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The Cook Report was great viewing back in the day.
Roger Cook dead: Investigative journalist, 83, passes away after a short illness trib.al/2xymyP4
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Last time at second reading, Leadbeater insisted it was just a vote to continue the debate.
Then she packed the bill committee, closed down the debate and removed the safeguards.
Are they going to tell the same lies a second time? x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2066…
🚨 BREAKING: The Assisted Dying Bill will be reintroduced to Parliament next week by Labour MP Lauren Edwards
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I’ve been having “network preference” issues with my MacBook (no WiFi, having to delete preferences system files and rebooting to get WiFi back). I think the problem was a new router; it uses the same SSID for 2.4 and 5GHz and this confuses Macs. I turned off 2.4 and now OK. 1/
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As a new Farmer myself who bought our farm 4 years ago, I can’t tell you how accurate Clarkson’s Farm actually is!
We spent £3.5m buying our farm and subsequently in the past 4 years we’ve had to spend at least £527,000 on farm machinery and much, much more on running the farm. We’ve lost money every year since so far, and have had challenges or refusal from local authorities everytime we’ve tried to diversity, or do something to generate extra income. I cannot stress how difficult it is for farmers who have to rely on farming for their only income.
We don’t get any subsidies or BPS payments at all (because we’re new farmers) and the grant system might as well be in Greek! As a CEO and professional businessman of some note, I felt I could easily apply for the grants myself. I kid you not, you’ve never seen a more complicated form - for ANYTHING!
The farm we bought had been in the same family for 3 generations, but it was sold because it was getting tougher to support the farmers growing family and now I’ve been in it for 4 years I can see why.
It’s a crying shame that more and more food is going to be imported and more skills lost because, for some unknown reason, the government obviously don’t value farmers. Sad.
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A visual comparison of the past and present.
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So here is where Britain stands. An appeals backlog larger than the population of an entire English city, growing at 71.5% a year. A removal rate of 4% for illegal arrivals. And a terror watchdog warning that the entire framework constitutes a national security risk.
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The Asylum Backlog Hit 87,450. The Terror Watchdog Warned of a Security Risk
87,450 people are in the asylum appeals backlog. That is roughly the population of Carlisle. Imagine every man, woman and child in that city, waiting in a queue that grows by the day, more than double the number of new asylum claims made in the same year.
The numbers published this week should stop a government in its tracks. The backlog is up 71.5 percent in a single year. 70 percent of rejected claimants now appeal. 40 percent of those rejected remain in Britain regardless. Of the more than 200,000 people who have crossed the Channel illegally since 2018, only around 4 percent have ever been removed. The system is not failing to cope with the numbers. The system is the numbers.
The Home Office describes this as progress, pointing to a 72 percent fall in the initial decision backlog since 2023. What it does not say is where those decisions went. They went into the appeals system, where the backlog has more than doubled. Speeding up the front door while leaving the back door unchanged relocates the queue and multiplies it, because every rejected claimant who appeals is entitled to taxpayer-funded accommodation while they wait. The National Audit Office puts the total cost at £4.9 billion for 2024-25, with £2.1 billion spent on hotels alone.
Shabana Mahmood's response is to legislate again, restricting Article 8 family life claims to immediate family, requiring judges to prioritise public safety, and setting a 28-week limit on appeals. That legislation implicitly admits the current framework has allowed dubious family connections to block removal, that judges have not been prioritising public safety, and that appeals have run indefinitely. These are not new problems Mahmood has discovered. They have been documented for years by anyone willing to look, while those who raised them were told they were exaggerating or that no evidence existed.
Then there is Jonathan Hall. Not a commentator. Not an activist. The government's own Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, a King's Counsel appointed specifically to provide neutral expert assessment of the law. This week, in the aftermath of the Belfast stabbing and the riots that followed, Hall said publicly that immigration must be assessed in national security terms, that certain nationalities present elevated risk profiles for serious violence, and that trauma among asylum seekers from conflict zones may compound that risk further. Foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual offence convictions in 2024. Hall is not speculating. He is the most senior independent legal authority on terrorism law in the country, and he has said the system as it stands is a security risk.
The government's response to Hall's intervention was silence. He raised it through proper channels. Nobody answered.
So here is where Britain stands. An appeals backlog larger than the population of an entire English city, growing at 71.5 percent a year. A removal rate of 4 percent for illegal arrivals. A National Audit Office report confirming the cost is disproportionately high and driven by delay. A Home Secretary legislating to fix problems that amount to an admission the system has been broken in exactly the ways critics described. And a terror watchdog, appointed by the government itself, warning that the entire framework constitutes a national security risk, met with silence from the department responsible for it.
This is not a system under strain. It is a system working exactly as designed. Faster removals, restricted appeals, leaving the ECHR, every lever has been available for years and none pulled with urgency. The backlog will keep growing. The removal rate will stay near zero. Somewhere in that queue of 87,450, the next Belfast is already waiting its turn.
"In the aftermath of the Belfast stabbing and the riots that followed, Hall said publicly that immigration must be assessed in national security terms"
ALT Jonathan Hall
ALT Belfast Riots 2026
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Dan Field retweeted
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Overnight the Royal Marines and NCA show “great skill, professionalism and courage” boarding one Russian tanker.
Meanwhile, over a three-day period the Border Force ferry service (aka the free benefits taxi) transported record numbers of small boat economic migrants straight into the UK (989 migrants crossed in 14 boats) — meatly a thousand of them, no questions asked.
Priorities, eh Dan? One shadow fleet tanker gets the full action movie treatment while our shores are a revolving door.
Two-tier Britain in full swing. 🇬🇧
Credit: Danny Tommo
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The MoD felt the need to deny the tanker raid was staged. Ask yourself why. Because in the same breath they accidentally confirmed everything people were saying
Their own spokesman admitted footage was taken at multiple points and compiled together. Different takes. Edited into one seamless video.
A voice can be heard saying ROLLING. And telling a soldier to HOLD THAT during a live search of the vessel.
Those are not military commands. Those are film production commands. And the MoD just told us that themselves.
The policy to seize shadow fleet ships was announced in MARCH. Three months. Not one tanker touched.
The Smyrtos sailed from the Russian oil terminal Ust-Luga on June 4. They tracked it for ten days as it crossed the North Sea and entered the Channel.
They did not stumble upon this ship on the night of June 14. They chose the night before the G7 to act.
That is not a military decision. That is a scheduling decision.
World leaders arriving the next morning specifically to discuss standing up to Russia. Starmer needed something to walk into that room with. 3am operation. Tweet before breakfast. Video uploaded before the world woke up.
The man Trump publicly called not Winston Churchill needed to walk into the G7 looking like one. So he produced a film the night before the G7 to prove he is still relevant.
As DPP he volunteered to go after British soldiers. Did not have to. Was not asked to. Chose it. For free.
Here’s is what makes this truly obscene. The man now wrapping himself in the Armed Forces spent years pursuing British soldiers through the courts. Nobody asked him. Nobody paid him. He chose to prosecute them. Worked for free to do it. That is not a lawyer doing his job. That is a man with an agenda.
Armed Forces shrinking by 300 a month. Lowest since the Napoleonic Wars.
Eleven days before this three Royal Marines were killed when a Merlin Mk4 crashed in Devon. Same aircraft. Investigation open. Not grounded. Used anyway.
Chris Gayson. Lily-Mae Fisher. Owen Green. Lily-Mae never got her wings. They were due this month.
He spent years trying to destroy soldiers like them. Then used what is left of them to save himself.
Our soldiers deserved better than being props in his political survival film.
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The fact that this man was willing to post this publicly, with his full name attached, says a lot about how untouchable this community thinks they are.
These men think they can go around making threats like these, and talking about the thrills they get from “breastfeeding” helpless infants, and harassing women in public restrooms, and no one will do anything about it, because after all, we’re just women.
That is a mistake.
If they’d played it cool, or been willing to make even the tiniest of compromises, they almost certainly would have won. All they had to do was be nice about it, show a little understanding for women, and a little bit of respect when using our spaces, and society would have continued to treat them as sacred beings who must be pandered to and protected in every way possible.
They didn’t do that.
Instead, they showed themselves to be depraved, deviant, dangerous predators. They graphically threaten women with rape, torture, and death; carry signs threatening decapitation; physically assaulted women who told them “no”; openly masturbated in the public areas of women’s restrooms; oh, and let’s not forget that they’ve sucked hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children into their toxic death cult to be mutilated and sterilized.
Unsurprisingly, most people have had enough of it — and of them.
Now the tide has turned. No one cares if they get offended anymore. The backlash is coming, and it’s going to be ugly. These people have spent the last decade or so being pandered to in every possible way, and they’re not taking “no” very well. The temper tantrums are going to be epic.
So is the comeuppance.
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One of those things where you try explaining it to not very political people and you just end up sounding completely mad dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Dan Field retweeted
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Buckinghamshire council spent £819 million over a five year contract period on taxis. £163 million a year on average.
This is insane. The council could run an equivalent transport service for a fraction of this cost
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Dan Field retweeted
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Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
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The Navy That Could All Along. It Just Needed A By-Election.
On Sunday morning, Royal Marine Commandos and National Crime Agency officers boarded the Smyrtos, a Cameroon-flagged Russian oil tanker, in the English Channel. The operation took six hours, supported by Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, an RAF P-8 Poseidon, and the warships HMS Sutherland and HMS Ledbury. Keir Starmer ordered it personally and called it "yet another blow to Russia." It was the first UK-led boarding of a Russian shadow fleet vessel in British waters.
The authority for this operation has existed since March. That month, Starmer agreed that British armed forces and law enforcement could stop, board and detain sanctioned shadow fleet vessels in accordance with international law. That is the legal framework. It has sat in place for eleven weeks.
In those eleven weeks, more than two hundred sanctioned tankers sailed through Britain's exclusive economic zone. Checked. Unchallenged. Three days ago, Britain's role in shadow fleet enforcement was still limited to supporting others, while France carried out its fourth such boarding, commandos rappelling onto a tanker four hundred nautical miles off Brittany.
Two weeks ago, a former Royal Marine MP told the Defence Secretary that France had again demonstrated seizing these vessels was "both legal and achievable," and that the gap between Britain's permissions and Britain's actions came down to the Attorney General's hesitation. Finland, Sweden, Estonia, France and the United States, he said, have no such hesitation.
In April, the explanation on offer was that the constraint was never legal capability. Lord Hermer's framework required an individual legal case for each boarding, and the government used that requirement to explain months of watching sanctioned vessels pass through British waters. A Russian frigate escorted tankers through twenty-one miles of Channel while Iran closed a strait of similar width with a single announcement. The Navy was ready. The law, we were told, was not.
The law was ready in March. What changed on Sunday was not the framework. It was the decision to use it.
Makerfield votes on Thursday. Reform holds every council ward in the constituency. A government that spent eleven weeks explaining why two hundred tankers could not be touched found, four days before a by-election it cannot afford to lose badly, that the first one could be.
This is not really a story about Russia, or about the Channel. It is the same story as Britain's asylum backlog. 87,450 people. A four percent removal rate. Years of unused levers. It is the same story as Hungary, which received 47 asylum applications in the same six months Britain received roughly 50,000, and as America, where border crossings fell from 1.6 million to under 240,000 within months of a government choosing to act. The tools existed throughout, in every case. The decision to use them was the only variable that was ever missing. On Sunday, for four days' worth of reasons, it stopped being missing.
"Agency officers boarded the Smyrtos, a Cameroon-flagged Russian oil tanker, in the English Channel. The operation took six hours, supported by Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters"
ALT Agency officers boarded the Smyrtos, a Cameroon-flagged Russian oil tanker, in the English Channel. The operation took six hours, supported by Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters.
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Last month the National Audit Office delivered its verdict on how Sizewell C, the £38.2bn nuclear plant rising on the Suffolk coast, is being paid for. The findings are worth sitting with, because they say a great deal about the peculiar British talent for making a good thing cost the Earth.
Britain should be building nuclear, and far more of it than this government dares to. It is the only road to the cheap, firm power a real industrial economy runs on. The reactor is the easy part. The way we have chosen to finance and govern it is where the money vanishes.
Under the model ministers picked, the investors putting up the capital are handed - in the NAO's own words - high returns for unusually low risk. Risk doesn't disappear when you spare an investor it; it moves. And it has moved onto your electricity bill: an extra £19 to £21 a year, and here is the part that should make you sit up, you pay it during construction, for years before the plant makes a single watt. You are lending money to private investors, at your own risk, so they can earn a safe return on a power station you won't draw a volt from until the 2030s.
It needn't be like this, and the proof is everywhere else nuclear gets built. South Korea takes a reactor from first concrete to first power in about eight years, and builds the next one faster still. Britain contracted Hinkley Point C at a strike price now near £133 a megawatt-hour - among the dearest electricity any Western government has ever agreed to buy - and still won't have it before the decade is out. The engineering is no different here than in Korea. What differs is the governance, and the governance is ours, bill and all.
Progress treats nuclear as the most important thing the country builds, and would build it the way the nations that are good at it do. Our policy puts Sizewell C and a fleet of small modular reactors under a single national delivery authority with one instruction: build it as fast as physically possible, with the investors' return a distant second. Wartime planning consent. A regulator told to assess in months. The state carrying the risk it is best placed to carry, instead of dressing private money in a hi-vis jacket and paying it handsomely to stand near the work.
Cheap, abundant British nuclear power would be one of the most valuable things we could achieve this decade. Which is exactly why it ought to enrage us that we are being made to pay for it twice - once on the bill, and again in the years we are kept waiting - to guarantee the profits of people who were never much at risk in the first place.
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💰 The Government has signed off £800,000 to support Vietnam’s net zero targets.
Seriously, what are we doing?
Energy bills have now gone up six times under this government.
Millions of British households are struggling with the cost of living.
Yet somehow we have nearly £800,000 available to help another country pursue its Net Zero ambitions.
I like Vietnam. It’s a fantastic country.
But if Vietnam wants to invest in its energy transition, surely Vietnam should pay for it.
British taxpayers have enough bills of their own.
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The Jobs Did Not Disappear. They Were Rented To People Who Cannot Legally Work.
729,000 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in Britain between January and March this year. The youth unemployment rate, 16.2 percent, is the highest since early 2015. For the first time since records began in 2000, it is now higher than the EU average. Almost one million young people are not in education, employment or training, the highest figure in more than a decade.
The explanation offered is economic headwinds. The cause is closer to home. Employer National Insurance contributions rose in April last year. The minimum wage rose with it. The sectors that have always absorbed young workers first, retail, hospitality, delivery, became the most expensive sectors to hire into. Job vacancies have fallen seven percent in a year, to their lowest level since April 2021. The pattern is simple. Raise the cost of hiring at the bottom of the market, and the bottom of the market stops hiring first.
But the jobs have not disappeared. Walk down any high street and the delivery riders are still there, in greater numbers than ever. What has changed is who is doing the work, and how.
At the Midland Hotel in Derby, a Grade II listed building housing around two hundred asylum seekers, a whistleblower described the daytime scene. The hotel is not busy, they said, because everyone is out at work. Delil, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying there, put it plainly. "I work for Deliveroo like a lot of my friends. I want to work, that's why I came to the UK."
This was documented in December 2023. Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month. The mechanism is a rental market. An account holder with the right to work registers with Deliveroo, Uber Eats or Just Eat, then rents access to that verified identity to someone who does not have it, for £70 to £100 a week. At the time, hundreds of such accounts were available on Facebook Marketplace. In the first quarter of 2025, almost 750 civil penalty notices were issued to companies for immigration breaches, the highest since 2016.
The response came later. Deliveroo told MPs it had removed 105 riders since April 2024 for exactly this. In July 2025, the Home Office began sharing asylum hotel locations with the delivery firms, so they could flag accounts spending unusual time nearby. Asylum seekers are barred from working for their first twelve months. The data-sharing exists because, as Delil already said on the record, many already are.
Robert Jenrick called the substitutes system a driver of illegal immigration that put public safety at risk, because the companies were not carrying out proper checks. He was right, eighteen months before anyone with the power to fix it agreed, and the underlying arrangement, an entry-level job performed by someone the law says cannot hold it, accessed through an identity rented from someone who can, has not gone away. It has simply become harder to spot.
Put the two facts together. A record number of young Britons cannot get a foot on the first rung of the labour market, priced out by costs the government itself imposed. At the same time, the first-rung jobs are being done anyway, documented, named, on the record, by people the system says should not be working at all.
Nobody designed this as a system. Nobody has dismantled it either. Years after the Midland Hotel investigation, the high street looks exactly the same.
"Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month."
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Water company cut supply to 15 000 homes in heatwave but let solar farm use 500 gallons a day to wash panels
During May's hot weather with temperatures reaching 32 degrees C South East Water left 15 000 people in Whitstable Kent without water for up to three point five days meaning residents could not flush toilets shower or wash.
A giant solar farm five miles away at Cleve Hill in Graveney continued to draw up to 500 gallons of water a day from the mains to clean its 500 000 panels at least once a day until May 28.
Residents spotted vans and mobile tanks filling at roadside standpipes for the solar farm while homes in the area had no running water forcing people to queue for bottled supplies.
Local businesses including hotels and pubs faced closures and losses with one boutique hotel spending an extra £8000 on water tanks and estimating total losses of £20,000 due to disrupted weddings.
South East Water said the solar farm had relevant permissions and the usage was in line with expectations while in discussion with contractors to reduce water use.
The solar farm later apologized and said panel cleaning would finish by the end of June after community complaints about the priority given during the outage.
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Dan Field retweeted
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Blue Sky not blocked for obvious reasons, they need to be groomed somewhere.
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🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps
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Dan Field retweeted
HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM
Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at.
BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them.
Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one.
He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work.
So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly.
Then his document leaked to a broadband blog.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money.
Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent.
Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders.
Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair.
He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract.
This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque.
Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets.
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@BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge
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