Anthony Williams, a 32-year-old man from Peterborough, has been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing passengers on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday. A train worker hailed as a hero for helping to save lives during the attack, which police say is not being treated as an act of terrorism, is in a “critical but stable condition”. Nigel Farage has said Reform UK is the party of “alarm clock Britain” in a major speech on his vision for the economy. He promised to “substantially” slash the benefits bill, raise the thresholds at which people start to pay tax, embrace the cryptocurrency boom, “get the North Sea operating” and scrapping all net zero subsidies. Sightings of giant frilly-mouthed jellyfish around Britain have more than trebled this year, to 310, thanks to milder waters drawing the species northward. Despite the enormous invertebrates’ imposing size – they can grow to nearly a metre wide and weigh up to 35kg – their sting is thankfully too weak to do serious harm to humans.

The Greens are becoming the Reform of the left

Zack Polanski is doing for the Green Party what he used to claim, back when he was a Harley Street hypnotherapist, he could do for a woman’s breasts, says Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times. “Spectacular and rapid enlargement.” Since he took over as leader in September, the party’s membership has surged to twice the level of the Liberal Democrats; a YouGov poll last week put the the Greens neck-and-neck with the Conservatives and Labour, with a whopping 40% support from 18-to-24-year-olds. They are becoming for the left what Reform UK is for the right: a popular anti-establishment challenger at a time when “the system” is widely considered a failure. So it’s worth considering what Polanski actually wants to do.

He says he would impose a 1% wealth tax on the super-rich to pay for “air our kids can breathe”. He wants to nationalise all utilities (“cost unspecified”), abolish private property letting and create a state-owned housebuilder. He has even suggested a law that would mean the highest paid employee at any business couldn’t earn more than 10 times the salary of the lowest – good news for the tea ladies at Premier League football clubs, who would presumably have to be bumped up to £30,000 a week. Polanski angrily insists he is not part of the so-called “de-growth” movement, which argues that the only way to save the planet is to deliberately shrink the economy. But in reality his hard-left policies would do exactly that, albeit done in the name of “compassion” rather than the “overtly austere” agenda of the de-growth traditionalists. Don’t be fooled by this “political mesmerist”.

🍈🍈 When The Sun sent a reporter to try out Polanski’s breast-enlargement hypnotherapy in 2013, she was completely convinced. “I measure my bust after three days,” she wrote. “I’ve grown from a 32in chest to 34in. Three days later my chest measures 35in. Another three days and I’m 36in.”