Such sad news. Rachel was such a great journalist and a lovely, super-smart person. Thoughts are with Tony and her family.
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Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.

They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.

That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.

Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.

Leicestershire you’ve been had.

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#ReformLies

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

I've been reading in public all my life purely for the pleasure of reading and long before The Independent existed... they can fuck off with this kind of pearl-clutching, mocking, attempt to make me feel bad about it.

"These estimates suggest that by 2025 Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

New NBER report is quietly devastating about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy.

We need to cut away the drag anchor of Brexit.

We need to rejoin the EU!

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Look, I despise the populist far right, and I hate the attacks on the BBC by biaised media groups with an agenda, but stop giving this Panorama edit a free pass - it was a dishonest, unprofessional edit and it has given the BBC's critics a field day. The journalists concerned are undefendable.

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.

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Farage coins in £1000s a month for a few hours "work" yet he thinks the economic woes of the UK are caused by an 18 year old getting a tenner an hour working their arse off in Burger King.

Less than a small glass of wine a month. www.thecricketer.com/Topics/engla...

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
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Farke said, "We don’t have to over-analyse the game," and I hope he was lying ahead of a week spent over-analysing, over-thinking and overall tearing up plans, finding a solution for a better #LUFC team.

About #Leeds going to Brighton:

Why are official UK bodies still on X?

That’s 10 overseas ODIs lost in a row… #NZvENG
I guess just maybe our players should get some 50 over practice or choose players that have? Because it either matters or what’s the point? 😬

But what if this is actually a brilliantly ironic skit by a superior entity about how unfunny Friends is?

I suppose if AI is secretly planning to conquer the world, the last thing you'd expect to find is a sense of humour

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

Insane. All this means is more money for lawyers and, as a result, less money for things like the prison service which blundered in the first place because it is strapped for resources. Piolitical convenience, economic nonsense and the fat cats getting fatter.

Is the UK addicted to “full independent inquiries”? Does it really take a years-long process costing millions to say it was a mistake to release Hadush Kebatu on Friday? Wouldn’t a faster internal process into what went wrong allow the government to *fix* it faster?

The last Runcorn MP punched a constituent. The new Runcorn MP is a racist.

‪Don't tell Private Eye but the shortlist included a CMC sub-committee member (recused), the CMC chair and a former CMC chair. 🤣 All books richly deserved their recognition so shut up at the back. With blessed relief, it's now time for 6 months non-cricket reading. Where did I put that Mick Herron?

This fascinating biography into one of English cricket's most unrestrained figures was a worthy winner of the @cricketmediauk.bsky.social Cricket Book of the Year award. Tim Wigmore's Test Cricket: A History (1/2) was runner-up in a very strong year (1/2).

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is Monkton Combe near Bath

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)