels on the ground, propelled possibly by an internal combustion engine, Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria no doubt in the back, continuing to respirate and draw oxygen into their lungs, on this unusually sunny..."