Professor Stephen Boyd Davis

Reform UK 5% Council Tax Hikes confirmed in:

➡️ Durham
➡️ Kent
➡️ Warwickshire
➡️ Worcestershire
➡️ Leicestershire
➡️ Lincolnshire

Despite criticising the same councils for raising Council Tax during the Local Elections.

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This all used to mean something profound to people and I saw it first hand with my wonderful late father who fought in the war and lost friends. He would be utterly appalled at the appropriation of it all. So it's personal too.

Watched ep.1: very good. Simple when it needs to be, and complex when it needs to be too. Great work.

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

Reform not planning to scrap 'work from home' for Lincolnshire council staff | Lincolnshire Live The party had previously claimed getting staff in the office would boost productivity

Reform not planning to scrap 'work from home' for Lincolnshire council staff

The party had previously claimed getting staff in the office would boost productivity

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

The usual suspects are loudly banging the destruction of the BBC drum. The most absurd post on X was from the disgraced former PM BJ saying he was going to withold his BBC licence fee.

This sounds like both an admission of guilt and a rallying cry to complete the January 6 attack and install a dictatorship and make their rule permanent.

Mayor Khan commits to clean our rivers as London joins Swimmable Cities alliance - Outdoor Swimmer Magazine London joins cities including Paris, Rotterdam and Budapest in the global drive to restore urban waterways and make them safe, clean, and accessible for swimming

London has joined the Swimmable Rivers Alliance.

Our rivers have been neglected and damaged for far too long, with shameful levels of pollution harming our waterways. I’m determined to clean them up.

The trouble with this government is that they fail to even try to deliver the deliverable.

Britain’s housing crisis has been exacerbated by years of government inaction in building affordable homes, tackling parasitic landlords and their rip-off rents.

We need the biggest council house building programme in a generation to end the cycle of misery faced by millions.

The 8 Kent offenders sent to jail for more than 100 years.

These are the most common types of faces of sex offenders.

White British.

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

"New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt" - the last part could easily be the epitaph for Starmer's wretched Labour government

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
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NHS trusts are locked into paying private companies more than £20 billion 😮🚨, and it looks like Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer are planning more NHS privatisation…

How many presenters from rival news channels does the BBC invite as guests? There's GB News, and then there's, er,...

No it's not the same. One was an oversight. The other was deliberate criminal sabotage.

A good illustration that no matter how bigoted you are, there is always someone who is going to be disappointed that you weren’t more bigoted

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

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So ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration now extend to the number of black and brown people on TV ads

The Trump Action Tracker has an update!

Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

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‘Armed, dangerous’: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians harvesting olives Palestinians face more than 150 Israeli settler, military attacks so far during this year's olive harvest in West Bank.

Palestinians face more than 150 Israeli settler, military attacks so far during this year's olive harvest in West Bank.

Astonishingly sad.
360 tour of the East Wing of the White House

View it now before it’s wiped.
Just so achingly sad

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‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

Just when honest and truthful reporting on climate change is most urgently needed, Ofcom under its current chair has effectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue. /1

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That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.