It now seems safe to call the President of the USA a convicted sex offender after Supreme Court throws out his final appeal against defaming the woman he sexually assaulted bit.ly/4eLnLbX events which he still denies

It now seems safe to call the President of the USA a convicted sex offender after Supreme Court throws out his final appeal against defaming the woman he sexually assaulted bit.ly/4eLnLbX events which he still denies

Newquay landowner closes path used by public for generations bit.ly/4xY6Ie5 as he builds luxury homes with exclusive access

Worst kept in show bit.ly/4aqJpiZ it would be a strongly fought category!

Tell me your hijacked words. I’ll start. National living wage - which you cannot live on Affordable housing - that many can’t afford Carbon neutral - when the atmosphere is still polluted

Billionaire at the top of the system blames it for homelessness bit.ly/4geacmo give them homes they can actually afford (not affordable which is different). It really is that simple. Street homelessness was ended during Covid. When it went so did the schemes that worked

Wow

Government opens high speed cash line to consultants as Slow Speed 2 is redesigned - again bit.ly/3R4l2kC

Wonder why boxes of powder or pills are never full? It’s granularity rather than profiteering bit.ly/3Sqsqav and physics steps in to try to understand well known problems.

No laws or protests can stop tobacco companies working on new schemes to continue killing their customers bit.ly/44wLRky campaigners get shirty over cigarette paper maker sponsorship

Don’t raise money by taking it from people who have it! bit.ly/4vxbT2S Raise it by cutting benefits for those who don’t!

Nice work if you can get it bit.ly/3SJYSVd oh, you can’t! The Sovereign Grant is the biggest transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the royal family ever seen. A 93% pay rise over 3 years. Doctors are consulting members over a 6.6% rise. Which is why the Royal Family never strikes.

Turkey Wellington anyone? Cute now, slaughtered later.

Hague prosecutor who issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant about to be sacked for sexual misconduct bit.ly/4wal8pL others involved have been blacklisted by MasterCard and Visa - see bit.ly/4vwrC2s

The friends you keep… bit.ly/4w2pIGu would-be PM picks head of firm which helped businesses ‘manage regulatory risk’ ie avoid or minimise their legal obligations! They included Thames Water.

Court rules banks can cheat customers without challenge or redress as long as it was more than six years ago

Religious experiences really do produce natural opioids in the body bit.ly/4erTqyP which is also why from the outside they look so bizarre

It’s official - 2nd class mail is to be scrapped and replaced with 3rd class that may arrive when there isn’t a ‘y’ in the day. All at the old 2nd class price of 91p

Judge tries again to convict the defence barrister of in the Elbit Systems criminal damage case of contempt for informing the jury of their rights to acquit after he had ruled the barrister should not do so bit.ly/3QZQhgH in unprecedented and extraordinary case.

Delighted to be talking tonight to the @DickensFellowHQ.Bsky.social Dickens Fellowship on Squeezing Dickens's Letters - Using Technology to Extract the Juice bit.ly/4aOfktL and plenty of juice there is - and freebies! The talk and slides will be online tomorrow morning.

Wealth manager forced by @TheFCA to stop taking on some new clients or new money from some old ones on fears of rule breaches bit.ly/4oLpqkT in general FCA warned in 2023 wealth management was “inherently high-risk…for enabling and/or participating in financial crime”

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

If you pay for active management of your investments the only people you’re making rich are the fund managers who pretend to look after your wealth bit.ly/4uUYuAx @RobinJPowell assesses the evidence

Royals trailing hard the release late on Thursday of tax payments and income bit.ly/4eGJC2N but details will still be kept secret and it will be too little to satisfy critics

TG Jones, the new name for W H Smith on the High Street, tells landlords to slash rent or it will fail bit.ly/43RZI4H so they bear the pain and private equity bides its time to squeeze it dry

At 0924 this morning the UK passes the summer solstice when the northern hemisphere is maximally lit by the life-giving Sun. Not so much we are lucky to have it, just that if it wasn’t there we wouldn’t be here to be lucky or not. After today, days begin to shorten for six months

Yes, it’s true. Money Box Live has been the standout and most beloved part of my entire career. We have served so many communities, told so many stories and explained so many issues. I am heartbroken.

It seems sheer laziness has led @HMRCgovuk to routinely overcharge millions of tax paying pensioners bit.ly/4b21bJv pension rises each year but instead of 51 weeks at the new rate and 1 week at the old it has charged tax on 52 weeks at new rate and done so for years.

King and Prince of Wales to reveal their income and tax bills bit.ly/44lhFZs it will be interesting to see how thorough and transparent it is.

At last people are realising that buying a flat in England and Wales is only buying the right to live in 100cu.metres of air for a fixed number of years and to pay £2000 a year or more on top bit.ly/4xCu60z you don’t even own the walls never mind the ground it stands on

The USA-Iran peace deal in full @mortenmorland.bsky.social

I know it’s only the price of one missile but why was the MoD paying for a royal refurb - albeit indirectly with the rest from the Crown Estate, owned by the Treasury ie you and me! bit.ly/4g8u5LJ 50 rooms and 21 hectares is quite a home even for a Duke.

Tories to draw up plans to cut back on the welfare spending Tories allowed to grow bit.ly/4aL7roP the Tories really allowed this to get out of control so the Tories will get a grip on it and undo the Tories errors, say Tories. Hmmm.

You can name them but I doubt if any will feel shame bit.ly/44aPEnn More like pride at siphoning off so much public money and keeping it themselves

Killing Dartmoor ponies to make way for sheep and cattle bit.ly/4xv3Vc9 first badgers now ponies sacrificed to protect meat and milk

R.I.P. Roy Hattersley (1932-2026), former deputy leader of the Labour Party, who has died aged 93. [Share token] www.thetimes.com/article/9fcc...

🎶And another one’s gone… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Court of Appeal says proscribing Palestine Action was lawful bit.ly/44ae2Wg so anyone saying or displaying the words ‘I support Palestine Action’ is committing an offence and could be jailed. Campaigners say they will take the case to the Supreme Court

From next April everyone over 16 will have to prove their age to stay on social media. That seems the inevitable consequence of Labour’s plan to ban under 16s from X, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook bit.ly/4ejeXs8 Unless, like all the youngsters, we use a VPN to bypass it.

How to find billions more for defence? Take it off the poor says Labour bit.ly/4vNX6km people whose income is too low to pay tax will complain less loudly than people with incomes high enough to pay a lot.

The Brexit effect in one image. The currency lost 8% of its value and never recovered. Once you understand this everything else is easy to follow.

Brooklyn, Manhattan, Salford. ITV, Lineker podcast, BBC bit.ly/4xKXcuX the ITV set and view is real. Lineker’s The Rest is Football broadcasts from Times Square. The BBC pundits sit in front of an ultra wide panoramic view of New York - on a screen

David Hockney: Bradford's artistic genius who painted the things he loved www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

R.I.P. David Hockney (1937-2026), one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Katie Razzall interviewed him in Paris in April 2025, about his two enduring loves — smoking and painting.

They get up to seven years and four months for damaging equipment at a factory which makes arms for Israel bit.ly/4xrH7tC the terrorism designation will affect them for life. 107 people arrested outside the court some for holding placards saying they support Palestine Action.

Belfast riots that followed the knife attack on Stephen Ogilvy, which included the torching of migrant families’ homes, were fomented by the white-supremacist Active Club movement, whose youth wing played a significant role in promoting and coordinating the racist violence.

Cutting VAT on hospitality is the stupidest tax cut of all bit.ly/43t34uO says @DanNeidle it would fail to meet any of its objectives except to make big business more profitable and would not undo the tax rises pubs and restaurants complain about

Ryanair compulsory charge for parent to sit with children could be illegal, competition watchdog says bit.ly/3SAuNaw airline denies that but does not on flights to and from Italy after action there

What is the problem with this? Surely they have to do accounts anyway to pay their tax? I do and I am a nano business! bit.ly/49WIw1r if I was a company I would be happy to put them on CH.

Bailey v Farage fake video used by thieves to rob people bit.ly/4uuCrRb most of these frauds begin on social media. AI could easily be used to spot them and remove them before anyone sees them. But social media firms take the fees and wait for humans to report them