We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation: ‘… a constitution is no guarantee against autocracy…But it makes the would-be despot’s job much harder, and equips us with the tools to push back’

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why: Thousands of stolen phone shipped abroad for resale with little likelihood of being caught.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk: More climate change related disasters(plus poor building decisions).

UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff: due to ‘increasingly toxic rhetoric around immigration and race by politicians and extremist activists’.

How A Private Equity Firm Brought About The Death Of British Steel: ‘British Steel has collapsed into insolvency’

Trump sounds the alarm on pain relief drug – and Kennedy’ and Kennedy’s allies look set to profit: A lot of them happen to sell ‘non-medical’ pain relief for profit.

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

Why Tommy Robinson rally was different to any other: “…an overt Christian nationalism”.

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster: ‘Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.’

Vaccine hesitancy is causing needless death and suffering, a vaccine expert says.

The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.

Broadcasters told not to air any booing of Donald Trump at US Open men’s final

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.

Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks

Violence at the Bell Hotel: Far-right footprints in Epping Forest

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse: These anti-immigrant protests aren’t really anything to do with protecting women.

Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says

Why Labour keep losing the attention war

‘I can’t cope with it any more’: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off

When a Tweet Becomes a Crime: What the Lucy Connolly Case Says

Why Gen Z Loves to Invest: (well, those who have spare money) - mainly because trying to live on wages alone really isn’t sufficient any more for a lot of people.

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats