Despite having so much of it himself, he really treats public money as though it was his own. Whether helicopters or private jets or polling, he sees our money as his. All part of the decline in public standards since Johnson and Brexit.

EXCL: Rishi Sunak spent £2m of taxpayers' money on focus groups & polling which helped craft messaging on 'eat out to help out' ahead of second Covid wave - despite keeping health chiefs in the dark on £850m scheme
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

This year’s BAAS (British Association for American Studies) conference is 100% digital in line with BAAS’s commitment to sustainability.

What more can we do to make UK AmStudies more climate conscious?

Join the informal #GreenBAAS hangout, led by Elsa Devienne and Dr Rebecca Tillett #StillEuropean #Rejoin #BLM, to discuss!

#BAAS2024

EXCL: UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover cost of science minister Michelle Donelan’s libel case - more than double the sum the government previously admitted.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA theguardian.com/education/2024…

Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA theguardian.com/education/2024…

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

We're told pensions are 'unsustainable', the Post Office is 'unsustainable' and now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.

GB News, the right-wing news channel that is owned by a Tory donor and has Tory MPs on its payroll, is being funded by the UK taxpayer 👇

thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/wer…

The number of UK universities announcing redundancies has now reached 49 and will climb much further. You were warned and warned and warned.
qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Oh dear. Add this to the #Brexit border checks that are being introduced, and it looks like food shortages might be on the horizon...

Farmers warn ‘crisis is building’ as record rainfall drastically reduces UK food production theguardian.com/environment/20…

🆘 Costly Brexit import checks on EU fresh produce, set to roll out at the end of the month, will result in less availability and higher prices of fruit & veg.

🆘 This would in turn make it harder for shoppers to access and afford fresh goods, risking public health!…

Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them | Letters theguardian.com/education/2024…

An AI tool that detects beavers' work on the landscape could help fight climate change trib.al/WjOZ2SC

Angela Rayner supposedly dodged £3,500 tax.
The Daily Mail has dodged tens of millions.
Lord Ashcroft at least £120,000,000
Nadhim Zahawi £3,000,000 for 6 years, got caught, no punishment.
We paid Johnson's £265,000 #Partygate legal fees.

There's so much to talk about.

Swansea University cuts 200 jobs amid financial difficulties bbc.in/49rVG3t

My column on the William Wragg spear-phishing scandal

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“He’s 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 bad at politics… On a par with Liz Truss.”

Editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop on PM Rishi Sunak.

Lewis Goodall | Global Player

“Nigel Farage - a prep school boy who went into The City - is a working class hero? Come on.”

Why do we allow the political elite to pose as “outsiders”?

👉 global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/TNANewEpi…

Lewis Goodall | Ian Hislop | Global Player

#ProportionalRepresentation please, The Labour Party Keir Starmer