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Youth unemployment is 16.2%.And the economist who invented the Laffer Curve has just told Andy Burnham why.Arthur Laffer...
07/09/2026

Youth unemployment is 16.2%.

And the economist who invented the Laffer Curve has just told Andy Burnham why.
Arthur Laffer, adviser to Reagan and Thatcher:
“If you tax people who work and you pay people who don’t work, don’t be surprised if you find a lot of people not working.”
He’s in London this week to meet the Prime Minister.
His argument is blunt: stop taxing work so hard, stop making it cheaper to stay on benefits, and create jobs instead of paying people not to work.
Leave young people idle for a year or two, he says, and they become unemployable.
Britain’s tax burden is heading for 38% of GDP — the highest since the Second World War. A raid on the wealthy? Laffer calls that a “disaster”.
“I have never heard of an economy being taxed into prosperity.”
Is he right — or is this just another excuse to cut taxes?

That’s five years of “communications offences” in Britain — tweets, messages, posts, even, campaigners say, watching the...
07/09/2026

That’s five years of “communications offences” in Britain — tweets, messages, posts, even, campaigners say, watching the wrong TikTok.

Big Brother Watch’s new report: only about one in five of those arrested ever get convicted. The rest get the knock at the door, the station, the record — then nothing.
It’s a postcode lottery. Cumbria locked up people at 14 times the rate of some neighbouring forces.
Campaigners admit the law catches real abuse — threats from violent partners, genuine malice. Their charge is that it’s now so wide it chills everything else. Lord Young of the Free Speech Union: that volume of arrests cannot help but freeze speech.
Police and ministers say they’re protecting the public, not policing jokes.

Stopping threats — or turning Britain into the place that arrests you for a post? Have you ever deleted something because you thought the police might see it?

Albrighton, East Shropshire. Green belt. Forty-eight hectares. Public inquiry starts next week.Residents say it’s the wr...
07/09/2026

Albrighton, East Shropshire. Green belt. Forty-eight hectares. Public inquiry starts next week.

Residents say it’s the wrong number in the wrong place — traffic, GP, school, the last bit of countryside bolted onto a historic village.
The developer’s pitch: 280 of those homes would be affordable, plus a care home, land for a secondary school, shops and a new GP surgery. Young people who can’t stay. Older people who need care.
Hovering over all of it: Labour’s 1.5 million homes by 2029 and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner’s planning shake-up. Villages across England think they’re next.

Nimbyism — or a village that actually can’t take 800 more roofs? Should green belt go to hit the housing target? What would you do if this landed on your lane?

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has told the Tories the government is “committed” to handing the Chagos Islands to Mauri...
07/09/2026

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has told the Tories the government is “committed” to handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius — then paying to lease Diego Garcia back.

The numbers opponents keep throwing:
Average £101 million a year for 99 years
Government’s “official” cost: £3.4 billion
Critics: closer to £34–50 billion once you stop using Treasury discount tricks

Donald Trump already called it an “act of great stupidity.” The deal was paused. Streeting’s letter says they’re still doing it — to “protect the base from legal challenge.”
Tory line: Burnham’s Labour has no funded plan to hit 3% of GDP on defence… but it does have a plan to surrender British territory and rent it back.

Pay billions to give away islands we already own — then rent the base? Sovereignty, security, or the worst deal in decades?
Would you scrap it tonight?

Read the small print before you count it.Andy Burnham’s government is stacking several September changes and calling it ...
07/09/2026

Read the small print before you count it.

Andy Burnham’s government is stacking several September changes and calling it up to £9,000 a year for some families:

Branded school uniform capped at 3 items (primary) and 4 (secondary) from 1 September — buy the rest at Tesco, not the official shop
More free breakfast clubs
Expanded free school meals
Full 30 hours funded childcare for eligible parents of kids aged 9 months to school age — that’s the big number, up to about £8,000 per child

Add it together if you qualify for all of it and you’ve got their £9k figure.
It is not a rebate landing in every bank account. No kids + no childcare = you don’t see most of it.

Parents: will this actually hit your pocket this term? Or is it three policies taped together and sold as a windfall?

The target: Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband — who is Jewish, and the son of refugees who fled the N***s.Miliband posted a ...
07/09/2026

The target: Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband — who is Jewish, and the son of refugees who fled the N***s.

Miliband posted a video after meeting people who had been in Gaza. He called what he heard “horrific”: medicines blocked, children dying waiting for treatment. He said the UK must “act more decisively.”
US ambassador Mike Huckabee on X:

“The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their government knows no boundaries and knows no facts.”
Israel’s foreign ministry: those are “stories,” not facts. It says there are no restrictions on medicines entering Gaza, cites 22,500 tons of medical supplies since the ceasefire, and notes Gazans still leaving for treatment.
This lands as London talks about a “reset” with Israel and possible sanctions over West Bank settlements.

Calling out aid conditions — or crossing into something darker? Is Huckabee describing Britain… or just picking a fight?

Scotland’s First Minister was asked — repeatedly — how many posts disappear when territorial boards are slashed from 14 ...
07/09/2026

Scotland’s First Minister was asked — repeatedly — how many posts disappear when territorial boards are slashed from 14 to just east and west.

His answer: he can’t give a “specific figure.”
He has said public sector employment will fall this parliamentary term. He also promised no compulsory redundancies. Reform, he says, is about putting patients first and stopping people travelling further for care.
Unions aren’t buying the fog. Broader public-service reform has already been linked to estimates of 11,000–20,000 job cuts across the public sector. NHS waiting lists are already the longest since devolution.
Same week: fewer than 32 councils is also on the table.

Reform… or cuts with a new organogram? If you work in the NHS or use it — do you trust “no compulsory redundancies”? What actually needs fixing?

Officials told councillors Breckland’s houses-in-multiple-occupation (HMO) asylum places should jump from 56 to 240.That...
07/09/2026

Officials told councillors Breckland’s houses-in-multiple-occupation (HMO) asylum places should jump from 56 to 240.

That’s not a rounding error. It’s more than four times the current number.
This is the same area as Thetford — where crowds targeted homes last month after rumours about who was living there. Two officers ended up in hospital.
A few miles away sits RAF Barnham. The plan there: at least 1,250 single male asylum seekers next to a village of a few hundred.
Labour’s argument: hotels must close, every area takes its “fair share.”

Locals’ argument: a quiet rural district can’t absorb a camp and a fourfold rise in house-shares without services, trust and safety collapsing.

Fair dispersal — or dumping the system on small towns? Would your street take 240 extra HMO beds? Say it straight.

Amberley Thay is a third-year history student at Exeter.She went to Auschwitz at 16 with the Holocaust Educational Trust...
06/09/2026

Amberley Thay is a third-year history student at Exeter.

She went to Auschwitz at 16 with the Holocaust Educational Trust. She still works with them. She posted about that work.
Then the campus found her.
A friend, in a nightclub, called her a baby-killer.

Picking a cup out of the gutter was “a very Jewish thing to do.”

Holocaust education, in some mouths, became “Mossad.”
She is not Jewish. That is the point of the story, and it is also not the point.
If you can be hunted for teaching what happened in the camps, Jewish students on the same campus already know the temperature. Exeter has heard this before. About 80 Jewish students. Many keep it quiet.
This is not a foreign-policy seminar. It is a British university treating memory work as a faction.
The question for Exeter is simple and public:
Is Holocaust education now a risk activity?
Education — or a target on your back?

If that happened to your daughter on a night out… what would you want the university to do by Monday morning?

THE CHIEF EXECUTIVES STILL HAVEN’T SAT DOWN.Reform wants the City.Robert Jenrick is talking red tape, tax and a “fiscal ...
06/09/2026

THE CHIEF EXECUTIVES STILL HAVEN’T SAT DOWN.

Reform wants the City.
Robert Jenrick is talking red tape, tax and a “fiscal rectitude” roadshow — London first, then New York. There’s a tease of a financial-services package: capital rules, ring-fencing, a rewrite of the Britannia Card to lure rich foreigners back.
Lobbyists from the big banks showed up in Birmingham. JPMorgan. Goldman. Citi. BlackRock in the room. Tech firms on the fringe.
The people who actually run those firms mostly stayed away.
That’s the gap.
Farage told Davos he would tax the banks because he doesn’t like them. Jenrick spent conference walking that back. Sources say no tax hikes. The fallback: stop the Bank of England paying commercial banks on their reserves.
Some industry chiefs still can’t get a meeting. Some complain the diary is a mess. And hanging over the whole charm offensive: the donations row, the police review, the wait-and-see.
Reform is still ahead in the polls. Labour lost the “party of business” tag after the last Budget. The Tories want it back. The Square Mile will take the coffee. It will not write the blank cheque until the numbers exist.
Wooed — or just window-shopping?

If you work in the City: would you bet your bonus on Farage?

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