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Earn £50,271 and you can settle in Britain in five years. Earn less and you wait ten. Come by small boat and you wait up to 30. This is Andy Burnham's government.
On Monday Shabana Mahmood told MPs that the right to live in Britain for good must now be earned. Her rules sort people by their salary and by how they got here, and they apply to more than 500,000 people already living here. Kemi Badenoch proposed most of it first. Andy Burnham's Labour government is the one doing it.
Nima Akram
Wes Streeting put IHRA into the NHS after a group linked to the Israel Medical Association asked for it. He gave the review to the man who had just chaired the Board of Deputies' commission.
In December 2024 the Health Secretary met the Board of Deputies, whose constitution commits it to "advance Israel's security, welfare and standing", and the Jewish Medical Association asked him for IHRA. Ten months later the NHS adopted it, and the review went to Lord Mann, whose office a charity runs on £420,000 of uncompeted government grants. We followed the money.
Nima Akram
Sir David Bell, the "independent" antisemitism reviewer, was accused of Islamophobia in 2005. A pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.
The government said the man who wrote its antisemitism review was independent, with no conflict of interest. He was being paid by a government agency. In 2005 he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation", and a charity whose one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel has named him on its council since at least 2016. We followed the money.
Nima Akram
Green Party members voted that Zionism is racism. The Telegraph went after the Palestinian woman who wrote the motion.
Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 that Zionism is racism. The Telegraph printed 'hunted down' as Lubna Speitan's words though they came from an anonymous X account, headlined a 'good friend' nobody named, and left out that her legal challenge made the Met look again at war crimes accusations against Britons who served in Gaza. By Nima Akram.
Nima Akram
A year to the day after a UN inquiry found Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, the LA Times ran an Israeli government ad that draws Gaza as Israel.
On 16 September 2026 the Los Angeles Times published a paid travel page branded by Israel's Ministry of Tourism. Its map draws the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights as Israel, and the ads send readers to nine sites on occupied land without once using the word occupied. The Times's own news pages call that land occupied. We are asking the Times to take the ads down: a corrected version would still sell holidays on occupied land.
UCL took two days to act on antisemitism. Its Somali, Pakistani and Muslim students have waited five months.
A UCL student wrote that Somalis are inbred and that Britain should mass deport Muslims. His classmates reported him in April 2026. UCL has told them the case is complex and promised an outcome before term starts on 28 September. In November 2025 UCL needed two days. The law sorted message by message, UCL's own code, and three things UCL should do now.
Palantir paid a Labour peer for sixteen months of votes. Then his register went blank.
Tom Watson, Lord Watson of Wyre Forest, has been paid by Palantir since November 2024, registered as a member of its Public Services Advisory Board. He voted 240 times in the House of Lords while it paid him, 30 of them on the Crime and Policing Bill while Palantir chased a £50m Met contract, and when he spoke on the data bill he declared UK Music, not Palantir. On 18 September 2026 Palantir made him senior vice president to fight the campaign to drop its £330m NHS contract at the February 2027 break clause. His register of interests now reads one line: exempt from registration. He keeps the title, the peerage and the Labour whip. The Code of Conduct says none of it broke a rule. That is the problem, and the piece says where the power to fix it sits: the chief whip, the Conduct Committee and the Health Secretary.
Nima Akram
How the BBC Hid Behind Its Own Guidelines to Launder a Genocide, and Contradicted Itself Doing It
Five formal responses from the BBC Complaints Team, read side by side against what the BBC published. Attribution plus a stack of caveats for every Palestinian claim; attribution alone, ruled 'sufficient', for Israel's unevidenced denial that it tortured a detained Gaza doctor. 'Headlines should not be read in isolation' offered as a defence, quiet corrections when the BBC is caught against its own style guide, and form letters for everyone else. Every reply quoted verbatim, with the full record on the responses wall.
Due Accuracy. Due Impartiality. Due Intervention. Sky News, 10 May 2026.
On Sky News' flagship Sunday slot, the presenter treated a contested factual question, currently under two active regulatory investigations, as a settled fact, and used it to close the question. The rule the presenter contradicted was read aloud by Sky News' own senior political editor on the same channel two days earlier. A code-anchored Section 5 reading, with the honest counter-arguments stated up front.
'Taunting' is the Wrong Word. BBC News, 20 May 2026.
The body reports detainees kneeling with foreheads forced to the floor, a serving minister classifying them on camera as 'terrorism supporters' and asking the PM for the 'terrorist prisons', a detainee pushed to the ground for shouting 'Free Palestine'. The BBC's word in the headline was 'taunting'. The dictionary reserves that word for schoolyards. A code-anchored Section 3 (Accuracy) reading.
3,000 dead in Lebanon. 21 on the Israeli side. The headlines erased Israel.
Five mastheads, one wire-desk frame, article bodies that contradict their own headlines. AP, Reuters, The Independent, Toronto Star and The Irish Times on the 18 May 2026 Lebanese death toll. Agent deletion, false symmetry, and the hundreds of women and children buried below the fold. A code-based accuracy critique.
Same Law. Same Force. Every Community.
Two incidents at the 16 May 2026 'Unite the Kingdom' rally, and the press's flattening of the day into 'rival protests'. The legal framework stated accurately, the framing critique graded outlet by outlet, the honest counter-arguments, and the asks.
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