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14.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct? Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

08.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 1801    🔁 924    💬 136    📌 166

07.09.2025 09:25 — 👍 35    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 1

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

05.09.2025 07:55 — 👍 6505    🔁 3218    💬 128    📌 180

Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.

Has never happened before under any previous leader

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

04.09.2025 10:26 — 👍 1038    🔁 526    💬 86    📌 55

If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:

01.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 1001    🔁 253    💬 33    📌 10

Narbonic is the best.

07.08.2025 07:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'Whitechapel Bell Foundry' (from 'Odd Jobs', 1935) by Pearl Binder

29.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 205    🔁 39    💬 3    📌 3

Me too. I don’t feel much better about it now!

12.07.2025 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.

15.06.2025 21:43 — 👍 661    🔁 181    💬 8    📌 9

I’m sorry I had to leave on Sunday. It was so much fun.

27.05.2025 09:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A selection of late spring garden finds and my illustrations of them & their names in calligraphy alongside.

A selection of autumnal nature and botanical finds, my illustrations of them and their names alongside on a double page spread of a sketchbook. Drawing materials and other small nature finds are nearby.

Cornflowers, Nigella, sweet peas and Russian sage in shades of blue, mauve and purple on one page of a sketchbook and my illustrations of them on the opposite page, along with the fountain pen I used to draw them nearby on a wooden table.

Various spring nature and botanical finds with my pen and ink drawings and watercolours of them on pieces of sketchbook paper. A watercolour palette and fine paintbrush are nearby.

My 14 June botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's now enrolling
I'll teach you:
🌿How to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading
🧠How time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health.
Limited spaces,earlybird price:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

19.05.2025 11:34 — 👍 256    🔁 123    💬 5    📌 9

Hey @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social next time you have Keir’s ear could you remind him, the British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy, while the creative industries contribute £124bn.

Stop AI copyright theft.

Yours, a constituent.

08.04.2025 13:04 — 👍 262    🔁 57    💬 3    📌 1

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

08.04.2025 00:03 — 👍 31471    🔁 8803    💬 260    📌 469

YouGov list of issues with % that think Brexit was good for it. See this tweet for text: https://x.com/YouGov/status/1885242479773131012

Well that's quite the list of failures...

31.01.2025 11:02 — 👍 331    🔁 117    💬 19    📌 5

I worry about my ability to remember in using StoryGraph but I am reading along!

16.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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