Monthly Archives: August 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been blamed for the high gas prices, but they were already rising globally due to increased demand after the end of Covid lockdowns. Greg Jackson (left), head of Octopus Energy, a very successful British company … Continue reading →

Fancy something amusing for the weekend? Here you go: Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every … Continue reading →

Martin Lewis: he’s been saying the government has been able to predict the rise in the energy price cap for months – so why hasn’t it acted to protect vulnerable people yet? Here’s a good question, posed by a Facebook … Continue reading →

Oh dear, oh dear: the Conservative Party is facing electoral collapse after people who voted Tory in 2019 identified the issues the next prime minister should tackle – and they’re mostly issues that party wants to ignore. According to a Daily … Continue reading →

‘Labour’ ‘leader’ exposed again by his own actions Keir Starmer has rightly been lambasted across the Labour movement for his spinelessly-executed ban on MPs attending picket lines in support of workers. He and his front bench say this is ‘posture … Continue reading →

The CWU union has issued what it calls a corrective to ‘misleading and untrue’ statements it says Royal Mail has been making ahead of tomorrow’s strike by 115,000 postal workers – and calling on ‘all journalists reporting on the dispute’ … Continue reading →

The father of a disabled five-year-old boy has admitted he is feeling panicked about the rising cost of energy bills. Tristan, from Creswell in Derbyshire, has a condition called dystonia that causes his muscles to contract involuntarily. If he gets … Continue reading →

Tuition fees should never have been introduced, of course – and this just proves it. The bosses of four universities – Sunderland, Cardiff, Sheffield Hallam and Gloucester – have said the government needs to increase the cost of tuition for … Continue reading →

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL SOCIAL RENTED SECTOR LANDLORDS IF you are fixated with what rent rise to impose next April then you are missing the biggest issue which is how will social landlords survive with no rent or rent … Continue reading →

A friend on the social media asked how private water companies could have pumped raw sewage into our seas and rivers for more than nine million hours since 2016 when that’s the equivalent of 1,076 years. The answer, in fact, … Continue reading →