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World leaders due to arrive in Brazil ahead of COP30 World leaders, including the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are due to arrive in the Brazilian city of Belem tomorrow for a leaders’ summit ahead of next week’s crucial UN climate talks.

World leaders due to arrive in Brazil ahead of COP30
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Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC

PPE Medpro linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes.

The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.

Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.

Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?

Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low-profile UK producers were funded mainly by public money Creative industries are ‘crucial to the economy’ but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in Britain

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Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low-profile UK producers were funded mainly by UK public money.

Govts don't take equity stake.

Profits often booked in low/no offshore tax havens. UK taxes dodged - James Bond films are a good example.

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

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Google Search is vandalising the internet. Here’s how. – Full Fact Google Search is misrepresenting our fact checks, showing incorrect information to millions.

Google Search is vandalising the internet.

👀 Our new investigation reveals how some of our fact checks are being shown in misleading ways:

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Really excited about this! New media launching next week❤️💪🔥 pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Video of boys being arrested is from 2008 TV programme, and nothing to do with England flags – Full Fact The footage was actually taken from an old episode of the TV programme Traffic Cops and shows two boys being arrested on suspicion of theft from a motor vehicle.

A video has been shared online with claims it shows two boys being arrested for waving an England flag.

But the footage is actually from a 2008 episode of Traffic Cops, and shows something entirely different.

Israeli police break up anti-war protest Back in Israel, Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov joined the small left-wing protest movement and was arrested trying to walk into Gaza.

Israeli police break up anti-war protest

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Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Hillsborough Law: Forcing officials to tell the truth A law will go through Parliament, meaning that any public servant who covers up information in the wake of a disaster faces possible imprisonment of up to two years.

Campaigners have hailed the introduction of the Hillsborough Law, which the government says will 'end the culture of cover-ups.'

Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson explains what the new legislation is, and how it has come about:

What genocide means - and what we learned from UN commission report on Gaza The Trump administration, openly scornful of international legal requirements, may ignore the report on Israel. But Western governments may find it harder to do so, writes Lindsey Hilsum

🗣️ "The Trump administration, openly scornful of international legal requirements, may ignore the report on Israel. But Western governments may find it harder to do so."

📩 Read our latest newsletter from Channel 4 News' International Editor Lindsey Hilsum 👇

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Thousands forced to flee Gaza City after Israel onslaught A massive onslaught on Gaza city, already in ruins after nearly two years of repeated attacks from Israel, forces thousands to pack up and flee.

Thousands forced to flee Gaza City after Israel onslaught
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services, mostly foreign owned.

Investment neglected. Regulators useless.

Often little/no competition, captive customers fleeced,, more pushed into poverty.

Privatisation is one of the biggest scams.

These are the wealthy funders who’ve given Reform £5m Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment but it is funded by the super rich.

Reform has an unusually high number of overseas backers with links to tax havens.

Fossil fuel interests fund Reform, party will expand their trade.

ICYMI: Israeli authorities have denied entry to two British MPs on a delegation to the occupied West Bank

The two Labour MPs, Simon Opher MP and Peter Prinsley MP, are both doctors, and were due to enter on 15th September. It's the second time this year Israel has barred a Parliamentary delegation.

Why my UN commission concluded Israel committing genocide in Gaza Channel 4 News speaks to Navi Pillay, a South African jurist who was the Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

“Take the only fertility clinic in Gaza. They smashed the tanks, killed those embryos.”

Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN commission of inquiry, tells @krishgm.bsky.social they were “thorough” in determining that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Read and watch:
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Jackson is a hero. I love this closing quote from her dissent. It’s giving me life on a hard day to see her speak up and call it like it is.

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Here, fixed it.

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

‘At least 30 children die per day in Gaza, we need to move at pace’ – founder of humanitarian initiative The Home Office has authorised the medical evacuation of up to 50 critically ill or injured children from Gaza to the UK for treatment in the coming weeks.

"We should have done this sooner."

Project Pure Hope founder tells @ayshahtull.bsky.social the UK must move fast to evacuate sick children from Gaza.

Read and watch here:

Kirsty Alsopp asking "When will Rachel Reeves start talking about saving money not just finding more & more ways of taking money away from people who themselves have bothered to save and work hard?"

64% of the richest 10% in Britain got most of their money via inheritance, not by working for it.

Such as Allsopp, the eldest daughter of Baron Hindlip, chairman of Christies, who got her start in TV via her art history degree, which she studied at ... Christies.

But sure. More austerity.