The Prime Minister’s rhetoric has collided with the reality that nationalisation is unaffordable Daily Telegraph 23/10/26 The quest to save Thames Water is the saga with no end. Two and a half years after shareholders abandoned the company, its future is no more certain. On the contrary, it is even more of a financial basket-case now than it was then, having been kept afloat by a steady drip-feed of emergency loans at a business that was already drowning in debt . Additional borrowings since March 2024 stand at roughly £3bn with another £2.4bn on the cards, just to see it through the next 12 months. That assumes, of course, that a disparate creditor base can agree on a deal – far from a foregone conclusion despite the high stakes. The arrival of Andy Burnham in No 10 would bring an end to this financial purgatory, we were told. Under Showtime Andy a privately led, debt-heavy industry ownership model that prioritised shareholder enrichment rather than customer care would be consig...
It took a year for undercover journalists to find racists in Reform, while the Greens spout their anti-Semitism openly. Spiked 21/10/26 So that’s it then, is it? In Brighton last month, a mainstream political party declared that ‘Zionism is racism’ and casually denied the right of the world’s only Jewish nation to exist. But now attention has shifted. The news cycle has moved on. The anti-Semitism in the Green Party of England and Wales is, it seems, so last month. Forget the erstwhile eco-warriors obsessing over Jews. Look over here instead: there are some racists in Reform UK. The sighs of relief emanating from major news corporations when it emerged that undercover reporters from ITV had footage showing some members of Reform making vile, racist remarks must have reverberated across London. Journalists could relax. Order had been restored. No longer would commentators have to confront the horrendous implications of the Green Party’s support for ‘the establishment of a single d...