Jacqueline Riding

#OtD 10 Oct 1889 a nationwide wave of schoolchildren's strikes was sparked in East London, when kids from a dozen schools walked out of class and took to the streets waving red flags, and banners emblazoned with "No cane" and "Shorter hours" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8241...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Tackling child poverty is the only way we can build a country where background isn't destiny, so where you're from doesn't determine what you go on to achieve.

I can’t tell you how excited I am to be at #Clivedenlitfest2025 this weekend and in conversation with Ian Rankin and Anthony Horowitz. Please join us!

👻👻👻 If you listen to the audio version of today’s #Uncanny #HalloweenCountdown story on the podcast feed, you’ll hear an extended case update exploring some of your questions and theories on the Countdown cases so far!

You’ll find it on @bbcsounds.bsky.social or wherever else you get your podcasts!

📣I am very pleased to announce my book "VIP Lane" which covers 5 years of investigation uncovering the previous governments PPE procurement scandal + much more is now on sale.

👀 Buy a copy here: viplanebook.com

🚨Now the subject of a major ITV documentary hitting the screen next week.

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Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Show 372. Bridget Phillipson - LIVE Podcast Episode · The Political Party · 08/10/2025 · 1h 7m

I spoke to Matt Forde about Irn-Bru, crowdsurfing, Byker Grove, the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 Washington in the North East — and a bit of politics too.

Yes, our crowd was bigger than Mel Stride’s at Tory Party conference.

Listen below 👇
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Here’s our Darren getting the word out. Simply and effectively.

Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time St Bartholomew’s hopes 18th-century satirist’s two large-scale paintings will become a must-see for art fans They had remained almost unseen for 300 years, but now two of William Hogarth’s masterpiece murals are available to the public for the first time. The North Wing at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London, which contains The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan – two large-scale murals by the British painter – has opened after a £9.5m restoration project. Continue reading...

Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time

Greater Anglia 'focused on improving' as state takes over An Eastern rail firm said it was

Greater Anglia, which runs trains across the East of England and into London, is to be brought into public ownership on 12 October.

Another day another Spiked Online pundit on media with no explanation of what they are. Fraser Myers writes for Spiked: a platform now funded by climate change denier & billionaire Charles Koch. Not surprising Fraser is for scrapping the Climate Change Act. #PoliticsLive

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni... Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

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"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Sign the Petition Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage

Petition: Covid-19 bereaved families calling for Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords.

Launched yesterday. Currently standing at 62,732. Let's get it to a million. She has to go.

#MichelleMone
www.change.org/p/strip-mich...

Garden tree giveaway — International Tree Foundation Trees are brilliant for people, wildlife and our planet and we urgently need to plant more. That’s why we’re giving away free trees for your gardens.

It's not too late to apply for a free tree for your garden! 🪏🌱🌳

Ready for you to collect from Rose Hill, Risinghurst, and Barton at the end of November 👉
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Brits want Nigel Farage to step away from the Brexit shredder Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset.

Brits want this deal - but what do the Tories and Reform do?

@NickTorfaen: “Badenoch said she’d reverse the deal before she’d even read it. The Tories and Farage are fighting yesterday’s battles."

"They’d rather shout slogans and peddle snake oil politics.”
https://politi.co/46P0XCz

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer.

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Really, Sky? Her husband's name deserves more prominence than her own?

Black History Month. Still no statue of ‘The Black Man & His Party’, Chartist Leader, William Cuffay . Black History Month. Still no monument of the leader of London Chartism in 1848,William Cuffay I posted this five years ago. Despite all the hype about Wokeness and DEI and also despite campaigni…

Its Black History Month in the UK. I posted this on the black leader of London Chartism in 1848 William Cuffay five years ago. Despite much hype about Woke-ism & DEI no progress has been made on a London memorial
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Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extremists’

When are we going to realise that people from foreign lands are not automatically our enemy… but the likes of Michelle Mone and her husband (and those millionaires and billionaires who are making money out of your misery and at your expense) are!

What has happened to #PoliticsLive on #BBC? Today we have the "panel" discussing a comment from sent in by some random chap and then a pub landlord who is against digital ID cards and various other views. Is it trying to ape social media?

Ed Miliband's message to Elon Musk:
"Get out of our politics and our country."

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

1. Price or multibuy promotions on unhealthy food and drink, such as "buy one, get one free" deals, are to be banned in England from Wednesday 2. Mone ordered to repay £122m PPE money by 15/10/25 3. Extra funding for courts to deliver speedier justice for victims 4. Tougher measures on foreign political influence come into force 1/10 aimed Iran and Russian interference 5. Government’s £1 million Regional Tech Booster programme gets underway 6. Tech firms to prevent unwanted sexual images under tougher laws to protect women and girls online 7. Reform of public procurement to back British suppliers 8. High-talent visa routes  9. Youth Guarantee scheme: guaranteed work for eligible people who have been on UC for 18m 10. £500m for first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care workers 11. UK Space Agency goes global with 23 new projects 12. Military families/veterans prior

Another ten important policies announced by Labour in only 24 hours. Big news on Mone, unhealthy food and cracking down on foreign influence in our politics.

So Baroness Mone didn’t just connect PPE Medpro to the government’s VIP lane. She took an active role lobbying for the company:

Keir Starmer, "Politicians who lie to this country, unleash chaos, and walked away after Brexit"

"Who equivocate on Putin and Ukraine"

"Who even now go to America and grub around for money"

"Talking this great country down"

"No more lectures from them"