Lorraine Rogerson

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Hang on. In reporting, Cllr Kemp is described as a Reform UK staffer (now ex-staffer). As her LinkedIn seems to attest.

So why hasn't she declared it on her register of interests?

It is a legal duty under the Localism Act. Failing to declare relevant financial interests is a criminal offence.

Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.

It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑‍🚒

Maybe they have all missed BBCQT, Politics Live, Daily Politics, and This Week for the last two decades, for which Farage has his own dressing room.

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

This...

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Absolutely. It’s the equivalent of offering people the choice of medical treatments pre-anaesthesia or penicillin. Or of transport options prior to the horseless carriage.

Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform | Institute for Government It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system.

For too long, growth-enhancing tax reforms have been prevented by the intense political heat that surrounds any such changes. This new report should help create space for this and future governments to make much-needed improvements www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...

You’d think the least they could do in a poll like this is to preface it by saying, ‘at this time, when violent crime is significantly lower than it has been...’

I share your anger. The stocks ffs

Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.

Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference

Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...

"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position."

Analysis by @lgilbert.co

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Leasehold exists solely to shore up the rights of feudal landowners. The fact that our modern society retains it and allows it to be exploited is a disgrace. It serves no useful purpose and needs to end.

😂 This is such splendid denial. Basically, "the people are just GENERALLY angry and simply happened to express it by registering their absolute loathing for us. I get that. We are on the same page. I also absolutely loathe myself."

First the likes of Farage said we needed to leave the EU. Now they’re coming for the ECHR.

Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."

Nigel Farage faces parliamentary standards probe over Trump visit An investigation was launched into the Reform UK leader by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on October 30, related to his earnings and visits outside the UK

Farage spent decades trying to get into Parliament, he even survived a light plane-crash doing so. Once he made it, he’s never there. Too busy grifting, especially in the USA with Trump’s shifty hangers-on. Now a Parliamentary Standards investigation has commenced…

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A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Vogue's absorption of and closure of Teen Vogue feels like -- is -- a direct attack on a new generation of queer journalists who were committed to excellence and the power of journalism to illuminate the stories of people at the margins.

And it impacts all of us, no matter our age.

UK Foreign Secretary “the people of Gaza cannot afford to wait” for aid Foreign Secretary in Jordan today to call for increased aid access as a vital step in the pathway to peace

Foreign Secretary in Jordan to call for increased aid access as a vital step in the pathway to peace

Lewis is absolutely right here

Jim Allister: NI should not be a loophole for those who should be deported Writing for Belfast Live, North Antrim MP Jim Allister has said that a foreign criminal convicted in London or Glasgow could face automatic deportation as a result of the Government's latest Bill, whi...

Your now near daily reminder that NI's special rights protections are not some obscure "loophole"; they were a clear element of the Brexit Agreement, explicitly agreed by the UK Parliament. Jim Allister's interventions are aimed at gutting these protections:

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One man who was a passenger/witness to the traumatic attack was held overnight after another passenger mistakenly reported he was involved (in good faith, police say).

Now cleared (police have the CCTV footage)

Has also faced a lot of this kind of racist bullshit from people who might know better

At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.

Trumpist rule consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be a president and executive branch whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside its opponents and victims whom the law binds but does not protect.

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need.

The New York Times likes to say Trump "has stretched the limits of his powers” and “tests the boundaries of the presidency.” But this is not a test or a stretching exercise. He’s a lawless politician building a dictatorship. Say it. 🧵 1/3

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found