The new Nazi Barbie.

🚨 NEW: The BBC and ITV have ordered Labour to tone down its party political broadcast after deeming it too offensive

The ad contained remarks from Reform UK figures including a former council leader who called London a "third world s---hole" run by a "narcissistic Pakistani"

Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ‘negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the money

The Australian company that ran the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge has admitted it overcharged the CONSERVATIVE government by £118m

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Tbf Alex Ballinger tried but Rachel Maclean chimed in with Reform parroting the lies.

Zia Yusuf currently misleading on #PoliticsLive that more have entered under this government than any other. No one corrected him, why are they continually given a platform to spread their hate?

Good to see this from Ben and hopefully the Today programme will broadcast an on-air correction?

So there are serious holes in Ed Davey’s argument then

Fuel duty revenues dropped in March to their lowest since July 2023.

Most interesting bit of the UK public finances data today:

Fuel duty revenues dropped in March to their lowest since July 2023.

Strongly suggests people were buying less petrol petrol last month.

Governments and opposition parties of every stripe are acting as if Britain is still living in the post-Cold War peace dividend. As if our demographics are the same as the 1990s, as if climate change and decarbonisation will not incur massive upfront costs. But Labour, afraid of unpopularity, refused to raise the broad-based taxes needed to do anything about these generational challenges. And while the government hasn’t really fixed anything, at least it’s riding high in the polls!

At least not raising income tax has made Labour popular.

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

Having already down sized and know a few people currently in the process. It’s difficult doing it alone, without a spouse. And very difficult to process editing your life’s possessions the older you get. So basically the longer you leave it the worse it gets for you and your family.

At a global level, renewables have overtaken coal power for the first time in 100 years.

The rise of solar and wind pushed renewables to 33.8% of global electricity generation.

Coal fell to 33.0% and made up less than a third of global generation for the first time in history.

Predicting every London election result Plus: What's the tube strike ACTUALLY about?

It’s the most Bluesky thing that’s ever happened: Comment is Freed x London Centric local elections prediction collab just dropped. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-loc...

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Noticed Jeremy Corbyn styled himself in claret and blue for this afternoons debate. Still can’t decide if it’s preferable Spurs or West Ham get relegated

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

It does feel very Westminster village suddenly and I think this is probably right.

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Sir John Whittingdale, honorary vice-president and founding member of the Conservative Friends of Russia wants a full review of the security threat posed by Peter Mandelson.

UK has quietly regained its position as the world’s 5th largest economy The United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures.

In other news today the United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures
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This is the way

“X is now becoming a very unpleasant and a very dangerous place”

...says Nigel Farage today

They will bang on relentlessly but it feels like we are at a different point economically than we were when Blair wanted in. Would those 5 tests be met now?

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Honest Bob still desperately pushing his “small boat crisis”
On #BBCLauraK. She didn’t feel the need to counter his scare mongering

Honest Bob wriggling in his seat on #BBCLauraK Usual one rule for me stuff, he’s paid millions in tax so we should give him a break that Rayner didn’t deserve.

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

So: £98k of corporation tax is due. Plus about £27k of interest

This was a really basic mistake. Everyone in REIT world knows that REIT distributions are taxed - it's not some point only the tax nerds know

That means HMRC are likely to assess penalties for carelessness

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

Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

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