"Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry press to the steps of Downing Street." bulk-distributor.com/2026/07/form...

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www.ft.com/content/7a0f... If I was a political aide with a conviction for fraud, under scrutiny about undeclared financial support… I simply would not write a book called “How to Launder Money”.

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft? A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget

can strongly, strongly recommend a game of 'sit in the pub with your friends and try to guess the price of an item on Peter Murrell's Embezzlement List' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Back in Mechelen for #eijc26 #dataharvest26

Have to hand it to the WSJ, that’s a heckuva headline

If you want to watch them like a pro then don’t call them midterms

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It’s extremely good. My new favorite podcast

Barclays says will recover +50% of £500m loan to MFS. Yet officials winding down the collapsed mortgage firm are far from certain on how much -- if anything -- can be recouped, citing allegations of widespread wrongdoing and limited access to information. Via @bloomberg.com. shorturl.at/1HffD

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Four court hearings, probably £1m+ of fees, all to work out if large marshmallows are a "sweetened prepared food which is normally eaten with the fingers", and therefore subject to VAT. Spoiler: they are not. Because "A > B and C > D, (A + C) > (B + D)"

Our look into collapsed UK lender MFS found much of their lending went to companies controlled by five people, allowing them to build up a £530m property portfolio. Many shared a registered address with MFS, and hundreds of the properties have multiple mortgages www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

60 Ennismore Gardens, a Knightsbridge townhouse that once counted Ava Gardner as a neighbor, is at the heart of the meltdown at UK lender MFS. Owned on paper by individual with close ties to MFS owner, it secured 2 Wall St-backed mortgages on the same day. shorturl.at/hvadP

OK this is nuts. A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.

Couple things here: 1. What the fuck 2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen 3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Indian rapper Badshah. Dancers performing inside a glass dome. A vast collection of sporting and music memorabilia that has since disappeared. Behind the scenes at MFS, the UK lender backed by £2b+ of Wall Street loans that collapsed last week. Story via @bloomberg.com shorturl.at/VKdK6

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Simon Goldberg denied to me he’s running a huge tax fraud. He says he's an expert. Says he “studied under Winston Shrout” Shrout was convicted of tax fraud, got 10 years, fled, & was captured by US marshals

Is this what they call soft power?

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

Beth Rigby spotted that the OBR accidentally published their Budget papers too soon. It's down now, but I've archived a copy: buff.ly/SfFAiCu

Amazing. Bypass model safeguards and get helpful responses about nukes, bioweapons, cyberattacks, etc., simply by putting the adversarial prompt in a poem. Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...

Wtf: in the 18th and 19th centuries, green park and st James’ park were covered with cows and milkmaids, and you could buy milk fresh from the cow memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

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My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world. Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

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July September

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

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Wired and Business Insider have removed features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated. Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.

i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...

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How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed