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Paula Vennells. In her 7 year tenure as CEO of the Post Office she waltzed off with £5.1 Mn; around £2.2 Mn coming from performance related incentives and pension in lieu payments. Yet postmasters/mistresses are still waiting for their compensation. #Newsnight #PostOfficeScandal

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it. "Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped. So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great. Dear Jezza, Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society. I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing. But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid. That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me. I receive PIP. That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work. It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it. The car takes the lot. Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it. There is nothing left for either. I chose the thing that gets me to work. That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP. But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill. I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living. They pay tax too. Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work. Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained. That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them. My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole. It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it. But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too. I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous. I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm. I do not choose to watch it. But that is how society works, Jeremy. We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit. Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses. And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm. In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land. In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time. I am not sure which version helps your argument. It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people. Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude. So thank you for your concern, Jezza. I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received. Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money. If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped. That is only fair."

I make no secret of the fact that I found Anne Widdecombe’s views abhorrent, nor will I deny that I believe Reform UK incites division and hostility. But did she deserve to have every woman’s worst nightmare happen to her? No. She did not. The key takeaway is this: you don’t stop male violence by encouraging more hatred and division. Once you normalise that, society itself begins to unravel. There was already an epidemic of male violence long before politicians started fanning the flames for political gain. The leaders of Reform and Restore create unease and unrest because they profit from it. They point fingers. They deflect. They exploit despair and anger. Time and again, they have manipulated some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Britain. In doing so, they have contributed to an environment in which women, gay people, trans people and people of colour face greater hostility and, potentially, greater risk of violence. Does that mean I think Anne Widdecombe was to blame for what happened to her? Again, no. No woman deserves to be brutally murdered by a man. It is one of the oldest, deepest fears carried by women, and tragically, it is not an irrational one. I’ve received unspeakable threats despite not being a politician, simply for talking about politics. The police do nothing. The police are yet another institution women are forced to fear. Women are not safe anywhere, not even in our own home. I’ve lived alone. I know how vulnerable you can feel, simply because you’ve dared to have a voice as a woman. I’ve lain awake in bed wondering whether the noise downstairs was a man, radicalised by social media, fuelled by misogyny, entitlement and rage, finally acting on one of those threats. Anne would have likely done that countless times. The price women pay simply for existing is fear, the price they pay for having a voice or agency is even higher. While I found many of Anne’s views, particularly those regarding other women, abhorrent, that does not mean she asked for this. Men who inflict horrific violence on women rarely need an excuse. The fact that they can is often reason enough. Male violence is not limited to one culture, a political viewpoint, a particular religion or one race. It is endemic. No woman should have to die to prove this point but many more will unless action is taken. Do I think Reform and Restore should be defenestrated? Absolutely. But at the ballot box. Because we’re not fucking animals. And because the working class should have more respect for itself than to let a handful of old Etonian pricks decide who we are. The best revenge is to recognise who your real enemies are, then quietly leave them to their riches, their private jets and their mansions. The more irrelevant they become and the less divided we are, the less power they hold and the less money they make. Two things are true: No woman deserves what Anne Widdecombe endured. The likelihood of women enduring male violence has markedly increased because of the hateful, violent and divisive rhetoric of figures like Farage or Lowe. Reject them. They’re not on your side.

For the first time in history, Ukrainian troops marched in Paris as part of France’s Bastille Day celebrations. Ukrainian soldiers marched from the Arc de Triomphe, while two Ukrainian pilots took to the skies over Paris in French Mirage fighter jets. Video: Telegram channels

You don't need a VAR check to know that First Past the Post is not playing fair. There's been enough warnings. Time to send it off.

Thank you #norway 🇳🇴 you rowed 🚣 your way into our hearts. You showed us what was possible. You made us yearn for a kinder America. Thank you for sharing your joy and sportsmanship. You have inspired a whole new generation of young athletes. America loves you. ❤️

Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit. About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit. Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?

It is now blindingly obvious to all but the most gullible that democracy has been hijacked by the very worst of us, whose unbridled shameless selfish greed is having a catastrophic effect on countries, billions of decent people, and on our jewel of a planet.

Amazon made £55 MILLION in profit in the UK last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. Jeff Bezos is rubbing his hands together, avoiding tax, while we pay our dues. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now. 38d.gs/mexd

The catastrophic reality of Brexit has exposed the entire project as a historical scam pushed by charlatans and traitors, on behalf of Moscow. It has directly undermined European security and weakened the West to the absolute delight of Moscow, Beijing, and Washington DC. The separation of the United Kingdom from the European continent has made both entities far more vulnerable to external threats. At a time when global stability requires absolute cohesion, this decision introduced needless fragmentation. The geopolitical rewards of this blunder flow straight to Washington DC, Beijing, and Moscow. Russia and China look at a fractured Europe and see a continent that is much easier to manipulate, exploit, and destabilize because one of its strongest powers is isolated from its neighbors. The US sees the same, especially under Trump. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage will forever carry this betrayal as their core legacy. The United Kingdom must eventually rejoin the European Union to reclaim its economic sanity and strategic defense, a move that is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone

MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.” This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.

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russians in 2022: “Ukraine will surrender in a week” Me in 2026: Still here. Still Ukrainian. Still loud, stubborn, and free. Still wondering who taught them geography or history.

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I want my children and grandchildren to inherit national parks and polar bears, not data centres and dry riverbeds.