Listen to the genesis of INK! From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who transformed Britain - and why this history is so important.
Thank you John Siddique, Colin Grant and WritersMosaic
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A community failed. Voted against its own interests and now about to do it again. County Durham received £154m of EU funding between 2014 and 2020, about £22m a year. Since the UK left the EU, it receives about £12m annually, under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
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The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight
"Your position is utterly incoherent"
"You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"
Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy?
Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT?
Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland
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Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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Good review of an excellent book by @carriegibson.bsky.social
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lovely piece...https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/01/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-woman-restorer-spain
If you’re a woman wearing trousers jn a workplace right now, it’s because of the bravery and chutzpah of thousands of women who came before you.
More MORE JAM TOMORROW coming soon - here’s the latest episode!
A doomed democracy?
UK #Labour to take no action!!
👀 On Electoral Reform which will keep extremes out of power with less than 50% of the vite
👀 On Leveson or media propaganda such as GBN
👀 and Russian infiltration of Social media
On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.
Don't make this Photoshopping have been in vain
But it’s ok for racists go shout hate outside the homes of unaccompanied underage refugee children and abuse our national flags as happens in my town?
It’s very sad to see how Labour has lost its way under Starmer.
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Food inflation is around 4.9%, inflation at 3.6% homelessness up, poverty up, 3.8m, including 1m children currently experiencing destitution. The economy is on its knees and yet Labour still refusing to explore a CU with the EU or tax the rich appropriately.
No wonder they are tanking in the polls.
'This is one of those twilight-zone moments in British politics, where it seems something is going to “cut through” any minute now. For a moment it seems as if it absolutely will. And then, there’s a loss of momentum and a return to the status quo.'
I've written for Psyche about some of the extraordinary things institutional trust enables us to do, and why we have to live with the fact that big organisations screw up.
The most worrying thing about daily life in Britain now is that you hear overt racism all the time that would have been thought unacceptable in the 90s.
Not just ’fix’ Brexit, undo it.
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Reform is an overseas funded organisation.
Foreign donations to political parties should be outlawed.
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Remind me again how America was founded and who was there first?
The cover for this week’s issue is “White House of Gold,” by Kenton Nelson. See what’s inside: www.newyorker.com/magazine
Photo of a Gammon joint with the label, ‘flag shagger’.
A couple of weeks after racist flag shaggers put up more flags they have all been removed by what I assume are our ninja de-flaggers. Well done and thanks guys…..it’s lifted the atmosphere in our town. 👍🙂
This is a shocking story...vulnerable people without water for days. Shame on South East Water...
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
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If only the press had held Johnson and the Tory party to the same standards when he was PM.
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And all these judgments can be reached on the basis of published official tables. A Woodward & Bernstein expose is definitely not required!
Getting a book written is hard, published even harder and noticed even harder still.
So I'm pretty bloody pleased to see that JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is No. 6 in The Independent's best books of 2025.
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