Today's ruling on the “unlawful” use of the Single Justice Procedure for rail fare evasion cases has big implications for tens of thousands of people, and there are serious questions that the prosecuting authorities – in this case the train companies – need to answer as to how

Never wise to take the public (or the media) for fools, everyone sees through your £22bn black hole nonsense - Starmer and Reeves #ThePensionThieves Laura Kuenssberg

Striking intervention by Andy Haldane, former BoE chief economist, on the damage to confidence caused by Labour's "black hole" narrative

Energy secretary Ed Miliband nationalises National Grid’s electricity system operations unit. It was doing a perfectly good job as currently constituted but Miliband wanted it under public ownership. At a £630m cost paid for by taxpayers but then recouped by charges on household

Fascinating changes, particularly over the last 30 years

Excellent thread - most of the narrative of the last few months seems to have totally forgotten the impact the pandemic had on our public finances.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them.

Huge impact of overnight torrential rain in Cheshire with #Bridgewater Canal collapse where it crosses the River Bollin near Little Bollington. Massive volumes of water lost from the canal into surrounding land - happened once before in 1971

He’s a very special talent 🎯 #WorldDartsChampionship Well done Luke Littler World Champion 🏆

Huge setback for Merseyside and the North West and totally at odds with the Government’s drive for growth. It’s all very well saying the ‘mission is growth’, the evidence appears to show that when it comes to delivery it’s just words!

Aside to the concerns of the MoD - surely we should be focused on UK resilience and #growth by backing the many UK based suppliers to support jobs here - with a longer view to exporting our technology around the world?

Happy #CheshireDay! So many lovely places to visit but you can’t beat a Sunday roast at a village pub #AppletonThorn

Not an unfamiliar experience in Magistrates Courts. There are simple steps that could be taken to address failure to attend court, reduce adjournments, reduce time spent on warrants by police and to get more on the day reports from probation. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/2…

90% of all criminal cases dealt with by lay magistrates- some very sensible recommendations from the Mauro Landucci Association that would help to make magistrates feel more valued within the justice system.

🏆🦁 The Lionesses making England proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️ What an amazing journey for England - a wonderful tournament 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

This really doesn’t make sense - there are world leading university programmes in the North that are missing out in Global Talent Funding - UK Research and Innovation should think again!