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Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

Economy Grows by Only 0.4% in Second Quarter

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that GDP grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of the year, down from 0.6% in the first. Broken down: April: Down 0.1% May: No change June: Up 0.3% The ONS said: “In output terms, growth in the latest quarter was mainly caused by an increase…

Economy
Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

MHCLG ‘Has Done No Planning’ on Burnham Vape Shop Policy

Labour ministers said there has been no planning or evidence base for Burnham’s policy to change the licencing laws for vape shops. Who could have guessed… This is Burnham’s policy: “The government will consult on removing vape shops from Class E and making them sui generis – “of its own kind,” – a standalone category…

Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Anti-Tobacco Lobby ASH Calls for Tougher Vape Restrictions Despite Admitting They Help Smokers Quit

Anti-tobacco campaigners Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) have already criticised Burnham’s vape shop crackdown announced overnight. Chief Executive Hazel Cheeseman dismissed the plans as “a knee-jerk announcement”, saying “it’s hard to see how it will make a meaningful difference on vape shops”. Even Burnham deserves more credit than that… Despite acknowledging vape shops “play…

Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

EXC: Miatta Fahnbulleh’s DESNZ SpAds: A War on Gas Boilers, Banning Cars, and ‘Colonial Debt’

Burnham’s radical Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is putting together her SpAd team. Guido presents their policy views – Miatta’s are well-known to co-conspirators… Colm Britchfield has worked mostly at climate think tank E3G, where he specialised in energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation. Some of his positions: Said government should accelerate phase-out of gas boilers through…

DefenceEnvironment
Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Prospect Pulls Plug on Rusbridger and Barber Podcast

Media Confidential, which apparently was the name of Prospect magazine’s weekly podcast hosted by Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber, is no more. It has now been cancelled by editor Philip Collins (not that one), who succeeded Rusbridger in the editor’s chair last year. Ouch… Barber wrote on his Substack this week: “Sadly, in a bid…

Housing
Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Cambridge University Launches ‘Full Investigation’ Into Jason Arday Appointment

Cambridge University Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice has announced the university will launch an investigation into the appointment of Jason Arday, as well as a review of its Misconduct in Research policy. The results will then guide a review into the appointment process for senior academic roles. Which would be helpful, to put it mildly… Read…

EducationReformHousing
Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Leftist Think Tank Celebrates Penetration of Burnham Government

Labour’s favourite left-wing think tank IPPR is boasting on X this morning about how many of its ex-personnel are now in government in leading positions. This is going to go well… A huge congratulations to the IPPR alumni who are taking up new roles in government! Wishing them all the very best in their new…

Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Burnham Waits Until After His Long Holiday to Call a COBRA Meeting on Hot Weather

Andy Burnham has called his first COBRA meeting on the heat in Britain. After waiting 53 days in which he also went on holiday… The meeting is mostly a PR exercise because response systems are all in place and extra management goes through the National Drought Group. You could try building a new reservoir for…

Guido Fawkes12 Aug 2026

Home Office Minister: Wealthier Areas Will Take “Their Fair Share” of Migrants

Doubling down on Burnham’s claim yesterday that “all parts of the country need to play their part” in taking migrants, Home Office minister Anne Turley said on BBC Breakfast this morning: “I think this is about fairness. And we won’t be asking anyone to take more than they can. It’s about their fair share. And…

Immigration
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

‘Stop Funding Hate’ Fails to Fund Itself

Stop Funding Hate is struggling to get funding of its own. Oh dear… The campaign spends its time demanding advertisers pull their money out of media it doesn’t like, including Daily Mail and GB News. It has spent its summer attacking GB News and X to persuade its band of pro-censorship supporters to stump up…

Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Government Hires for Propriety Chief After Leaving Post Vacant for a Year

The Director General for Propriety and Constitution Group post has been vacant for a year. The government is only now bothering to fill it… The Cabinet Office are advertising for a “Director General, Propriety and Constitution.” Cabinet Secretary Antonia Romeo says she is “seeking an individual with an outstanding record of leadership, with good judgement and…

Politics
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Rayner Gets Burnham’s Flagship Tax Policy Entirely Wrong

On LBC today Angela Rayner got her own department’s policy wrong by claiming that Labour has cut VAT for some businesses. Have a look at this transcript: LBC: And Andy Burnham writes in one of the newspapers today, The Daily Mirror, that he’d like to see the return of butchers and bakers and bookshops, and…

Economy