Number crunching: Water restoration fund vs water company dividends, from the new Private Eye, out now.

Labour voted with the Tories to require Ofwat to consider economic growth when regulating water firms. Campaigners say this will weaken Ofwat's ability to fine firms for pollution.

Source theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thought there was no money for anything

Bloody hell the Shogun finale is a work of art. Brutally beautiful, Brutiful.

I wonder how much of the channel crossing mess is the Streisand effect, people like Farage and Sunak shouting about it so much that more people smugglers get involved.

How come 'people' are against asylum seekers being given job seekers allowance/benefits until they're up and contributing to the UK, but are ok with £660,000 being blown on each of them?

Imagine if they just gave each asylum seeker £600,000 to set up a UK business and all the jobs/tax payments that would create.

Any political party or politician who waves the St. George's flag today while allowing our rivers and seas in England and the UK to be polluted has no right. Whatever your politics, we can all agree our country deserves more respect than to be turned into an open sewer.

I hope someone batters Rishi with that headline wherever he goes on his victory tour today. Just keep repeating it through a loudhailer. And every other subsequent death after his Rwanda flight 'victory'

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Old TV star whose only film success was when he was a CG bee says

Sunak appoints the first of his 150 Rwanda deportation judges.

A former police officer matter-of-factly observing that there are some people who want the pro Palestinian marches banned, the marches can only be banned if there's a likelihood of serious disorder, and therefore the people who want them banned are trying to create disorder.

Send them to Rwanda!

What an extraordinary tweet, whoever wins, we lose.

are you kidding me

The fact that so many blue tick accounts are AI bots is incredibly annoying but also, occasionally, comedy gold