Reposted by Meg HowarthOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1hCrazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year 9332791
Reposted by Meg HowarthDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 7hMore here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...taxpolicy.org.ukTory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised priceOur modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing. 25720
Reposted by Meg HowarthPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Read the full story on Democracy for Sale, and sign up to get all the exclusives straight to your inbox! democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policyFGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy 0279
Reposted by Meg HowarthHeather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Excl with @jessicaelgot.bsky.social - bleak new forecasts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggest soaring energy and housing costs mean Labour could be set to preside over the worst parliament for living standards in modern history: www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comLabour could oversee worst parliament on record for living standards, study warnsEnergy and housing costs threaten biggest decline in modern times unless bold action taken, says thinktank 62413
Reposted by Meg HowarthDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts? 1318493
Reposted by Meg HowarthArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah it doesn’t work like that 1431751
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026👀 Every occasion was logged as #hospitality rather than as a #meeting, so no minutes were taken and there is no public record of what was discussed 👀 010
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 #LestWeForget #AnnaPolitkovskaya ➡️ #JournalismMatters 030
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#DataCentres ➡️ #StableDoor ➡️ #Horses #Finland 🇫🇮 ⬇️ 😡 #Google: “we understand the concerns” [and have] “fallen short of our own high standards😡 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comGoogle told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concernsOrder on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments 010
Reposted by Meg HowarthJonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ordinary humans would be sunk by the allegations of lies, thefts, frauds, gussied-up CVs, expenses fiddles, charity swindles, plagiarisms, insider trading deals, funding illicit coups and – perhaps most unforgivable of all – unpleasantness to underlings that dogged Archer’s life.theguardian.comLord Archer of Weston-super-Mare obituaryBestselling author and Conservative politician whose scandal-ridden career ended with a prison sentence 1184
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#NobelPeacePrize ⬇️ #EmergencyResponseRooms #Sudan Excellent proposal from #LindsyHilsum. 020
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#HousingMatters #Wales 🚨 #Reform did not respond to a request for comment... @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social #ICYMI 110
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*Reform did not respond to a request for comment*... 000
Reposted by Meg HowarthEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“A rational billionaire would see the merits of buying social peace. An enlightened one would acknowledge his debts to federal science, public education and chance.Alas, there are few such super-rich to be found.” Me on the demagoguery against Prop 40. as.ft.com/r/4f1869f4-5...as.ft.comCalifornia’s oligarch tax would change AmericaThe goal of its framers is political rather than budgetary 1327595
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🚨 #QuestionTime 🚨 #MichaelCrick: ‘The big puzzle is not how #Archer gets away with it time and again, but why he is allowed to’. @channel4news.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Meg HowarthSimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New post: Misconceptions following Burnham’s speech mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/10/misc... Saying the Triple Lock pays for a national care service is clever politics. Unfortunately, as the OBR make clear, the Triple Lock itself was not sustainable without additional taxes or spending cuts.mainlymacro.blogspot.comMisconceptions following Burnham’s speechThe Prime Minister’s conference speech was a week ago, but there is still plenty of confusion about how it should be interpreted. Indeed t... 0124
Reposted by Meg HowarthRachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 05/10/2026UK donor Phillip Ullmann told the FT that he told the MP “about Gary Klopfenstein, that he was a wealthy American in the US who was willing to donate” Jenrick has previously denied any wrongdoing and said he had no knowledge of Klopfenstein’s alleged involvement 25922
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#cycling #roads #London (2/2) Another day, another #KSI, this time a fatality in #Eltham. news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-...news.met.police.ukAppeal for witnesses following fatal collision in ElthamPolice appeal for witnesses following fatal collision in Eltham 020
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#cycling #roads #London 💔 Another day, another #KSI, this time the death of a 17yo boy who was pronounced dead at the scene💔 😡 The a 60yo male driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving/driving whilst unfit through drink 😡 news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-...news.met.police.ukAppeal for witnesses following fatal collision in EnfieldOfficers have arrested a man in connection with the incident. 020
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#roads #London #Southgate 💔Another day, more #KSIs - this time two fatalities💔 A 32yo woman was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving/driving w/a specified controlled drug >the prescribed limit. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social news.met.police.uk/news/second-...news.met.police.ukSecond man dies after collision in SouthgateA second man has sadly died following a collision in Southgate. 021
Reposted by Meg HowarthWikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 05/10/2026At Wikimedia, hacking means better tools for free knowledge. Developers gather at Wikimedia hackathons to fix bugs, improve accessibility, build new tools, and turn ideas into software that helps share free knowledge. Learn more about Wikimedia hackathons by accessing the mainframe ➡️ w.wiki/SsCJ 0133
Reposted by Meg HowarthDeclan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FFS I'm on the side of the Catholic church *against* irrationalism, I hate this century. 1669
Reposted by Meg HowarthGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026Once again I find myself needing to write that the AI did not ‘go rogue’. It did what it was programmed to do by extremely negligent men, men who are responsible for their actions. 2327
Reposted by Meg HowarthFree Marwan Now @freemarwannow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New York Times Bestselling Authors Call for the Release of Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti✌️ 154
Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#ULEZ B/ground: *Rees told the court he joined anti- #Ulez groups because he was “bored” and looking for “a community”. He denied the charges against him and blamed his arrest on #Facebook police”. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comUlez bomber: the retired electrician who turned bomb-making extremistShy 63-year-old’s decision to blow up London traffic camera linked to online conspiracy theories and Islamophobia 020