Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro? The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

Perhaps Gove will make up the difference?
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Always a pair of greedy chancers.

It’s @andyburnham.bsky.social or bust for this country. Let’s be clear Starmer is proving a better warm-up act for Farage than Biden ever was for Trump.

Let’s have a serious and long overdue conversation about foreign interference in our country, then. China — and, for that matter, Israel’s — influence over our prime minister, for sure. But also let’s talk about Russia and the part it played in making Brexit happen.

Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.

You know why I like this guy? No one owns him. That’s why his words resonate across all demographics. And he can attack rich men.

With Israel’s ownership of the Prime Minister — and now we have to factor in China’s, too — plus those who give him suits etc, I’d say the electorate now has at best a minority stake in him. Times tomorrow.

You and I do 35 in 30 zone and it’s a fortune. Johnson wrecks the entire country, ransacks it for him and his mates, and it’s ’right you are, sir.’

Take, take, take.

Still he’s not aged at all in all that time or even changed his position.

Aren’t we lucky in this country to have the wise counsel of such columnists?

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

Starmer doesn't matter any more and nor does our old political system Standing for nothing, annoying the left wing of his party as much as the right, Sir Keir Starmer's government has dashed our hopes and created a sense of hopelessness

We’ve already moved on from Starmer, but we’re not sure where we’re moving on to.
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Radical thought: do some greedy, grasping members of the indigenous population actually deserve to live here?

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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You’d think so but both parties essentially using the Lords as a trash can when you see who they chuck in there.

Sir Keir Starmer declares a battle for the soul of Britain The Labour Party takes aim at Nigel Farage and Reform UK

So much of what was said at Labour conference plagiarised. Among other examples, ‘plastic patriots’ first coined by Kevin Maguire and the lines about ‘the soul of Britain’ a lift from the final moments of the Radio 4 play #WhenMaggieMetLarry.
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Successive governments can’t keep saying Nyet to this.

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

Still sits in the Lords, of course, along with Mandelson etc. You don’t have to be dodgy to sit in there these days, but it certainly helps.
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That makes it worse - as with the rest of them, she knows how economically illiterate it is and now embraces it like her job depends on it.

Blimey, dawning even on Reeves that Brexit might not have been such a great get-rich-quick scheme after all.

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release The Duke of York is named as a passenger on the sex offender's private jet in documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the US.

👽 A visitor from outer space might be forgiven for thinking this is a planet dominated by sleaze balls.
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Menzies Campbell, former Liberal Democrat leader, dies at 84 Campbell was North East Fife MP for nearly three decades and was made a peer, and once held UK 100m record

Decent fella. Of how many politicians around these days will we be able to say that when they die?
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What’s the alternative?

Ban Mandelson from returning to parliament, says Labour peer Speaking on a special Electoral Dysfunction x Trump100 podcast, Harriet Harman said the former minister and UK-US ambassador would "damage" the reputation of the House of Lords should he return.

Peter Mandelson should be banned from returning to the House of Lords, as he would "damage" the upper chamber's reputation, Harriet Harman has warned
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This insults all Londoners whose opinion of Trump was expressed eloquently enough by the decision not to allow him anywhere near them.

🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Yesterday’s press conference was pitiful. Good for Beth Rigby for at least trying. More professional and courageous than any of the men.

A lot started to go wrong when we ceased to a very large extent to have journalists on TV talking to real people about real life - their lived experiences - but plumped instead for journalists talking to journalists about what their media organisations perceive to be real life.