They Kept the Fee. They Cut the BBC.
📺 The licence fee rose from £145.50 to £180 while programmes, local radio, World Service output and thousands of jobs disappeared. This is how the BBC was steadily hollowed out from 2010 to 2026. 📉
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A Penny in the Pound
🪙 Britain spent years offering visible tax cuts while fiscal drag, weak wages, debt and unstable work swallowed the gain. From the crash to the triple lock, the penny-in-the-pound era has run out.
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Parliament Looks After Its Own. Kemi Badenoch Knows That
🏛️ Parliament understands pay, maternity protection and employment security perfectly well. Kemi Badenoch once said MPs who are mothers are “well looked after”. So why does the language change outside Westminster?
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Growth Forever?
📈 Who decided next year must always be bigger? From a KFC forecast to the global economy, an examination of growth, compounding and the assumption that the number must always rise. 🌍
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We Took Back Control. Who Holds the Oil?
🛢️🇬🇧 Britain’s oil system is split between private companies and the state. We trace what was sold, what remains under public control, and who holds the stocks when supplies are disrupted.
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We Sold the Future
Britain sold its industries, housing and utilities while spending its North Sea windfall. Norway built a national inheritance. Now Britain needs the triple lock to protect pensioners from the consequences. 🏚️
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Britain Is Running Out of Industry
Britain keeps announcing an industrial revival while its workshops, customers and supply chains quietly disappear. 🏭🇬🇧
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The Building That Became More Valuable Dead
🏢 Alfa Laval Tower has stood empty beside the M4 since 1996. Hotels, offices, housing and a Hyundai showroom existed on paper—while advertising became its only enduring business.
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LBC Sells the Argument, Not the Truth
🎙️ Callers provide the conflict. Producers construct the programme. Presenters become the product. LBC’s commercial value travels upwards.
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Who Chose the Conversation
🎙️ Britain never stops arguing, but who chose the presenters, framed the questions and screened the public before the conversation even began?
