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
Trump, Melania, Epstein, Maxwell. Partying together.
Definitely nothing to see here.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
Democrats are demanding more information about Pete Hegseth's finances and investments following a report — which the Pentagon demanded be retracted — that he may have tried to invest in defense stocks before the war in Iran began.
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FT with a major scoop tonight…
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Just minutes before Trump announced “productive discussions” with Iran to end the war, traders placed millions in oil bets.
Is this a remarkable coincidence?
Or are Trump’s friends getting filthy-rich from his war through insider trading?
Another one of those Trump tantrums, this time attacking NATO for not sending ships he told them he didn't need... probably scripted by Putin.
But he’s already won. And he doesn’t need any help. He literally said so.
‘Practically nothing less to target’
Trump, 2026
Stalingrad has been 'destroyed and [was] without any further worthwhile targets.’
von Richthofen, (senior Luftwaffe commander), August 1942
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
"The Epstein Files have come and gone, as far as Trump is concerned – I don't think they've really touched him."
Would Trump invade Iran, and potentially go to the brink of World War 3, to distract from 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files?
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Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
Pete Hegseth just made it clear that in this war Trump regime does NOT care about International law or even our own rules of engagement that are designed to save lives of civilians. This video will be played at the International Criminal Court as part of the prosecution of Hegseth for war crimes.
Based on the alleged deciphering of certain words in the released files, isn't it allegedly possible that 'Pizza' Express Woking was a slap in the face?
Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home
Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home
New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
The "coincidence" of Epstein's cash payments to Peter Mandelson's partner/husband in 2009/10 and the then industry secretary's lobbying within cabinet for a softer post-crash policy towards bankers looks on the face of it like outright corruption. Certainly demands police investigation.
the oldest adage in journalism is “follow the money”
new in the FT:
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" - George Orwell, 1984
As Trump removes the border patrol chief from Minneapolis after a second fatal ICE shooting, have observers have now become the city's eyes and ears?
Our candidate for the Gorton & Denton by-election is @GoodwinMJ. Matt is coming home to Manchester and will fight for every vote. Let's give him our support
Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
It's an old joke, but if you phone up your local cinema to find what time they're showing Melania - The Movie they'll ask what time can you make it.
Not a single seat for any of the 14 showings has been sold at Vue in Castleford - I checked.
Zelensky is entirely justified in speaking bluntly like this to Europeans. Too many seem willing to see Ukrainians suffer to provide Europe greater time and security, without acknowledging that Ukraine’s fight is their own.
"In the run up to the '24 election, all the people around Trump demanded full disclosure of the Epstein files."
"Now they've seen what’s in the files, they're not so keen."
The deadline to release the Epstein files passed a month ago - so where are they?
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
