You can now read the Rape Gang Inquiry report on the link below. static1.squarespace.com/stat… From Scotland to London, children were raped, trafficked, tortured, and murdered. Children as young as four years old were passed on and sold by their own mothers to men to be raped. Children endured decades of trafficking, filmed blackmail, "red rooms" of torture, animal rape, and witnessed murders of other girls. They were subjected to extreme violence including penetration by objects, strangulation, and backstreet abortions. Pure evil has been allowed to continue since as early as the 1950s. The majority of perpetrators were Muslim men, and the people paid to protect these children didn’t just turn a blind eye; some were directly involved in the abuse and rape. As we head into Stage 3 of the inquiry, we will be naming those individuals involved and pursuing private prosecutions. So far, the inquiry has held two weeks of hearings in London, initiated multiple criminal investigations, taken legal action against dozens of services, collected files and evidence, and continues to give survivors and families a platform. Some survivors are still being ignored and waiting for investigations to open. The NCA have still not responded to us and the interest of the NPCC is to safeguard the people we intend to name. I would like to thank MP Rupert Lowe for starting the inquiry, our team, all participants, the donors who made this possible, and, of course, the public for supporting us. Our work is far from over.

Starmer wants 16-year-olds to vote, but not use social media. Old enough to choose the government. Too young to access the platforms where politics is debated. So where are they meant to get their information? Approved broadcasters? Government-approved content? School handouts? This is digital ID by the back door. Children need protection online. But bad parenting is not an excuse to build a surveillance state and restrict the whole country. Starmer cannot control the border, crime, spending or his own party. So now he wants to control the internet. That is not child safety. That is a collapsing Prime Minister hunting for a legacy.

🚨HMRC is taking money from people who don't owe it, then making them prove their innocence to get it back The taxman now gets your bank interest automatically, your eBay and Vinted sales once you're selling regularly, and uses AI to scan social media in criminal cases. It says that's the limit, for now… But its own plans describe AI becoming part of everyday tax work, and MPs have warned that trusting a machine to be right is exactly what caused the Post Office scandal The systems already get it wrong. In one case HMRC estimated someone's savings interest at £3,847 when the real figure was £94, and they overpaid £1,476 in tax before it was caught Savers have been taxed on interest from ISAs, which is meant to be tax-free, and on interest that never existed at all When it happens, the money goes first and you fight to get it back. People report hours on the phone, and HMRC cuts you off automatically after 70 minutes. In one year it cut off more than 40,000 callers that way Follow me to stay informed

I don’t want to hear about my carbon footprint ever again. x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2…

🇬🇧 There are 79 vape shops on the Home Office’s public register of licensed visa sponsors. ‘Guardian Vapes Ltd’ in South Shields is licensed to sponsor overseas workers via the ‘Skilled Worker Visa’ route. 🧵1/3

Last year I had 2 new tyres fitted to my van - £126. Today I had two new tyres fitted to the same van, same garage, same make of tyre - £165. 30% increase in one year. Diesel is up 35% since a couple of months ago. My van insurers want an extra £120 this year. I'm a Decorator and all the paint I use has had TWO price increases each year for the past few years. Some now costs approximately TWICE what it cost 6 years ago. Some trade paint is now over £100 for 5 litres. Yes it's better than cheap crap but that's a ridiculous price. But I'm just one bloke trying to earn a living. Millions are in the same boat as me. They can give you stories about the price of timber, plasterboard, electrical fittings, roof tiles and everything else they have to buy. Everything appears to be getting more difficult for everyone. In years gone by we didn't all have to worry about the cost of putting the heating on or how much we paid for the water that came out of our taps. We do now. We didn't have to search the shelves in the supermarkets for the cheapest (inferior) alternatives and we didn't get utterly ripped off when paying for parking in town centres. Our Council Tax bills, (or Rates as it used to be called), were equal to a small proportion of our income. And we got the bins emptied every week. We could actually buy rounds in the pub - Remember THAT? Many millions of people who frequented pubs can't afford to go there any more. Their village pub is probably shut now anyway. Our public services are overstretched. The NHS is ALWAYS on it's knees. Our roads are falling to bits. Parents can't get their kids into their local schools. Many people in villages, towns and cities are frightened to go out alone (or at all) due the numbers of undesirables roaming the streets and our parks. But it's OK. We're the Worlds 5th largest economy apparently and therefore a "rich" country compared to many. Perhaps that's why we can afford to give away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS every MONTH to countries who don't share our good fortune, or our wonderful public services or our national contentment in knowing we're nearly at the top of the tree. Is it any wonder that hundreds of thousands of people are just saying "bollocks to this" and either stopping work or buggering off to live somewhere else? My advice to any young person would be - Go! It might not work out for you but at least you've had a try, probably had some fun, learnt a lot about yourself and the World and maybe met someone you can share your life with. You can always come back again and help the local council empty the bins every 3 weeks.

The forensic details of Starmer’s EU payments scandal are catastrophic. Brussels wants £1 billion annually based on a Swiss-style model: Switzerland pays €375 million per year to access the single market. Applying the GDP ratio between Switzerland and the UK produces the £1 billion figure Britain would pay. But here’s what makes this an obscene betrayal: Britain’s pre-Brexit net contribution was £8-9 billion per year. We’ve already paid over £44 billion in divorce bill settlements since 2020, with another £5.7 billion still owed. Those payments will continue until 2065 - yes, 2065 - at £95 million annually for decades. Now Starmer wants to add £1 billion per year on top, described by European diplomats as “pay to play”. And for what? Access without representation. Brussels has already made clear Britain will be “blocked from making any changes or amendments to the rules, making the UK an EU rule-taker”. We’ll be paying £1 billion yearly for the privilege of following laws we have zero say in shaping. Whether you voted leave or remain, surely at least both sides thought we’d STOP paying Brussels when Leave won. Instead, Starmer is negotiating to pay them forever. This is the biggest political con in modern British history.

Nigeria. Christians being buried alive. Where is Pope Leo’s outrage?

NEWS! The govt has just announced its changing the Council Tax Debt Collection rules on the back of @mmhpi recommendations. Here's my official quote ----- Council Tax debt collection is so aggressive it’d make banks blush. It’s the most vicious and damaging form of legal debt collection out there - causing counterproductive misery for millions. We’ve spent the last 18 months campaigning hard to change this hideous system, and having seen so much pain caused by it, I’m genuinely moved by this huge first step towards making things better. Currently, in England, if you miss a monthly payment, many councils, within usually 3 weeks, demand payment for the entire year. How people who can’t find a month’s money are expected to find a year’s I don’t know. Yet if they can’t pay, within just three more weeks, they are often taken to court, have ‘admin costs’ added, and soon see bailiffs sent in. No commercial firm would be allowed to do anything close - constituents are treated worse than customers. The new rule from next April means councils must wait two months, not 3 weeks, to ask for a year’s money, and the ‘admin costs’ will be capped at £100. In a perfect world, it would be even longer and the lower cap would apply, but this is still a hugely welcome change to a 33-year-old process. For councils too, it is worth remembering that this grotesque system is often catastrophic for people’s finances and wellbeing, leaving many needing more help and support, and ultimately the same council having to pick up the pieces.

Cadbury eggs stacking up on shelves… reduced everywhere… and still no one’s buying. People can taste the difference. Cheaper ingredients, palm oil, higher prices it’s not the same chocolate anymore. Consumers aren’t stupid. They’ve just stopped buying it!!

If you want to sit back and watch almost 2 hours worth of some of the highest quality video documenting of some of the most mysterious ancient sites in Peru, i've got you covered. Shot, Narrated & Edited by me. The Sacred Valley of Peru like you have never seen it before!

River guardians do not want bribes that allow Thames Water to keep breaking the law. We want one simple thing: for Thames Water to put spades in the ground & fix every single illegal outfall within the next 5-10 years. A little story to illustrate: 5 years ago I found an illegal outfall spewing raw sewage (with visible turds) into the Aldersbrook (a tributary of the Roding). The EA refused to prosecute, but I created so much fuss locally about it that eventually I got a visit from Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s ‘Sustainability Director’ who had an unflattering appearance in the recent ‘Dirty Business’ programme. Instead of setting forth a timetable to fix the outfall, Aylard offered the River Roding Trust (the entirely volunteer run charity I founded) £50,000 for “river restoration”. I refused this offer, saying there was no point restoring a brook that still had raw shit going into it. I continued campaigning for another three years: taking numerous journalists to the outfall, getting Thames Water hauled before the local council scrutiny committee & relentlessly calling them out on social media. Eventually, after 4 years, Thames spent £1 million fixing the outfall & the brook is now clean for the first time in decades. I have no doubt that if I hadn’t discovered the outfall in the first place, or if I had taken the £50,000, the outfall would still be putting raw turds into the Aldersbrook, a stone’s throw from Ilford town centre. It’s obvious for Thames that’s it cheaper to pay their critics to keep quiet than to do the work needed to fix the problem, but this is not what our rivers need.

This person should spend zero time on X. x.com/i/status/2031117717822…

Back then ads used to be creative and funny 😂

The Environment Agency allows its Directors to have financial interests in companies they regulate. Shocked? It fought us for 2 years to hide the declarations and has just been ordered by a judge to deliver. Full report from @StephSpyro @premnsikka @Feargal_Sharkey

Sky News have turned comments off to prevent corrections & to intentionally mislead you. 1. The camera was installed with the help of police after an employee (later arrested) stole money & a gun. 2. Police confirmed they found no underage girls in any of the footage from Epstein's home

OK M&S just dropped something actually genius: their new 'Only… Ingredients' range 😍 Everyday staples like baked beans, sausages, burgers, ketchup, yoghurts, cereals... made with 3–8 recognisable ingredients MAX. No weird additives, no artificial colours, no preservatives, no ultra-processed nonsense. Just proper food, back to basics. 👏🏻

My wife's team placed cameras in slaughterhouses and documented sheep kicked repeatedly in the face, cowering in fear, and hoisted onto the evisceration line while fully conscious. All violations of law. When my wife rescued 3 of these poor lambs, they charged HER with crimes. Her trial starts today.

This is seriously the best ad ever made about speeding. I don’t think a single person was indifferent to it.

⚠️Why so many people feel broke in the UK 🇬🇧 - And it's NOT just inflation. Cost of living: 2000 vs 2026 🔴 2000 Average house: £84,000 Pint of beer: £1.90 Weekly food shop: £30 Energy: ~£25 per month Salary: £18k 🔴 2026 Average house: £296,000 Pint of beer: £5.50 Weekly food shop: £121 Energy: ~£200 per month Salary: ~£35k Living costs have risen OVER 300% Wages haven't even doubled. That gap is why people feel stuck. And it's getting wider‼️