State Of The City reports - Disappearing Whatsapps! Starmer Conceals Mandelson Decision, UK State Fascism Killing Family Businesses?
– Wesley Bear, Acorn, joins Tony and Martin. He explains how Acorn helps with your housing difficulties, and his own story of his housing. ACORN Bristol is in Bristol.
– Council Tax Energy Prices Criminalising Poverty in UK
– The Truth About Bailiffs: Day 1 Our campaign to end the use of bailiffs for council tax debt recovery is based on evidence. This month, we’ll be sharing the truth about bailiffs
– Victor Rothschild and William Waldegrave were behind The Council Tax and Poll Tax: [full pdf of Panorama journalist Michael Crick’s paper is available]
– Mrs Thatcher’s Greatest Blunder? by MICHAEL CRICK (1991) On the evening of Tuesday 12 March 1986 a small party was held at a house in Kensington.
– Those present included some of the cleverest brains in the country: Victor Rothschild, the scientist and banker who had once directed the Think Tank; Oliver Letwin, a member of Mrs Thatcher’s policy unit; Sir Leonard Hoffmann, a high court judge; Christopher Foster, a former LSE economics professor who ran Coopers and Lybrand’s public policy unit; and Kenneth Baker, the Secretary of State for the Environmen
– UK house prices going down. Financial crash. UK house prices fall for first time this year amid rising mortgage rates
– Nationwide finds typical price was £278,024 in May, as Savills says Iran war has ‘fundamentally changed’ outlook House prices fell in the UK for the first time this year
– Melissa explains how the Bristol Green’s liveable neighbourhood scheme has made their neighbourhood unliveable.
– Upcoming public meeting and protests. Protests over EBLN bus gate installation divides opinion
– UK State Fascism Killing Family Businesses?
– Suzanne Adlington, from Bristol Blue Glass, on why the business had to close, and how the government is sabotaging small to medium businesses.
– Bristol Blue Glass Factory announced back in April that increasing rental costs and fuel prices had created an “overwhelming” financial strain, forcing the company to close
– Why is fuel in UK the highest price in developing world? Why are fuel prices so high in the UK?
– Exploring Fuel Duty, VAT, and wholesale costs Ever wondered why filling up your tank costs so much more in the UK compared to other countries?
– Jeremy Corbyn, in his own words, on how he was targeted when he was leader of the opposition.
– The persecution of Jeremy Corbyn The campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the UK Labour Party was accompanied by a purge of his supporters
– Claire Perry on how the Net Zero 2050 target was wrong, and how we need to adapt now to changing circumstances.
– Is Ed Miliband’s push towards net zero heading for trouble?
– As the government confirms an intermediate target of an 87% cut in greenhouse gases by 2040, doubts about the plan are growing
– Plenty of oil and gas in North Sea. Can we bring energy prices down now in UK, or is the Iran war, and AI going to collapse the whole system?
– Henry Nowak stabbed by a Sikh, details of this. PMQs Starmer on Henry Nowak.
– Henry Nowak: took picture of Sikh. Sikh history. London's Medieval Guilds had knives, members had the right to bear arms, too . Henry Nowak murder:
– Henry Nowak repeatedly told officers he had been stabbed, but he was handcuffed by police after his killer Vickrum Digwa falsely claimed he had been racially abused
– The judge also said Digwa was carrying a second, larger dagger in a sheath – which is also a part of his tradition as a member of the Nihang order of Sikhs
– The judge said Digwa told Nowak he was “a bad man” and took the student’s phone.
– “Henry would have wanted his phone back, believing it had been stolen from him or that he had been robbed.”
– Murderer Digwa “continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed”, the judge added.
– Government by WhatsApp: Jacob Rees Mogg, who supports Israel who Peter Mandelson is still working for, on the new Mandelson releases, and WhatsApp messages being deleted.
– Peter Ford on Mandelson, Epstein, Rothschild and Israel.
– NHS: not allowed to wear political badges. House of Commons, Jeremy Corbyn – how is UK supporting Israel crimes?
– Jeremy Corbyn: UK must decide if it will ‘block efforts to expose truth’ over Israel support
– PMQs Palestinian ‘hate marches’ – history of the Jews. Board of Deputy of Jews.
– Pakistan rumours hint Iran may have a nuclear weapon
– Jones added: “I also like MoD but think that’s unlikely.”…
– Darren Jones MP – his WhatsApp messages weren’t deleted. Jones praised Mandelson for ‘great job’ after sacking, and looked to him for promotion in the cabinet
– Piers Morgan – does Kemi Badenoch support Israel? Are you comfortable fully aligning yourself to an Israeli government that has people like Ben Gavir and Smodriidge who to put it bluntly I view as psychopaths?
– When I was trade secretary I saw how Israeli intelligence helped protect British citizens and this country
– Trump argument with Netanyahu. Trump wants Netanyahu to stop attacking Lebanon.
– Trump may run for President of Israel. Trump cursed at Netanyahu in call over Lebanon escalation, sources say
– Max Blumenthal, Did Trump and Netanyahu Fake Their Animosity
– Peter Ford – sticking points in Iran peace deal.
– Piers Morgan interview with Lebanese journalist Hezbollah are saving Lebanese women from the Israeli rapists. Rania Khalek
– Peter Ford: Palestine Action not terrorists – how does Israel lobby function in UK?
– Genocide. 2000 potential war criminal IDF Soldiers are in the UK, calls for them to be tracked by UK Intelligence services. Polanski and Corbyn join calls for Britons who served in Israeli army to be tracked
– Around 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals have served in the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza
– Russia. Jeffries Sachs letter. Jeffrey Sachs: Germany Is Leading Europe Toward World War III Glenn Diesen Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses his open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Recorded On May 31, 2026.
– Oliver Tickell on human ecology, UK responsibility for Ukraine war UK state being captured by US and Israel
– How Android and Google have mutated into monopolists and fascists with Ruby Whim. A Google approved device is now required use the internet? Ruby Whim
– Websites are starting to ask for your phone to prove you’re human. Google’s new CAPTCHA system uses QR codes and device verification to fight bots.
– But underneath that technical change is a much bigger problem brewing across the internet: participation is getting tied to approved devices, approved software, and approved ecosystems
– Life Site News – Catholic – ‘The State We Are In: The Elephant in the Room’.
– Al Aqsa Mosque: Peter Oborne. Jordan faces an existential choice over the defence of Al-Aqsa
– If Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect.
– Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip the Jordanian royal family of its historic custodianship of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
– The plan, reportedly being pushed by Jared Kushner and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, would also give Israel a role in approving the content of Friday sermons
– Albania: Jared Kushner explains how Nat Rothschild suggested his plan for a hotel complex while they were on Nat’s yacht.
– Albanians protest against Kushner-backed project threatening the environment – Trump’s son-in-law is key investor in luxury resort on uninhabited island
– The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling
https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/06/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-25/