Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.
Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!
Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.
If you’re arrested and detained for a crime you didn’t commit, what sensitive video footage does the police keep of you?
Nadine Buzzard-Quashie asked the question and what she discovered brought on a mental health crisis.
This is her remarkable, exclusive story. 1/
A shocking new investigation by Index reveals that Emily (not her real name), a school librarian in Greater Manchester, faced disciplinary action after stocking the book Men Who Hate Women. Nearly 200 books were targeted. 1/4
A huge thank you to @IndexCensorship for your investigation on this case, and for bringing it to my attention.
You can read more here: https://t.co/sYQih7vmzN.
I’m just watching #DirtyBusiness on @Channe4 and I’m just heartbroken for Heather Preen and her family. I’m in absolute tears. I will continue to campaign on this topic I promise. It is a national outrage the water companies must be held accountable. #SewageScandal
I’m honestly shaken reading this. Joshua Orta, the only eyewitness to Ruben Ray Martinez’s fatal ICE shooting, died over the weekend in a separate car crash before he could formally sign his statement. His account contradicted DHS’s version of events. This is heartbreaking. And it makes transparency in this case even more urgent. https://t.co/Ij5Pf7CHAY
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Picture this: it’s October 3, 2026 – one month before Election Day.
The MEGA Act passed. You’re kicked off the voter rolls. You try to re-register so you can vote, but run into problems:
1. due to the SAVE Act, you need a specific gov't document – there’s no time to get one
2. your local election office is overwhelmed – DOJ-driven voter purges forced thousands to re-register
3. it’s past your state’s voter registration deadline
These are bills Congress is considering. The House passed the SAVE Act last night.
Call your Senators. Tell them to vote NO: (202) 224-3121
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
https://t.co/iCnxw56OVv
Govt has started a hardship fund to help thousands of newly retired civil servants still waiting for their pensions months after retiring. Capita took over the admin in December and backlog grew, explains @bbcdanw and Martin Cavanagh of PCSU @Moneybox noon @BBCRadio4
ICYMI, because you probably did: Remember that half a billion dollars of oil we stole from Venezuela?
Well, Trump took it, then sold it, then gave Venezuela 300 million of it, and the other 200 million...got parked in a private bank account in Qatar.
Here's Marco Rubio testifying before Shaheen, who wants to know where that 200 million dollars is. Rubio starts by claiming that "eventually", it will be moved into the Treasury, but then back tracks and says that the Treasury will one day be able to "audit" where it went - at taxpayer expense - using an auditor that Trump deems acceptable for the Treasury to use to audit the spending of the money.
Trump stole 200 million dollars and parked it in the Middle East so that he could keep it from taxpayers.