If you are from the BAME community, you are 26% more likely to receive a custodial prison sentence compared with a white person who has committed the same crime. If you are black, the differential is 37%. I look forward to Sarah Pochin championing this inequality too.

'The explosion of AI-driven social media has created an online public realm where fake news, manipulated content and deliberate misinformation spread unchecked' George Freeman FRSA MP writes about a AI deepfake which purported to show him defecting to Reform UK politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

Breaking: Reform expel 3 more councillors this afternoon

Hear, hear !!

NEW: Dartford Borough Counillor James Buchan has defected from Reform to the Conservatives. In a statement he warned "the more I saw of Reform the more uncomfortable i felt" adding that Reform has "neither the experience or ambition" to represent real families

Good to see Kemi Badenoch clarify a Conservative Government would not retrospectively remove ILR from those who have it (unless they commit a crime). Such a policy would be morally indefensible (and, less importantly, politically very unpopular) share.google/DxzK4k3htp5KtU…

For years we've been waiting for the arrival of competition to Eurostar on passenger services through the Channel Tunnel. The Virgin Trains proposals are good news for passengers, and the best hope of re-opening the Kent stops at Ashford and Ebbsfleet virgin.com/branson-family…

Britain's low investment is because we have *banned* a lot of investments (housing, infrastructure, lots of energy supply), and consequentially raised costs for every other thing people might invest in. Unban those investments, and the investment cash you crave will follow!

This doesn't surprise at all. Social media platforms enable and profit from scams. We let them get away with it - and expect banks and the taxpayer to bear the cost cnbc.com/2025/11/06/met…

The Royal Navy stands in silent remembrance. Their courage, sacrifice & service will never be forgotten. 🫡⚓️ #LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday Andrew Bray Royal British Legion Dartmouth Town Council

This what basically happens with tobacco now

We are delighted to welcome co-author of 'For and Against a United Ireland', Sam McBride to The BikeShed for a chat about his new book. A topic as popular as it is contentious, this is sure to be an entertaining & informative discussion!🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺 Join us this Friday 14/11. 20.30.

SAS Regiment Association raise ECHR Articles 8 and 6 as grounds to object to Northern Ireland Troubles bill scribd.com/document/95142…

O. This is of ECHR note!!!

Presumably no member of the SAS Regiment Association 🇬🇧 is now welcome to stand as a Conservative or Reform MP…?

Hmmm politicshome.com/news/article/y…

Sadly, not very responsible today

What? Have we reached this poisonous point in social dialogue on this platform? Disgusting! Nusrat Ghani MP is British, has played a significant role in the life of politics and this country and is a public servant who has selflessly given much to public life. Politicians elected