⚡️Hungary returns Ukrainian bank vehicles but keeps $82M in gold, cash.
Hungary returned two seized armored vehicles to Ukraine's Oschadbank on March 12 but is withholding cash and gold worth about $82 million amid an ongoing dispute between Budapest and Kyiv.
While the article had attributed the claim to “an analysis” of government figures, the Committee considered that the newspaper had not taken due care over the accuracy of the headline, which set out as fact that “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits”. This did not make clear that the assertion was an estimate, and was presented without qualification. The print headline, as well as the online headline and its subheadline, did not accurately reflect warnings on reliability of the data, and presented the figures as fact, rather than an interpretation of the statistics by a third party. The Committee also considered that care had not been taken over the accuracy of the article, which did not make clear that it was not reporting on people’s nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, but their nationality at the time they first applied for a National Insurance number, which may have been significantly earlier. Absent this clarificatory information, the article was misleading to attribute the number of foreign nationals currently claiming benefits in the UK to this specific dataset.
The full @ipso.co.uk ruling on my complaint against the Daily Telegraph.
The Telegraph (and the so-called "Centre for Migration Control, in fact just one random racist blogger) lied, and then doubled down on their lies.
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0100...
How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...
Every time she opens her mouth I wish her pregnant mother had chosen New York.
What can make inclusion & belonging work in the fastest-changing borough in London - and indeed the UK as a whole? I have been chairing the Independent Commission on Inclusion and Belonging on a multi-ethnic Newham, whose final report is published today
www.britishfuture.org/newham-shoul...
🥔 International Criminal Court’s prosecutor’s office has launched a formal investigation into Lukashenko regime’s crackdown on protests in 2020-2021.
Belarusian authorities are suspected of committing crimes against humanity, politically motivated deportations carried out as part of state policy.
Haven’t you got better things to do @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ?
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Chart showing three possible oil rises
If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for one month, Brent crude could spike to around $100, Bloomberg Economics says.
About $130 with a two-month disruption.
And up to $150–160 if the closure lasts three months.
🤬 Russia struck the Chernihiv region with drones at night - a 15-year-old girl died, her parents were injured.
The big decision to release oil reserves yesterday has had little effect. Price per barrel soared above $100. It’s now hovering in the high 90s. Traders are expecting Trump and Netanyahu’s war to be prolonged.
It would be an interesting piece of research to compare partisan gaps on 2020s vs 2010s vs earlier periods of immigration salience (much wider now) with the widest ever salience gaps on other issues (eg unemployment, defence, NHS) in last 50 years
🔥 Tikhoretsk Oil Depot, Krasnodar Krai
Nick Thomas Symonds. Of course he answer truthfully that Mandleson’s corruption was exactly the mindset to influence Trump
Drones struck the Tikhoretskaya oil transshipment base in Russia's Krasnodar Krai overnight, triggering a large fire at the facility, which is part of OAO Chernomortransneft. Local authorities attributed the blaze to "falling debris". #Russia
Nick Thomas Symonds getting a pasting from Emma Barnett on @bbctoday. Of course we know why Starmer took the risk of Mandleson, he was part of the same dishonest circle as Trump.
NEW - Mandelson was offered a "higher tiers" briefing on January 6, before his developed vetting was confirmed on January 29, emails appear to show.
This mean he was offered highly classified briefing from the FCDO as US ambassador before he finished the formal vetting process
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
As a description, “national treasure” seems ornamental and cosy. Despite my best efforts, I am in the pigeonhole marked “no threat” and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork, I should still be a teddy bear.
😮 Oman, Iranian drones hit the oil terminal tanks!
After the oil shock, a global food shock. A third of the world’s fertiliser passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Honestly can’t believe what the Bank of England is putting on our great British fiver
Putting pictures of animals on our currency would be "deeply depressing," say the Conservatives.
National security adviser Powell thought Mandelson appointment was ‘weirdly rushed’ Files show that Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s national security adviser, “was particularly cautious about the appointment” of Mandelson as ambassador in December 2024 and that Powell believed the process had been “weirdly rushed”. Powell had served with Mandelson under the previous Labour government.
Desperately hope Jonathan Powell writes another book about working for a chief of staff who is determined to ignore everything you've written and prove everything you've said right the hard way.
Message to Tony Blair about meeting Jeffrey Epstein, who is described as "a financial adviser to the super rich" who is "close to the Duke of York"
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Moscow is giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics to hit US and Gulf nation targets in the Middle East.
Trump and Witkoff - played for suckers or lying, you decide?
New Iran thread: How bad is the oil shock caused by Trump’s failing war? This is the largest oil reserve release in history, in a desperate attempt to keep down prices.
NEW: Keir Starmer has asked new Ethics and Integrity Commission to tighten financial disclosures, lobbying and business appointment rules. There will also be a review of national security vetting process following Mandelson case.
