1 week ago SNP loses thousands of members as deficit soars to nearly £500,000

The party’s annual accounts also show it may never pay former chief executive Peter Murrell back for his outstanding £60,000 loan.

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1 week ago SNP loses nearly 10,000 members as scandals take toll on John Swinney's party

The SNP have lost tens of thousands of members since the boom years of 2019.

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2 w. ago Southwark Labour forced to refund nearly £500,000 after illegal fines scandal

Southwark Labour forced to refund nearly £500,000 after illegal fines scandal  London Post

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2 w. ago BBC spends £61,000 on 10,000 pin badges, 7,000 mugs and 6,000 lanyards for its 'Call It Out' campaign

The BBC has spent £61,000 on office accessories to encourage staff to call out bad behavior in the wake of recent scandals.

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2 w. ago Calls to ban SUV and diesel motors after children 'made sick'

It's alleged that diesel cars linked to the Dieselgate scandal could cause more than 40,000 new cases of asthma.

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3 w. ago Ryan Tubridy repays 150,000 euro at centre of RTE pay scandal

Tubridy left Ireland’s national broadcaster following weeks of controversy relating to the organisation publicly under-reporting payments to him.

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3 w. ago Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Epstein files are failing | Sidney Blumenthal

The president has tried to distract from the Epstein story – but his ill-conceived Mar-a-Lago tale has undermined himOne of Trump’s preternatural abilities is his apparent animal instinct to lie on the spot whenever he senses he might be cornered. His initial Pavlovian training by his mob lawyer Roy Cohn and subsequent experience in more than 4,000 lawsuits and countless scandals seem to have ingrained in him that lying, the more outrageous the better, buys him time, plays to his credulous followers as insouciant defiance, and wears down his accusers.When Trump’s distractions failed to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files, he offered a story without missing a beat to distance himself from any taint. In his tale, he was traduced by Epstein. Trump was taken advantage of, violated, despoiled. There could be no guilt by association; Trump was a victim, too. Continue reading...

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