Never ever ever consider paying fees for a trust to ‘protect’ your assets from tax or care home fees bit.ly/3Rdu5iY the only people who make money are the scammers who sell it to you and your children will pay the price.

Nowhere to hide in NCP car parks as administrators pursue old parking tickets after successful firm was destroyed by private equity debt bit.ly/3PrQYys

Hmmm. Gold price since February. Mail today. How to make a profit? Invest a year ago!

Reeves’s daft promise not tax the state pension in some circumstances will exclude older pensioners and help only a few hundred thousand younger ones bit.ly/42z9t7j top analysis by ex Minister @stevewebb1.bsky.social

Rayner cleared of wrongdoing over council tax - no penalty from HMRC but has had to pay the £40,000 she should have paid bit.ly/3RaXb2m

Pension thieves stalk those afraid of 2027 inheritance tax changes bit.ly/4u2qClX report them and hang up.

Winning party leader faces two investigations into undeclared £5million donation from billionaire who lives in Thailand

The marvellous @caitlinmoran on why we should be glad people on benefits get discounts on spa days bit.ly/4tlLoeX

Predatory firms try to take 30% of £7.5billion compensation bit.ly/4u1SZR6

‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ - unless debt collector asks court to approve unseen a warrant to break in and fit a prepayment meter bit.ly/4uzbbBx old scandal resurfaces with approval by judge & and Dept for Net Zero Concern! At least now prepay tariffs same as DD

Israel’s takeover of the land bordering the River Jordan continues - land many Israelis consider theirs by biblical right. bit.ly/4tTKY0F Full article free if you’re quick. And of course similar encroachment is happening across Gaza - the land bordering the sea

Second time round jury convicts four Palestine Action raiders and acquits two others bit.ly/49wVH8S Sentencing on 12 June

Retailers use cost of living crisis to campaign for end to packaging taxes bit.ly/4eoySYt which they choose to pass on to customers

Brexit may prevent UK trial for Madeleine murder suspect bit.ly/4tRj7y9

Problem of taxing wealthy people - especially when you give over 2 yr’s notice bit.ly/4wb8aZJ FOI simply confirms figures in Budget papers which take account of changes and show it costs £335m before it starts and raises net £435m a year see bit.ly/4tbKQIr p51

Is this it for PM? bit.ly/4esQT7U unlike the Brown coup there isn’t one alternative waiting but a bruising leadership battle.

The more you look at this @BrookesTimes …

Ever closer union gets ever closer bit.ly/3P4d7CN gluing a broken teacup back together always takes longer and costs more than not dropping it in the first place!

Insolvency advisers take £ millions of bust Ted Baker’s remaining assets leaving creditors with next to nothing bit.ly/3P1pRKn one charged £900 an hour

It’s not know as Crapita for nothing! bit.ly/4uvxLLs the breach is just the latest evidence of its inability to run civil service and teacher pension schemes properly

Portugal suspends European Entry System at busy times bit.ly/4dqNsN5 Greece already has and other countries may follow. My experience: the fingerprint device did not work well not least because it was covered in other people’s prints and couldn’t cope with bent fingers

Food prices will have risen 50% in five years by November bit.ly/3R1ixPz

Facial recognition gets out of control bit.ly/4vXujdQ false positives have to be zero for it to be accepted.

PM says he supports free speech and the right to protest, but… bit.ly/4ngduXF would ban some protests and criminalise some words used on those that are allowed. In other words he doesn’t support the right to protest or free speech in all circumstances

Drivers went through red lights 140,000 times in 2025 bit.ly/4cM00iP - and that’s just the 2% of lights which are monitored in 29 police areas. Less than one in five were successfully prosecuted. Have you ever done it deliberately? Why?

Today’s @mortenmorland.bsky.social

Astonishing evidence discovered of the last moments of this man’s life as he fled the Pompeii eruption nearly 1,947 years ago bit.ly/4vWe4xM

Couples living in unmarried bliss want the same tax rights as married and civil partnered pairs bit.ly/4ucWB2g at the moment they have no rights - none. So the best tax advice is marry the one you love. Or civil partner them if you hate all the marriage baggage. But…

The man who would be Farage’s Chancellor investigated by police over apparently foreign donation to his Conservative leadership campaign bit.ly/4cPTN4d

Ramsay adds a fifth to his prices bit.ly/3P6M4a1 service charges must be voluntary or VAT would be due on them so you can choose not to pay it. The service charges must all go to staff, though some London venues are said to call them ‘admin fees’ to get round that

King Charles to announce major weakening of consumer rights in financial services. The troublesome payment systems regulator to be scrapped and financial ombudsman to be severely constrained.

To stop people putting their rubbish in the wrong bin, train company removes them all bit.ly/4cypcsZ so rubbish is dropped on the ground or put in the - often wrong - bins of local houses.

High price of public EV charging blamed here on VAT! bit.ly/4tE3JF6 In fact 20% VAT rather than actual 5% on domestic charges would add around 4p a unit to around 30p but public charging points are double or treble the 26p domestic price. Unlike petrol, prices never shown

Private equity does its job bit.ly/4tQOzg1 iconic retailer faces the end as pledge to keep stores open a year approaches its June anniversary

Drugs empire under siege as UAE closes in bit.ly/41R3qdU

Apart from the countless families suffering directly from aerial bombardment and directed shelling, Asia bears the heaviest economic price for the wicked and pointless wars in Iran and Lebanon bit.ly/4ucLtTi

Trump achieves regime change in Iran - for the worse bit.ly/4e4kqVi both for peace and for Iranians who want it

Troubled times ahead for government even though borrowing fell to lowest March figure since 2022 annual borrowing one of highest since 1947 bit.ly/4sXaBwe and world events threaten to overwhelm its plan to cut borrowing - though not debt which has grown since 2001

Today’s @mortenmorland.bsky.social

The horror of Gaza worsens as Israel pushes the starving population towards the sea bit.ly/4cuZJAF Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ nowhere to be seen

£44mn fraud alleged over home insulation bit.ly/4mTmCl2 barely 1% of the real £4bn scandal of previous govt’s waste on it

Trump likens Iran war to previous US defeats bit.ly/3Ok5Nms Vietnam is still communist and highly successful. The Iraq war failed to achieve all its goals and the country is still suffering from corruption though more stable than it has been since USA attacked it in 2003

CORRECTED Man in charge of getting Brexit done now says we should get it undone as do Times readers - so far in a small sample. Why not cast your vote? bit.ly/4sOfs2B

Roll on digital ID cards! bit.ly/48lEkYl

£44mn fraud alleged over home insulation bit.ly/4mLHzOr barely 1% of the real £4bn scandal of govt waste on it

Hormuz Straitened times for flying bit.ly/4tuM2YA planes grounded as they run out of fuel

Overcharged barge bit.ly/4comVR6 not just the smugglers making money out of asylum seekers

Single injustice bit.ly/4u06cto justice sacrificed to the need for speed

Rat a tat tat.First physical evidence for Roman machine guns found bit.ly/4ts2Krw

Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice’s companies failed to pay £98,368 tax due on special dividends transferred to a parent company which then donated and lent large amounts to Reform UK bit.ly/4vFmFER