Will there ever be a PM who realises pumping the property market is the wrong thing to do?

Given the political aspect of the voting, maybe the MPs should be saying sorry to the Eurovision people?

Very quiet about this here on X. Surely its a bigger election than a regional one in Germany?

In other words progress has slowed, so what about giving us a regulatory moat?

So what you are saying Kemi, is that Argentina could smell Margaret Thatcher's weakness in the 80s? I think Burnham wouldn't mind his strength being compared to Maggie.

The first thought to spring to mind on Friday was for those in abusive relationships with hidden phones - a reaction which is perhaps hard to understand unless you, or someone close to you, has been a victim of domestic abuse. My protest on social media received 1.5 million views, with thousands expressing agreement and support, alongside hundreds of comments ranging from disagreement to outright abuse. It's not a matter of politics; it's a matter of understanding and concern for others. Today's articles from survivors and experts will hopefully encourage others to think beyond Friday's alert to the reality facing hundreds of thousands of people across the country who are experiencing abuse and living in constant fear.

So 40%? How is that working out?

How could that happen?

A couple of thoughts: If this is her local, did she never go in there before? If she had there would be, grudging acceptance. If not, was she just LARPing in a Bethnal Green pub - people can smell that kind of fakeness...

HOW THE FCA TURNED A PREVENTABLE £100 MILLION SCANDAL INTO A TEN YEAR COVER UP He received death threats. His children were harassed on social media. Someone phoned his daughter at school. He spent approximately £1 million in legal fees defending his own name. He sold his family home. This is what happened to George Patellis for telling the truth. Patellis was CEO of Tiuta, a UK bridging loan firm. In January 2011 he discovered his company had a £20 million hole in its accounts. Money meant for investors had been siphoned off to keep the business running. He did exactly what the rulebook said. He went to the regulator. The FSA, now the @TheFCA, told him to call his wife and his lawyer. Days later they asked for the documents. He sent a seven-page letter and 26 exhibits mapping out the fraud in forensic detail. Then he heard nothing. Not for five years. In that time the fraud continued. The Connaught Income Fund kept taking in new investors. When it finally collapsed in 2012, around £100 million was gone. FCA had tipped Tiuta off that someone was talking to them. That someone was Patellis. They then classified his disclosure not as whistleblowing but as merely sharing information. The distinction cost him everything. His formal complaint to the FCA produced a private apology and a cheque for £500. MPs called it patronising. He turned it down. It took until 2021 for the FCA chair to issue a public apology, acknowledging George Patellis as an important whistleblower whose concerns should have been acted on more promptly and more decisively. The All-Party Parliamentary Group @appgonifandffs described the FCA in their report as incompetent at best, dishonest at worst. @TransparencyTF called it the single most astonishing catastrophic regulatory failure they had seen since 2015. The fraud was entirely preventable. The regulator knew. Sources: @CityWire / @MoneyMarketing / @appgonifandffs / @MortgageSoup

If Andy Burnham is clever, he will delay a while before taking over the reigns of Labour - still quite a bit of pain to come - he would prefer that to be on Kier Starmer's watch.

So, offered payment on Telegram... apologies to Starmer flooding Twitter?

So Burnham travels south to Kings London and Starmer has him beheaded right? That's how this goes?

Better than the critics and authors list - what does that say?

The school librarian who stays open at lunchtime so children have somewhere quiet to go is not just running a library. They are running a safe place, a quiet place. For the child who finds the playground difficult. For the child who just needs ten minutes away from the noise. For the child who hasn't found their book yet but is getting closer. That librarian is doing more than they know.

I completely agree with you Mark. True education should be about building cognitive self-efficacy, not just turning out compliant corporate cogs. "Learning how to learn" is the highest-leverage skill a human can possess. But that requires a curriculum optimised for foundational cognitive friction, intensive reading, rigorous logic, and multi-variable problem-solving. Instead, our current institutional framework relies on a norm-referenced grading curve. It forces teachers to optimise for memorisation quotas and standardised test benchmarks just to protect district funding scores. The system doesn't train kids for work, and it doesn't train them to think. It trains them to comply with an administrative process.

London property is terrible!?!?! Meanwhile in Chicago...

Starmer can't win - too damaged Miliband can't win - too damaged (although I like you Ed) Streeting can't win - too unlikeable Rayner can't win - too many Southerners hate her Burnham potentially could win but becoming leader now would leave him too damaged. Young blood?

RT @Care2much18: Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote: "Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's popula…

Final results and analysis RFM: 1453 (+1451) LAB: 1068 (-1496) LDM: 844 (+155) CON: 801 (-563) GRN: 587 (+441) OTH: 245 (+43) RES: 36 (-31) Reform needed +2050 net seat gains in the English local elections to show they are still performing as well as they did at last year’s local elections +1935 to be on par with local by-election results since then +2270 net gains without that necessarily indicating any significant progress in their ability to win council seats (based in winning more from Labour) The average of 8 polls prior to the elections - not including any AI polling put Reform at +1636 seats gained So in a nutshell across both polling and data analysis Reform performed significantly down on there they needed to be / should be. What the elections have highlighted is the fact that the ongoing decline in Reform vote share in polling is now borne out in actual votes cast. Vote share was down 5% from 2025 from 32% to 27% There is an additional gloom factor for Farage. In any further elections Restore will be standing candidates - there are a number of Restore voters who voted Reform purely because Restore were not fielding candidates. In the one area where Restore did stand against Reform they gained more than double the Reform vote and won all 9 seats.