Steve Chambers

OBR: "The cumulative cost of freezing fuel duty rates [since 2010-11]…has risen to £139bn." "[I]f fuel duty were to remain frozen until 2029-30, public sector net borrowing would be £4.3bn higher."

"Fuel duty will be frozen for the 16th year in a row." We are governed by climate-illiterate buffoons.

Finally, we hear from the cabbies. youtube.com/shorts/WH2Bs...

Hope they are able to judicial review the reversal of this decision. democracy.havering.gov.uk/documents/s8...

Interesting. My perception is the UK response to data centres is a fraction of the intensity found in the US.

Excellent news! One of those things that has been easy to ask for, but doubtless takes a while to get the right plumbing behind the scenes.

Buying back ex-private rentals is often cheaper and faster for councils than building homes from scratch. Acquiring these homes is part of how we solve the housing crisis and councils need funding to do it. @helendennis.bsky.social explains in a new blog

But what about the sky? Didn't it fall? Every time a street is pedestrianised the same predictions of doom are made.

Reform Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance for debt-burdened Havering Council takes time out from making ends meet to attack local blogger. She seems nice and fully understands how the internet works. havering.blog/2026/10/24/h...

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to living under perpetual daylight.

This level of bitter and twisted can only be admired.

Come on, Teletubby, teleport us to Mars!

25% of staff.

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

Very nicely done too.

1971, Kensington.