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It's reported that Reform UK-run Kent Council may raise council taxes after their DOGE inspired cost-cutting measures failed.

Starmer firing shots at Nigel Farage in his Labour conference speech.

Farage mudded.

Wes Streeting hit back at Nigel Farage's refusal to condemn Donald Trump's claims that paracetamol causes autism on LBC, and Reform's platforming of antivaxxers at their conference.

State terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione that could have seen him face life in prison were dropped on Tuesday, after the judge overseeing his case found the evidence behind the charges "legally insufficient".

Donald Trump announced the death of Charlie Kirk on his Truth Social account, after the right-wing activist was shot at a Turning Point USA event.

Kirk played a major role in Trump's reelection in 2024.

Change.

Jenny Scott was appointed to the Treasury’s board of directors this month, taking up the part-time role while continuing her full-time job as founder partner of Apella Advisors.

The company lobbies government ministers on behalf of Thames Water.

Trump: I'm not a dictator but I'd be a good one.

Operation Restoring Justice would see Reform bar anyone who comes to the UK on small boats from claiming asylum.

Reform UK says it would make £2bn available for returns deals.

The Taliban is currently in charge in Afghanistan, one of the countries Reform wants to strike a deal with.

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Asking the far-right if they're racist at an asylum hotel protest

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YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Asking the far-right if they're racist at an asylum hotel protest

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This protester outside a London asylum hotel says the UK is on the brink of civil war.

Man at anti-asylum seeker protest: "I'm not a racist, I've got multiple friends from different countries."

Elon Musk will be awarded $29 billion worth of Tesla shares as part of a pay deal.

Musk will pay $2 billion to buy 96 million shares in Tesla at the same price per share as a 10-year pay package agreed in 2018.

A Delaware court previously rejected a $56 billion pay deal for the world's richest man

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Explained: Immigration and the rise of the Irish far-right

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The government have struck a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, which will last 12 years and include access to British waters for EU fishing vessels.

Only took 7 years and a change of government.

RFK jumps out of his skin as protesters, including the founder of Ben & Jerry's, derail his testimony at a Senate Committee hearing.

Former Met Officer Che Homersham was sentenced to six months imprisonment after it was found he had a relationship with a teenage girl he met while attending a domestic incident in 2018.

Emergency services were called to Keir Starmer's house in north London after a fire broke out in the early hours of Monday morning.

Activists at @everyonehateselon.bsky.social take the piss out of Elon Musk for Tesla's profits falling off a cliff.

The Post Office has spent nearly £600 million on faulty Horizon software since 1999.

The deal with Fujitsu may even need to be extended past March 2026 while an alternative is being built.

Donald Trump to amputee veterans: "You guys got hit pretty good huh? Amazing."

If you can send afford to send Katy Perry to space you can afford to pay more taxes.

Activists at @everyonehateselon.bsky.social make their feelings known about Jeff Bezos.

At least it wasn't about bombing Yemen.

Tory MP and Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick accidentally added, and swiftly deleted hundreds of Westminster insiders from a WhatsApp group he set up to promote his London marathon run.

The Supreme Court has ruled "woman" refers to biological sex.

The law still protects trans people from discrimination.

Delivering the ruling, Lord Hodge stressed "we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not."

Emails seen by Sky News show Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates urging victims of the Horizon scandal to take the government to court over delays to compensation.

Unite members have struck down the latest offer from Birmingham City Council to end strikes, which have seen thousands of tonnes of rubbish go uncollected in the city.

Former Conservative MP Craig Williams has been charged along with 14 others with betting offences following bets placed on the date of the 2024 General Election.

"The United States and China will be okay. The rest of us? That's a different story."

@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social explains why a US-China trade war will be a catastrophe for us all.

Trump since crashing the global economy

Starmer and Reeves are so Tory it hurts.