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Daily Mirror
6 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
Every new SpecialBuy item coming to Aldi's middle aisle on Thursday, August 7
The supermarket will have a new batch of one-off items to pick up during the weekly shop Aldi shoppers will notice a major change in stores today (August 7) as Specialbuy refresh day arrives. The middle aisle, which is often very tempting to shoppers, is popular for its huge range of items that stand out for their budget prices. Each week follows a specific theme - and this one is perfect for people already prepping for the upcoming 2025/26 school term. It seems like the summer holidays only just started for kids, but September is just a few weeks away. With it comes the start of a new school year, which can be expensive for parents. They will need to make sure their kids have the right size uniforms and enough supplies for the best learning experience possible. Spreading the cost can help the overall expense feel less like a sudden bank balance drain, and Aldi has launched a handful of affordable items that are perfect for school, college, university or even the office. The range includes water bottles, lunch boxes and stationery. It can be somewhat overwhelming to browse what's in stock during your weekly shop, and you might end up missing something. So, look ahead of time at what to expect with this roundup of new items coming into stores. Dylan (@dylanreviews) is an Aldi employee who regularly showcases the Specialbuys for his massive 353,000 followers each week. He showed off a range of drinkware, including 750ml Stainless Steel Flasks (£6.99) and a jumbo 1.8L bottle (£9.99). For little ones, there was a choice of different Squishmallow-themed bottles (£3.99). He also showed off a variety of Silicone Storage Packs (£2.99 for 3pk), ideal for packed lunches. Shoppers can pick up different themes such as Animals, Nature, Fruit and Gaming to make their break a little more fun. Sticking with lunchtime, there is also some Bento-style lunchboxes for £3.99 and £4.99 (depending on size). To carry everything, shoppers can grab a simple Polar Gear Lunch Bag (£4.99) in plain colours like black, pink or blue - ideal for older kids or taking to the office. Aldi is also selling a really useful tool for the office that's sure to save disputes over charging cables. The 3 in 1 Charger (£9.99) allows one connection to power up wireless headphones, smartwatches, and smartphones. The supermarket is also selling wireless speakers, alarm clocks, and headphones that work via Bluetooth (all £11.99 each). Some items are listed in the Specialbuys section on the Aldi website. For example, shoppers can get a range of Mixed Stationery for 99p each, including coloured pens, pencils, highlighters, and geometry sets (including ruler, protractor, and set squares). There were also mini packs of paper clips, staples, push pins, and more, also for 99p. In addition to the school items, shoppers might also spot the Italian theme running through the store this week with the arrival of new products. Celebrating the Taste of Italy event, shoppers can get a variety of sauces, pastas, recipe kits, sweet treats, and an alcoholic tipple inspired by the Mediterranean country from 59p. Aldi Specialbuys are limited-time offers on unique items that appear in stores. The theme is refreshed every Thursday and Sunday, meaning shoppers tend to have a limited amount of time to get particular products. You can find details about upcoming Specialbuys by checking the Aldi website, picking up a leaflet in-store, or signing up for email alerts.
New Statesman
9 hours ago
- New Statesman
GB News is coming for the BBC and Sky
Photo by Simon Dack / Alamy Live News 'We are ending the dominance of the BBC News Channel and Sky News,' crowed GB News's head of programming, Ben Briscoe, as he heralded new viewing figures for the station last month. While there is some degree of selective reporting in Briscoe's numbers, there's no doubt GB News did beat its rivals in several key slots in July. It's both an impressive and terrifying gain for the broadcaster, which only launched four years ago but aims to be Britain's biggest UK news channel by 2028. Presumably, rioting outside migrant hotels and talk about impending civil unrest is good for business. Online, GB News had an audience of ten million in June (around half that of Sky and a quarter of the BBC). One former Sky journalist has little doubt GB News will reach its 2028 target, saying: 'When big stories break people still want the BBC and Sky, but the rest of the time there are a lot of viewers happy to sit and have their prejudices repeated back to them all day long.' Yet still it is making losses: GB News, which is bankrolled by its owner, Paul Marshall, and the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum, lost $33.4m in 2023-24. Nigel Farage alone has earned £330,000 since July 2024. 'The losses are now utterly irrelevant,' one former insider said. 'Since Reform's polling kicked off, it is felt every penny is money well spent.' An end to wokery awaits The Yorkshire Shepherdess and Cruising with Jane McDonald because Channel 5 falls under the ownership of Skydance Media, as part of an $8bn mega-deal. The British broadcaster is owned by Paramount Global, which is to be taken over by the US billionaire David Ellison (recently spotted hanging out UFC ringside with Donald Trump). The deal was signed off by the US TV regulator after Ellison pledged to end all diversity, equity and inclusion programmes and Paramount shelled out $16m to settle a legal battle with Trump over the editing of the 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview. There's a rumoured side deal of $20m of free ads for Trump. Friends of the London-based Channel 5 boss, Sarah Rose, are worried about how she will cope under the new regime. Just months ago she wrote: 'We are dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace,' and the channel has a 'no diversity, no commission' pledge on its website. Staff are concerned the channel's new owner might not just be looking for a culture change, but hoping to offload it entirely – or to ditch its £200m annual budget for original commissioning, in favour of a return to the dark old days under Richard Desmond when schedules were filled with reruns of US imports. ITV has been busy ramping up excitement for The Hack, which tells how the Guardian journalist Nick Davies uncovered phone hacking at the News of the World in 2011. There are such high hopes that the drama will be the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office that Mr Bates (aka Toby Jones) appears as Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Also starring is Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, who leads the inquiry into the murder of the private investigator Daniel Morgan – a case that remains unsolved and which raised serious questions about corrupt relationships between Met detectives and newspaper staff. 'Put it this way,' one former News of the World journo told me: 'if you thought the Trainspotting toilet scene was about swimming in shit, that's nothing compared with what went on in the Daniel Morgan case.' Mentions on the BBC about the launch of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's temporarily named Your Party have largely been of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it variety. And yet the party already claims to have 650,000 sign ups – which rather casts shade on Reform UK's (admittedly paying) membership, currently 231,721. Still, Reform is assured bountiful BBC coverage if Farage so much as sneezes. BBC journalists are keen to reset what has been a fractious relationship with Corbyn, but grumble that how little air time he is permitted lies in editors' hands. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Further trouble for the broadcaster awaits,as yet more licence-fee money is being spent on another investigation by external lawyers. This time, tens of thousands are being earmarked to probe allegations that two Strictly Come Dancing stars were regularly taking cocaine while on the show. The investigation into the former newsreader Huw Edwards cost around £400,000 (plus another £1m for a review of complaints procedures) and £3.3m was spent investigating claims against DJ Tim Westwood. As one BBC journo put it: 'I've decided the only way I'll ever get a pay rise here is to retrain as an HR lawyer.' Farewell, then, to MailOnline, the home of the sidebar of shame and 40-word headlines. The site is now to be known simply as Daily Mail – a nod to its print history. Although that is cold comfort for its few remaining staff who originated in print. 'The coup is now complete,' one said. 'It may now be called Daily Mail but we have been totally overtaken by the online staff. They know how to get the clicks, but they haven't got the first clue about how to find a proper story.' Snout Line: Got a story? Write to tips@ [See also: Inside the factions of the new left] Related
New Statesman
13 hours ago
- New Statesman
Labour is making Britain a more European country
Illustration by Jonathan McHugh / Ikon Images It was Nigel Lawson who stated the ambition most clearly. Nine years ago, a fortnight after the UK voted to leave the EU, the late Conservative chancellor hailed an opportunity to 'finish the job that Margaret Thatcher started'. For free marketeers, Brexit was the method, the object was to change the country's soul. The description of their vision as 'Singapore-on-Thames' has always been erroneous – this imagined libertarian Disneyland has a highly dirigiste state. But the aim was not in doubt: a Britain in which taxes would be cut, spending reduced and regulations eliminated. Brexit is an increasingly friendless project – Labour MPs note with interest how rarely Reform dares mention it; the last reference on the party's X account was in March. Only 29 per cent of the country, according to a new More in Common poll, would still vote Leave, while 49 per cent favour a referendum on rejoining the EU within the next five years. Far from regarding Keir Starmer's Europe deal as a 'betrayal', most believe it is too modest. Leavers can take solace from the implacability of Labour's red lines: Starmer has suggested there will be no return to the single market, the customs union and free movement in his lifetime. But those on the right who always viewed Brexit as a means rather than an end lack such consolation. If there is anything resembling a clear pattern from Labour's first year in office it might be this: the embrace of a more European-style economy. After Brexit, France and Germany took seriously the threat of acquiring a free-market upstart on their doorstep. In practice, the UK is mirroring them. Start with taxes and spending. As Rachel Reeves likes to remind left-wing critics, she used her first Budget to impose the largest increase in the former since 1993: £41.5bn, or 1.2 per cent of GDP. By 2027-28, the UK, a country traditionally described as having 'US-style taxes', will have a tax take of 37.7 per cent, putting it within touching distance of the Netherlands and Germany (even before Reeves' planned sequel). Public spending will settle at a similarly European level of 43.9 per cent of GDP. A shift that the Conservatives could plead was temporary – owing to the emergencies of the pandemic and the energy crisis – is becoming permanent under Labour. Reeves, fittingly, replaced a portrait of Lawson in her office with one of Ellen Wilkinson, Clement Attlee's education minister and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Next turn to workers' rights. Tony Blair once described his government's role as 'to campaign to extend flexible labour markets to the rest of Europe'. Starmer, by contrast, through the Employment Rights Bill, is importing a more continental model: a ban on 'exploitative' zero-hours contracts, an end to 'fire and rehire' and the extension of full rights to workers from day one. Cabinet ministers proudly point out that, far from being 'watered down', the bill has been strengthened in areas such as non-disclosure agreements. Then there is ownership. The UK's aversion to nationalisation under Thatcher and New Labour was yet another dividing line between it and statist Europe. Now Ed Miliband boasts of having established the 'first publicly owned energy company in over 70 years' (GB Energy), and rail franchises – some of them previously held by France and the Netherlands – are being reclaimed by the British state. This European turn could yet extend to welfare. Papers by Labour Together call for the reassertion of the contributory principle – with a far clearer link between what people pay in and what they get out, as is typical on the continent. This, the think tank suggests, would serve as an antidote to populists exploiting a broken social contract – one adviser references the fury of the Inbetweeners actor James Buckley at having to pay for a garden waste collection even as council tax continually rises. A new digital contribution card – recalling the National Insurance stamps once received by employees – is proposed alongside a system of unemployment insurance (potentially set as a share of earnings). Back in 2021, in a 12,000-word essay for the Fabian Society, Starmer championed the 'contribution society', one based on 'being part of something bigger, playing your part, valuing others'. This notion, cabinet ministers such as Liz Kendall and Shabana Mahmood believe, should be central to Labour's philosophy. There are moments when Starmer's often inchoate approach acquires more definition. During his press conference with Emmanuel Macron last month, he spoke of proving 'that social democracy has the answers' in contrast to the 'performative populism' of Nigel Farage. Here was a riposte to those who accuse him of engaging in no act more complex than chasing Reform's tail. But what direction is Starmer heading in? The UK is charting a different course yet Labour has left voters wondering whether this is the product of accident or design. In his first speech as Prime Minister, Starmer vowed to lead a government 'unburdened by doctrine' – an approach that disillusioned MPs contend has left his administration rudderless. 'There's too many concepts floating around at too high a level, which is what happens when intellectual leadership is lacking,' says one. The task facing Labour this autumn is to provide it. Rather than finishing the job that Thatcher started, Starmer has chosen to begin reversing it. He will soon have to tell voters why. [See also: The Online Safety Act humiliates us all] Related
