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Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

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The empty horror of Robert Jenrick We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

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Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

In 2037 it'll release a bargain-basement knock-off first-person-shooter in which the NPCs say how great Hitler was.

The scoping exercise by HMRC is said to be focused on tax residency and the business affairs of George Cottrell, whom Farage has described as “like a son to me”.

Known as “Posh George”, Cottrell leads an expensive lifestyle and regularly using a £4m house in one of the wealthiest areas of London

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Every post from the Tory conference just makes me sad. Like watching a destitute clown begging for pennies.

At some point, an important function of the Conservative Party as it used to be has gone into reverse. What used to happen is that hard-right but bright MPs were given responsibilities as junior ministers and taught that slogans were all very well but governing involved the real world…

Badenoch says her migration plan ‘credible’, but won’t say where 150,000 people a year being removed will go – UK politics live Conservative leader grilled over her removals proposal ahead of party conference opening later today

How Badenoch failed repeatedly to explain where 150,000 illegal migrants she wants to deport every year will go - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

Industrial park on fire in Lviv after Russian attack

🤬 Industrial park on fire in Lviv after Russian attack

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

Why Russia’s micro-aggressions against Europe are proliferating It is hoping to sap support for Ukraine and highlight America’s ambivalence

Western countries cannot be certain why Russia has ramped up its poking and prodding. But part of the explanation might lie with America’s president

Feels like this is one of those things that could have quite serious repercussions - how can this have slipped through?

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I am sick and tired of watching people with decent, compassionate values constantly be told to accommodate the views of people who lack decency or compassion...."

Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced? David Lammy has clarified remarks that the Reform leader ‘flirted with Hitler Youth’. Here is the background to the row

Nigel #Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced?
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‘A steampunk Mr Tayto’: why Irish critics hate Netflix’s House of Guinness While US and UK reviewers have praised the series, in Ireland it has faced a barrage of withering put-downs

‘A steampunk Mr Tayto’: why Irish critics hate Netflix’s House of Guinness
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Leaked text to Scott Bessent exposes Trump admin concerns, 'they're f---ing up'

Leaked text messages revealed that some of President Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees appear to be scrambling after his tariffs led a major trading partner to reach a deal with Argentina, which the United States recently bailed out with billions of dollars.

The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body

The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul

Texas investigation into teachers’ posts after Charlie Kirk’s death violates their free speech, experts say Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.

The Texas Education Agency is investigating hundreds of teachers' social media posts about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's killing. Legal experts say the investigations are an attack on teachers' free speech rights.

via @texastribune.org
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Ole Miss fires employee over social media post on fatal Charlie Kirk shooting University of Mississippi announced it has terminated an employee due to “hurtful, insensitive comments” made on social media regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, CEO and co-founder of Turning...

University of Mississippi announced it has terminated an employee due to “hurtful, insensitive comments” made on social media regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

via @mississippitoday.org
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Pentagon insiders claim Hegseth is 'crawling out his skin' over his own safety

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has allegedly descended into a state of paranoia regarding his own safety after the shocking murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.