Beloved BBC Star Carol Kirkwood Confirms Retirement After Decades On Air
January 27, 2026
By TracyAnn Dunkley
Celebrity & Entertainment Reporter
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Carol Kirkwood’s announcement that she will retire from BBC Breakfast some time around April 2026 with the weight of a genuine era ending. She sat with the team she has fronted forecasts alongside for decades, speaking with the warmth and humility that have always defined her. Viewers across the country felt that familiar tug of affection; Carol has long been more than a weather presenter. She has been a reassuring presence in the early hours, a voice that could make even the bleakest forecast feel......
Britain abolished ESN but not the logic behind It.
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Britain likes to believe that Educationally Subnormal (ESN) schools belong to a discredited past: a shameful episode closed, archived, and morally resolved. But ESN was not simply a policy, it was a worldview. One that treated white, middle-class norms as neutral intelligence and Black difference as deficiency. Thousands of Black children were siphoned out of mainstream education, denied exams, and quietly written off by a system that called exclusion “assessment.” The state has never......
Should an automatic by-election be triggered when an MP defects to another party?
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A petition demanding automatic by‑elections whenever an MP defects to another party has now surged past 105,000 signatures, forcing Parliament to consider it for debate. What began as a quiet call for accountability has become a national flashpoint, with voters insisting that they should not be represented by a party they never chose. As the signature count climbs by the hour, pressure is mounting on Westminster to set a firm debate date and acknowledge the growing......
Eric Huntley, Pioneer of Black British Publishing and Community Activism, Dies at 95
By TracyAnn Dunkley
Celebrity & Entertainment Reporter
Eric Huntley — the Guyanese‑born publisher, organiser, and towering figure of Black British political life, has died at the age of 95, prompting an outpouring of tributes from the communities he spent a lifetime empowering.
Huntley, alongside his late wife and comrade Jessica Huntley, co‑founded Bogle‑L’Ouverture Publications in the late 1960s, a radical publishing house that opened the door for Black writers long shut out of the British literary establishment. Their imprint brought the works of thinkers such as......
Windrush Commissioner’s Office staffed by Home Office officials, contradicting claims of being independent
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The government’s promise of an “independent” Windrush Commissioner is under fire after the immigration minister confirmed that the Commissioner’s office is staffed by Home Office civil servants — the same department responsible for the Windrush scandal and the failures that followed.
In an exclusive interview with JamRadio, the Minister for Migration and Citizenship, Mike Tapp confirmed that the Commissioner’s team is made up of Home Office officials, including a Chief of Staff......
Windrush Victims to Receive Faster and Greater Compensation as Major Reforms Take Effect Today
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The UK government has introduced sweeping reforms to the Windrush Compensation Scheme, with new measures coming into force today that promise faster payments, broader financial redress, and priority processing for older victims of the Home Office scandal.
The changes mark one of the most significant overhauls of the scheme since its launch, following years of criticism from survivors, campaigners, and community organisations who argued that delays and......
Government Announces £600,000 Boost for Windrush Compensation Support — But Critics Say the System Still Fails Victims
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The Home Office has released £600,000 in new funding for community groups helping people navigate the Windrush Compensation Scheme, in what ministers describe as an effort to make the process less “complex and traumatic” for victims of the scandal.
The money forms the second round of the government’s £1.5 million Windrush Compensation Advocacy Support Fund, which pays trusted grassroots......
More than 300 Met Police staff declare Freemason links as High Court challenge unfolds
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More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have now declared links to the Freemasons or other “hierarchical associations”, after the force introduced a new disclosure rule that is already facing a legal challenge in the High Court.
The Met announced in December that membership of the Freemasons, or any organisation with a confidential structure and expectations of mutual support, would be added to its declarable associations policy. Officers......
The United Grand Lodge of England has ask the High Court to block a new rule requiring Met Police officers to declare their associations with Freemasonry
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The United Grand Lodge of England has taken urgent legal action to stop a new Metropolitan Police rule that would force officers to declare whether they are members of the Freemasons, arguing the policy is discriminatory, unlawful and based on a flawed consultation.
The Freemasons have moved to block the Metropolitan Police’s plan to add the organisation to its list of “declarable......
A High Court judge has ordered the Home Secretary to allow a man of Jamaican heritage to return to Britain after he was blocked from boarding a flight
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A High Court judge has ordered the Home Secretary to allow a long‑term UK resident to return to Britain after he was blocked from boarding a flight and left stranded overseas when his eVisa was abruptly cancelled. The case has intensified warnings from lawyers and campaigners that the UK is sleepwalking into a “Digital Windrush” scandal, driven by opaque immigration technology.
The man,......
