Martin Anthony Tett

Starmer told the Commons that Mandelson "lied to me". Turns out not only did he not speak to him, he stopped others looking into him

If you can’t afford more than two children, don’t have them. The next government needs to bring the two-child benefit cap back. Immediately. It’s not fair on taxpayers having to pay for more benefit handouts for others. You don’t lift children out of poverty by raising taxes.

Many Britons are thick.

Rejoining the EU would mean free movement to U.K. for everyone coming into the EU , us paying around £34 billion fee pa, adopting the euro, no control of interest rates, EU regulation by technocrats, loss of superior trade deals , likely EU army, EU Net Zero disaster, etc

Another prostration to dictators: the US lifts sanctions on Belarus. Namely, Belinvestbank, the Development Bank of Belarus and the Ministry of Finance of Belarus, as well as the Belarusian Potash Company and "Belaruskali" have been removed from all sanctions lists, — Trump's special envoy Cole This is the result of today's meeting of the American delegation with Lukashenko in Minsk.

HS2 has already cost £40 billion, and it’s still unfinished. It was originally priced at £37 billion. Now projected to exceed £100bn. And then there’s this: A one kilometre “bat tunnel” costing up to £216 million to protect a few hundred bats. At one point: • £100 million for the tunnel • £73 milliom for the railway beneath it Britain is now building one of the most expensive railways on earth costing £1 billion per mile on average with no clear final cost. This is not a mega project, it's a mega waste of tax payer money.

Mono-culture farming devastates the rest of nature. Farmlands continue to lose much of their wildlife, bees, birds, insects, amphibians. But each generation measures "normal" nature against what existed in their childhood; not what existed before. So we don't mourn the Auroch, Quagga, Eastern Elk, or drained wetland. We never knew them. We each inherit a slightly emptier world & call it normal, a shifting baseline syndrome. Humans are remarkably adaptive... dangerously so.