https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/ Independent news. On the side of the people who pay for everything and decide nothing. en-gb Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:02:15 GMT https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/greens-challenge-burnham-over-sainsbury-s-youth-placements/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/greens-challenge-burnham-over-sainsbury-s-youth-placements/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:02:15 GMT Greens have challenged Andy Burnham’s backing for a Sainsbury’s youth scheme whose published terms leave pay and expenses unclear. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-seeks-stake-in-venezuelan-oil-fields-holding-65bn-barrels/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-seeks-stake-in-venezuelan-oil-fields-holding-65bn-barrels/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:01:10 GMT Washington says it has secured control rights over Venezuelan oil fields, but the agreement governing them has not been published. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/workers-face-risk-from-ai-market-bets-bank-chief-warns/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/workers-face-risk-from-ai-market-bets-bank-chief-warns/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:59:00 GMT Andrew Bailey says leveraged AI investments and dependence on major tech firms could magnify a market shock. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-excludes-more-offences-from-early-prison-release/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-excludes-more-offences-from-early-prison-release/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:57:40 GMT New exclusions from early-release changes expose a prison system already running close to its limits. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israeli-militias-war-crimes-testimony-idf-officer/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israeli-militias-war-crimes-testimony-idf-officer/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:29:55 GMT An Israeli officer's testimony on militias sent to commit war crimes in Gaza is documentary evidence, but Ahmed Al-Maghari and his neighbours lived it first. Middle East https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-drops-political-donations-cap-he-promised-to-voters/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-drops-political-donations-cap-he-promised-to-voters/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:28:03 GMT Burnham told a campaigner in May he'd cap political donations. Days before the vote, and weeks after declaring £350,000 in gifts, he's dropped it. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/bills-hit-1-723-as-energy-secretary-claims-she-s-powerless/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/bills-hit-1-723-as-energy-secretary-claims-she-s-powerless/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:35:31 GMT Ofgem's 4% price cap rise pushes bills to £1,723 as the energy secretary calls the war 'impossible to control', Britain has levers it isn't pulling. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/energy-price-cap-rise-bills-1723/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/energy-price-cap-rise-bills-1723/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:44:31 GMT Ofgem's 4% cap rise pushes typical bills to £1,723 as arrears head for £7bn and Labour's £300 pledge quietly dies. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/suffolk-drone-workers-face-russia-threat-after-kremlin/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/suffolk-drone-workers-face-russia-threat-after-kremlin/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:44:14 GMT Suffolk's Ukrainian drone factory was named on a Russian target list months before a Kremlin adviser raised the prospect of attacks this week. World https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-sanctions-iran-trade-partners/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-sanctions-iran-trade-partners/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:42:45 GMT A US threat to punish any country trading with Iran falls hardest on Iranian patients and Gulf-region workers, as Britain quietly signs on. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/utilities-public-ownership-insolvency-law-thames-water/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/utilities-public-ownership-insolvency-law-thames-water/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:42:10 GMT Thames Water customers face bills up to 44% higher while an insolvency law loophole, not political will, keeps the utility out of public hands. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-ukraine-missiles-storm-shadow-war-bill/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/burnham-ukraine-missiles-storm-shadow-war-bill/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:16:42 GMT Burnham's first trip abroad hands MBDA a bigger Ukraine order book, on top of a war bill already running at £3bn a year. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/uk-bond-market-budget-healey-ceiling/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/uk-bond-market-budget-healey-ceiling/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:23:55 GMT Fund managers have set Healey's Budget ceiling at £10bn, weeks before he names a single cut. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/tony-greenstein-terrorism-acquittal/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/tony-greenstein-terrorism-acquittal/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:23:26 GMT A jury took two hours to clear Tony Greenstein of a terrorism charge that took the CPS three years to bring. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israel-lobby-us-elections-spend-fails/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israel-lobby-us-elections-spend-fails/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:03:05 GMT AIPAC spent a record $30.6m trying to beat one Senate candidate in Michigan. He won anyway, and so did the next target in Minnesota. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/labour-party-pushed-to-recognise-gaza-genocide/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/labour-party-pushed-to-recognise-gaza-genocide/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:02:18 GMT Labour members prepared a conference motion to force Burnham to recognise Gaza genocide. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/your-party-rent-controls-freeze-burnham-renters/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/your-party-rent-controls-freeze-burnham-renters/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:20:23 GMT Average rents hit a record £1,393 a month as Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party demands a freeze and statutory rent controls. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/barclays-5-terror-sentencing/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/barclays-5-terror-sentencing/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:20:20 GMT A judge ruled the Barclays 5 will not face terror sentencing for a 2024 Elbit-linked protest, but the door to future terrorism charges stays open. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/sainsbury-donation-burnham-350000-in-donations-before-no-10/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/sainsbury-donation-burnham-350000-in-donations-before-no-10/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:18:41 GMT Burnham's first financial register as PM shows £350,000 in pre-No10 donations, tracing back to the network behind Labour Together's undeclared funding and a smear operation against journalists. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/trump-bomb-oman-threat-iran-shipping-deal/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/trump-bomb-oman-threat-iran-shipping-deal/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:29:20 GMT Trump threatened to bomb Oman, the Gulf state that brokered the ceasefire ending the Iran war, over a shipping deal Washington wasn't party to. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/palantir-british-police-contracts-kept-secret/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/palantir-british-police-contracts-kept-secret/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:28:47 GMT Six police forces spent £7.8m on Palantir while a secret unit told them to deny it, an investigation has found. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/reform-uk-disability-payment-cuts-reform-plan/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/reform-uk-disability-payment-cuts-reform-plan/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:44:01 GMT Reform UK wants to scrap PIP and replace cash support with council-run accounts, a £50bn plan an economist says is £28bn short of adding up. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/farage-financial-gifts-investigation-reopens/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/farage-financial-gifts-investigation-reopens/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:43:01 GMT Parliament's standards watchdog reopened the Farage financial gifts investigation the day he won Clacton, a vote that cost taxpayers £250,000. UK https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-government-spied-on-anti-ice-protesters-unions-records/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-government-spied-on-anti-ice-protesters-unions-records/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:42:43 GMT DHS records unsealed in a Minneapolis court show agents infiltrated union meetings and Signal chats of people never charged with a crime. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/ofwat-hikes-bills-amid-hosepipe-bans/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/ofwat-hikes-bills-amid-hosepipe-bans/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:42:17 GMT Ofwat approved £3.4bn in fresh water bill hikes the same week 27 million people were put under hosepipe bans. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/uk-growth-iran-war-energy-prices/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/uk-growth-iran-war-energy-prices/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:38:25 GMT A war Britain helped wage from its own air bases has added £221 to household energy bills, and this week's growth figures show the strain. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/energy-bills-windfall-profits-iran-war-6bn/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/energy-bills-windfall-profits-iran-war-6bn/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:26:51 GMT Energy firms banked over £6bn in war windfall profits this year, more than £200 a household, days before Ofgem's next price cap rise. Economy https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israeli-think-tank-lobbyists-push-us-to-quit-un/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/israeli-think-tank-lobbyists-push-us-to-quit-un/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:26:26 GMT Misgav Institute paid Mercury Public Affairs to push Congress and the White House toward full US withdrawal from the UN system. Middle East https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-terrorist-label-brazil-election/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/us-terrorist-label-brazil-election/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:26:09 GMT Washington designated Brazil's two biggest gangs terrorist groups after Flávio Bolsonaro asked for it in the Oval Office, and Lula's poll lead is now shrinking. United States https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/children-detained-as-adults-france-returns-deal/ https://peoplesbritain.co.uk/children-detained-as-adults-france-returns-deal/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:25:36 GMT Home Office figures show 94 of 304 age-disputed arrivals under the France returns deal were children held in adult detention. UK