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Great British PAC Condemns BBC's Armistice Day SAS Coverage as Veterans Face Years of Uncertainty

At the eleventh hour, Britain fell silent for the men who never came home. Hours earlier, the BBC had placed photographs of dead Afghans at the top of its news coverage, framed around possible SAS war crimes. The allegations are serious and they must be examined. But on the one morning of the year set aside for restraint, the corporation owed its audience more context than it gave them, and British veterans deserve better than another decade of not knowing.

Vicky Richter · 11 November 2026
Opinion

Great British PAC Questions Khan's £86,000 Spanish Benches as Taxpayers Face £144m Oxford Street Gamble

Six Spanish benches are in place on the stretch of Oxford Street Lord Khan closed to traffic, with more than 50 more to come, at about £1,540 each and a reported order value of £86,000 before freight and installation. The wider programme plans £144m of capital spending, includes public borrowing despite the Mayor's earlier confidence that third parties would provide the funding, and has not published a contract for the benches.

Vicky Richter · 11 November 2026
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Great British PAC Demands Justice for Veterans as Reform Pledges to End Historic Prosecutions

Angus MacIntyre left the RAF as a wing commander on Friday. By Monday he was Reform UK's Armed Forces spokesman with a promise: legislation within 100 days of a Reform government taking office to end the historic prosecutions of British veterans, and his own resignation if that pledge is not honoured. With 150 SAS personnel drawn into the Afghanistan inquiry and Labour's Troubles Bill through the Commons, Britain's treatment of its own soldiers is now a live political battleground.

Vicky Richter · 9 November 2026
Opinion

Great British PAC Challenges Labour Over IFS Warning of Worst Decade for Family Incomes on Record

Britain is heading for the worst decade of household income growth on record, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned, after John Healey's first Budget offered a £100 energy payment and a raft of small measures while deferring the big decisions on welfare, spending and growth. Business leaders called it a missed opportunity, the Resolution Foundation said support was badly targeted, and the Chancellor's account of his welfare pledge did not survive the day.

Vicky Richter · 30 October 2026
Opinion

Great British PAC Questions Labour's £2bn Defence Budget Row as Treasury Takes Control of Armed Forces Pension Funding

Four months ago the Government promised the Ministry of Defence £73.8bn for 2027-28. John Healey's first Budget allocates £72.8bn. The missing £1bn a year corresponds to the Armed Forces pension funding no longer shown in the MoD's departmental allocation, now accounted for through a central Treasury arrangement. The Treasury insists no spending power has been lost. The Conservatives call it a stealth cut. Between those two claims sits a question the Government has not yet answered.

Vicky Richter · 29 October 2026
Opinion

Great British PAC Questions Labour's £45 Energy Bill Saving as Households Face Forecast £276 January Rise

John Healey is presenting the abolition of gas standing charges as relief for 23 million homes. Around four in ten households may pay more, the saving will not arrive until 2027, and Cornwall Insight forecasts the price cap will rise £276 in January. Against a queue of Labour tax rises stretching to 2029, a modest, delayed saving is a thin definition of breathing space.

Vicky Richter · 28 October 2026