- In the year to March, 96% of migrants to the UK were legal - 4% were illegal - 47% of people in a YouGov poll say there's more illegal than legal migration 'We are a gaslit nation' declares James O'Brien, as the 'sons and daughters of Brexit are fed a diet of misinformation'.

JD Vance’s security entourage in the Cotswolds is huge. By comparison, when the late Queen travelled round the UK she usually went by train. She and her companions would have 4 seats in a 1st-class carriage, plus 2 more for her detectives, leaving the rest of the carriage for

Hassan is giving James #gbbo

Cant't wait for Bloody Barnes, the new crime writing festival in London in February. What a lineup! bloodybarnes.com/the-interview-…

If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.

Of all the ‘tax dodgers’ to pursue as a society, as a people, as a country we pursue…. Angela Rayner…. I can hear the guffaws right along the West Coast of the US…. in the St James Clubs… across private equity…. on the world’s fleet of private jets…. it is quite a feat

The first handwritten letter from a Prime Minister to a departing minister I can remember. A significant, personal touch.

I find the way we destroy people with the courage to enter politics in this country utterly depressing. It is why I got out of newspapers. It isn’t just Angela Rayner. Read Sarah Vine’s book about the effect MPs expense farrago had on Michael Gove… we are red in tooth and claw

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers

EXCL: A trove of leaked data from Boris Johnson’s private office reveals how the former PM has been profiting from contacts and influence he gained in office in a possible breach of ethics and lobbying rules. All the details here 👇🏼 theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s…

I love that Rolling Stone has a feature on our UK Channel 4 news. It’s true. Tomorrow night, the 17th of September, at 10pm, Channel 4 News will report a 100 of Donald Trump’s lies on national television. Welcome to the UK Mr President. #C4news

An excerpt from Randi Weingarten’s new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” reveals why Trump and the far right are demeaning teachers, slashing school funding, and rewriting history. 📕 rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

When you realise you were actually Mary Bennet

🚨Rolling Stone is now confirming what we all knew happened with Jimmy Kimmel’s show. According to their reporting, executives at ABC and Disney didn’t think Kimmel said anything outrageous but they feared retaliation from Trump. This is a blatant attack on free speech.

Three years ago, on 8 September, I handed in book 3 of my series starring Queen Elizabeth II as a secret sleuth. This weekend, I'm finishing book 6, set in 1966. If you're a fan of the series, book 5 will be out in November: The Queen Who Came In From the Cold.

"Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960s England in the 5th installment of this historical mystery series The New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment." Win a copy of SJ Bennett's "The Queen Who Came in from the Cold" from Crooked Lane Books

Reform keeps arguing that immigration is an issue when it isn’t. There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there. BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK. There are perfectly

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election Carole Cadwalladr reports

it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week. Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined. Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen. The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.