Plans for £35m waste plastic recycling centre in Sleaford The pyrolysis plant in Sleaford would process 25,000 tonnes of plastic a year, the proposals state.

In local news: oh joy, a plastic-burning oil plant for Sleaford dressed up as a good thing for the environment
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Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines.

Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike

Birmingham council tried to slash workers wages & when the workers responded by taking industrial action the council decided to bring in scab labour to try & break the strike. Those agency workers are now going on strike too.

Solidarity with the @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers

Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines.

The agency workers in Birmingham covering the regular striking bin workers, have themselves voted to go on strike

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Yesterday in Parliament - 18/11/2025 - BBC Sounds Helen Catt reports as the Home Secretary announces an overhaul of the asylum system.

So proud - the debate about the Parky Charter, the manifesto for better Parkinson’s care created by the Movers and Shakers podcast, got on Yesterday in Parliament. About 19 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man' The wife of a Russian spy gets in touch...

But lo! What is this? The wife of the Russian agent who bribed Nathan Gill visiting the Guardian offices during the same period?!?

Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

Also this weekend, a solid piece from Guardian - finally! - with some interesting responses from the man himself, Oleh Voloshyn.

He claims Gill simply ballsed up his expense claims despite Gill - inconveniently - pleading guilty.
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'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man' The wife of a Russian spy gets in touch...

NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’

The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’
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Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices.

Sorry wrong link. Here:

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This is the Hollywood equivalent of the Guardian & FT making syndication deals with OpenAI.

It’s leveraging status for short term profit from the worst companies on the planet & to the detriment of the rest of the sector, in this case every young actor who comes after them.

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Paul Singer is notorious because he held Argentina to ransom for 15 years tanking its economy but he’s done so much more beside. A Trump-donating Iran hawk & Netanyahu stan. And a major media investor.

If @arusbridger.bsky.social’s sources are right..Gibb has some pretty massive qs to answer.

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In what was a very punchy piece of reporting, @arusbridger.bsky.social & @prospectmagazine.co.uk named the man they believe actually owns it: Paul Singer, a notorious vulture capitalist & owner of Elliott Management. Aka Robbie Gibb’s overlord
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Reform UK pulls out of BBC film amid Trump speech edit row Internal party memo says ‘trust has been lost’ as US president reiterates threat of legal action against corporation

Farage has dropped out of BBC film following BBC row.

Good.

Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg.

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This is Robbie Gibb’s BBC declaration. He says he owns 100% of the Jewish Chronicle. If that is the case, where did the money come from??

What potential conflicts of interests does he have? When is he going to answer these questions? And who is going to ask them?
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Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know… Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about who is behind the scenes. B...

So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.

According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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He features a second time with a name that looks like a typo ‘Mandelson Balir’

One for the Brits.

Epstein wrote a list of names for Steve Bannon. The first one on it is Mandelson

The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

This is very sad. Rachel Cooke gone much much too young. A lovely touching tribute from @timadamswrites.bsky.social

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The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

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This is a MUST READ:

“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”

Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning.

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Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an

It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.

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This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".

Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?

Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.

Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.

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So...He's just saying, publicly, that it's a bubble...

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How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing? According to The Guardian and many other media sources, based on briefings from 10 Downing Street, senior members of the Labour Party have already been manoeuvring for position in anticipation of Keir...

How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... You cannot deliver a credible Budget from a government that has already lost its coherence, as this one would appear to have done