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2026-06-28: 🎥 Watched The Apprentice. Why do I do it to myself one might fairly ask? But I did. This is the …

2026-06-28

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show | International law: As well as demanding that Gaza gives them premises for free.

2026-06-27: Read Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram's 10-point manifesto for a better Britain in their 2024 book 'Head North'

2026-06-27: Patriot: the memoirs of the incredibly brave Russian anti-corruption campaigner, Alexei Navalny

2026-06-22

Two-Thirds Of Brits Believe Brexit Has Made Every Issue They Care About Worse, Survey Finds

2026-06-21: Learned a new word today: Kakistocracy …government by the worst, least qualified, or most …

2026-06-19: Some good context from George Eaton: Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, …

2026-06-19: Labour's Andy Burnham wins Makerfield election by ~9000 votes

2026-06-14: Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content

2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models

2026-06-13: Dark Mirror retells the Edward Snowden story from a journalist's viewpoint

2026-06-08

Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils: Probably illegal, definitely inhumane.

Farage paid £83k from events linked to US anti-abortion supporters: Whilst most of his supporters in the UK are actually rather pro abortion rights.

2026-06-06

Reform UK have decided the civil service is not to be trusted – weakness is at the heart of this ideological choice: ‘It’s an isolationism of ideas, driven by fear of the alternative or challenge.’

2026-06-03: The economic benefits of Open Source software

2026-05-31

‘One day I thought, that’s enough’: the people fighting back against pothole-riddled roads: ‘The dire state of roads has provoked pothole vigilantes and become a political flashpoint’

2026-05-27: Government department saves £ millions by replacing its Palantir IT system with an in-house one

2026-05-17

Tommy Robinson’s pointless, confused, US-funded march: ‘“This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics’

2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty

2026-05-16: Britain's dependence on US technology makes us vulnerable

2026-05-16

Is being prime minister now an impossible job?: ‘No longer must we tolerate amateur political leaders and outdated systems of government.’

2026-05-14: Starmer's government is following the path of the recent Conservative administrations in terms of ministerial resignations

2026-05-07: There's no party that hates the working class more than Reform

2026-05-07: It's election day in the UK once again

2026-05-04: Reform's latest unhinged and hopefully illegal policy: 'if you vote Green we'll put a massive immigrant prison near you'