Chinese fugitive buys 85 London flats worth millions which may now be seized bit.ly/4taiYF1

That didn’t take long! Czech owner of Royal Mail demands end to inflation cap on 2nd class postage bit.ly/4rXo5az buy your 1st and 2nd class stamps by Tuesday before prices rise on 1st April to £1.80 to possibly arrive next day and 91p to definitely not arrive next day

Hong Kong continues its crackdown on free speech bit.ly/4t9khnM bookshop staff face jail for selling jailed journalist’s life story

While the world’s attention is distracted by wars, Iran executes three young protesters and did not allow their families to know or bury them bit.ly/4dPvg1a

Support? Really? I though HMRC was there to collect tax! This envelope contained a letter warning me to prepare for Making Tax Difficult from April.

Scottish govt will give £300 to people in hardship who are struggling to afford the price of home heating oil which has doubled since the USA and Israel attacked Iran. scheme will include LPG users bit.ly/47U6NE8 full details from 1 April.

More than £47m of secret payments to agents, players, and even their families helped Abramovich’s Chelsea amass its trophies bit.ly/416ihAV helped by the secret British Virgin Island structures that UK govt refuses to tackle

Another government (small g) IT failure bit.ly/4rOCzJU

Govt scraps plans for road tunnel near Stonehenge after previous administrations spent £179.2million on planning to build one bit.ly/40MFVlE

I remember very clearly that it was on the ballot paper - leave EU for more paperwork and expenses bit.ly/4rH1YoO that’s why people voted to leave so we could support red tape factories. So why are people surprised?

Labour AI copyright u-turn bit.ly/40BdsiA another example of making the right decision but only second time round after huge public (or creator) opposition

Dubai emigrants returning to UK want relief from UK tax if they exceed 183 days bit.ly/4sOom0m so they don’t want to pay towards the safety the UK gives them! If they really lived in Dubai it wouldn’t be an issue it’s because they spend months in UK that it arises.

Petrol retailers deny ‘price gouging’ as even the Chancellor tells them not to use the war to ‘rip-off’ their customers bit.ly/4rCCokX never fill up on a motorway and use a site with the govt’s own fuel finder data to fill up cheaply wherever you are.

Free wills can be very expensive for your heirs bit.ly/4uNc9ev solicitors make more money from badly drawn wills than from writing them. So always use a solicitor to write your will. And if you leave money to charity make it a specified amount not the residue of the estate - that avoids disputes.

Complex ‘highly aggressive’ tax structure avoids £600,000 tax for Reform deputy Richard Tice bit.ly/4cNFkrc “Voters should be reassured to have a successful businessman who knows how to make money for shareholders” he responds. He is one of the shareholders.

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Brilliant job by @DanNeidle exposing this scheme to avoid tax which doesn’t work and may be illegally promoted bit.ly/46Yyvzn never ever ever buy a scheme involving trusts to avoid tax. It won’t work and cost your heirs and loved ones time and money.

Tomorrow’s Matt

Has your bank or credit card provider told you about any change in the contactless payment limit from next Thursday? Please let me know.

Labour govt rejects even the brightest from Afghanistan bit.ly/4unXJAX

Amazing observations spot the birth of a magnetar bit.ly/4lkAgws but it is an artist’s impression of a magnetar based on astronomers data

USA finally admits it did kill 175 people, mainly children, in girls’ school bit.ly/40Xslfd it used faulty and out of date targeting information.

USA finally admits it did kill 175 people, mainly children, in girls’ school bit.ly/40Xslfd it used faulty and out of date targeting information.

Anti-Muslim hostility rule risks damaging free speech, terror adviser says bit.ly/4bCkuKc as free speech chipped away but it by bit. Full rule from gov.uk below.

Key Iranian oil hub left untouched while cities and civilians are bombed bit.ly/4sBjw6u here’s why.

Darren Jones MP wrong @BBCr4today to say Chancellor has frozen fuel duty until the end of this year. It won’t rise in April but on 1 Sept it will increase by 1p/litre and then by 2p on 1 Dec, add VAT and that = a 3.6p/litre rise in price before the end of the year (Budget 2025).

Crufts winner was convicted in 2001 for cruelty to a dog bit.ly/4s3fkN7

‘Peaceful’ march banned by Home Secretary bit.ly/4usTEMe to ‘prevent serious public disorder’ by other groups who oppose it going ahead. ‘Sad day for freedom of speech’, says organiser.

More problems for digital ID plans bit.ly/4rrmMAD should it start from birth? 16? 13? What will it include. And will you have to have a phone that matches your outfit?

Fossil fuel drivers queue up bit.ly/47p4h8E while electric vehicle drivers look smug - and look forward to electricity prices falling on 1 April.

Who needs to tap phones? bit.ly/4rtorFU privacy trial takes a new turn. Harry had told the court he was not friends with journalists. A journalist has phone records which challenge that and she says she learned of Kate’s pregnancy from William.

Who needs to tap phones? bit.ly/4rtorFU privacy trial takes a new turn. Harry had told the court he was not friends with journalists. A journalist has phone records which challenge that and she says she learned of Kate’s pregnancy from William.

UK enters the war on Iran as US bombers take off from RAF base in Gloucestershire to attack the country bit.ly/4s4h8pj in what are officially described as defensive strikes.

Vape shop blamed for tragic loss of another great Victorian building (built 1851)in Glasgow bit.ly/4bzWOWQ

Morten Morland in Times

U-turn on Prince of Wales plans - £3billion boat will head for Arctic not Middle East war bit.ly/4by0bNT its twin - HMS Queen Elizabeth - is in dock in Scotland for major upgrades.

Govt plans for digital ID in trouble as Streeting and Phillipson refuse cooperation from Health and Education depts bit.ly/47rlkHd

The Aga Can get a subsidy bit.ly/4rhzjGF as the price of heating oil more than doubles Chancellor considers a bail out for households paying uncapped price to keep warm. Paywall free.

Student loan Plan 2 creator David Willetts tries the Harland and Wolff Titanic defence - it was all right when it left here bit.ly/4ucZQYu but now he warns it could collapse

Govt woolly thinking could leave farmers fleeced rather than their sheep bit.ly/4rSSbgt

Low traffic neighbourhoods in Croydon ruled unlawful by High Court bit.ly/4ur5574 main purpose was to raise money not health or environmental judge says. Await the lookalike campaigns!

Britannia waives her rule bit.ly/46E5zfL just google world’s biggest navies and try to find us in the list.

Even the Telegraph bit.ly/4svJadb

Of course it’s not unsellable, just being the price down! bit.ly/4aZEEMM it’s only worth what a willing buyer will pay on the day you want to sell it,

Property entrepreneur Russell Leeds boasted about paying $150,000 to charter a Gulfstream jet so that he and his family could escape war-torn Dubai. It’s not going down well in the comments.

USA waging illegal war bit.ly/4ctGKH5 say law experts as justification changes day by day, speech by speech.

Police Federation boss on £700,000 a year arrested on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position bit.ly/4aZvO1y along with two other men. Homes searched.

The other fib that was told about the Conservative student loan plan was that the debt though huge would not affect getting a mortgage. True, the debt itself doesn’t count against you but the 9% tax repayments reduce your net income which is used to assess affordability.

Tories hired marketing firm to hide the truth about their new student loan plans in talks to school pupils bit.ly/4l7NH2H one graduate who took the fee to make the presentations says he ‘had sold my soul to the devil’.

They’re there to avoid tax but now they are trying to avoid jail as the sunny state makes clear the price of no tax is no freedom of speech bit.ly/3MHqAj3 so positive influencers love the sunny state and thank the regime for keeping them safe as 1000 weapons target it