Domestic Affairs
Miliband’s Magic Money Tree Gets Another Shake as Fuel Prices Go Ballistic
The government now faces the full consequences of its energy policy. Global disruption has pushed oil past one hundred dollars per barrel and lifted wholesale gas by more…
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A Coal Miner’s Lament: “They keep digging up my past”
The British miner, not the one with Bitcoin rigs, the other one. A figure so steeped in nostalgia, so lovingly preserved in sepia-toned documentary footage and the lyrics…
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It’s technology, baby: Why Britain depends on gas imports
Eurostat’s newest numbers show that the European Union still leans on distant suppliers for most of its energy. In 2024, 57.2 % of the energy that the Union…
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Fighting Scammers, One Press Release at a Time
Westminster has rolled out its latest wheeze to convince us they’re on top of the national plague of fraud: a shiny new Online Crime Centre, complete with a…
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Forty Grand and a Boot Out the Door: Labour’s New Take-the-Money-and-Scram Scheme
Here’s a novel way to clear the backlog, and it involves a briefcase full of used notes. The Home Office has come up with a new pilot scheme…
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Small Boat, Big Numbers: Government Celebrates Clearing the Queue While More Keep Jumping It
The British government’s immigration figures for 2025 have landed, and they paint a picture of a system still straining under the pressure of small boat crossings, despite some…
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Streaming’s Final Frontier: Britain Bravely Protects Viewers from the Terror of Impartial News
The British government has confirmed that streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will now be subjected to far stricter oversight by Ofcom, marking a fundamental…
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