Sometimes, small changes can make a huge difference to people's lives - it's not just devils that are in details. Hopefully this is an example.

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TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT KATIE

Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

The best strategy for a Labour government is to govern like the sort of Labour government that their voters expected to see in office.

How much of the news we see has been selected to be the worst possible spin on the news that we least want to see?

Chosen by algorithms, editors & influencers to drive the greatest engagement with them - and (coincidentally?) the greatest disengagement with hope & democracy?

Two largest causes of death in the US are heart disease and cancer, but the media focuses on homicide and terrorism.

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.

And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.

@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

To paraphrase Prof Diana Coyle, a 0.1% change in GDP is meaningless.

In other news/drama, a 0.2% increase in unemployment (on ONS's ”developmental" measure) is not a "jobs bloodbath”, whatever the Express/Mail say.

You can only be evicted if your landlord has followed the proper steps.

❗They must give you a valid eviction notice.

Our advice can help ⤵️
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The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Here's why we need to fight for Britain's right to roam

Only 3% of the UK is common land, compared to 50% four centuries ago. How can we get back our right to roam?

Revealed: The billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment

🚨 Revealed: The billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site

Great report by David Conn.

We now know that former Conservative minister Julia Lopez was in contact with Uniserve prior to its huge VIP lane deal💥

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hang on a minute!
Is this Reform guy saying that he has the right to live here because his ancestors were migrants who arrived in small boats?

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Approximately 60k prisoners are released in the UK each year. The fact that that about 0.5% of these releases are of the wrong people is absolutely mad.

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And if crossings continue at this rate, the search for fresh sources of outrage news will reach an all-time record.

Large heap of fallen leaves, seen through open wooden gates on edge of an allotment site.

Next year's allotment mulch, delivered direct from local parks. Already steaming gently and smelling like a cigar shop.

Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot

Thousands of homeless people will be able to open a bank account and five major banks as part of a strategy to improve financial inclusion.

Labour's 2nd step in undoing Michael Portillo's disastrous & costly privatisation of MoD accomodation.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Freedom to ride: the unconscious bias that’s limiting our transport choices Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead Andrew McClean reports on our Stormont event where acclaimed environmental psychologist Professor Ian Walker was the keynote speaker: ‘Freedom for all: what does real tr...

We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?

At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.

cyclinguk.org/stormont

Nadhim Zahawi confirms nearly £5m paid for tax error The ex-chancellor says he is sorry for not giving more details in his ministerial declaration.

If anyone fancies a bit of Whataboutery, there's always Reeve's Tory predecessor with the £5million "tax error".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...

Aren't failing public services & poor infrastructure drags on growth & productivity that need revenue to fix? Skills shortages, sick leave, transport delays etc? Taxes are a means to an end, not just a "burden".

Yes, but this only affects 11 or 12 million people.
Now, back to today's big important story about one man who got a train to London instead of a plane to Ethiopia.

The Covid Contracts Scandal - Where's the Accountability? Tory donors, crony contracts, vanished billions, and a system still wide open to abuse.

“No other country judged the quality of a PPE offer on the political connections of the firm.”

@russellscott1.bsky.social worked with us to expose the VIP lane and PPE scandal. Watch his conversation with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the continuing lack of accountability:
https://bit.ly/4olwHXu

Parody MP Sir Michael Take posted a hilariously arse-kissing defence of Michelle Mone – and she only went and retweeted it! 17 priceless facepalms.
www.thepoke.com/2025/10/28/p...

Renters' Rights Bill becomes law - here's what it means for you Sweeping new rules for renting in England receive royal assent - so what is changing?

Just in case anyone missed the government delivering positive & important change benefitting literally millions of ordinary people. #RentersRights
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now, back to denouncing complicity, betrayal, ideological impurity & general disillusionment.

Suspect actually one of the best cost:reward things you could do as a government is beefing up both resources and attitudes of enforcement bodies on this sort of thing.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found. Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested. Continue reading...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds