The husband of former Labour MP Gloria De Piero has said that their home was searched on Wednesday as part of a police investigation into Chinese spying
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How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:
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we couldn’t name him for legal reasons but his wife has complained about their door getting knocked down by cops before dawn
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Counterterrorism police raided the home of a journalist in Cardiff on Wednesday afternoon as part of their probe into individuals suspected of spying for China, according to people familiar with the matter
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Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
👀 Labour MP Joani Reid said today that she was “not part of my husband’s business activities” after her spouse David Taylor was arrested on suspicion of spying for China
But her former company was loaned money (interest free and with no set repayment terms) by his companies
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Janan Ganesh. (a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics)
This is a magnificent piece of journalism.
good morning
this the FT not The Onion
This sounds like a totally great plan, but only if you suffered some sort of terrible head injury circa 2002 and just woke up. www.thetimes.com/article/7aee...
Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict
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‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’
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Companies are paying tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to evacuate employees from Dubai, with the cost of private jets and hire vehicles soaring, according to insurance groups providing crisis-response protection.
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Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, said he was opposed to the Iranian regime but that the attack on the country was a breach of international law.
“We are opposed to this disaster . . . You cannot respond to illegality with more illegality.”
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Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers.
They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?
I get the strong sense that the bulk of media are calling Starmer's position on Iran entirely wrongly right now. I simply don't believe that most people out there are either as hawkish as the Tories or as anti-everything as the Greens. Being conflicted in the middle seems about right to me.
If I was trying to elicit sympathy I probably wouldn't go for Russian UFC teams and crypto guys. But that's just me.
This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.
apparently he believed he could be a moderating influence on the US in relation to the Middle East, I've no idea if that was the strategy
probably more accurate to say "this is not Tony Blair that we're dealing with"
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Telegraph censured for fabricated story of banker’s struggle to pay school fees
Surely all the returning influencers will drive a record tax take.
the backdrop to Rachel Reeves's 12.30 spring statement is roiling financial markets
stock market down nearly 3%
gilt yields spiking
pound has fallen 0.8% against the dollar
The 10-year gilt yield has jumped 0.14 percentage points to 4.5 per cent, reversing a rally that had reduced some pressure on the UK public finances
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