That is as daft as saying Nick or indeed MPs should be paid with a benefits card because their pay is taxpayer money. Claimants are legally entitled to the money the DWP provides and once transferred it is theirs as much as wages.

Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable. declassifieduk.org/declassif…

Benefit/Pension/NHS Spending in the UK isn't high. In fact it is pretty low, just not low enough for the billonaires.

Polanski has gone further than every mainstream progressive leader in West: Corbyn, Mamdani, Melenchon Soon enough, they will follow. But he will be remembered for standing up first

Tony Blair on Gaza: There is talk of free Palestine, but for Palestinians living in Gaza, they don't need a slogan; they need a solution. To be free, Gaza must live in peace with its neighbors and with itself. And this cannot happen if it's governed by those who use Gaza as a base for war against a neighbor it has no chance of defeating.

Andy Burnham on Israel: We stand with Israel in the face of the ongoing threats, including from Iran, against Israel and Jewish people around the world. But this does not justify the Israeli government's actions in Gaza or the West Bank.

🚨BREAKING: A highly foul smell spread across Gaza City overnight, leaving residents searching their homes and tents for its source. Social media platforms were flooded with complaints from Palestinians reporting the same unbearable odor across large areas, from Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj in the east to Beit Lahia in the west. According to journalist Yousef Fares in Gaza, Israeli military aircraft dropped hundreds of bubbles carrying the foul-smelling substance across these areas, deliberately contaminating the air and spreading the odor among residential areas.

Is Zack Polanski the first openly and explicitly anti-Zionist leader of a major political party in the UK? Times are changing. Either way, there is no doubting he has moral courage. It takes guts and principles to go into a room of Zionists (as a Jewish political leader who has faced horrible abuse for his views) and be the only person on stage to call out the racism of Zionism as it is practiced and take an unequivocally anti-Zionist position.

Journalist Hadley Freeman drew loud laughs around the room at the Jewish Community Hustings in Holborn and St Pancras when she asked Zack Polanski: ‘If I vote for you, will you promise to make my breasts bigger?’ She had also asked whether the need for such huge security at the event was due to a ‘perception of unsafety’. When the laughter died down, he said: ‘That’s interesting, you’ve linked those two things because for both the media have misreported what I said. I was very clear when I said that whether someone is actually scared, or they're worried about their safety, neither are acceptable.’ The other bit went unanswered as the debate moved on.