The taxpayer subsidised Dining menu in Parliament...
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via https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/taxpayers-fork-out-8m-house-of-lords-meal-subsidies-cost-of-living-crisis/
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via https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/taxpayers-fork-out-8m-house-of-lords-meal-subsidies-cost-of-living-crisis/
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Meet Green Party Councillor Tony Dyer.
He became leader of Bristol City Council in May 2024.
This week, under his leadership, the council finished installing a series of “Liveable Neighbourhood” roadblocks—with the help of police—in the middle of the night.
It’s all part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) push spreading across Britain. Think planters in the road, bus gate signs, painted lines—all designed to block traffic in the name of the environment.
But here’s the thing…
Two months before Dyer took charge, the council held a public consultation on the scheme. The result? 760 residents opposed it, 427 supported it. A clear no.
Dyer ignored it.
Instead of respecting the outcome, Dyer and his crew began rolling it out anyway—quietly, in phases.
Now the roadblocks are in. The result? Traffic chaos. Residents say journey times have doubled, sometimes tripled.
This isn’t just Bristol’s problem. It’s happening across the country. A nationwide review of 90 LTNs showed 87% local opposition wherever polling was done.
And yet, councils keep going.
It serves to remind us once again that for parties like the Greens: if they believe they’re morally right, democracy becomes optional.
Its ends-justify-the-means politics.
And if we're to stop it, we need to punish it at the polls... hard.
via https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdlnzegz8o.amp
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He became leader of Bristol City Council in May 2024.
This week, under his leadership, the council finished installing a series of “Liveable Neighbourhood” roadblocks—with the help of police—in the middle of the night.
It’s all part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) push spreading across Britain. Think planters in the road, bus gate signs, painted lines—all designed to block traffic in the name of the environment.
But here’s the thing…
Two months before Dyer took charge, the council held a public consultation on the scheme. The result? 760 residents opposed it, 427 supported it. A clear no.
Dyer ignored it.
Instead of respecting the outcome, Dyer and his crew began rolling it out anyway—quietly, in phases.
Now the roadblocks are in. The result? Traffic chaos. Residents say journey times have doubled, sometimes tripled.
This isn’t just Bristol’s problem. It’s happening across the country. A nationwide review of 90 LTNs showed 87% local opposition wherever polling was done.
And yet, councils keep going.
It serves to remind us once again that for parties like the Greens: if they believe they’re morally right, democracy becomes optional.
Its ends-justify-the-means politics.
And if we're to stop it, we need to punish it at the polls... hard.
via https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdlnzegz8o.amp
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BBC News
Bristol City Council's new leader warns of bankruptcy threat - BBC News
Council leader Tony Dyer has revealed that the authority presently faces an overspend of £22m.
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"Woman jailed for recording hundreds of men using the toilet in Aldi"
How journalism fell. No objectivity Crazy this stuff still going on.
via https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/
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How journalism fell. No objectivity Crazy this stuff still going on.
via https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/
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Metro
Sex offender jailed for recording hundreds of men in public toilets
Chleo Sunter, 37, was caught with 790 pictures and 15 videos of men inside toilet cubicles and standing at urinals.
Over 38,000 "asylum seekers" currently housed in hotels across the UK.
Even locals woke councils are starting to issue warnings...
via https://www.gbnews.com/news/councils-impact-communities-migrants-hotels-uk
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Even locals woke councils are starting to issue warnings...
via https://www.gbnews.com/news/councils-impact-communities-migrants-hotels-uk
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GB News
Councils reveal devastating impact of asylum crisis on local communities as 38,000 migrants in hotels
The situation is creating significant pressure on housing markets, schools and community cohesion
Big new waste/fraud scandal...
The Student Loan Company has uncovered what it suspects to be a major fraud scandal
Thousands of students are suspected of fraudulently claiming hundreds of millions of pounds in loans.
For reference: the debt on the student loan book is larger than the entire national debt of Portugal.
via https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/revealed-colleges-student-loans-fraud-pd7wlgb3v
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The Student Loan Company has uncovered what it suspects to be a major fraud scandal
Thousands of students are suspected of fraudulently claiming hundreds of millions of pounds in loans.
For reference: the debt on the student loan book is larger than the entire national debt of Portugal.
via https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/revealed-colleges-student-loans-fraud-pd7wlgb3v
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Just submitted FOI requests to the UK’s six largest police forces—covering over 64,000 officers—asking how many citizens they’ve visited, warned, or cautioned over speech-related activities since January 2020.
Why? Because of stories like Helen Jones’s...
The 54-year-old grandmother who went viral weeks ago after two Greater Manchester police officers knocked on her door for posting a comment about a local WhatsApp scandal involving Labour councillors.
She broke no law. Police admitted that themselves.
But they still showed up at her door.
She since said she’s too scared to post online ever again. She feels silenced. Intimidated.
The 6 forces contacted: Metropolitan, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Merseyside, and Northumbria.
They've got the statutory 20 working days to respond. Will keep you updated.
Pictured are the police chiefs of those forces...
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Why? Because of stories like Helen Jones’s...
The 54-year-old grandmother who went viral weeks ago after two Greater Manchester police officers knocked on her door for posting a comment about a local WhatsApp scandal involving Labour councillors.
She broke no law. Police admitted that themselves.
But they still showed up at her door.
She since said she’s too scared to post online ever again. She feels silenced. Intimidated.
The 6 forces contacted: Metropolitan, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Merseyside, and Northumbria.
They've got the statutory 20 working days to respond. Will keep you updated.
Pictured are the police chiefs of those forces...
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Migrants will be housed in hotels for years to come at a cost of £5.5 millions a day, the Treasury has admitted, as figures show there are 8,000 more asylum seekers living in hotels than when Keir Starmer pledged during the election campaign to “end asylum hotels”.
via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/24/migrants-will-be-put-up-in-hotels-for-years-to-come-treasury-admits/
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via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/24/migrants-will-be-put-up-in-hotels-for-years-to-come-treasury-admits/
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The Daily Sceptic
Migrants Will be Put Up in Hotels for Years to Come, Treasury Admits – The Daily Sceptic
Migrants will be housed in hotels for years to come at a cost of £5.5m a day, the Treasury has admitted, as figures show there are 8,000 more asylum seekers in hotels than when Starmer pledged to "end asylum hotels".
There's been an interesting update in the Southport story...
Key reporter Charlie Astor-Bentley broke her two-month-long silence today.
Revelations and context:
https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/southports-latest-twist?r=el4t7&
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Key reporter Charlie Astor-Bentley broke her two-month-long silence today.
Revelations and context:
https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/southports-latest-twist?r=el4t7&
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Southport’s Latest Twist
Reporter Charlie Astor-Bentley breaks her two-month-long silence.
Just received a reply to the FOI request I sent to West Midlands Police earlier this week, asking how many individuals had been visited by officers over their online speech activity...
Cutting the story short:
They stonewalled—just as many suspected.
But their swift response was telling.
After they rejected a wider request, I set very clear parameters of incident reports in a new request including visits not involving citizens suspected of committing speech-related offences but from concerns that those citizens might commit an offence in the future (or warned that their speech was close to committing an offence).
It followed the story of Helen Jones, a grandmother who was visited by two Greater Manchester police officers over a harassment complaint after she criticised local Labour councillors on Facebook.
Police knew no crime was committed but knocked on Jones' door anyway.
(Yep, that really happened. And no, it’s not isolated—dozens of similar incidents have emerged across the UK in recent years.)
West Midlands Police replied first by claiming the request would take too much time to process. Then, when the request was narrowed, they said they don’t store the relevant data in a way that’s easily accessible.
Two points:
1. If they're not archiving the reason or
motive for actions such as visits in an accessible way, how they can identify, track, and investigate cases appropriately themselves. Or, indeed, justify the visits.
2. If this is taken to the Information Commissioner’s Office—and they also stonewall, as they’ve done repeatedly for police and government departments before—it effectively gives law enforcement free pass to reject any FOI request they decide is too “time-consuming."
Certainly makes life easier for West Midlands Police Chief Craig Guildford (pictured).
For context: in January, The Telegraph revealed that police forces across the UK are collecting less data on key crimes than at any time in the past 15 years.
One striking example:
Between 2010 and 2024, the percentage of convicted child sex offenders whose ethnicity went unrecorded more than doubled—from 11.6% to 28.7%.
Question is... when does this stop being incompetence and start becoming criminal negligence?
Will keep trying and refining and altering requests to get the data. Still waiting on 5 other police forces to respond to same request.
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Cutting the story short:
They stonewalled—just as many suspected.
But their swift response was telling.
After they rejected a wider request, I set very clear parameters of incident reports in a new request including visits not involving citizens suspected of committing speech-related offences but from concerns that those citizens might commit an offence in the future (or warned that their speech was close to committing an offence).
It followed the story of Helen Jones, a grandmother who was visited by two Greater Manchester police officers over a harassment complaint after she criticised local Labour councillors on Facebook.
Police knew no crime was committed but knocked on Jones' door anyway.
(Yep, that really happened. And no, it’s not isolated—dozens of similar incidents have emerged across the UK in recent years.)
West Midlands Police replied first by claiming the request would take too much time to process. Then, when the request was narrowed, they said they don’t store the relevant data in a way that’s easily accessible.
Two points:
1. If they're not archiving the reason or
motive for actions such as visits in an accessible way, how they can identify, track, and investigate cases appropriately themselves. Or, indeed, justify the visits.
2. If this is taken to the Information Commissioner’s Office—and they also stonewall, as they’ve done repeatedly for police and government departments before—it effectively gives law enforcement free pass to reject any FOI request they decide is too “time-consuming."
Certainly makes life easier for West Midlands Police Chief Craig Guildford (pictured).
For context: in January, The Telegraph revealed that police forces across the UK are collecting less data on key crimes than at any time in the past 15 years.
One striking example:
Between 2010 and 2024, the percentage of convicted child sex offenders whose ethnicity went unrecorded more than doubled—from 11.6% to 28.7%.
Question is... when does this stop being incompetence and start becoming criminal negligence?
Will keep trying and refining and altering requests to get the data. Still waiting on 5 other police forces to respond to same request.
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Academic publishing is in crisis...
Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away.
via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/25/publish-or-be-damned/
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Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away.
via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/25/publish-or-be-damned/
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The Daily Sceptic
Publish or Be Damned – The Daily Sceptic
Academic publishing is in crisis. Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away, says John MacNab.
The CEO of Ofcom Melanie Dawes—a former "diversity champion" and Patchwork Foundation contributor—whose been firing off legal demands to various platforms and websites this week to combat "harmful" content under The Online Safety Act.
She been empowered like never before.
By result, these sites have been geo-blocking or shutting down completely. So us Brits can see less, do less, hear less.
It's censorship in the guise of safety. And it's likely only going to get worse...
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She been empowered like never before.
By result, these sites have been geo-blocking or shutting down completely. So us Brits can see less, do less, hear less.
It's censorship in the guise of safety. And it's likely only going to get worse...
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Also recently submitted a FOI request to Ofcom—the UK’s media regulator—about how it handles complaints across UK’s 8 biggest broadcasters.
Including:
BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky News, GB News, LBC, and TalkTV.
Info requested for each broadcaster:
- The total number of public complaints submitted to Ofcom.
- The number of complaints actually investigated under the Broadcasting Code.
- The number that resulted in a breach finding.
- And the number that led to a fine or financial penalty.
With Ofcom acting as the main enforcement body under the new Online Safety Act, the question of the extent of their bias couldn't be more urgent.
They’ve got the standard 20 working days to respond.
If the numbers show a pattern—tough on some outlets, lenient on others—it’ll be hard to argue that Ofcom is the neutral, apolitical regulator it claims to be.
For context, the Chief Executive of Ofcom, Melanie Dawes has already come under fire for bias regulation in recent years.
The former Permanent Secretary Champion for Diversity and Inclusion and Patchwork Foundation contributor has been accused of imposing inconsistent and selective fines for some outlets and unfairly dismissing complaints for others.
Could be very revealing.
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Including:
BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky News, GB News, LBC, and TalkTV.
Info requested for each broadcaster:
- The total number of public complaints submitted to Ofcom.
- The number of complaints actually investigated under the Broadcasting Code.
- The number that resulted in a breach finding.
- And the number that led to a fine or financial penalty.
With Ofcom acting as the main enforcement body under the new Online Safety Act, the question of the extent of their bias couldn't be more urgent.
They’ve got the standard 20 working days to respond.
If the numbers show a pattern—tough on some outlets, lenient on others—it’ll be hard to argue that Ofcom is the neutral, apolitical regulator it claims to be.
For context, the Chief Executive of Ofcom, Melanie Dawes has already come under fire for bias regulation in recent years.
The former Permanent Secretary Champion for Diversity and Inclusion and Patchwork Foundation contributor has been accused of imposing inconsistent and selective fines for some outlets and unfairly dismissing complaints for others.
Could be very revealing.
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Now the Sentencing Council plans to slash the penalties for illegally entering the UK, making deportations far harder. It's almost as though the judiciary has been captured by an unaccountable Leftist cabal.
via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/27/now-the-sentencing-council-waters-down-penalties-for-illegally-entering-the-uk-making-deportations-far-harder/
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via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/27/now-the-sentencing-council-waters-down-penalties-for-illegally-entering-the-uk-making-deportations-far-harder/
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The Daily Sceptic
Now the Sentencing Council Waters Down Penalties for Illegally Entering the UK, Making Deportations Far Harder – The Daily Sceptic
Now the Sentencing Council plans to slash the penalties for illegally entering the UK, making deportations far harder. It's almost as though the judiciary has been captured by an unaccountable Leftist cabal.
These are getting painful to read...
"A convicted Iranian sex offender has avoided deportation because drink and drug use have made him distrust authority.
Judges said the Iranian would be likely to behave in a “hostile” way if questioned by airport immigration officers in Tehran, because of his distrust of officialdom."
via https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/24/sex-offender-avoids-deportation-because-distrusts-authority/
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"A convicted Iranian sex offender has avoided deportation because drink and drug use have made him distrust authority.
Judges said the Iranian would be likely to behave in a “hostile” way if questioned by airport immigration officers in Tehran, because of his distrust of officialdom."
via https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/24/sex-offender-avoids-deportation-because-distrusts-authority/
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The Telegraph
Sex offender avoids deportation because he ‘distrusts authority’
Judges say the Iranian’s poor mental health might lead him to react negatively if questioned in his home country
Officers enforcing Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul will have the power to enter people’s homes and seize documents and laptops while investigating potential breaches of new laws.
via New workers’ rights bill allows officers to go into homes
https://www.thetimes.com/article/68cc3888-35d4-4c53-8924-9ca9b2c2e733?shareToken=9f7c84cce288ff39ed4aa6a2784ba327
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via New workers’ rights bill allows officers to go into homes
https://www.thetimes.com/article/68cc3888-35d4-4c53-8924-9ca9b2c2e733?shareToken=9f7c84cce288ff39ed4aa6a2784ba327
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Thetimes
New workers’ rights bill allows officers to go into homes
The Fair Work Agency, which will oversee new rights going to the Lords this week, would be granted powers of arrest on a par with the police