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I don’t think road safety laws are the only laws Deliveroo/Uber/JustEat riders are breaking… #illegal

The stupidity of, and damage done by, stamp duty is being recognised by more and more people. I’ve said it before and l’ll say it again: any govt which cared about economic growth and people’s welfare would abolish it. thetimes.com/article/026bd67…

Only in London could a Ukranian March bump into the Naked bike ride at Hyde Park corner

Day in, day out in central London, the same scene: branded backpacks, turbo e‑bikes, riders mounting pavements and threading through crowds while everyone pretends this is normal. Parliament was literally petitioned to force fast‑food firms to make riders obey the Highway Code; councils and London boroughs have begged the apps to get a grip; yet from where I’m standing, nothing has changed. Deliveroo, Just Eat and UberEats sign “road safety charters” and issue PR about compliance, while the pavements outside my workplace tell a very different story. This is captured regulation: the law is ferocious with a mis‑parked hatchback, timid with the corporations whose entire model depends on organised rule‑breaking at street level.

The e-bike delivery drivers wreaking havoc on our streets This is the unholy cocktail created by under policing of our streets, the gig economy, people to lazy to walk to the chippy and an under resourced immigration system. Gifted article telegraph.co.uk/gift/1fd1f39…

From my office in central London, you can stand at a junction and count the abuses in minutes: pavements treated as overflow lanes, riders going the wrong way down one‑way streets, phones in hand, no lights, no fear. City Hall, TfL and safety bodies have been warned for years about illegal and modified e‑bikes and e‑scooters being used for deliveries, uninsured and effectively operating as stealth motorbikes. The Met does the odd “operation”, seizes a few bikes, then it’s straight back to the daily reality I and millions of Londoners dodge on the walk home. It’s not that they don’t know – it’s that they’ve decided our safety is a price worth paying for cheap takeaways and a press release about “sustainable transport”.

I am flying tomorrow to Evian in France with the prime minister for what will be the most surreal summit of world leaders of his - and my - career. And that is because Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister is conditional on whether Andy Burnham becomes a Labour MP on Friday and then how fast he moves to unseat the PM. Starmer and his ministers do their best in public to pretend that they are governing as normal. In private his colleagues are explicit that he is in limbo, unable to have confidence that he will remain PM for many weeks or even days longer. So although this summit of the leaders of the G7 richest economies has an important agenda - re-opening and policing the Strait of Hormuz, reinforcing support for Ukraine, reducing European AI dependence on the US (so graphically manifest in Washington’s order to Anthropic to shut down Fable) - none of the leaders know if Starmer is there as the now-and-future PM or a temporary caretaker. The PM has said that he will fight Burnham if he launches a leadership challenge. But his cabinet colleagues tell me they don’t know if that is what he feels he has to say, to maintain a semblance of authority, or whether he means it. One minister tells me the prime minister would lose badly in a head-to-head contest against Burnham. “He would be humiliated” said the minister. “He has been told that. Whether he believes it is another thing.” Another minister says the mortal blow was the resignation as defence secretary, John Healey. Before Healey revealed himself to be unwilling to serve a PM unable to find the money deemed necessary by Healey to mend the UK’s overstretched defences, ministers were reluctantly rallying around Starmer. No longer. “What was half-hearted support for the PM has more-or-less gone,” said the minister. “He could try to replace those ministers he feels have been most disrespectful to him, like Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood, but that would probably be the final nail in his own coffin.” Starmer is seen as isolated from most of his colleagues, seeking solace and advice from his attorney general Richard Hermer and his former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney - whose informal return to the centre of government alienates many Labour MPs, because of his central role in the debacle of Peter Mandelson’s stint as British ambassador in Washington. This period in purgatory will stretch through this week, but ministers believe the moment of Starmer’s fall or redemption will be next weekend. If Burnham wins decisively in Makerfield, reversing the seemingly decisive shift to Reform of the local elections just a few weeks ago, ministers expect that Labour MPs will want an orderly transition from Starmer to Burnham, without the chaos and uncertainty of a lengthy contested leadership election. Burnham and Starmer will therefore engage in a political dance, assessing how far the other will go to take the party to the brink of that messy contest. What happens if they can’t agree a transfer of power, if Starmer does what he says and insists Burnham puts up in a formal contest or shuts up? “That status quo could not last,” says a minister. “The prime minister’s authority is too weakened. There would be a contest, maybe triggered by another candidate.” The prime minister is said to be plotting a survival strategy, as if it were a game of chess. But none of his colleagues - or at least those to whom I have spoken - think he can win.

I don't do a lot of posting here but today, I thought a story needed telling and some dots needed joining. It's about the most powerful health, cost-of-living and growth policy you've never heard of: linkedin.com/pulse/most-powe…

Marylebone Fair all day today along Marylebone High Street, just one of the many community events held across @CityWestminster every year.

Families who put their homes into trusts to avoid care fees and inheritance tax are now facing huge bills

Two motorcyclists fighting for life after horror M25 crash trib.al/NCGQuhk

The e-bike delivery drivers wreaking havoc on our streets telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…

RT @carlitaswayy: @OneSixTwoThree1 I can post the dash cam footage if you like? Not once in this tweet did I mention the race of this lady.…

Working in central London, I see this every single day: streets and pavements effectively handed over to anonymous e‑bike couriers while the state pretends it’s all “green transport”. I watch riders doing 25–30mph in 20mph zones, blasting through cycle lanes and straight onto narrow pavements, often one‑handed on their phones – exactly what The Telegraph just filmed in Battersea. These aren’t “cyclists”, they’re unregulated last‑mile logistics for multibillion‑pound apps whose business model depends on riders breaking the rules and a political class that looks the other way. You and I get ticketed to death; balaclava‑clad riders with no plates and no visible ID fly past prams and pensioners with total impunity.

I work in central London and I’m telling you: the two‑tier justice system is visible at every crossing. Motorists with plates and insurance are milked by cameras for 22mph in a 20 zone, while gig riders on effectively unregistered electric motorbikes are doing 30mph through red lights and on pavements with zero consequence. On paper, e‑bikes are capped at around 15.5mph and must obey the Highway Code like anyone else; on the ground, I watch throttled machines doing double that, no helmets, no lights, no enforcement. The authorities have published guidance, they’ve seized hundreds of illegal bikes, they know exactly what’s going on – they just don’t care enough to stop it.

Did you know that a private parking firm is taking the DVLA to the High Court? Or that one of the Managers of a Trade Association that oversees parking operators runs a software provider that allows parking operators access to the DVLA keeper database? And parking operators are using AI to reject parking ticket appeals based on templates and ChatGPT assisted appeals? If you think this "industry" is treating motorists fairly, I have some magic beans to sell you @AlexJJNorris #parkingcowboys

This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history. A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched. Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI. £140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers." Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence. the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today. "our work is rooted in transparency." 97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure. AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure. one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases. nobody noticed until now.

With the murder indictment of Cuban leader Raúl Castro, President Trump is applying the playbook he used to upend Venezuela’s leadership to force Havana’s Communist government into submission. Reporter Vera Bergengruen explains why.

Energy policy is a security issue and not an environmental one, Al Carns has said in a veiled attack on Ed Miliband’s net zero policies. 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…