David Leigh

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

BBC News - Lenny Henry calls for reparations for black British people
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YouTube video by Guardian News Robert Jenrick gives speech at the Conservative party conference – watch live

Jenrick goes full Nazi
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Labour accuses Robert Jenrick of ‘personal attack’ on attorney general Party source says shadow justice secretary’s comments are attempt to disguise his own poor grip of the law

Jenrick uses the phrase "New Order", which was used by the actual Nazis
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City lawyers tried to ‘silence’ police fraud investigator Carter-Ruck launched campaign against London detective on behalf of $4bn crypto scam, according to court documents

London libel firm Carter-Ruck tried to “silence” a police investigator who had been trying to protect the public from a $4bn crypto scam, new court documents reveal

words fail

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I've signed a book deal. Can't say more just yet, but watch this space. Publication date May/June next year.

"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021

Stephen Lawrence’s father says killer should name others before parole considered Neville Lawrence, 83, is preparing for David Norris, now 49, to appear for first time to plead for his freedom

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Erin Patterson mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner Co-written with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes is inspired by their experience attending the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year

Why is this a story? Seems just an advert
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Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

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UK Jewish groups condemn Israeli minister’s invite to Tommy Robinson Far-right activist described as ‘thug who represents worst of Britain’ after invitation to Israel sparks outrage

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Last call for the phone-hacking scandal – but is anyone s... ITV’s The Hack tells how Rupert Murdoch’s reporters intercepted voicemails. Will the story’s loose ends ever be tied up?

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Murderous bigotry is not the preserve of only one religion Beware the attempts by bad-faith politicians who will try to link the debate over immigration with the Manchester atrocity.

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I wish somebody would tell me who invented the VIP Lane in the first place

Lots of people asking about the Government's prospects for recovering the £120m from Barrowman/Mone/their companies

Short answer: I don't know. I'm not an insolvency specialist. No clue how the £120m was paid out to them from PPE Medpro

So I have no technical answer

But...

Michelle Mone-linked firm must pay £122m for breaking PPE contract PPE Medpro, run by Baroness Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman, has two weeks to pay compensation for ‘faulty’ gowns

💬 @suehawley.bsky.social in @thetimes.com: “It is now critical that the government uses all the tools at its disposal to recover all the money, including considering compensation orders against the directors of #PPEMedpro and other companies found to have ripped off the taxpayer during Covid.”

The struggle to protect children from conspiracy theorist parents The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

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Should have been in quotes then. And described as inaccurate, or a pile of stinking bullshit ‘in newspaper parlance’.

One doctor was fired when The Times approached their employer with its revelations, and another is under suspension.

Wes Streeting described the findings as “horrific” and “a serious failure in our medical regulatory systems that I will not tolerate”.

There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

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🎥: Over a decade on from the phone-hacking scandal, not enough has changed. The press regulator has never held a standards investigation in 12 years.

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Information about Prince William's 21st birthday party could have been 'blagged' for Daily Mail, High Court hears Information about Prince William’s 21st birthday party could have been “blagged” by a private investigator, it has been claimed at the High Court.

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Laugh-washing in Saudi.

This week, Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall join a bill of top comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. This is despite human rights abuses in the country.

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China’s fifth-ranking official was suspect in dropped Westminster spy case Person who was thought to have received intelligence is understood to be Cai Qi, de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping

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Wondering where Rebekah Brooks is now?
She's been promoted and is now CEO of News UK.
#TheHack

William event may have been target of Mail publisher blagging, Harry's lawyer says The Duke of Sussex is one of seven high-profile people bringing legal action against Daily Mail publisher.

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Exactly

UK’s PPE Medpro win unlikely to guarantee recovery of £122mn, lawyers warn Medical equipment supplier linked to Michelle Mone breached government contract during pandemic, judge says

The UK government faces an uphill battle to recover the £122mn that a judge has ordered PPE Medpro to repay after finding that the medical supplier provided substandard equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic, lawyers have warned

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UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’

But surely, the money's long gone?

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