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Civil service loses more than four million working days to staff sickness per year The Home Office's sickness rates have increased by 11.8 per cent in the year to March

Civil service loses more than four million working days to staff sickness per year

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Chancellor creates ‘problem’ for UK with carried interest Tax break for private equity executives cost £700m in 2022-23 and Rachel Reeves has encouraged them to quit the UK, says expert

Tax avoiders leave UK as Chancellor tells them go this year or pay bit.ly/45f4SrI this is why new taxes to close loopholes used by wealthy people to avoid tax should always begin the moment they’re announced

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Officers swept President Trump's Turnberry golf course before his first day of golfing in Scotland⬇️

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My money’s on it being a big boy who then ran away.

In the latest Private Eye: Elon Musk fails to control his AI chatbot Grok after it self identifies as Hitler and has an antisemitic meltdown 🤖

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Why are British doctors so radical? Their main union has become a platform for activists’ causes

The British Medical Association has long been a nuisance for governments. But until 2023 there had been only three national strikes in the NHS’s 75-year history. That number has shot up

How many Britons know AI lies?

One in six AI users - and one in nine who use AI for finding out factual information on a daily basis - say they have "never" encountered it hallucinating

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Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?

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Personal details of UK special forces and spies were included in Afghan data breach The identities of members of the UK’s special forces regiments, including the SAS and SBS, are tightly-kept secrets.

Personal details of UK special forces and spies included in Afghan data breach

Bloody hell.

73% of Britons say that immigration into the UK has been too high over the last 10 years, the highest level recorded since YouGov began asking the question in 2019

Too high: 73% (+4 from 14-16 June)
About right: 13% (-3)
Too low: 5% (+2)

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Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges "The use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law."

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing."

Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted? In a case full of surprising scenarios, the time and place of the murder were never established, and Nunn was found guilty despite a lack of forensic evidence. He is still maintaining his innocence, but will he ever be freed?

Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted?

Reform MP James McMurdock resigns whip over allegations of business impropriety James McMurdock will sit as an independent while a probe takes place over the allegations, according to chief whip Lee Anderson

Unbelievable. He seemed like such a stand up guy.
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Political Witchcraft: Magic and the Politics of Representation An evening of public talks dedicated to representations of magic and the politics behind them.

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Bezos wedding. Dump gifts here.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Victims of the child grooming gang scandal say they’re looking forward to seeing the damning report from the national inquiry announced this week by Keir Starmer, and then nothing happening as a result of it.

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Thank goodness global warming is just a woke myth, eh? Eh?

Trump raged at Hegseth over birthday parade where military had too much fun Soldiers ‘were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face,’ writer Michael Wolff says

Trump raged at Hegseth over birthday parade where military had too much fun: ‘He’s p***ed off at the soldiers’

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Donald Trump Jr baselessly claims trans ‘movement’ is ‘most violent’ terror threat Evidence suggests that transgender people are disproportionately likely to be victims of violent crime

Donald Trump Jr baselessly claims transgender ‘movement’ is ‘most violent domestic terror threat’ in the world

Home Secretary defends early release of prisoners

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G7 summit 'all about the Donald' as Canada tries to avoid friction in the Rockies The fresh air of Canada's Rocky Mountains clears the head. It'll need to.

G7 summit 'all about the Donald' as Canada tries to avoid friction in the Rockies

Trump’s ‘revenge tax’ could threaten foreign investment into US, analysts say Concerns raised that section 899 could backfire and also undermine dollar’s safe haven status Foreign investment into the US could be threatened by Donald Trump’s new “revenge” taxes, analysts have warned. A provision within the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will allow the US to apply higher taxes on foreign individuals, businesses and investors connected to jurisdictions that impose “unfair foreign taxes” on US individuals and companies. Continue reading...

Trump’s ‘revenge tax’ could threaten foreign investment into US, analysts say

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

Andrew Malkinson says fight will continue for justice system reform After 17 years wrongfully jailed for rape, freed man wants to change Criminal Cases Review Commission and compensation scheme for others like him Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, says his fight to reform the legal system’s handling of miscarriages of justice is far from over. The 59-year-old had his conviction overturned in 2023 after years spent protesting his innocence. Continue reading...

Andrew Malkinson says fight will continue for justice system reform

Trump-Elon Musk feud live updates: Tesla CEO endorses president’s impeachment Elon Musk claims ‘the real reason’ Epstein files ‘have not been made public’ is because they include Donald Trump

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