A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.
Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.
Wish he’d stop badgering everyone about this.
The security of other NATO states and European partners like Ukraine and Moldova cannot rely on continued alliance with a US whose leadership consistently put Russia first, even in relation to US interests. No amount of European diplomacy is going to change that.
There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.
A newly published video shows that a US Tomahawk missile hit a medical clinic inside an IRGC base and near a primary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab where the authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed.
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Isn’t that a summary of every analyst report ever written?
Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike
That was my career path, left a comprehensive school at 16 with four very ordinary O levels. Luckily found an employer who provided support for part time education which enabled me to have a successful career. Hate the system that labels kids as failures at 11.
Saw a great article on this recently breaking this fantasy down by limitations with current technology and impossibilities due to physics. But we’re told these tech bros know best!
Guess if he wears his underwear outside of the tights there’s more room for his nappy?
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
My son is at University at the moment without A levels. He’s autistic and couldn’t cope with the stress of these exams. He did a foundation course and he’s thriving at university with the freedom to study his own way. Not all paths follow a straight line.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men
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If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.
Sanchez: “We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.
We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country
Just to make it even clearer: Ring, and all video doorbells, were always supposed to be part of a surveillance infrastructure.
Burn them all and bury the ashes in the desert.
Wishing grandpa at his nursing home, guess a standard sunday activity.
Make it stop! I doubt the bros at Anthropic are this stupid, so the constant banging on about consciousness has to be grift of some sort. Or maybe they want to think of themselves as god-like being who’ve created new life? Because they have planet-sized egos. Either way, I wish they’d shut up.
‘Treemendous’ guy.
A battered day is always a better day.
Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.
The utter cheek to rail against immigration and its impact on the British economy when you're a billionaire tax exile, or to lament the level of unemployment when one of the first things you did upon buying a stake in United is to make hundreds of people redundant
Manchester Utd owner is giving media interviews claiming UK "colonised" by immigrants
He thinks population rose 12 million snce 2020!
11 million people born abroad; this was 9.5 million in 2020, so that is up 1.5 million (not 12 million) but rose 7 million in 30 years from 4m before 1997
Just because you're rich we don't have to pay attention to your lies. Or racism. Pay your taxes, btw.
Anyway I'll be writing to Reform later to demand that they let me speak at their conference on the main stage.
If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech
We pride ourselves on being a democracy and yet there’s a medieval theocratic anachronism in the heart of parliament: 26 bishops with automatic seats in the House of Lords. (The only other country in the world with clerics automatically entering a government is… Iran).
FT exclusive
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show
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