Breaking: DEFRA committee chairman Robert Goodwill writes to Sec of State Thérèse Coffey calling for urgent investigation into causes of sea life death off North East coast; review of dredging; pyridine checks to be done; and wants expert panel formed to review evidence

2 November 1914 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Jenny Sjer, was born in Amsterdam.

In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz . She did not survive.

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry needs to explain why the first lockdown Government ignored almost every recommendation SAGE made on schools, why data was suppressed and still relies on a questionable evidence base minimising harm covid is causing to children

If broadcasters really can't find the courage to show these secretly-funded, utterly discredited shills the door then it falls to fellow guests to do it for them. It really shouldn't. It puts them in an uncomfortable & unfair position but Angela Eagle DBE provides a masterclass here.

One day history will relate how the government of Sunak, Braverman, Zahawi, Cleverley, Badenoch, Johnson, Raab, Patel, Javid fought harder than any other to demonise economic migration, as a weapon of deflection away from their own poltical failures.

Just remembered Liz Truss is on a long holiday when she is meant to be a sitting MP. Though one could argue it’s worth it as she can do less damage when she’s away

There is something deeply unpleasant about the former health secretary playing around in the jungle when his constituents are facing a cost of living crisis and long covid sufferers are looking for answers from the inquiry.

Judge Síofra O’Leary takes office today as President of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the first Irish citizen 🇮🇪 and the first woman 👩‍⚖️ to do so.

A historic achievement for her and a proud day for Ireland ☘️

Comhghairdachas Uachtarán Uí Laoghaire!

#ECHR

'I don't accept, nor trust this Home Secretary's word'
- Sir Roger Gale

Me neither.

Jonathan Gullis has just been incredibly irresponsible on #channel4news by fanning fear and hatred of asylum seekers and then saying his constituency has more than 800 with another 82 on the way - AND THEN NAMING THE HOTEL where they’ll be staying. Especially after yesterday

Asylum applications to the UK have been among the lowest in Europe – today’s The New Statesman Chart of the Day. newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-d…

MPC seems set to raise rates - alongside cuts in public spending & tax hikes from HM Treasury - will be on tv several times tomorrow trying to understand this - given MPC forecasting below target inflation which suggests should be cutting rates - seems they have gone totally MAD

A reminder of the superb job local radio presenters did interviewing Liz Truss a few weeks ago, raising difficult questions that mattered to their regions, and which national coverage missed. We need these journalists if we want the voice of local communities to be heard.

🎃🎃As it’s Halloween, and I have a spooky surname, it feels only right to share my five scariest charts on the outlook for the U.K. economy. 🎃🎃

Read on, if you want a fright…

So 2023 is shaping up to be a nightmare year for the economy. A recession looks inescapable; we look for a 1.5% y/y drop in GDP in 2023, though the scale of the drop is sensitive to far the gov't withdraws its energy price support.

Dr Martin Opposes Gov’t Corruption BBC Politics MPs were crying. Whips were furious and resigning and there's nothing to see here! 🤬 What a load of crap! Do they think we're that stupid?

BBC News at 4pm interviewed an 'expert' from Migration Watch during an item about the Home Secretary and immigration, without the slightest attempt to explain that MW was a right-wing pressure group. BBC getting worse and worse.

Why the “free-market jihadists” behind Liz Truss’s disastrous economic experiment, including the IEA’s director-general Mark Littlewood, should be permanently banished from Westminster and Whitehall.

V. good piece by Adam Bychawski
opendemocracy.net/en/think-tanks…