Politics: taken for a ride?

By Richard North - 26 July 2026

There can be little dispute that social media – and the X platform in particular – is carving out a niche for itself in asking questions that the legacy media isn’t asking or hasn’t got round to asking yet – as well as providing some answers. In that category currently lies the timeline for the… View Article
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Politics: new broom

By Richard North - 25 July 2026

For what it is worth, the latest poll from Survation has Reform still in the lead, despite Burn’em’s populist measures. The party is delivering 26 percent, up 2 percent on the previous week, against Labour which has managed the modest gain of 1 percent, bringing it in at 25 percent, just one point behind the… View Article
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Defence: the reality gap

By Richard North - 24 July 2026

We’ve been here before, and covered the issue at length, particularly here. But the issue – and the lies – won’t go away. Following the use of RAF Fairford to launch a USAF B-1 attack on Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared that “any base used for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a… View Article
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Water: a failed experiment

By Richard North - 23 July 2026

In 2009, at the fag-end of the Brown government, a new system of water quality monitoring of discharges from the 7,000 sewage treatment works owned by Britain’s water and sewage companies was introduced. This included the 11 major regional water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, all but one of them privately owned after… View Article
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Politics: gestures

By Richard North - 22 July 2026

We’re actually being taken for fools (or some of us are) with the claim that Mr Burn’em’s VAT cut on electricity, which takes effect from 1 October, is estimated to save the average household about £42 per year. The thing is, the Ofgem energy price cap is predicted to rise this autumn on 1 October… View Article
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