Edward Harkins

We're investigating a firm called MP Estate Planning, which sells trusts to save elderly people from the "modern threats" of divorce, bankruptcy, care home fees and inheritance tax.

We believe the trusts don't work.

If you've come across the firm, please get in touch.

UK officials are boycotting the opening of the Paralympics tonight in protest at Russian and Belarus athletes being allowed to compete under their own flag. [LBC News]

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

Here we go again. An American tragedy repeated. It seems this is a US that's deeply unlearning about it's own modern history of foreign adventures & gigantic failures. Now it's dead Americans for a dud President.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

I don't really understand this. Most expats won't be within just a few days of falling UK tax resident. Even if they are, the obvious solution is: spend a few weeks in France, Italy, the US... anywhere at all except the UK.

www.ft.com/content/80bf...

Transparency fears over plan to redact 2,000 staff names on Commons register Exclusive: Standards committee proposal aims to improve staff safety but critics say it will further reduce public trust

EXCL: MPs are planning to redact names of 2,000 parliamentary staff from official register that has been in place for decades, reducing transparency around lobbying by passholders - @rowenamason.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Police Submit report on RCI offences to COPFS - Land Matters NORTH GLEN ESTATE LTD On 6 May 2025, I published a blog highlighting the fact that the owner of North Glenbuchat Estate, North Glen Estate Ltd., an overseas entity registered in the Turks and Caicos I...

BLOG - I am pleased to report that Police Scotland has submitted a report to COPFS relating to an offence to register in Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land. Apologies to blog subscribers as automated email failed to send (am investigating)
andywightman.scot/2026/03/poli...

The polls suggest the British press is seriously out of sync with how most ordinary decent people regard Israel and America’s bloody ‘war on a whim.’

Same narrative with GB N*ws as with the Murdoch owned S*n newspaper; the financial losses don't matter, the desired RoI is dissemination of right-wing populist propaganda.

Scottish Labour MP issues statement after husband arrested in China spy probe SCOTTISH Labour MP Joani Reid has said she is “not part of my husband’s business activities” after he was arrested on suspicion of spying for…

Oh no! What now?
www.thenational.scot/news/2590739...

Scottish Labour MP issues statement after husband arrested in China spy probe SCOTTISH Labour MP Joani Reid has said she is “not part of my husband’s business activities” after he was arrested on suspicion of spying for…

Oh no! What now?
www.thenational.scot/news/2590739...

Archbishop of York laments ‘appalling lack of religious literacy’ at BBC ‘My concern is much more about the place of religion across the whole output of the BBC, rather than simply seeing it as religious broadcasting in that rather more narrow definition’

Meanwhile, humanists are banned from BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. If programming is to be inclusive, the BBC must treat non-religious worldviews with equal respect and proportional visibility, not sustain identities while excluding others. 🧵

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Sandi Toksvig: Bishops, Scandi convents, and masterminding a schools rebellion. Out now on all podcast platforms.

There are over 60 episodes of our podcast #WhatIBelieve. In each one, @andrewcopson.bsky.social speaks with a humanist in the public eye about the beliefs and values that shape their life. Listen to Sandi Toksvig's episode today. Available on all podcast platforms. humanists.uk/what-i-believe

Hovering on the precipice of a New Dark Age where religion becomes again dominant.

The moral of the story is: if you buy into something that's obviously fraud, you shouldn't expect the people running it to care about your privacy, or indeed be remotely competent.

What’s worse than running a scheme that defrauds the IRS and sends fake £39m demands to public officials?

Accidentally publishing the names of all your clients on the internet.

She is completely and utterly out her depth…in a puddle!

Why are BBC Scotland desperately trying to find SNHS BAD stories?
Why is BBC Scotland so intent on creating harm?

Trump sounds mad.

Proper nuts. But more than anything he sounds REALLY rattled as he rants and raves about Britain.

If Starmer sticks to his guns I suspect this will all play in his favour.

Trump administration drops effort against law firms after judges find president's orders unconstitutional Numerous judges have ruled against Trump's executive orders targeting certain law firms.

This flew under the radar, but Trump's DOJ has abandoned its legal assault on the law firms that courageously refused to bend the knee to him.

This should serve as a reminder for the firms that sucked up to Trump: appeasing a tyrant will get you nowhere.

One highly dubious figure in these tables is the 35% of 2014 Yes voters who say they'd vote no. It's never been that high and goes against the direction of travel of every other poll.

It could be a lot of false recall (perhaps malicious?) I've never seen so many 2014 Yes voters in a sample before!

#EconSky

Troops Report Being Told Trump Was “Anointed” For Iran War U.S. troops are speaking out after Trump divine war claims reportedly surfaced inside military briefings tied to the escalating Iran conflict. According to formal complaints filed with the Military Religious […]

Troops Report Being Told Trump Was “Anointed” For Iran War

Veteran silk Robert Venables KC denies tax evasion charges.

Venables famously threatened to “set the dogs” on anti-tax-avoidance campaigners and called them “trespassing scum” at the Golden Handshake awards in Oxford in 2012. A trial is due later this year.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/veteran...

Is this bad? It seems bad.

Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

📌 ICYMI — Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’

With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

This tree, is it still in the room with us just now?

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Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly.

Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it