GB News lost £22m last year, it relies on its co-owners Paul Marshall and Legatum Institute to stay afloat.

Prolific unregulated sperm donor loses UK legal fight to be named as child’s father Robert Albon cannot be declared four-year-old’s father because he ran illegal sperm donation business, court rules

“A prolific unregulated US sperm donor was described in the high court as a ‘highly dangerous man’ as he lost a legal fight to be named as the father of a child. Robert Albon calls himself Joe Donor & runs an illegal sperm donation business”

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This was birth mother’s sixth child. Her previous children had been removed from her care. She requested disclosure of the report assessing the suitability of the adopters. BM requested disclosure of the Annex A report. (She was given part of it, suitably redacted)

“The deaths of 91 care leavers were reported to authorities in the 12 months to March 2025, although officials believe the true figure may be higher”

Prof Krawczak: “the court statement that it was ‘not possible’ to say which of genetic twins has fathered a child is definitely untrue. The germ cells of monozygotic twins differ and allow their respective children to be clearly assigned to either of them using molecular genetic techniques”

Man jailed for killing wife who jumped from bridge Lee Milne was sentenced to eight years for being responsible for his wife Kimberly's death, in the first case of its kind in Scotland.

A man was convicted of killing his abused wife after she jumped from a road bridge in 2023. Jailed for 8 years, Lee Milne was convicted of culpable homicide.
Milne was placed on a sex offenders' register in 2024 after being convicted of a sexual assault of 2 young boys.

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@warmatters.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social

Total normal CEO guy

The military campaign launched by the United States against Iran is part of a broader effort to contain China.

However, so far, the results appear less favorable for the U.S. and more advantageous for China.

Putin said that Hitler lost the war because Germans did not send socks to their soldiers at the front.

"During the Great Patriotic War, the entire home front worked for the war effort, for our soldiers. But it wasn’t only about making tanks, aircraft, guns, and shells.

It’s an MRP poll! Credibility lacking.

Tories projected to come first in just 3 to 8 London boroughs. The Greens are projected to do better than the Reformatives.

🚨 NEW: Inflation rose by by 3.3% in the 12 months to March, up from 3.0% in the 12 months to February

Day 1520 of my 3 day war. We are conquering just enough territory to bury the soldiers who died capturing it.

I remain a master strategist.

1/3 The constant intrigue over Starmer-Mandelson is exhausting. We all know what happened & why. Starmer wanted Mandelson in the US because he was widely thought to be someone who could humour Trump & prevent him harming UK interests. Very few protested at the time.

Man admits rape and religiously aggravated abuse of Sikh woman John Ashby, 32, initially denies the attack but changes his plea one day after the trial begins.

We need to appeal to all the proud white Britons who want to protect women and children from brutal, primitive men, to keep their Union Jack-draped demos lawful as they protest this rape: yet another of the 74,000 at least committed by a white British man each year:

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Banning cigarettes for young people will ensure they are as impossible to buy as cannabis, insists government Government plans to ban the sale of cigarettes will make them as hard to get hold of as cannabis, we can report today.

NEWS! Banning cigarettes for young people will ensure they are as impossible to buy as cannabis, insists government

Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli

THE KISS-MY-ASS PRESIDENCY: Trump’s “Tribute” To Tim Cook Is Actually A Tribute To Himself — And Cook Handed Him The Gold Plaque To Write It On Tim Cook didn’t retire yesterday. He was eulogized by a conman who can’t stop telling the world he made a $4 trillion CEO kneel - and the $4 trillion CEO spent the last 18 months proving him right.

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interestingly it's now been changed; do always think any edits like this should be clearly flagged in the article though

Y'days post: Should the government compensate consumers for cost of living shocks? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/04/shou...
Any government subsidy today has to be paid for by raising taxes or borrowing. Why should the government do either to shield consumers who can afford to pay higher prices?

Ukraine’s Plan B and the Death of the Russian Ruble Russia’s banking crisis and Ukraine’s shift to robotic defense and European security hubs

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"Ukraine is no longer just a country fighting a war — it is slowly becoming a global defense technology hub."

@tejparikh.ft.com adds that supply shocks are becoming a permament feature of the global economy.

In the UK we need to stop focusing solely on short-term discussions about how to redistribute the losses from each shock, and think more about how to improve our reslience to future shocks.

I think - am I wrong? - 15 miles off Oman is still within Iranian waters.

Iran war latest: Two ships fired at in Strait of Hormuz - with one 'heavily damaged' in Iran shooting Donald Trump has extended the US ceasefire with Iran for peace talks, which will conclude "one way or the other". He said the US blockade will stay in place at the Strait of Hormuz - where two ships h...

Iran - “Until the United States ends restrictions on full freedom of movement of vessels from Iran and to Iran, the Strait of Hormuz will remain under strict control and the situation will stay as it is."

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Politico - like most of the anti-Labour MSM - now leads today’s reportage with: “Cracks in the Cabinet”.

I have News For Politico: this government continues - and under Starmer - until the next general election. Without cracks.

EU members reject push to suspend association agreement with Israel Spain, Slovenia and Ireland failed to win the unanimity needed to limit the country’s preferential access to the single market.

Spain, Slovenia and Ireland failed to secure EU unanimity in their bid to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, leaving Israel’s preferential market access untouched.

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North East Herts MP Chris Hinchliff calls on Government to put train passengers first The Labour politician said prices could be 13% lower if train leasing dividends were reinvested into fares.

Imagine bringing rail into public ownership with no plan to reduce the extortionate fares! 🚄💰

That's what this government is doing

We need a new railcard offering 1/3 off

Well done @chrishinchliff.bsky.social campaigning to CUT FARES 🔥

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Lufthansa axes 20,000 ‘unprofitable’ flights to save jet fuel Airline says jet fuel costs have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict.

With shortages of jet fuel looming, Lufthansa has already scrapped 20,000 short-haul flights through October, aiming to save over 40,000 metric tons of fuel.

Many that have booked holidays (including moi! In UK in July) may be cancelling…

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ARE heat pumps a better solution than installing AirCon units? We use these in Spain for winter heat and sumner cooling. For HW we use electric

A water filled radiator in each room, powered by an electric (not gas) boiler is one alternative. But surely water-filled rads is now redundant technology?

Hungary violated EU law in 2021 when it banned children from accessing LGBTQ+ content, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday, ordering Budapest to scrap the legislation.