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'London is world's best city - people claiming it's lawless hate its success' 'The fact that London has again been crowned greatest city in the world disproves everything our critics claim, and they can’t stand it', the London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes

Here’s what you won’t hear from some commentators on social media: in the year to October, London recorded 10,000 fewer violent crimes leading to injury than it did in the twelve months before I was elected.

More on the progress we’re making ⬇️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health

If only the billionaire-funded
Conservative, Labour (or Reform)
gave HMRC as many resources
to chase tax owing millionaire crooks
as it does benefit inspectors
to chase paltry benefit cheats ...

"Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in taxes"
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Lisa Nandy: BBC review will examine political appointments to board Culture secretary says she shares concerns that such appointments have damaged trust, amid calls for Robbie Gibb to go

“There is a real concern, which I share, that political appointments to the board of the BBC damaged confidence and trust in the BBC’s impartiality,”

At last!

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

If Starmer’s position was dodgy 48 hours ago, it certainly is now.

What a mess and all of their own making.

Get rid of the amateur Morgan McSweeney and it maybe salvageable.

Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge Exclusive: No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections

“No 10 has gone into full bunker mode, turning on their most loyal cabinet members for absolutely no reason. A circular firing squad won’t help the government out of the hole we’re in,” one source said.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by A Different Bias Farage's House Mystery Gets Even Weirder!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0k3...
Man of the people up to his neck in it!!
Nigel Farage has not given a good account of how his Clacton house was paid for, and there are now more questions around his partner, Laure Ferrari, over the fraud convictions related to the organisation she ran.
Going down..!

Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited after corporation’s two most senior executives resign

“Consequently, the BBC has caused President Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,” the letter reads, according to Fox.

The orange nonce might want to pay what he owes Christopher Steele before seeking justice from British law.

www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...

SPOILER ALERT: Trump incited the crowd on Jan 6th. It was an attempted insurrection. It only failed because his supporters were so stupid they preferred to shit on desks and spread their excrement across the walls rather than eliminate the opposition as they were supposed to.

‘The BBC don’t realise that these people want their destruction.’

Why are right-wing media outlets so 'exercised' by the editing of a Panorama documentary? James O’Brien has an idea.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians.

“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Our country is controlled by the dark forces of the far right, whether that be MAGA Trump, Reform UK Ltd, Musk or Tufton Street.

They are all linked.

The BBC debacle and subsequent resignations just proves this so completely.

BBC bosses treating 'systemic bias' allegations seriously, Nandy says The broadcaster's chair is set to issue a response to a parliamentary committee over claims a Panorama documentary misled viewers.

Maybe we should all write to Nandy, because we have all been repeatedly fobbed off when we complain about BBC bias.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London MPs are shitting it. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/inside-green-party-surge-one-36210480

Great to hear London Labour MPs panicking about losing their seats to the Green Party.

For clarity, though - this goes way beyond just London.

Across England & Wales, we're saying lower bills, tax billionaires and we're ready to take on Reform.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan with colleague stood in front of C40 cities info board.

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.

Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.

In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

Yellow text reading "Union over oligarchy." with white text reading LaborLab dot U S. Exposing Union-Busting. Empowering Working Families.

Unions serve as the most powerful counterweight to concentrated wealth.

Van Gogh’s ‘Field with Poppies’ was painted from an elevated viewpoint during his stay in Saint-Paul Asylum. Its acquisition in 1911 by a German gallery was criticised as being part of a perceived “foreign infiltration of German art” by French paintings (Kunsthalle Bremen, 1889)

Serbia’s hybrid warfare in Kosovo through state-tolerated terrorism - Robert Lansing Institute Serbian State Terrorism in Kosovo, Europe’s Silence and the Consequences for Regional Security

The kidnapping & severe wounding of Milan Vukašinović, a Kosovo citizen of Serbian ethnicity, on November 1, 2025, underscores the ongoing struggle between Kosovo’s institutions & the shadow networks of paramilitary groups reportedly supported by Belgrade.
lansinginstitute.org/2025/11/07/s...

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

BREAKING: The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including PM Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, reports Turkish media.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd

The U.S. gathered intel last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza – ops reliant on American-supplied weapons, five former U.S. officials said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

"Left wing bias" alleged, because they had a program critical of Trump over Jan6, but not one critical of Kamala Harris?

That's not bias - that's reality.

Pentagon Pete’s ‘Unpredictable’ General Purges Threaten Irreversible Damage Experts warn that the U.S. Military is beginning to resemble that of an autocratic government.

Experts warn that the U.S. Military is beginning to resemble that of an autocratic government.

Absolutely agree

Johnson has not been in the media recently so he had to get it from somewhere and this is an opportunity. As usual he talks rubbish. He is so desperate for attention - he is such a nasty lying man/child.

Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza

Johnson told the Telegraph that Davie “must either explain or resign” over the claims in the memo. He said the BBC had been “caught red-handed in multiple acts of leftwing bias”.

Disproportionate platforming of Reform & Farage is "leftwing bias". What Bollox.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK troops treated for hearing problems in final tests of Ajax armoured vehicle The £5.5bn model was classified as fit for army deployment in September but soldiers continue to raise health fears

The model, which costs £5.5bn for 589 vehicles, was nevertheless classified as fit for deployment in September. An investigation concluded there were “no systemic issues” – but there remain health concerns among the troops involved.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I first realised what a ludicrous moral vacuum Murray Rothbard was when I read his views on children. If you want to know the kind of repugnant arsehole these kind of US ‘conservatives‘ look to for inspiration, Rothbard‘s views on kids really paint a picture.

Former British soldier accused of murdering Kenyan woman appears in court Robert Purkiss faces extradition to Kenya to face charges after Agnes Wanjiru killed near army base in 2012 A man has appeared in court as extradition proceedings began in the case of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan woman who was killed near a British army base in 2012. Robert Purkiss, 38, who is originally from Greater Manchester, appeared before Westminster magistrates court on Friday , and told the court he intended to contest the extradition. It is understood that he was arrested on Thursday night. Continue reading...

Former British soldier accused of murdering Kenyan woman appears in court