Intruiging to see Rachel Reeves wasn't there for Keir Starmer's resignation speech but turned up for Andy Burnham's photo call. Wrote last month that is far from impossible she stays as Chancellor: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/the...

Now I'm going to have to learn to spell Adny

SpaceX (revenue $19bn, net loss $5bn in last accounts) now a 'more valuable' company than Amazon (revenue $717bn, profit $78bn) - bananas: www.ft.com/content/1715...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

Think any slim hope Starmer may have had of surviving as Labour leader has disappeared as a result of this shock resignation and the reasons set out for it by John Healey.

Exc: The Government rejected an unsolicited “offer of help” from Prince Andrew to find investors in Sheffield Forgemasters weeks after convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had been contacted about potential involvement with the steel company.

Keir Starmer says of Nigel Farage’s “appeal for rage” in response to Henry Nowak's death: "Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying ‘please don’t’ is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”

NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...

Chair of Government’s GB Energy calls for end to use of ‘net zero’ terminology and says phrase has become too politicised. Exclusive story from @michaelcrossland.bsky.social: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...

Pleasure to speak to Dave Rowntree about Blur's early days, their long road to success and his concerns about the state of the music industry as he brings his book tour to Yorkshire this week: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show "has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase"... www.ft.com/content/88ce...

New: Christopher Harborne - the crypto tycoon who gave Nigel Farage an undeclared £5m gift - may be "significantly wealthier" then the extraordinary £18bn valuation that the Sunday Times Rich List has just estimated.

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In the circumstances, good day for Keir Starmer so far - 110 MPs in support, a handful of junior ministers resigning with the only one anyone has ever heard of being Jess Phillips and Streeting not looking like he has sufficient support.

Reform spent a reported £8m on local elections (10x the usual amount, according to Kemi Badenoch) with the core aim of throwing the kitchen sink at getting Keir Starmer deposed. Labour MPs now seem to be delivering on that aim for them.

Can’t wait for the Keir Starmer v Wes Streeting battle royale to be Prime Minister based on their shared sole ideological conviction that they’d quite like to be PM.

Exclusive: Reform WON'T cancel a £57m loan for Doncaster Sheffield Airport tomorrow - but are set to impose a series of "safeguards" on the release of the funding and the wider reopening scheme. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

This article needs pinning up everywhere in Westminster: www.thetimes.com/article/01fa...

Reform candidate Nathanial Menday who admitting 'flirting with far-right ideology' after being accused of praising Nazis has been elected in Sheffield: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

Absolutely fantastic final in the snooker playing out between Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize. Last two frames have been something else.

In today’s @observeruk.bsky.social five focus groups in different areas with voters opting for different parties there was, almost to a word one common theme “doing the right thing, working hard, isn’t rewarded, and is often penalised”and a sense something has to give observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Changes to the controversial Doncaster Sheffield Airport lease are currently “on hold” - with no agreement over whether millions in taxpayer funding can be excluded from payments to landowner Peel. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Exc: Reform has rejected a Labour offer to accelerate the search for private sector investors in Doncaster Sheffield Airport as a crunch vote on the project's funding looms www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Big update on the Doncaster Sheffield Airport saga - days after Nigel Farage said a 'private sector solution' is needed and criticised council attempts to reopen DSA itself, Richard Tice now says Reform would seek a compulsory purchase of the site: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour, Reform and the Conservatives all say they want Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen. So why are there growing doubts about whether it will actually happen? Taken a crack at explaining a complex - and increasingly bitter - situation: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Photograph for the ages as Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. Picture by John Walton of PA.

Extraordinary development in the Doncaster Sheffield Airport reopening saga - Council chief executive Damian Allen has threatened legal action against leading Reform councillors. The council has said it is a ‘personal matter’. Details here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was: 1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee 2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was

Another story in the developing saga over the ongoing sale of DBIC in Doncaster... @chrisburn.bsky.social is also able to reveal the 'former Labour cabinet member' in his questions, which I covered for the LDRS recently, was Cllr Joe Blackham

Doncaster Council refused to comment for this story and have previously edited a councillor's question about the matter out of a YouTube recording of a meeting. Fair to file this one under 'more to come out': www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/don...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

BEIRUT (AP) - Multiple Israeli airstrikes hit central Beirut hours after US and Iran announce ceasefire. @apnews.com

This is the (Google translated) chyron on Iranian state TV right now: "Accepting Iran's conditions to end the war, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire."

Remember: this isn't the first time Trump has threatened to engage in large-scale destruction of Iran's power plants and bridges and then backed down saying talks were now doing wonderfully. It's the fourth. So hopefully this time it's real. But we've been here before.

This is a point which could become a lot more pertinent for Downing Street in the next day or so.

Yes Trump's posts are horrendous but they're also completely incoherent. It's pretty obvious he doesn't know what to do.

The hope has to be that Donald Trump is pursuing 'Madman Theory' to force a negotiation with his threat to wipe out Iran and won't actually go through with it. But God knows at this point. Scary, awful times.

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

'God bless the great people of Iran' (who I'm explicitly threatening to wipe out in a few hours).

BLOOMBERG: Markets remain bullish on continuing coyote elevation prospects

Clean up our clock tower: New campaign launched for developers to sort out the state of one of Leeds' most famous landmarks - the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post clock tower www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/yor... | @yorkshirepost.co.uk | @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Markets wanna believe in the Taco so bad. Give it up, lads. Me, 300 clicks, etc - as.ft.com/r/21e53628-d...

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

"Bailey’s latest intervention feels like a notable change in tone compared to the March meeting," said J.P. Morgan economist Allan Monks. "Bailey’s comments suggest April is too soon for a majority for a hike to develop, and we now shift to expecting one hike in June."

Pete Hegseth too dim to realise that it's a lot easier for other countries to just cut a deal with Iran for using the strait rather than send their own militaries to fight a unwinnable battle that the US doesn't want to touch itself.

Great question. The problem, of course, is that every other journalist in the room didn't keep asking it until they got an answer.

Very important article: was the whole Epic Fail the first war caused by #LLM s telling the credulous what they wanted to hear? I fear they at least influenced it. These are very powerful tools. They can do terrible harm if used unwisely. houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-...

Breaking: Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have officially joined the war, launching a ballistic missile toward southern Israel and triggering air raid sirens. Israeli defenses intercepted the missile.