Steve Bernard

MY FEARS FOR OUR DIVIDED KINGDOM BY PRINCE HARRY Over the past several years, I have spoken about the consequences of a world in which outrage outpaces humanity – where fear and division are amplified faster than truth, and where people are too easily reduced to categories, identities or opposing sides. What concerns me now is how dangerously that same moral blurring is taking hold across parts of Britain. Across the country, we are seeing a deeply troubling rise in anti-Semitism. Jewish communities – families, children, ordinary people – are being made to feel unsafe in the very places they call home. That should alarm us, but also unite us. Because hatred directed at people for who they are, or what they believe, is not protest. It is prejudice. Recent incidents, including lethal violence in London and Manchester, have brought this into sharp and deeply troubling focus. Across the globe, there is deep and justified alarm at the scale of loss in the Middle East. Images from Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region – of devastated communities and entire neighbourhoods levelled and reduced to rubble – have shaken people to their core. For many, the instinct to speak out, to march, to demand accountability, to call for an end to suffering, is both human and necessary. But now these two realities are being dangerously conflated. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The British public thinks supermarkets make 50p profit on every £1. They make 2-4p. "Crooked" energy companies clearing 57%? Actual: 5-15%. "Rip-off" rail on 45%? Actual: 1-5%. The NHS, which makes no profit at all, is reckoned at 34%. The IEA just asked. The answers were a fantasy.

3x Labour HOLD Redbridge as it stands: Lab 23 (-5) Con 4 (n/c) R Ind 3 (+3) Grn 2 (+2) 33/63 elected (32 needed for majority)

Quite magnificent crowd in at the Kia Oval for the Surrey & Essex County Championship match! IPL is on, yet im finding myself watching some 4-day stuff!

🚨NEW HISTORIC LOW 🚨 Net economic optimism in Britain has fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded since Ipsos began collecting this data in 1978. 78% of Brits expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months, 12% think it will stay the same, and just 6% think it will improve – giving a net Ipsos economic optimism index score of -72.

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