The average diesel price is now less than 4p from the all-time record set four years ago. And if supplies fail, the Government's emergency plan for the pumps is written and waiting.
Vicky Richter · 17 September 2026Eight ministerial departments have disclosed £1.89 million of spending on influencers and content creators since July 2024. Add HMRC and NHS England’s national campaigns team, and the disclosed total rises to £2.54 million.
Vicky Richter · 17 September 2026Eighty-six years ago today, young men climbed into Hurricanes and Spitfires and took to the skies knowing that the survival of their country might depend upon what happened next. Today, September 15, Britain remembers them.
Claire Bullivant · 15 September 2026Baroness Sherlock told the Lords that 200,000 families received more than £39,039 in state support in the financial year ending 2025, above the median full-time wage. The figure includes Universal Credit, tax credits, the state pension and PIP. The DWP spent £287.9bn on pensions and benefits last year, against £62bn for defence. And the published figures do not say who is receiving it.
Vicky Richter · 15 September 2026Steve Reed has warned that Britain will not become richer by making London poorer, in a striking intervention from a Labour MP who until recently sat in government. His criticism matters because it sharpens the central question hanging over Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda: whether it will create new growth across the country, or simply redistribute pressure and cost.
Vicky Richter · 12 September 2026Labour’s sanctions on settlement-linked businesses are being sold as a defence of the two-state solution after Israel’s E1 plans in the West Bank. But with Israeli retaliation already under way, Britain now faces a harder question: what will these measures actually achieve, and what could they cost in trade, diplomacy, security cooperation and influence?
Vicky Richter · 9 September 2026St Paul's insists the concerts will be entirely seated, and a canon will open each one by reminding ticket-holders to stay in their places. Nelson refused to leave the quarterdeck at Trafalgar. He will now be expected to sit through four years of Fabric.
Vicky Richter · 8 September 2026The Ministry of Defence has reportedly halted major war-fighting training for 3 (UK) Division until 2027 to save £30 million, around 0.01 per cent of the annual welfare budget. Deterrence depends on an adversary believing that you can and will fight. Britain appears determined to learn Russia's lesson from a spreadsheet.
Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026Andy Burnham has vowed to keep Britain's wealth creators on home soil, ruled out taxing the rich into exile and signalled fresh North Sea drilling, as the Prime Minister seeks to calm business nerves ahead of October's Budget. We at the Great British PAC welcome his recognition that those who build, hire and invest deserve encouragement, not punishment.
Vicky Richter · 27 August 2026Britain likes to see itself as a land of liberty, but it has quietly become one of the most watched societies on earth. From more than 420,000 CCTV cameras in London to live facial recognition vans on high streets and biometric systems in supermarkets, surveillance has become a normal part of daily life. Politicians promise greater safety and control. Yet the results are often meagre, the legal safeguards remain weak, and the costs, to privacy, anonymity and public trust, are mounting. This piece asks whether Britain’s surveillance boom is solving crime, or simply changing the country into somewhere less free.
Vicky Richter · 24 August 2026New polling commissioned by the civil rights organisation Liberty has found that 51 per cent of Britons believe their right to free speech has been eroded in the two years since Labour took office, with only 10 per cent saying their rights have improved. From Home Office travel bans on political speakers to the mass arrests of protesters, the survey points to a deepening public anxiety about the state of free expression in Britain. Great British PAC examines the findings, the record behind them, and what the incoming Prime Minister must do to restore confidence in this most fundamental of freedoms.
Vicky Richter · 24 August 2026A landmark study backed by Kemi Badenoch finds that abandoning Labour's wind-led decarbonisation drive in favour of gas and nuclear power could save Britain £320bn by 2050, cutting the typical household's costs by £540 a year.
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