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He decides what Britain is allowed to be angry about. He books the fights, stages the exits, designs the clips, and banks the rage. The ring is his. The fighters bleed. And for thirty years, the country has been watching the wrong man.
His name is not even Piers Morgan. It is Piers Stefan O'Meara. He buried the O'Meara before he was twenty-five, traded a hyphenated stepfather's name for something cleaner on a masthead, and built an identity so complete that the original barely registers. That was the first trick. The man who demands authenticity from every guest who sits across from him began by erasing himself.
Rupert Murdoch made him editor of the News of the World at twenty-nine. Twenty-nine years old in 1994, handed a national newsroom, not because he had earned it but because Murdoch decided he was useful. The outsider died the day that phone call came. Everything since has been the performance of one.
What he did with that chair is the record. And the record is this.
Three weeks into his editorship, his paper identified the person making silent phone calls to Diana's confidant Oliver Hoare as the Princess of Wales. The source was a corrupt Metropolitan Police officer. Morgan was twenty-nine. He ran it. Diana's private distress became a front page, and his career launched on her humiliation. When Harry brought his case against News Group Newspapers thirty years later, Mr Justice Fancourt's 386-page judgment found that unlawful activity had been deliberately concealed across the group's titles. GBP140,600 in damages awarded to the Duke of Sussex in December 2023. News Group Newspapers settled in January 2025 with a full apology, admitting unlawful activity from 1996 to 2011. Morgan was at the heart of those years. He has never fully explained how he missed all of it.
In March 2001, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills were still together. Morgan obtained a voicemail from Mills's phone. Not just obtained it. Played it. In his Daily Mirror newsroom. To staff. In December 2011, sitting at the Leveson Inquiry under oath, he told the panel he had never listened to an illegally obtained voicemail. The record of what he did in 2001 was sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere while he said it. He knew that. The inquiry moved on.
In January 2000, Morgan's City Slickers column tipped Viglen shares. The day before the tip appeared in print, someone purchased GBP67,000 of Viglen stock. His colleagues James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul were convicted. Morgan was not. The financial regulator investigated. The CPS reviewed the file. He walked. He has never provided an explanation that satisfies anyone who has read the dates in sequence.
In 2004, he published photographs purporting to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. The photographs were fabricated. He was sacked. He maintained they were genuine until the day it became impossible to do so. He did not resign. He was removed.
In February 2014, CNN cancelled Piers Morgan Live. His ratings had fallen so badly that local affiliates were requesting to be released from the simulcast. He blamed America's relationship with guns. America blamed Morgan.
Three editorships. Three exits. Not one of them on his own terms. Not one of them clean.
After CNN he returned to Britain and reinvented the business model. He would not report. He would promote. Two people who loathe each other, a studio, a loaded question, and sit back while the clip spreads. The ring is always his. The fighters are always someone else's problem the morning after.
He made Tommy Robinson, a convicted thug and fraudster with a documented criminal record, a fixture on that sofa. He booked Cenk Uygur and watched Cenk combust live on air, then treated the clip as content for a week. When Cenk and Hasan Piker were then banned from entering the UK in June 2026, Morgan publicly attacked the ban. Read that again. The man who spent five years helping to dismantle Meghan Markle for choosing not to live in this country suddenly discovered a principle about the right of American commentators to enter it.
He booked Mehdi Hasan, Bassem Youssef, Glenn Greenwald, and Roger Waters and called it debate. He ran Middle East panels with three voices on one side and one on the other, week after week, and never once explained the arithmetic to his audience. It is not balance. It is booking. A booker curates who gets to speak. A journalist is accountable for what goes unchallenged. Morgan is a booker who calls himself a journalist, which means he gets the credit for every confrontation and none of the accountability for the platform he built around it.
In 2022, he released a promotional trailer for his new show featuring Donald Trump. In the trailer, Trump appeared to walk out. He did not walk out. The footage was deceptively edited. A court found the edit unlawful. The clip had already been viewed millions of times. Morgan moved on.
This is the machine. Manufactured confrontation, engineered virality, tactical outrage, and a clean exit every time accountability arrives at the door.
Now watch who he chose most carefully, because this is where the machine becomes something else entirely.
In June 2016, Piers Morgan met Meghan Markle for dirty martinis at the Scarsdale Tavern in Kensington. She was an actress, not yet a public figure, about to go on a first date with a man she had met online, who turned out to be a prince. Morgan has said the evening went well. What is documented is that she stopped returning his messages within weeks. What followed was a five-year public campaign, dressed as journalism, presented as public interest, that climaxed with Morgan walking off Good Morning Britain in March 2021 after fifty thousand Ofcom complaints in a single morning. He did not leave because he was wrong. He left because the audience had worked out that the woman under investigation was being investigated by the man she had once not texted back.
He named Charles and Kate as the royal racists in November 2023. Not because he had evidence. Because naming them was the biggest available move that week. And the biggest available move is always the Morgan move.
Now read what he did with Israel and Iran, because this is the part that should alarm everyone.
In 2023, Morgan was the confrontational voice. He pushed back on pro-Palestinian guests. He cited the forty beheaded babies claim before the facts were fully established and pushed it hard. He was the man who asked the difficult question. Or he presented himself that way.
By July 2026, John Mearsheimer was sitting across from him and explaining that America cannot win and that Iran has prevailed. Morgan listened. The Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, appeared on the show and called Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal. Morgan did not press him with anything close to the energy he directed at guests in 2023. He called Trump's threats against Iran madness. He used the phrase brazen pre-admission of genocide about American foreign policy. In three years, Morgan had moved from Israel's interrogator to Iran's most comfortable English-language platform. He did not explain the move. He never explains the moves. He just makes them, and waits for the audience to follow.
The man at the centre of this pivot is Professor Mohammad Marandi. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1966. His father Alireza Marandi served as Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician and completed two terms as Iran's Health Minister. Marandi volunteered in the Iran-Iraq war. He served in the IRGC. In 2019, he was photographed in IRGC uniform and posted the photograph himself, publicly, without apology. He is a University of Tehran professor, a named adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiating team under both Rouhani and Raisi, and Iran International has described him as Iran's chief propagandist in English. During the 2019 tanker standoff, he disclosed details of an IRGC seizure before Iranian official channels had confirmed it.
Morgan has called Marandi a government stooge. A propagandist. On air. To his face. And then booked him again. And again after that. Morgan presents the confrontation as rigorous journalism. Here is what it actually achieves: Marandi goes home with a larger international platform, martyr optics for the Iranian domestic audience, and documentary evidence that even hostile Western broadcasters cannot dismiss him. Morgan does not expose Marandi. Morgan launders him. Every booking is the service. Every clip of Morgan being tough is the product Marandi takes home to Tehran.
Now look at who owns the building.
Wake Up Productions Limited, Companies House number 13490132, declared GBP17.1 million in turnover in 2024. Cumulative revenue since launch exceeds GBP50 million. One employee on the books. Morgan holds 94 percent of the equity.
On 9 July 2026, four new directors arrived simultaneously on the Companies House filing. Joseph Ravitch, co-founder of the Raine Group, built by two former Goldman Sachs co-heads of media banking, whose client list includes the Chelsea Football Club takeover, Manchester United, Endeavor, the UFC, and WWE. Gordon Rubenstein. Marc-Andre Zagar, representing Antenna Group, the Kyriakou family media empire, a four-generation Greek shipping dynasty with a World Economic Forum seat and deep Gulf-region connections. And Rashida Jones, former president of MSNBC, CEO of a venture called Uncensored from March 2026.
Also in that boardroom: Elisabeth Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch's daughter. The patriarch who installed Morgan as a national editor at twenty-nine has a daughter on the board of the company Morgan built after Murdoch's own titles were found to have engaged in unlawful activity on Morgan's watch. The family retained a News UK revenue share arrangement in the deal. The Reuben Brothers, David and Simon, Britain's second-richest family in the Sunday Times 2026 list at a combined GBP27.9 billion, with stakes in Newcastle United and Arena Racing Company, are shareholders. Karl Brophy, Morgan's former Mirror colleague, sold his consultancy Red Flag Consulting to Ankura in February 2025 for EUR45 million, taking EUR33 million personally, and holds a seven-figure stake in Wake Up. The company raised USD27 million at a USD145 million valuation.
Goldman alumni. A Murdoch. A Greek shipping dynasty with Gulf connections. Britain's second-richest family. A former MSNBC president. A Mirror veteran worth EUR33 million.
This is what Morgan calls independent journalism.
He is not the man at the edge of power, shouting in. He is the product power decided to back. The investment thesis is clean: Morgan's audience believes he is outside the establishment. That belief is the asset. The boardroom is the establishment. The audience is the return on it.
When TalkTV finally pulled his linear television slot, the audience on that channel had collapsed to nine thousand viewers. Nine thousand. He moved to YouTube, declared it a revolution in independent media, and his new board of Goldman alumni and a Murdoch waved him off from the boardroom they all walked into on the same afternoon in July 2026.
He was never the outsider's champion.
He was always the insider who needed you to believe he wasn't.
THE PROMOTER DOES NOT BLEED. THE FIGHTER DOES. FOR THIRTY YEARS MORGAN HAS BUILT THE RING, BOOKED THE CARDS, BANKED THE RECEIPTS, AND NEVER ONCE STEPPED INTO IT HIMSELF. EVERY CAREER HE HAS ENDED. EVERY LIFE HE HAS DAMAGED. EVERY PIVOT HE HAS MADE WITHOUT EXPLANATION. EVERY PLATFORM HE HAS HANDED TO A MAN IN AN IRGC UNIFORM. EVERY VOICEMAIL HE HAS DENIED UNDER OATH. EVERY PHOTOGRAPH HE HAS FABRICATED. EVERY DIRTY MARTINI HE HAS WEAPONISED. THE RING IS STILL HIS. THE BLOOD IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S. THAT IS THE WHOLE CAREER. THAT IS THE WHOLE MAN.
Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in.
Rachel Reeves. Sacked in July, offered a job, turned it down, and off to the backbenches in a huff. Now back on the timeline, five months later, with the only news she has left.
A Christmas card competition.
You told the country you were an economist at the Bank of England. You were in the complaints department. You told us it was the best part of a decade. It was five years, and you could not keep the dates straight on your own CV.
Then off you went to HBOS, the bank that had to be rescued, and from there you were handed the finances of the United Kingdom. And you gave it away.
The biggest tax rise in a generation, and you spent it anyway. Then Burnham arrived, and you were sacked.
So now the woman who ran the Exchequer is asking a primary school to design her a card. Lovely. But it is a long walk from the Treasury to the school hall, and you know it.
What next, Rachel. The staff canteen.
Christian retweeted
If this doesn't make your blood boil, you're an utter retard. We need mass deportations. I'm not talking about these guilty shits, I want to prevent ruined lives, not punish guilty perpetrators. PS I don't care what countries they came from or what they'll do to them. Get gone.
🚨 7 DAYS IN THE UK: 110 reports involving 166 migrants or minorities between 15 and 22 October 2026
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|- CHARGED
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|- WANTED
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|- ARRESTED
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|- OTHER
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15/10: Former Met Police officer, Sijanta Thapa, has been jailed for 21 months after sexually assaulting a female colleague while she slept following a drinks party
16/10: Illya Priddy has been jailed for 5 months in Staffordshire after smoking inside a public building before being apprehended by two police officers who subsequently found a non-legal lock-knife in his bag
16/10: Reving Abdullah, of Longton in Stoke-on-Trent, has been handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 2 years, after taking a large knife to a doctor's surgery
16/10: Ahmed Ouerfelli has been handed a 12-month SUSPENDED sentence after he went to a pub in Braintree, armed with a Samurai sword to settle a dispute about paedophile allegations
16/10: Zakaria Majeed has avoided jail after being caught on camera hitting a young child
16/10: Ali Mirzai, 31, jailed for 28 days alongside a 4-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) after admitting a series of shoplifting offences across Kent
16/10: Hamza Mohammed, 30, jailed for 3 years 3 months after defrauding 2 elderly women in their 80s of £5,222 in High Wycombe and Oxford
16/10: Karol Wieczorkowski, 21, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for only 2 years 6 months after being caught dealing cocaine and cannabis in Milton Keynes, shortly after being released from prison for earlier offences
16/10: Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, has been jailed for 20 years after travelling to Britain to carry out a contract killing for an Iran-backed organised crime gang
16/10: Muhammad Haarith, 23, has been convicted of murdering Matthew Weller, 44, after running him over and dragging him beneath his car before fleeing the scene in Accrington
16/10: Idris Sheikh, a former Bradford care worker, jailed for only 20 months after sexually abusing a vulnerable patient while on the job
16/10: TWO drug dealers jailed after police seized 241 bags of cocaine worth £9,500 as well as more than £11,900 in cash. Mikele Bilali, was jailed for 1 year 10 months and Ervin Hasa for 3 years in Stoke
16/10: THREE people have been jailed after a knifepoint robbery of a man for his luxury watch. Younes Djoudi, Ali Eldahouzze and Abdel El Habchi were jailed for 5.9 years, 5.6 years and 3.6 years in London
16/10: ELEVEN men jailed for a combined 96 years 9 months for their roles in a large-scale cocaine supply and money laundering network operating out of Nottingham
16/10: THREE men jailed after breaking into a man’s home in Bristol, assaulting him and threatening him in a failed attempt to steal a large amount of cryptocurrency. Mohamed Samagassi, Pierre Madzou and Terroll Paul forced their way into the victim’s home in the early hours of 15 May 2026
16/10: Khawaja Hussain, 26, a former worker at a Halal Abattoir in Arley, Warwickshire, has admitted animal cruelty after forcing a sheep against a door and walking on its back
16/10: Azeem Mohammed, jailed for 10 years after defrauding 8 elderly victims between the ages of 77 and 89. He ran a sophisticated banking scam that raked in almost £1.2MILLION, later admitting 8 fraud charges at the High Court in Glasgow
16/10: Mujeeb Rahman Hassani has been given an indefinite hospital order after stabbing a 64-year-old to death in his own home in Cardiff
16/10: Keas Ali, 21, has avoided prison after being convicted of 4 counts of sexually assaulting 2 teenage girls in Cardiff
16/10: Muddasier Hussain, of Oldham, has admitted sexually assaulting a young girl on a bus as well as a woman outside a shop in Scotland
16/10: Image released of Ali Khalid, 33, who operated the ‘Huz’ drug line, supplying crack cocaine and heroin across Dudley. He will be sentenced later this year
16/10: Samuel Csiszar, 23, has been jailed for 22 months after coercing a vulnerable woman into prostitution for his own financial gain. Bradford Crown Court heard that Csiszar, of no fixed abode, controlled the woman's movements, prevented her from seeing friends, took her money to buy drugs and forced her to sell personal belongings, including her phone
19/10: Hassan Khan, 22, has been sentenced to 3 years 2 months at Burnley Crown Court after being caught twice with heroin and crack cocaine alongside just under £1000 in cash
19/10: David Campbell, 37, jailed for 4 years 8 months after driving under the influence of cocaine and hitting a 13-year-old girl in Northfield. The girl was pinned against railings and suffered life-threatening injuries, including a brain bleed, depressed skull fracture and fractured spine
19/10: Bilal Muhammed-Rahmatullah, 61, who has 22 previous convictions for 32 offences, has admitted breaching sex offender registration requirements after failing to notify police of a change of address within 3 days in Birmingham
19/10: Mohammed Zeeshan Sadiq, 20, of Solihull, faces imprisonment after being caught carrying a 12-inch zombie knife and a 7-inch blade near Babbs Mill Park on 27 August
19/10: Alexandre Alberto Santana Da Silva, 49, jailed for two years for Class A drug supply offences in Sudbury. Allegedly, he will face immediate deportation after serving his prison sentence
19/10: Ahmad El Abd, 28, jailed for 5 years 4 months after stabbing a man in his 40s in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He admitted wounding with intent and possessing a knife in public
19/10: Polish national, Tadeusz Podlasinski, will be sentenced on the 3rd of December after attempting to rape and threatening to kill a woman near an M1 service area in Leicester
19/10: Monzurul Haque has been sentenced in absence to 32 months in prison after being convicted of attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex following online grooming. It is believed he fled to Bangladesh before his trial
19/10: Moatz Elkomsi, 23, of no fixed abode, jailed for 3 years 2 months after officers seized over £100k worth of drugs in Manchester. GMP discovered cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and cannabis hidden in two rucksacks beneath the boot floor of an Audi in Heald Grove
19/10: Mohamed Mohamoud, 22, a Somali-born security guard in Bristol, has been jailed for 12 years after travelling to Somalia in an attempt to join Islamic State (Daesh)
19/10: Daniel Kaminski, 33, jailed for 2 years after sexually assaulting a woman who was too intoxicated to consent. Kaminski, described as a "Polish-speaking man from Dundee", was accused of digitally penetrating the woman at a flat despite being warned by a witness that she was too drunk
19/10: Arjun Nijjar "of Sutton Coldfield" has been jailed for 8 years and 6 months after killing pedestrian Douglas Draper while driving his Mercedes C63 AMG at approximately 83mph in a 30mph zone
20/10: Mohammed Hayaat Khan, 18, sentenced to 4.5 years detention in a young offender institution after being caught with a prohibited revolver, live ammunition, heroin and crack cocaine in Bradford
20/10: Mohammed Tasadiq Khan, a mastermind behind a massive drug operation across England, has been jailed alongside his illicit accountant, Razwan Arif. Khan was jailed for 16 years, and Arif for 9 years 6 months
20/10: Abid Ashraf and Amir Shah have been jailed for 5.7 years and 4 years for heroin and cocaine supply in Nelson
20/10: Amar Manzoor, has been jailed for 22 years following a campaign of rape, violence, stalking and controlling behaviour against 3 different women between 2018 and 2025. He was convicted of 12 offences in total including rape, strangulation, stalking, perverting course of justice and others
20/10: Hayadulla Turkmani, 53, of Hornchurch, has been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving after running over a passenger moments after dropping him off at his home in Langdon Hills, Basildon
20/10: Three men have been sentenced to a combined 20+ years after they abducted a student before driving her to an isolated location, gang raping her and then abandoning her. They also filmed the sex attack. The men are Arjan Purewal, Jaskaran Thandi and Hassan Jangheer
20/10: Goodness Sokoh, 35, jailed for 21 years following 10 child sexual offences including rape and sexual assault against multiple teenage girls in Buckinghamshire. He groomed them on social media and promised them vapes and cannabis. He raped them instead
20/10: Theo Gottshalk, jailed for 13 years after being charged with 3 robberies as well as knife & gun offences, drug possession with intent to supply, and threatening to chop a teenager's arm off during a mobile phone theft in Nottingham
20/10: Faiser Hussain, 44, has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in connection with the fatal shooting of another man in Sheffield two decades ago in 2006
20/10: Corinthian Brown has received a 2.5 year SUSPENDED sentence for supplying heroin and crack cocaine across North East Derbyshire
21/10: Yusuf Shah, 18, from East London, jailed for 4 years 4 months following terrorism offences. He collected Al-Qaeda bomb-making and weapon manuals, advised terrorists how to avoid detection while making cryptocurrency payments, and even produced a cybersecurity guide for the terrorist group Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP)
21/10: Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, have each been jailed for only 6 years after defrauding the NHS of £1.3 million through fake prescriptions for expensive medicines, including cancer treatments. This occurred via the Wise Pharmacy in Edmonton, North London
21/10: Omet Fazily, 26, and Hanif Walizada, 21, have been sentenced after supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Cheshire as part of an Afghan controlled drug line
21/10: Former Scotland police officer, Dilexan Aloysious, has been jailed for 12 months after being caught drug dealing in Glasgow and Lanarkshire. Aloysious, 32, was stopped by police 3 times between January and July 2025, with officers recovering cocaine worth £5,960, cannabis worth £3,040 and 83%-pure crack cocaine worth £11,200
21/10: Moroccan national, Mohammed Benradi, has been jailed for 8 years 6 months after raping a woman at a property in Toxteth, Liverpool. He followed the grandmother home before raping her after waiting until she slept
21/10: Eritrean convicted rapist, Mebrahtom Abrha, has been jailed for 6 months after failing to disclose two bank accounts to police, breaching his sex offender requirements
21/10: Fabian Pawlowski, of Banstead, has been jailed for 4.6 years after robbing 3 young men of their mobile phones on the London Underground. He carried out the robberies on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines, using violence and knives to intimidate his victims
21/10: Txomin Huare-Place was already serving 6 years for watch robbery and has now been sentenced to another 2.9 years for his involvement in a £65k watch robbery in Mayfair. His accomplice, Ahmed Djidi, was also jailed for 22 months for his involvement in the ripping of the Patek watch
21/10: Amin Belechguer, most likely from Morocco, has been jailed for 4 years after pulling in front of a blue-lighting police car which was responding to a call. He taunted them into a high-speed chase before his bike was disabled by a stinger. Police then discovered large amounts of footage on his devices showing him riding at almost 200mph and dangerous driving across London, Kent and Essex
21/10: Footballer Ali Abboud, from Perth, has avoided jail after sexually assaulting a 65-year-old man on a train in Scotland
21/10: Mousa Alsharki, 49, a Syrian refugee living in Cardiff, has been jailed for 17 years for raping a woman twice and attempting to pervert the course of justice
21/10: Dilshaw Omar Kawani, 53, a vape shop manager in Poole, Dorset, has been jailed for 8 years for sexually exploiting teenage girls by offering them free vapes and then sexually assaulting them
22/10: Sami Aharroud, "of Splott" in Cardiff, whose name has Moroccan origins, has been jailed for 10 years for a rape committed 20+ years ago
22/10: Three Romanian migrants have been jailed for a combined 13+ years after stealing more than £40k from vulnerable and elderly victims across England. They are Ionut Matei, Vasile Ciubotaru and Ramonel Mandache
22/10: Patryk Medrala, likely of Polish descent, has been jailed 3.6 years for throwing his friend from a moving car after a night out in Alwalton. This caused injuries including a broken jaw. Medrala sped off and failed to stop for police, who deployed a stinger
22/10: Oumar "Omizz" Traore, apparently aged 17, is due for sentencing today after stabbing another teenager to death in a postcode gang battle. Traore was part of the B20 gang of Handsworth
22/10: Rasharn Francis has been jailed for 5 years 7 months for supplying heroin and cocaine in High Wycombe between November 2025 and February 2026
22/10: Faisal Razzaq has been jailed for life for his central role in a London firearm network. He was also once jailed for the manslaughter of a police officer in the 2000. An accomplice, Abdul Rahman Sale, was also one of the total five sentenced in this case, receiving 7 years 6 months
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⏳ CHARGED
(awaiting trial)
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16/10: London MET Officer, Harman Singh, charged with Attempted rape, 3 counts of sexual assault and Intentional strangulation
16/10: Warqaas Parvez has appeared in court accused of NINE counts of rape alleged between 2024 and 2026. After pleading not guilty, he's been granted UNCONDITIONAL bail ahead of his next appearance at Leeds Crown Court
16/10: Hasan Sharif, 26, has denied a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep at a Halal Abattoir in Arley, Warwickshire, but is due to appear at Coventry Magistrates' Court next April
19/10: Polish national, Boguslaw Walczyk, 45, charged with the murder of a father-of-three who was found dead at The Foyer on Stoke Road
20/10: Muja Ervin, 21, has been charged with drug supply, money laundering-related and driving offences following a police pursuit in Rugeley, Staffordshire
21/10: Abdisamad Siad has been charged with assaulting 3 Jewish women in Hackney, London. He also faces a separate charge of GBH in connection with a an attack on 4th woman believed to be known to him in Islington
21/10: "Derby man" Sindiso Sibanda, likely of Zimbabwean descent, has been charged with GBH after a police officer was hospitalised during a pursuit in Derby. Additional charges relate to motorcycle theft and 4 motoring offences including driving without licence or insurance
21/10: Two people charged by West Mids Police after a man was stabbed on a bus in Birmingham City Centre on 13 October
22/10: Mohammed Akram, 49, has been charged with 15 offences following a child sexual exploitation investigation in Bolton. Charges include 5x child abduction, 5z arranging travel for exploitation, 4x sexual assault, 1x sexual activity with child and 1x possession with intent to supply
22/10: Two men, likely of Turkish and Vietnamese origin, have been charged and remanded in custody following the discovery of a cannabis cultivation operation in Hereford. Cihan Oral, of London, and Loi Ha, of no fixed abode, are due to appear today in Kidderminster Magistrates Court
22/10: Three people have been charged in Sheffield relating to supply of Heroin and Cocaine. The youngest charged, being 16, also has charges relating to blackmail and intimidation with an imitation firearm. The charged include Mohammed Ahmed and Bilal Shah, both of Sheffield. The boy, 16, cannot be named due to age
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👮♂️ ARRESTED
(not yet charged)
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16/10: 7 PEOPLE have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in Bradford. It's believed they are assisting 2 convicted child rapists who absconded during their trials
20/10: Thames Valley Police were previously looking for 4 people after two 14-year-old girls were taken to a secluded area in Oxford before being raped and sexually assaulted. 3 have been arrested; 2 were bailed pending further investigation, another was released without suspicion, meanwhile the fourth still hasn’t been apprehended
22/10: Staffordshire Police have arrested someone described as "a black man wearing all black aside from beige trousers". While wielding a machete, he attempted to stop a car on Pinfold Avenue in Norton
22/10: Two men arrested and detained by Thames Valley Police under suspicion of the rape and attempted rape of two women in Milton Keynes
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🔎 WANTED
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17/10: West Midlands Police are seeking a cultured gentleman who spat on a teenage girl twice before trying to steal her bag on the Walsall-936 bus
18/10: West Midlands police added three men to their most wanted list: Haben Fustom, Ceejay Williams and Farhad Khoram
19/10: West Midlands Police seek to identify three men after they attacked a man at a Soho service station in Birmingham before stealing his keys
19/10: Crimestoppers are offering £7500 reward for the whereabouts of Emmanuel Sakyi, 31, of Milton Keynes. In absence, he's been sentenced to 15 years in prison for causing the death of his 7-month-old daughter, Emmanuela, in a drink-driving crash. He is currently on the run
19/10: Thames Valley Police have released an e-fit after a woman reported being followed by a black or mixed race man who approached her asking for directions. He then grabbed her wrist and forced her hand against his groin. This happened on Gallys Road in Windsor
19/10: Police are appealing to identify a man after a woman was punched in the face and a man was slashed with a knife on Bristol Bridge. The suspect is described as a cubby 5-foot-8 black man in his 20s, with "afro-style hair and beaded braids"
19/10: Sussex police are hunting this trio of Tanned Europeans after a newlywed couple had around £500 worth of honeymoon clothes stolen from their apartment building in Hove
20/10: Police in Bristol would like to speak to a lady of high class after a bus driver in his 50s was assaulted at Bristol Bus Station off Marlborough Street. The attack led to minor hospital treatment
20/10: Police in Dover want to speak to a tanned European man after he approached a father with a prammed baby. He then made a comment about the child before trying to pull the pushchair away from the father on Pencester Road
20/10: Met Police are looking for a Tanned European man caught on CCTV after A woman in her early 20s was dragged into a building entrance on Church Road in Islington. She was assaulted and subjected to an attempted rape. Two members of the public intervened after hearing her cries for help. The alleged suspect then fled towards Angel
20/10: Police are appealing for help locating Emmanuel Osinaike, 27, from Falmouth, who is wanted in connection with a breach of court bail. He's also known as Tyrone or Ty, and sometimes wears a headwrap scarf. Links to Falmouth, Truro & St Austell in Cornwall
20/10: Northamptonshire Police have released CCTV of a man following a theft in St Crispin’s Close, Burton Latimer. The incident happened on Thursday, October 15, at about 7.50am, when a lawnmower and handheld jigsaw was stolen
20/10: Transport Police released an image of a man in after reports that he sat next to a woman on a train between Birmingham and Derby, before repeatedly commenting on her appearance and then sexually assaulted her. He got off at Derby station
20/10: Northamptonshire Police are seeking the location of Andre Da Silva, 31, who is wanted following allegations of assault in the Corby area
20/10: Reports have been received that 4 black men robbed another man of two Rolex watches outside Costa Coffee in Queensway, Bletchley, at around 5pm on Tuesday, 13 October. One of them threatened him with a blade during the theft
20/10: West Midlands Police are hunting a man in Dudley after a teenage girl reported being sexually assaulted on the X21 bus which was moving through Draycott Drive at the time of the attack
21/10: Hampshire Police are looking for two "tanned women" and one "Asian man" after £1,460 worth of items were stolen from Next at Solent Retail Park in Havant
21/10: Transport Police are looking to identify a middle-eastern-looking man after a number of high-value luggage thefts have been reported on trains travelling in and out of London. After one incident, the man got off at Peterborough on 8th July with over £30,000 worth of goods
21/10: West Midlands Police are looking for a darker man after he chased another man onto a bus before stabbing him in Birmingham city centre on 13 October
21/10: North Yorks Police are appealing for witnesses after a Romanian man allegedly assaulted a woman following an argument on a bus travelling from Scarborough to Eastfield
22/10: Gwent Police are looking for Dwayne Zungunde who has been recalled to prison after breaching his licence conditions. Links to Newport and Torfaen
22/10: Hampshire Police want to speak to a man after he was reportedly seen on a bus from Andover to Winchester touching himself inappropriately, viewing indecent images and videos, and purposely positioning his phone so other passengers could see the content
22/10: hames Valley Police are looking for Feisal Saleh who failed to return to HMP Springhill, which is an open prison in Buckinghamshire. He was released on temporary bail but did not return - surprise. Links to Milton Keynes and Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
22/10: British Transport Police have released an image of a man following the theft of a suitcase worth nearly £1,500, including its contents, from a train in North Yorkshire. The suspect then got off the train at Northallerton railway station
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16/10: Mohammed Amaaz has had an appeal to reduce his prison sentence rejected after battering a police woman in Manchester Airport
16/10: Taliban fighter, Munir Farooqi, has died in HMP Frankland in Durham while serving 4 life sentences for terrorism offences. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has launched an investigation into his death
19/10: Convicted ISIS terrorist, Mohammed Yaseen, was spotted shopping at a Co-op in Windsor
20/10: Valdo Calocane, 35, the Nottingham triple killer, is among approximately 2,500 convicted criminals in secure psychiatric hospitals who have been receiving up to £800 per month in state benefits while serving sentences
20/10: Ilia Belov and his sister have announced they plan to appeal their sentences despite receiving no jail time after assaulting and speaking sexually to a 12-year-old girl in Dundee, Scotland. They wish to appeal being given community orders
22/10: Locals have claimed a migrant man has been loitering and harassing women in Hebburn New Town. When told "NO" he allegedly continues to follow them around the town centre
22/10: A judge has discharged the jury in the trial of 5 men accused of a brutal machete attack in Bradford following allegations of jury tampering. The suspects are Mohammed Waqqas Khan, Rahees Khan, Hanzalah Saladin, Adam Takolia, fifth man who cannot be named
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21/10: A 26-year-old "illegal visitor" has been deported for a second time after dangerously cutting in front of an unmarked police car in Nottingham. Officers stopped him on 24 SEPT before discovering he'd already been deported once in June 2026
"Prevention works." And one million Londoners "reached". Two soft numbers and a slogan.
Here is the trick, Sadiq. You have found the single line that is running your way and you are standing on it. Young people admitted to hospital after a knife attack, down 55 per cent. Genuine. Well done.
Now the rest. Knife crime overall, up 38 per cent since you took office. Shoplifting, doubled. Robberies of businesses, up almost 200 per cent. Phone thefts at record levels. Violence against the person, up. And "reached" is not a measurement, it is a handshake.
So no, you have not turned the tide. You have found the one number that is going your way and built a press release on it. Even the photograph is years old.
Cherry picking is not prevention. And the tide does not read your press office.
We're turning the tide on violence.
When I launched my Violence Reduction Unit, it was built on a simple belief: prevention works.
One million Londoners reached later, the results speak for themselves.
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A year as Deputy Leader, Lucy, and your message about what Labour actually stands for arrives with a photograph of Nigel Farage bolted to the bottom of it.
Read that back. You set out to define your own party, and the picture you reach for is your opponent. Even your own post knows who is setting the terms.
"Boldly, confidently, authentically Labour." Three adverbs and a badge. Meanwhile the fight is with Reform, and Reform picked the ground.
And "whose side we are on" is the giveaway. A party that has to keep reminding you which side it is on is a party that is no longer sure.
A year in. The megaphone is back. And it is still pointed at Farage.
It’s been an honour to serve as your Deputy Leader for the past year.
I promised to take back the political megaphone and set out a clear message about what we stand for and whose side we are on.
That’s exactly what we’re doing: being boldly, confidently, authentically Labour.
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Ah, Angela. Bless.
"The Tories committed an act of vandalism to Britain's economy." Quite so, dear. They did. And it is a lovely thing to say, right up until you remember the keys have been in your hand for two years and three months.
Inflation. Tax. Borrowing. Gilt yields. Mortgage rates. Energy bills. Every one of them worse than the summer you took office. Yet the villain remains a man in a blue tie who left the building in 2024. One does admire the stamina.
And you, of all people. You resigned over your own tax affairs, sat quietly on the backbenches for ten months, then walked straight back into the very same office. The woman who could not balance her own books now lectures the nation on its.
As for "spreading money and power out of Westminster, into every postcode". Lovely sentence. It is not a plan. It is a slogan with a map.
And while we are at it. Every postcode, is it. Or every mosque. Because the last time your seat looked tight, you were caught on camera cap in hand, begging the Muslim boys for a vote, promising them Palestine, thanking a room of men for getting you over the line. Barely a woman in the room, and you did not blink.
So no, Angela. It is not a coalition. It is a shopping list, and you are still out there adding to it.
Two years. The vandals went home long ago. The house is still a wreck. And the decorator keeps insisting she was never even there.
Not for much longer, one suspects.
So, Piers darling.
Quite a little gallery of interested parties we have assembled here, all rather keen to hear your learned reply. The princess you launched your career on. The voicemail you swore you never played. The shares you walked away from. The photographs you fabricated. The duchess you investigated for the crime of not texting you back. The boardroom of Goldman men and a Murdoch. And the professor in an IRGC uniform you keep booking, then calling a stooge.
Or do you intend to maintain your customary stately silence?
One rather suspects you will do as so many in your firmament do, once they are finally exposed for what they truly are. Reach quietly for the off switch on the comments. Or, in a fit of uncharacteristic courage, opt for the cowardly block.
You rather beat us to that last one, did you not.
Still. The floor is yours, Ringmaster. The people of the United Kingdom, whom you have spent so many years instructing on the precise limits of their permissible thoughts, await your learned correction.
Chop chop.
In December 2011 a man sat in front of a public inquiry, under oath, and told a story that proved his own paper had been inside somebody else's phone. Then he denied it.
His name was Piers Morgan.
He was giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry by video link from Los Angeles. Robert Jay QC was questioning him. Lord Justice Leveson was listening.
Morgan told them about a voicemail. Paul McCartney, still married to Heather Mills at the time, had left a message on her mobile. Morgan called it heart breaking. McCartney begging his wife to come home, then singing We Can Work It Out down the answerphone.
He had heard it. He admitted that.
Then Jay asked the only question that mattered. Who played it to you.
Morgan would not say. He refused to name his source. He refused to say where he was. He refused to say when.
So Leveson made the point for him. The only people lawfully entitled to listen to that message were Heather Mills, or somebody authorised on her behalf. Nobody else.
If Morgan heard it, and Mills did not play it to him, then somebody had been inside her phone.
Days later Heather Mills issued a statement. I can categorically state that I have never ever played Piers Morgan a tape of any kind, never mind a voice message from my ex-husband.
There it is. The message left her phone without her knowing and arrived in the ear of a newspaper editor in 2001. That is what phone hacking was. That is the whole thing. One voicemail, one editor, one question he would not answer.
And what did he tell the inquiry about hacking at his own paper.
I don't believe so. To the best of my recollection, I do not believe so.
In August of that year he had gone further. I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone.
Now hold the dates. Five years before Leveson, in 2006, Morgan wrote a column describing that voicemail in detail. He knew what he had heard and he knew how strange it was. It was in his own handwriting half a decade earlier. And still he sat in front of a public inquiry and said he could not say who had given it to him.
He also called the suggestion he had listened to Ulrika Jonsson's voicemails to break her affair with Sven Goran Eriksson absolute nonsense. Asked whether he had once advised her to change the PIN code on her phone, he said he did not remember the specifics.
The PIN code is the entire mechanism. If it is not changed, anyone can dial in and hear your messages. Morgan explained that himself in GQ in 2006. He understood exactly how it worked. He just would not admit it had been done at his paper.
This is the trick, and he has never stopped using it. He never denies anything outright. He says to the best of my recollection. He says absolute nonsense and then admits he cannot remember. He keeps just enough distance from the fact to survive it, and then he moves on before anyone closes the gap.
He never explained how that McCartney message got out of Heather Mills's phone. He never had to. The inquiry moved on. Nobody made him.
And when reality gets too close now, he does the same thing in a different form. He blocks it. He blocked this account. So this account can read every word he writes and reply to none of it. He cannot see this post unless somebody sends it to him.
And the post he keeps pinned to the top of his own profile, the first thing every visitor sees, is a clip of him telling Cristiano Ronaldo he has good abdominals. September 2019. Still there. One hundred and forty thousand likes.
Eight point nine million followers. A bio that reads Media and News Company. And the masterpiece at the top of the page is a seven year old joke about a footballer's stomach.
He is dodging it the way he dodged Leveson. The facts arrive anyway.
THE VOICEMAIL LEFT HER PHONE. SHE NEVER PLAYED IT TO HIM. HE NEVER SAID WHO DID. AND HE HAS NEVER PAID A PRICE FOR KNOWING.
Sources.
Heather Mills denies playing Morgan the voicemail, Guardian
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Leveson Inquiry, Morgan's evidence called into question, Telegraph
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Heather Mills hits back at Morgan in the voicemail row, Independent
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"The Iran war is driving up bills for families in Britain. That's why we're redoubling our efforts to find diplomatic solutions to the conflict."
Ed Miliband, today, from a group photo in Istanbul. Eight foreign ministers, the first ever gathering of the two clubs. This is the diplomacy.
In March, America told us how to soften the blow. Trump, on the country that "refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran": "Build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT."
Hegseth, same day: "Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well."
Britain's reply. Call the war illegal. Let America bomb Iran from our bases anyway. Promise a minesweeper that waits for a peace deal.
Trump's verdict on the refusal: "not Winston Churchill".
And Burnham is no different. New face, same dither.
Eight men in Istanbul, eight months late. We had the ships, the Strait, and the invitation. We chose to sit it out. Now the bill arrives, and Miliband blames the war.
He was the Energy Secretary.
There's a good lad.
A man is standing in a primary school with a bowl of porridge, telling you the government paid for it. He was sacked three months ago.
"Government funding," says Darren Jones, as if the government has a wallet of its own. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He knows there is only your money, taken out of your pay and handed back in smaller pieces than it went out.
And he has spent all summer proving the state is broke. Within hours of being sacked in July, for being too close to the last Prime Minister, he was on social media calling the new one's £850m VAT cut "unfunded". Where is the money coming from, he asked. Now he is in a school, calling a bowl of porridge government funded.
And the scheme is not keeping up. The manifesto promised free breakfast clubs for every primary child. So far, 750 schools, then 2,000 more. There are around 16,700 primaries in England. The pledge is £315m. The estimate to do it properly is over £500m. Schools have already started dropping out over the shortfall.
So a sacked minister, three months into the back benches, five days before a Budget he has no part in, is holding up a bowl of porridge as proof that the state works.
And the school has changed its name. Once Avon Primary, now Nova. That is the country in one sentence. A rebrand, a smaller bowl, and a Treasury man calling it a gift.
Government funding, he calls it. He knows better than anyone. It is your money, and it is coming back in a smaller bowl.
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Below is a video of Sam Beckman who spat at and showed the finger to a statue of the murdered MP Sir David Amess.
The pro-Palestinian lives in Westcliff-On-Sea in Essex, let's make him famous.
Dr Jeevun Sandher says "we" taxed the oil and gas giants to make you better off. He did not.
Rishi Sunak did, on 26 May 2022, at 25%. He called it temporary. Sandher's party raised it to 38% and extended it to 2030. Eight years for a one off.
It is now a 78% headline rate on North Sea profits. Since Labour took office the North Sea has shed 25,000 jobs. The Economist ran the headline in January: the collapse of Britain's oil and gas industry.
And it made families better off? Bills rose 4% on 1 October, to a three year high. And from late 2027 the levy is forecast to raise nothing at all, because profits have fallen so far there is nothing left to tax.
So he is taxing a corpse and calling it a windfall.
Dr Sandher is an economist. Trained by the Soros backed NEON, once head of economics at the New Economics Foundation. A think tank life from start to finish.
And then his warning. Reform and the Conservatives would cut taxes on oil and gas giants. The Conservatives wrote the tax. So he is attacking the Tories for cutting their own tax, and Reform for getting there first.
He says "we". It was a Tory tax. It is 78%. It has cost 25,000 jobs. It raises nothing from next year.
We is the only word in that post he got to choose.
Richard Corbett has found a principle.
Eighteen years an MEP. Four more advising the President of the European Council. Twenty two years inside the machine, never once elected by a British seat. Now, at seventy one, a Rejoiner with a view on democracy.
He was answering Nile Gardiner, who says the British people had their say ten years ago. Corbett says a country that cannot change its mind is not a democracy.
He should know. He wrote the textbook. Not a figure of speech, he is the co-author of the actual book, nine editions of it, on how the European Parliament works.
And that institution has a method for changing a country's mind. Ireland, 2001, then again in 2002. Denmark, 1992, then again in 1993. Ireland, 2008, then again in 2009. Vote, lose, vote again, pass.
That is not a nation changing its mind. That is a schoolmaster handing back the paper until it is right.
So ask again, by all means. Ten years gone and the poll still wobbles. The others only needed a year between attempts.
Hush. There will be no further blow. To strike you now would be to admit you still mattered. We shall simply walk over the heap you have made of yourself, smooth the wrist, and keep time with the march.
Britain does not kneel to ask a rodent if it is ready.
Flashback to Boxpark in London.
When anyone - ANYONE - starts acting aggressively and threatening your life or the safety of those around you, this is exactly the response they should get.
No excuses.
No “there was no need”.
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The Home Secretary has read the internet and she is not impressed.
"Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control," says Shabana Mahmood. Chatter. That is you. And her facts, she says, come from a Substack. A columnist's blog, dressed up as the record.
Then the selection. Four numbers down. Violence lowest since 1981. Robbery at a record low. Crime down 78% since 1995. Knife crime down 11%.
Now the ones she skipped. Rape, 74,700 last year and rising. Sexual offences up. Domestic abuse up. Business robbery up by two thirds. Fraud up. Cybercrime up. Hate crime up.
And here is why the falling ones fall. Seven crimes in a hundred end in a charge. Under three rapes in a hundred do. 74,700 rapes and barely 2,000 charges. So the numbers drop because nobody is caught. You cannot hide a body. Everything else is a form and a survey of people remembering.
The credit claim is the giveaway. 1995 was John Major. 1981 was Thatcher. She has claimed the uniparty's entire record on behalf of a party two years in the job.
And her own flagship, the grooming gangs inquiry, was announced last December and does not sit until 31 March. The scandal broke in 2011. Fifteen years to reach the start line, and a £100m pot for the men who did it.
She calls it chatter. 74,700 rapes and 97 in a hundred ending with nobody charged. The chatter was right, Home Secretary. Start listening to it.
Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control.
The facts tell a different story.
As @frasernelson has shown in his Substack today:
Violence is at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1981.
Robbery is at a record low.
Crime, excluding fraud, is 78% down on its peak in 1995.
And the stats show this Government is delivering on its promises too:
Knife crime is down 11%.
Knife murders are at their lowest level in 35 years.
Thefts including phone snatching have fallen by 20% in the last year alone.
But I know there is more that we must do, and we will:
We’ve put more than 3,800 extra neighbourhood officers into roles, with named, contactable officers for every neighbourhood.
We’re introducing the most significant reforms to policing in a generation.
We are tackling rising rates of violence against women and girls through our landmark strategy.
And we are tackling crimes like fraud, more prevalent in our increasingly online world, with £250 million directed to this challenge in our Fraud Strategy published this year.
You quoted the same ONS release. Here is the rest of it, Home Secretary.
Headline crime, the survey: 9.6 million incidents. No statistically significant change.
Rape: 74,727, up 4%.
Sexual offences: 217,567, up 4%.
Robbery: up 10%, to 87,362.
Robbery of businesses: up 91%.
Fraud: 4.48 million, up 8%. Victims up 10%, to 3.8 million.
Computer misuse: 798,000, up 15%.
Harassment: 10% of adults, up from 8.3%.
Anti-social behaviour: 40.9%, up from 35.5%.
Other household theft: up 21%.
Criminal damage: up 6%.
Then the outcomes. 7.3% of all crime ends in a charge. 2.8% of rapes. 13% of knife offences.
ONS, year ending March 2026.
Sarah Jones is the Policing Minister. She has news for you.
Fatal knife attacks are at a 35 year low, she says. That one holds up. A body is hard to hide and even this lot can count a body.
Pickpocketing and phone snatching are down 20%, she says. That one is police recorded. The Crime Survey, the one that asks you instead of the police, shows theft flat. No significant change. Your phone still goes. You have just stopped reporting it.
And when you do report it? About 1% of phone snatches end in a charge. In London it is 0.3%. 95% are closed with nobody ever identified. Across all crime, seven offences in a hundred end in a charge. In 2015 it was fifteen.
So crime is falling and nobody is being caught for it.
She has been the MP for Croydon since 2017 and she set up the national campaign against knife crime. She is the minister for it now. Nine years, love, and the trophy is a phone nobody answers for.
Still lots more to do, she says. She would know.
Stratford International opened in 2009.
It is called International.
In seventeen years, not one international train has stopped there.
Now Sadiq Khan wants to fix it. A £20m upgrade, talks with ministers, and Virgin waiting to take on Eurostar from 2030.
Khan says connecting Stratford to Europe is a "no-brainer".
It was a no-brainer in 2009.
They built the station, named it International, and never ran a train to Europe.
Seventeen years.
The clue was in the name.
Andy Burnham is "grasping the nettle", says Labour, making the "difficult decisions" the Tories dodged for 14 years.
Difficult. Right.
So here is the bravery. Bus fares. Parking tickets. The extras on your holiday flight.
And here are the nettles. Debt past £3 trillion and rising. A tax burden heading for the highest since 1948. Welfare now costing more than income tax brings in. And 4,000 people camped on the French coast, waiting for a boat.
Fourteen years they had to watch and learn.
They grasped the nettle.
It was the bus fare.
