54 minutes ago My week at Kanye’s: John Safran on his time squatting in the rapper’s mansion

The Jewish Australian comedian-journalist spent a week living in one of West’s houses in Los Angeles, without him knowing. This is what he learnedHow would you try to track down Kanye West? If you are John Safran, you just go and knock on his door. Having flown from Melbourne to Los Angeles with a vague interest in the rapper’s recent antisemitic remarks, Safran – a Jewish Australian comedian-journalist with a history of outlandish stunts, often mentioned in the same breath as Louis Theroux and Jon Ronson – arrived outside one of West’s properties, a mansion in Calabasas, California. He poked around until he found an old water bill addressed to West and, having gotten his bearings, set about meeting his neighbours.“Is it fun living next to West?” Safran asks Ernie across the road. “No, ...

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60 minutes ago UK banks to reveal if cheaper mortgages are being passed on to customers

Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and NatWest will unveil their third-quarter financial results on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively

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60 minutes ago State Pension, PIP, Universal Credit and other benefit payment changes due before Christmas

Full list of DWP, HMRC and Social Security Scotland payment date changes during Christmas week.

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70 minutes ago Kagiso Rabada smashes Test cricket record to give South Africa edge over Bangladesh

Kagiso Rabada made Test cricket history for South Africa against Bangladesh

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95 minutes ago Disabled pensioner forced to wash in sink of tiny hotel room after being kicked out of her flat

Susan Curtis, 74, received a no-fault eviction and became homeless when she couldn’t find anywhere else to rent

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1 hour ago 'King Charles didn't colonise Australia. But who else can they complain to?'

Indigenous people across the former British Empire were murdered and mistreated for centuries, says Fleet Street Fox. But how can anyone apologise for history?

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3 hours ago Streeting revives claim that some patients face avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current state of NHS – UK politics live

Health secretary says NHS is going through the ‘worst crisis in its history’In the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is ...

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3 hours ago MPs urged to back most significant overhaul of workers' rights in a generation

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on MPs to be 'on the right side of history'

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4 hours ago Warning 600,000 mortgage holders missing out on £4,600 saving by not making simple switch

New data from broker Mojo Mortgages shows the average standard variable rate (SVR) home loan is 7.25% while the average five-year fix is 4.05% across the six biggest lenders

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