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Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too

UK. Usually in London.

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Paul Lewis

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This has been covered well on @BBCFarmingToday . UC was devised by clever people sitting in comfortable offices paid the same amount every month who had free wifi. In many cases it doesn’t suit the real world but it is the world that is told to adapt not UC rules.

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I doubt Farmers excite much interest but here's yet another example of how #UniversalCredit fails to take into account personal circumstances. The system needs to change when the people who literally produce our food cannot afford to eat themselves.

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9 months

Inflation in Spain has fallen to 2% - here’s why “Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, lowered the cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and put in place limits on how much landlords can raise rents”.

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Why is Spain’s inflation so much lower than the UK’s? Because it stood up to business | Carsten Jung

The reliance on Bank of England rate rises alone can’t go on. In other countries, rent caps and excess profit taxes are working, says the IPPR’s Carsten Jung

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Iain Duncan Smith gets a knighthood - as long as he applies online at a public library, declares his and his wife’s income and capital, gives up two of his four children, and then waits six weeks for it. If he fails to meet targets his award is downgraded to a CBE for 12 months.

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Sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words. Analysis in 2020 found that privatised water companies paid £57bn in dividends to shareholders since their foundation in 1991 to 2019. Now they say they need better infrastructure to stop piping sewage into rivers, lakes, and sea.

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Gillian Keegan authorised a £34m revamp of her offices in April to provide “improved lighting and a muted colour palette” together with a quiet room and a modernised kitchen just at the time when schools were being asked about concrete problems

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Fury as Gillian Keegan's offices get £34million revamp while classrooms crumble

EDUCATION Secretary Gillian Keegan is under fire for blowing £34million revamping her offices — while schools struggle with unsafe concrete. The work involves stripping out the 1990s interior over …

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Sunak, Braverman, Zahawi all speak proudly of their parents coming to the UK, building new lives and giving them a good start. Perhaps all PM candidates should declare if their parents would have been allowed to come to UK as they did if this Govt’s laws had been in place.

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4 years

It is now becoming ridiculous

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Firm with links to Gove and Cummings given Covid-19 contract without open tender

Research company owned by associates of senior Tory and PM’s adviser gets £840,000 job

www.theguardian.com

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Health Secretary broke the law by handing out antibiotics to friends and family and such actions worsen the problem of antibiotics resistance, say doctors

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Woman handcuffed by @metpoliceuk in front of her child even though it turned out she had paid her £3 bus fare. Institutional racism? Met statement below original makes it worse.

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WTF so this is how we do it @metpoliceuk over a bus fare …. In front of her child …. And you wonder why people are scared and hate the police ….. are you having a laugh - was sent this video this morning. #nojusticenopeace when we getting systemic change?!?

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Of course not all Leavers are racists. That would be a terrible thought. But all racists now think 52% of the population agree with them.

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And still on fire

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2 years

From today people on prepayment meters who run out of money and disconnect themselves from electricity or gas will find their electric meter will still be ticking up at £3.53 a week standing charge and the gas meter at £2.62 – £6.15 a week to be without heat, light, or cooking.

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In @premierinn hotel but after a day’s work no clean towels, no cleaned room, no made bed. I complain but am told I must ask to have my room cleaned. No one told me! I’ve stayed in hotels all over the world and never had to do that. I will never stay @premierinn again. Beware.

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Paul Lewis

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4 years

If you use your phone in the EU without data roaming charges, thank the EU. If you return an online order within 14 days, thank the EU. If you pay with a credit card with no extra fee, thank the EU. If your flight arrives over 3 hours late and you get compensation, thank the EU

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4 years

Surely not the same Dido Harding who is in charge of Track and Trace? Or the Dido Harding who was the boss of TalkTalk when the data of 4 million customers was stolen?

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Thanks for cut in NI. But if personal allowance had not been frozen it would be rising to £15,230 in April not £12,570 saving us £532 a year. And higher rate threshold would be £61,030 from April not £50,270. And child benefit wouldn't be taxed on incomes up to £70k not £50k.

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I’m impartial about most things but the false prosecution of more than 700 postmasters leaves me very angry and it just gets worse. Yet no one at the PO or the computer firm Fujitsu has suffered at all. The word scandal does not cover it.

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Water companies have borrowed £56bn to pay £72bn of dividends to their owners and directors have helped themselves to £58m. So firms are heavily in debt because owners borrowed to pay themselves large unwarranted sums. It is how private equity often works

Calls to cut bonuses for UK water bosses until reservoirs built and leaks fixed

Investment is needed to help country recover from drought, say politicians and campaigners

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Latest scam call - warning that my National Insurance number was about to be suspended, my assets frozen, and arrest might follow. I asked if his mother knew he was a thief. He hung up.

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Paul Lewis

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4 years

8240 people tested for coronavirus yesterday. At that rate it will take 22 years to test all UK population once. In Germany it is 70,000 a day.

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2 years

Nick Newman in today’s Sunday Times

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New German Ambassador tells #WATO @BBCRadio4 that Germany deals with four times as many asylum seekers as UK and would never send any of them to Africa.

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No outrage from Govt or Mr Farage against @monzo for closing @thatginamiller 's party's bank account. Perhaps because she campaigned to stay in the EU and is a strong critic of the present Govt so they can't call it 'woke' or 'virtue signalling'

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Gina Miller's political party bank account to be closed

Monzo initially refused to tell the anti-Brexit campaigner why the account was being shut down.

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I've been working largely at home for 38 years as a freelance financial journalist, writer, broadcaster, and speaker. My motivation? The bills coming through the door. People who work hard in the office will work hard at home. Skivers will skive. Management needs to improve.

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Turns out WFH isn’t more productive after all… The working-from-home illusion fades

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If one thing is clear from the Kuenssberg Mone Barrowman interview is that trusts should simply be banned as their only purpose is to hide money from the public, the press, and the authorities and enable the owners of it to deny ownership.

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Tomorrow 6 January the main rate of national insurance is cut from 12% to 10%, its lowest for over twenty years. People earning £50,270 or more will save £754 a year, so be £62 a month better off. People working 25 hours on minimum wage will save 38p a week. Plus ça change.

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Parliamentary committee that would have examined the EU Trade Agreement is closed down by Commons Leader Rees-Mogg

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Government accused of undermining scrutiny of EU trade deal, as Jacob Rees-Mogg shuts down Commons...

Move blocks plan for six-month inquiry into Boris Johnson’s Christmas Eve agreement

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Should be forced to rebuild exactly as it was.

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The Crooked House, a historic Grade II listed 18th century Black Country pub, was sold to developers a few days ago. Last night it burnt down. The lane to the pub apparently blocked. I hope @StaffsPolice @StaffsFire @StaffsPFCC investigate and prosecute.

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Freed from the EU Water Framework Directive the Govt pushes back the date to clean up rivers and waterways in England by 36 years from 2027 (EU date) to 2063 (new UK date) now that’s what I call taking back control!

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4 years

My car insurance came back with a 26.5% rise for next year. Called. Knocked £31 off price. Went online and got lower quote from same firm. Called back and got price match. saved £37.86. Autorenewal is the industry's big racket.

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So it wasn't "the one-sided caricature from his armchair critics" but this stunning revelation in Private Eye about Toby Young that would surely have got him sacked. He attended a recent secret eugenics conference with neo-nazis and paedophiles (c) Private Eye

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Jacob Rees Mogg’s investment colleague made a Lord so he could be a Minister. He lasted 26 days but is a peer for life. Lord Johnson can claim £332 taxfree every day he goes to the House of Lords. A single person on Universal Credit gets £334.91 a month

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Mogg's Tory donor pal handed life-long Lords seat for just 26 days in government

Dominic Johnson was brought into the Lords to serve as a Trade Minister - and can now keep his peerage for life, despite being dumped after just 26 days in office

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If successive Chancellors had obeyed the law instead of getting Parliament to rescind it year by year Jeremy Hunt would be announcing on Wednesday a personal allowance of £15,230 from April (instead of frozen £12,570)and higher rate threshold of £61,030 instead of frozen £50,270

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A month to buy 1st and 2nd class stamps at current price before they rise to £1.35 to possibly not get there the next day and 85p to definitely not get there the next day in ten years £2billion paid to shareholders and £27m to two bosses. Something wrong

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News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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I have seldom been so pleased. My taxes could not be better spent. PS Nigel maybe they have a room for your wife??

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Yesterday I tried to book a room at the 4 Star Bromsgrove Hotel & Spa, but it was closed to the public. Turns out it’s accommodating 147 illegal migrants and we’re all paying for it.

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24 July 2019: Queen makes Boris Johnson Prime Minister on the basis that he can command a majority of the House of Commons. 28 August 2019: Boris Johnson asks the Queen to suspend Parliament because he can't.

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Drug firm owned by private equity firm raises price of Lithium tablets for people with mental health issues from £3.22 to £87 a packet.

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Whatever you think of Corbyn no other politician in my lifetime could command such a crowd or receive such a reception. Extraordinary.

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"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn, Oh Jeremy Corbyn". Glastonbury crowds cheer the Labour leader as he delivers a political speech.

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Some people had a very good pandemic

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News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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6 years

Wow. What a major sacrifice, a pair of old shoes signed. Better to pay the VAT on your airplane and pay taxes in the country you represent.

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4 years

UPDATED Nearly two million self-employed people will get no help from the scheme announced last night. It is wrong to say only 5% are left out. It is about a third including people who have started self employment this tax year and those who make too little to pay tax.

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3 years

’s attempt to keep its web address by ‘moving’ its HQ to Ireland fails after EU registry blocks it

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Brexit group’s website suspended in row over its bid to move to EU

Leave.EU switched registration to Republic of Ireland to avoid losing EU domain name

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Baroness Mone is just a small part of the PPE scandal. @thetimes names the 20 top private company earners paid £7.4bn with over £1 billion worth of PPE unusable or unused

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4 years

60 out of 61 towns picked by Cabinet Minister for financial support were Conservative with average majority 3000 or Conservative targets. Included his own seat.

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The fall of the British Passport “In 2010, it was ranked as the most powerful in the world. According to the Henley Passport Index, we could visit more destinations without a prior visa than any other nationality.” Now it’s 13th.

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From April a single person under 25 will get £265 a month universal credit. The standing charge for gas and elecricity on prepayment meters will total £26.50 a month. So from April a tenth of their UC will go on standing charges before they have used any fuel to keep warm.

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4 years

Just as people need help after their incomes fall, disappear, or are threatened, the banks are almost universally doubling interest rates on overdrafts to 39.9%. Some the same banks that were bailed out in 2008 with billions £££ of taxpayers money. Time to rethink.

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Companies could be allowed to take out ‘surplus’ from pension schemes do we never learn? Remember contribution holidays then pension schemes collapsing? One year’s surplus can become the next year’s deficit.

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Firm with £700,000 govt contract to give people energy saving advice goes bust before taking a single call.

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2 years

The industry where money flows like water but water flows like sewage there is no water shortage in the UK. There is a water management shortage.

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Baroness Mone’s £20m London home - owned through a tax haven based trust with a trustee in another offshore tax haven - is up for sale her spokesperson denies she lives in London or owns the house.

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Two views on new immigration controls

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Whenever you think the Post Office scandal cannot get worse it does. A lawyer - a lawyer - at the Post Office knew in 2010 and hid the information that could have exonerated Seema Misra and hundreds of others.

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A bombshell in case of Seema Misra, who was wrongly jailed while pregnant: Post Office lawyer Jarnail Singh was sent a report about a Horizon bug creating shortfalls at 40 branches in October 2010. But he did not disclose it to the defence at Misra’s trial later that month.

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Here’s the thing. Wearing a mask cannot make things worse. It can only make things better. By 1% or 50% or more it doesn’t matter. It can’t make the virus spread more quickly and may make it spread less quickly.

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I don’t think face masks should be mandatory in England says Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove #Marr #Covid_19

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How are jihadi groups funded? Government report too sensitive to publish as it reportedly mentions Saudi Arabia

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'Sensitive' UK terror funding inquiry may never be published

Investigation into foreign funding and support of jihadi groups operating in UK understood to focus on Saudi Arabia

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Of the last 5 Chancellors of the Exchequer three - Darling, Osborne, Hammond - tightened up the rules on UK taxation of non-doms. The other two Javid and Sunak have not. Before he was Chancellor, Javid used non-dom status to reduce his UK tax. Sunak’s wife used it until last week

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3 years

Ministers to be sued by charity Runnymede Trust and the Good Law Project over appointment of ex Talk Talk boss Baroness Harding to run Test and Trace with no due process or competition

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When October price cap rise begins Bank of England expects 40% rise (on top of 54% in April) to £2800 a year. That's about 1/3rd of the state pension (average payment is £8530) and 2/3rds of a single person's Universal Credit of £4018 (88% if <25). The another rise in January.

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The unit price of gas goes up 81% today. How times change. Below The Sun 30 May 2016. Hat tip to @MarinaPurkiss .

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What are your qualifications to be Housing Secretary? I’ve got three houses. Perfect. Oh, and they’re all main residences so I can travel between them.

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PM’s wife had shares in firm that got nearly £300,000 in loans from scheme her husband set up when he was Chancellor and then it went bust

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Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan

Employees and Lloyds Bank among creditors, after liquidation of firm that benefited from pandemic aid devised by Murty’s spouse, Sunak

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Brexit. The gift that keeps on taking. 33,000 British people give up their French second home and 23,000 give up second homes in other EU countries. Back to an island nation.

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How about keeping Grenfell Tower as it is. Not a war grave, but a class war grave. And a monument to hubris, profit, and stupidity.

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Five day suspension from Commons confirmed with warning it could have been longer after MP accepted free trip to Africa and £5000 donation and then lobbied minister for the firm that provided them

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It was an age thing, poll finds.

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Boris Johnson last week “Richard Sharp…knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances. I can tell you that for 100 percent” Cabinet Office minute 22 December “it is important that you no longer ask his advice about your personal financial matters”

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Not in the public interest to let the people who are paying for it - you and me - know the true cost of the Bibby Stockholm barge accommodation as a few asylum seekers are sent back there after Legionella scare

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Johnson gets £510,000 advance for his PM memoir but taxpayers to foot £222,000 bill (and counting) for lawyers to help him clear his name over Partygate

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Boris Johnson earns £1m in six weeks... as taxpayers foot Partygate bill

Publishers HarperCollins announced earlier this month they had acquired the rights to the book

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London Excel owners charging NHS rent for Nightingale hospital estimated at £2m to £3m a month. Other centres are charging nothing. There is no crisis that can’t be exploited!

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If you wonder why there are people neither working nor looking for work, look no further than the tens of thousands of women who are prevented from working by childcare costs

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No bounce in Brexit. World exports bounce back from Covid growing 8.2% while UK’s falls 14% in 3 months to January 2022. Brexit is blamed. The OBR claims UK productivity will be reduced by 4% over next 15 years.

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Property developers who have built flats using the type of cladding which burnt down Grenfell Tower have given £50,000 to PM and £2.5m to Conservative Party since that fire, says Times Party spokesman denies policy is influenced by donations.

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DWP is demanding more than £11,000 from single mum Karina Moon who cares for her disabled daughter. She got Carer's Allowance but earned between 50p and £3 a week over the limit for more than three years and must pay all of it back

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‘They’re heartless’: how one woman fell victim to the carer’s allowance trap

Karina Moon, who is sole carer for her daughter most of the week, was told she needed to repay £11,292.75 or be prosecuted for fraud

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When will these numbnuts realise that comedy and satire mocks people in power. It is not about left or right it is about power Similarly as a journalist I criticise and hold to account the Govt not because it is Conservative but because it is the Govt.

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Exclusive: BBC comedy shows appear to be overwhelmingly biased against Tories, Brexit and Trump

BBC comedy during lockdown featured a significant number of jokes targeted at Boris Johnson's Conservative Party, Brexit and President Trump

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Astonishing resignation speech by Philip Rutnam the permanent secretary at the Home Office condemning Home Secretary Priti Patel and warning that he will take Government to court for constructive dismissal after refusing a large financial settlement to go quietly.

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Truss and Kwarteng’s poor decisions cost hundreds of thousands of people huge pension losses and millions massive rises in mortgage payments neither of which have been fully reversed - yet he calmly admits it was ill-thought out with no sense of shame

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Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng

Sacked chancellor says he and ex-PM failed to consider political and economic consequences

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Chancellor’s wife immune from income tax rise on dividends. They rose this week by 1.25p in the pound on every rate raising an extra £3 billion a year. But his wife’s a non-dom and pays no UK tax on the £11.5m annual dividend on her holding in family firm Infosys based in India.

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Irony goes supercharged as the new blue passport is made in Poland by French/Dutch firm and UK passport maker De La Rue left at risk and laying people off. I don’t recall the slogan ‘British jobs for Polish workers’ but here it is in action. Somehow this is a success.

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Some people are making millions out of NatWest débâcle - and one of them owns GB News which has Nigel Farage as a presenter a bit of a conflict of interest.

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Claims that ex-Chancellor and Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi lied about texts with David Cameron over the bankrupt Greensill Capital and deleted them one side of them published here. Officials say he didn’t know how messages were deleted.

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Why bother with the EU procuring tried and tested equipment at good prices when you can buy a new untried product from the anti-EU Malaysian manufacturer James Dyson? The sheer madness of govt policy exposed over these lifesaving devices.

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The Mail reports today that Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng mini budget left UK hours from financial meltdown Is that the same Mail which the day after the same mini budget hailed it as "At last! a true Tory Budget"?

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The new Chancellor has links to tax havens

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Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi 'closely linked to two tax-haven-based companies'

Guardian investigation reveals financial ties to Balshore Investments and Berkford Investments, both based in Gibraltar

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Privatised Royal Mail missed its delivery targets in every UK postcode this summer with only 76% of first class delivered on time despite £1.10 cost of a stamp. Major shareholder Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský has had £100m in dividends since 2021

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Farmers will be thrilled. Their main complaint is that seasonal fruit pickers can’t explain quantum theory to them

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4 years

Chancellor made money from the bets that led to the financial crash

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2 years

To save money I follow the advice every year to turn down my thermostat by one degree. After 20 years it is now at zero and I believe I do save money though my fingers are too cold to look at my balance on the app. 😉UK needs insulation not lectures.

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Now clear that Post Office and its boss Paula Vennells knew subpostoffice computers could be remotely altered by Fujitsu staff so why did she prosecute subpostmasters? Why did Fujitsu staff alter computer records? Why did Fjtu allow prosecutions to happen.

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Dominic Raab resignation letter is a model of going in bad grace - non-acceptance and non-apology

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Police raid photographer’s house, seize his memory card and mobile phone, arrest him, and hold him for seven hours after he publishes pictures of a brief protest at a barracks used to house asylum seekers. In the UK.

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Firm that pays Prime Minister’s wife £millions a year in dividends is in dispute with HMRC over £20m corporation tax bill

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Why did no one predict this? Oh, they did and it was denied and denied and denied.

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Billionaire brexiteer takes as much as he can from EU before UK leaves

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3 years

Downing Street briefing confirms authorisation of vaccine depended on EU rules in force until the end of the year. Several Ministers have said the opposite which is not true

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Project Fear turns out to have been telling the truth, government guidance reveals as it warns of higher insurance, mobile phone costs, and the need for longer passport validity and pet vaccination businesses will face more, ahem, red tape and costs.

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Too important for a paywall - Attorney General, upholder of legal standards,and wannabe PM, bans Govt lawyers from telling ministers their policies are unlawful when they are

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5 months

Matt of course

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Paul Lewis

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9 months

Banks can park their spare money at the Bank of England and now earn 5.25%. Some of that money is your deposits on which they are paying you 1%. The big four High St banks each made ~£20 million profit every single day from 1 Jan to 30 June.

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The UK financial services sector will be £2 billion better off in the next year as a result of today’s decision to increase the Bank of England base rate by 0.25%. They did nothing to earn it. The UK now looks like a giant welfare system for its banks and bankers.

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This proposal to extend state pension age to 75 might be fine for those who only have to turn up in London, sit in a chair, think a bit, and produce a report. But for many from scaffolders to surgeons who need efficient bodies and senses it is daft

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Pension Age Should Rise To 75 Says Iain Duncan-Smith's Think-Tank

Centre for Social Justice calls for hike to boost economy and help older workers.

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Teen student faces criminal record over Covid party fine she cannot pay after security at her building reported the illegal gathering, unlike police guarding No.10. If only she had been a politician.

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What an absolutely appalling country we have become.

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Exclusive: a shooting range in Wallasey defends using images of Shamima Begum as target practice because of a ‘record number of requests’ from its customers. It allows people ‘to have some light-hearted fun bringing out the inner child in all” they tell us. More at 10am ⁦

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