🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced people on buses who vape, play loud music, litter or threaten others will face £100 fines from today

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced people on buses who vape, play loud music, litter or threaten others will face £100 fines from today

A letter to Nigel Farage. ✍🏼

Huge congratulations from everyone at Reform UK to Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott on their marriage yesterday. 🍾

BREAKING: 'How can French people do this to France?' French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country is feeling 'anger and shame' over recent protests in the country. Calling for peace, the president said 'nothing' justifies the riots and damage caused in multiple cities.

Imagine jumping from a helicopter behind enemy lines at night to capture an ISIS cell leader, not knowing if you'll come home. Then imagine coming home to a double murder investigation. In July 2022, five SAS soldiers came under fire in a pitch-black field in Syria. The two people in front of them refused calls to surrender, and the soldiers believed their lives were in danger. They fired. An internal review cleared them on self-defence grounds. Days after a BBC Panorama on the SAS, the Director of Special Forces overturned that review and referred them to the military police. The soldiers were arrested at secret bases in Syria and Iraq, and their homes were raided. Detectives asked for a sleeping baby to be moved so they could search under its cot. Forty-eight hours after their police interviews, the same men were sent back to jump out of helicopters into enemy territory, with life sentences hanging over them. Their legal support was one sheet of A4 listing legal aid solicitors, plus no more than £500. After nearly three years of limbo they were told there would be no charges, but the case could be reopened at any time. They have never been formally cleared. All five have now left the Army. They've been through broken relationships, drinking, and in one case an attempted suicide. The SAS is losing more experienced soldiers than ever, and the Defence Secretary has refused to meet them. This is outrageous. They aren't asking to be above the law. They're asking for a fair process. Our soldiers deserve protection from lawfare, not to be treated like criminals by the state they serve. #SAS #Lawfare #StandWithOurSoldiers

The BBC has given up claiming that the riots in France are about education and now says they are about “the cost of living and other issues”.

🚨JOG ON LENNY Sir Lenny Henry has renewed calls for a national conversation about slavery reparations, arguing that the issue cannot be measured solely in financial terms. Speaking about the long-term impact of Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, the comedian and campaigner said reparations should be viewed as part of a wider process of acknowledgement, justice and healing. Reflecting on the subject, he said that addressing the legacy of slavery could bring a “nationwide sigh of relief” over an issue that had “gone unspoken” for generations. Referencing findings from the Brattle Report, which estimated the economic cost of Britain’s involvement in slavery at around £18.6 trillion, Sir Lenny suggested that discussions about reparations are often avoided because of the scale of the figures involved. He said: “Once you start to break it down, it goes beyond getting a cash refund for slavery. It becomes about social engineering, and – it’s going to sound really touchy-feely – but it becomes about healing, and about spiritual healing, rather than just cash. It’s hundreds of years of being oppressed and downtrodden.” He also argued that the financial implications can make people reluctant to engage with the debate, saying: “It’s so huge they’re frightened, because actual reparations would cost trillions of pounds.” While acknowledging that meaningful change would take time, Sir Lenny said the discussion itself is important and could help shape future generations’ understanding of Britain’s history and its lasting consequences. He added: “These things take time. Look how long it took to abolish slavery – and to pay for slave owners’ loss of work and earnings. This is to try and push the dial so that the conversation might lead to something. That might take another 100 years, another 150 years.”

2002 deal Labour struck with 🇫🇷 helped tackle lorry migrants. But small boats rocketed post-Brexit: 299ppl 2018 to 45,774 in 2022. When in EU, Dublin Rg was a deterrent as ppl arriving illegally wld be returned, so v.few came. We didn't send them back because they weren't here

BREAKING: 'How can French people do this to France?' French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country is feeling 'anger and shame' over recent protests in the country. Calling for peace, the president said 'nothing' justifies the riots and damage caused in multiple cities.