Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦

The Environment Agency has launched an investigation after discovering SEVERAL THOUSAND TONNES of illegally dumped household and commercial waste at a major dumping site on land off Midland Road in Bradford. Officers are working with Bradford Council, West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to identify those responsible and trace the landowner. The public is being urged to come forward with any information that could assist the investigation. This hasn’t happened overnight, a blind eye must have been turned at some point, by someone. Shocking drone footage courtesy of Gaz Hall.

Argentina have been given the green light by the White House FIFA task force to display their Falklands banner again if they win the World Cup on Sunday 🚨 The head of the task force Andrew Giuliani believes the Argentina players are allowed to express their opinions.

Interesting FT piece with some more detail on Andy Burnham's AI strategy, including a reassessment of driverless cars in London Slightly strange use of the word "headlong" to describe a multi-year process to adopt something that's already commonplace in the US and China

Why are smokers flocking to the black market? No one knows. Link below.

Retired public sector workers were handed a record £56bn in “gold‑plated” pensions in 2025‑26 – roughly £2,000 torn out of the pocket of every household in the country. Not for schools, not for hospitals, not for policing or defence – for a guaranteed income stream to people who no longer work, under schemes that were never properly funded and never honestly explained to the public. The political class calls this “rewarding service”. What it actually rewards is being on the inside when the deal was written: final‑salary, inflation‑proofed pensions backed by the Treasury, completely insulated from the economic reality facing everyone else. Millions of younger private‑sector workers with fragile defined‑contribution pots, insecure work and no hope of retiring at 60 are being ordered to bankroll comfortable retirements for a state‑sector aristocracy who were promised more than the country ever put aside in cash. This isn’t some accident of history. Governments of all colours signed cheques they knew future taxpayers would have to cash, then buried the true scale of the obligation. Labour now sits on that broken model, refuses to reform it, and pretends the only answer is “tax the rich” – while quietly taxing the young, the renting and the working poor to maintain deals they never voted for and will never receive themselves.

The public sector workforce gets paid mediocre up-front salaries but are promised gold-plated pensions. It's just another way we push more of today's costs onto future taxpayers.