The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

I can

I can

Chris Woakes. Hero.

#ENGvIND

Thank you - these have brought me great happiness today!!!

I’ve just ordered some!

Another reply from Emily with another picture of Graeme Souness and the text This used to be a proper sport, men, at it, now it's all drones and VAR and kids playing computer games not wanting to mess their hair up. I bet none of them have ever garrotted a man in the six yard box.

A reply from Nick with a picture of Roy Keane holding a Sky Sports mic and the text "Listen, he goes around calling himself Alexander The Great, but look at his empire. What's he won in Europe? Nothing. It's embarrassing."

Another picture of Roy Keane from Jenny with the text "Why do you need a Pact of Steel? I don't like it, play your own game"

Two replies from Emily. The first is a picture of Harry Redknapp leaning out of his car and the text The fing is, we got so much talent in England, some pwoper evil cahnts but the kids today just wantah put up posters of Pootin and Twump and all them foreign geezers Underneath is a picture of Steve McManaman with the text yep yep yep yep yep

21 underappreciated films on Disney+ UK Disney+ UK is about more than Marvel and Star Wars stuff. Here’s a bunch of underappreciated films on the service.

#Disney+ UK is about more than Marvel and Star Wars stuff. Here’s a bunch of underappreciated films on the service.

Athattoir wear

Five books by Romain Gary, Rabindrath Tagore, Dylan Thomas, Gertrude Stein and Arthur Schnitzler, in stylish red-on-white text-based designs. Format is small (A-format) paperbacks.

Five by Cesar Aira, Chester Himes, Gerard de Nerval, Audrey Lorde and Mary Shelley

Five by Maryse Condé, Nikolai Leskov, June Jordan, Willa Cather and Emilia Pardo

Say hello to the Penguin Archive. 90 short books being published next month for Penguin’s 90th anniversary—fifteen of which are shown here. £5.99 each, with designs reminiscent of the old Great Ideas series. (Though sadly these aren’t debossed.)

The Shanakee?!? 😆

The plant based alternative promises to help high schoolers quit vaping Picture of a lit cigarette.

Wow. Has anyone heard about these?

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

In all seriousness then, who do we vote for now?

Lifelong Labour voter here 😞

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’ Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

Silvia Galandini, Oxfam: “We live in the sixth-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’ Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

Silvia Galandini, Oxfam: “We live in the sixth-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Love Fazackerley #scousefilms

Allerton Presidents Men
Wavertree of Life
Tuebrooklyn
Aigburth of a Nation
The Toxteth Avenger

A golden opportunity indeed

How much were those strawberries??

Garth from Wayne’s World turns seventy in a few weeks.

Front cover of Private Eye.

Another vote for the Lovecraft Investigations series - love them all

A packet of Jelly Beans in Fruit Salad, Dib Dab, Refreshers & Wham flavours. (Seriously.)

Could we all please take a moment to thank the men & women responsible for these absolute triumphs. British industry & innovation at their very finest.

Northfields?!

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Exploding Whale along the Oregon coast YouTube video by KATU News

54 years ago today, a whale exploded and showered looky-loos with gory blubber. The newscast is sometimes considered to be the first viral video.

It needs to be seen to be believed. 🐳💥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...