When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Laura Kuenssberg poses the question why can't Starmer move on from the Mandelson problem.
One reason is her and Chris Mason's 24/7 obsession with trashing him.
An American from Utah killed her husband.
Daniel Farke’s record v Carrick in the league…
P5 W5
#lufc
Polanski talks up teacher pay rises, scaling back exams and fighting far right - taxing the rich to pay for it all.
Fair play from the Mail.
I said what I said.
Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?
It’s bizarre, frankly
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
Does anyone think Matt Goodwin’s book on Britain’s demise is a publishing sensation? I mean, other than him | Marina Hyde
I mean there it is.
Oh
This Is Fascism
‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Brilliant, beautiful book.
Labour's slow, sure progress is an easy target for Farage Home secretary Yvette Cooper's hard graft on the small boat crisis has to be seen to be working (AFP/Getty) SEAN O'GRADY Maybe everyone can agree on one thing: if stopping the boats was easy, it would have been done by now. Whether the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, ever deluded herself otherwise, a year of only limited progress in the government's mission to "smash the gangs" must have brought home to her just how intractable irregular migration is.
Just the same as Brexit, in fact, when he also made extravagant claims about how it would solve our economic problems, and then blamed everyone else when it left the nation impoverished. Now he's blaming the migrants rather than Brussels, and his policies - little more than slogans - should be treated with extreme caution. Leaving the ECHR, for example - which he used to call "Brexit 2.0" before Brexit 1.0 turned out to be a flop - wouldn't change a thing over in Calais.
The far right will never fix anything. Ever. We shouldn’t need to learn that lesson again.
“It’s not that the remedies offered by Farage, Rupert Lowe, various fascists and some Conservatives are cruel and morally shameful, which they are, but that they are impractical and costly”
(Independent)
Nigel Farage looking deeply unamused as Angela Rayner accuses him of offering "billions more in unfunded tax cuts for the very richest while he marches to the lobby in the House of Commons to vote against higher pay for the lowest earners"
“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King
#photography
#books
Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
There is no endorsement...
When doubters doubt, this man said that 100% we would be in the premier league next season. Take a bow Daniel Farke 👏👏👏👏
Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory.
The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.
My heroes!
The best commentary team consistently doing a brilliant job.
Thanks fellas.
We’ve been covering #lufc games for #lutv for years, travelling up and down the country together but this is the first time anyone’s had the gumption to get a team pic… good thinking @tonydorigo.com 👍🏻
Connor’s the cameraman/techguy/driver/carer 😂
Ok Jonathan Goodenough is now better at this than Kuenssberg, Mason, Peston, etc.
Trump and all his Maga disciples, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, see Europe as little more than a parasite – how did it all go so wrong? Asks @jayelwes.bsky.social
Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Trump Over Judge Impeachment Remark.
“Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Justice Roberts wrote.
#MomSky
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.
So fighting for the Robert E Lee statues wasn’t really about just preserving history.
I’m shocked.
Heard an interesting anecdote today. Friend was up in Canada last weekend and, when entering via the Nexus line, there was a Tesla in front that got grilled for 15min. My friend breezed right through.
It would be *hilarious* if Canadian immigration officials were profiling Tesla drivers.
