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In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life. (DMs are open.) Email tips to: pecksniffsdiary@gmail.com Diarist for eastangliabylines.co.uk
Street demonstration fronted by banner: "We need to fly less."
Eileen Peck is an activist and blogger in her eighties. Here she tells us why.
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Personally, I'm rather keen on retribution.
UK flag merging into EU stars
“It felt like a bereavement.” The UK rushed out of the EU in January 2020. Ten years on, sluggish growth and shrinking trade have kept the question alive – was Brexit a mistake?
The rejoin movement is stirring again.
Sarah Patey reports
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There is almost no difference between the UK and French positions on Iran. But Macron's approach has been broadly accepted by French media and the opposition - except for the extreme left. The parallel with the UK is interesting.
Keir Starmer holds a press conference on the situation in the Middle East.
Starmer’s voting reforms promise votes at 16 and tighter donation rules.
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Tories hint darkly about polling-station conspiracies they can’t quite describe.
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Even the Telegraph now suggests immigration might need to increase.
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My favourite column making sense of an increasingly mad world.
This reporting keeps being taken down throughout the Internet.
Hit a nerve....
When do they have time to go to the lavatory?
Most gracious, my dear sir.
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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“But the PM’s assiduous adherence to the rule of law is not universally applauded, of course, and criticism comes from those politicians who are themselves anything but serious. We know already that the Tories can’t resist the vulgar and embarrassing bloviating from the White House on any subject”
Starmer attacks the Greens as tofu-wielding extremists, then remembers he needs their voters.
Reform fumes about “family voting” but can’t produce a single case.
Farage’s PM ambitions continue making a gentle deflating noise.
Want to know why Telegraph performed a reverse ferret? Then read 👇
Starmer attacks the Greens as tofu-wielding extremists, then remembers he needs their voters.
Reform fumes about “family voting” but can’t produce a single case.
Farage’s PM ambitions continue making a gentle deflating noise.
Want to know why Telegraph performed a reverse ferret? Then read 👇
Europe looking on at this and thinking ‘thank goodness all those weird cults and religious splinter groups went off and set up their communities in the ‘New World’ so we don’t have them here now. *shudders*
Ten years after Brexit, even its loudest cheerleaders are falling silent.
From stalled growth to a £20bn-a-year hit to the economy, “Project Fear” is starting to look a lot like Project Reality.
With the US turning inward, Britain’s isolation feels sharper than ever.
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The US is a rogue state that murders innocent men women and children. It is about time world leaders stood up and said it loud and clear.
Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”
Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"
It should not be possible for MPs, elected to work to represent us to do this.
The Iranian warship sunk off Sri Lanka by US sub was returning from a joint training exercise with Indian navy & carried no ammunition. The US was originally to take part in the unarmed naval exercises but cancelled at last minute - as planned to attack Iran.
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Oh noooooo. Any choice swears in Welsh, @swearyspider.bsky.social?
WAR CRIME BY THE US.
An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.
The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.
THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.
This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.
This is what any sensible politician should be saying in the face of Labour's hostile policies against those seeking safety. Home Secretary, and others in Labour, have flat out lied today, and previously. They've lied about those seeking asylum, migrants in general and those defending their rights.
Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.
Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.
BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will vote for Labour’s immigration reforms “in the national interest” if Labour MPs try to vote them down
The Home Secretary has made claims which are not true regarding migrants to push policies which will devastate lives, while increasing exploitation and people forced into becoming undocumented. These are not policies of "fairness", but instead of discrimination.
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In pushing Labour's extreme and hostile anti-asylum and anti-immigration policies the Home Secretary has lied. She has, deliberately or through ignorance, misled the public on fundamental aspects of both. That alone should surely be a resigning matter
Abolish the Home Office
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
