87 m. ago Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of television star-style arrangement is a practice criticised across the political spectrumNigel Farage is using a private company to reduce his tax bill on his GB News media appearances and other outside employment in a television star-style arrangement that has in recent years become frowned on by major broadcasters.The Reform UK leader diverts money from his prime-time TV show into his company, which means that he paid only 25% corporation tax on profits, instead of 40% income tax, and could offset some expenses. Continue reading...

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87 m. ago Brexit didn’t solve Britain’s woes, but no matter: leaving the ECHR definitely will. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? | Polly Toynbee

As Reform gathers for its conference, momentum builds for ditching the European convention on human rights. It would be a disasterSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreThere will be fireworks and celebration at Nigel Farage’s party conference this weekend. Burgeoning membership and council seats as Reform UK tops 30% in the polls. Immigration is the boat that sailed him here: the more small boats arriving, the broader his wolfish grin. Prime inflamer of foreigner hatred that he is, black and brown people report what they call the Farage effect in a wave of attacks: Mothin Ali, new deputy head of the Greens and a Leeds councillor, was attacked with bottles while with his family last week on Cromer beach in Norfolk, and racist abuse was hurled at them. He said that Reform rhetoric was causing people to blame immigrants and non-white people for Britain’s prob...

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87 m. ago Jack Catterall announces shock career move just weeks after Harlem Eubank win

Having recently moved up to welterweight, Jack Catterall’s journey in a division will not continue with his long-term trainers, Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis

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2 h. ago Norway is increasingly disadvantaged outside EU, foreign minister says

Espen Barth Eide and centre-right rival say Oslo is vulnerable while it remains outside bloc but neither plan a vote on joining

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2 h. ago ‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11!

Over 40 years since This is Spinal Tap was mistaken for a comedy, its hard-rocking subjects are back in a legally obligated sequel. Our writer heads to smell the gloveSpinal Tap are remembering the old days. It was 1966, and the young beat group from Squatney in east London – still, at that point, the Thamesmen – were honing their act in the tough clubs of the Benelux circuit. A young band from Britain could learn a lot, facing up to riotous crowds of Dutch, Flemings, Walloons and Luxembourgers. What lessons did Tap take from that year?“If you speak really loudly, it’s all right if you don’t have any of the local language,” says David St Hubbins, Tap’s leonine lead singer. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘They’re toxic but popular’: businesses wary as they head to Reform’s party conference

Nigel Farage will be wooing corporate guests at the NEC in Birmingham as his party aims to build on recent successesFags, booze, hunting and cryptocurrency: if the brochures for the Reform UK conference in Birmingham are anything to go by, executives turning up to see Nigel Farage’s party will find an eclectic mix.Starting on Friday, the party leading the opinion polls will hold its “next step” conference at the National Exhibition Centre, with a plan to show UK plc that it is the next party of government. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Ultimate nepo baby Chelsea Clinton's plan to run for office has me running to Canada: KENNEDY

Don't look now, but American politics just took another turn around the stained porcelain pot.

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5 h. ago The White Lotus season 4 destination is REVEALED... following Hawaii, Sicily, and Thailand locations

Creator Mike White has past spoken about ideas he has for the show's fourth season destination

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6 h. ago Nigel Farage welcomes Nadine Dorries as a 'big signing' after long

Former Conservative Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is joining forces with the Reform UK leader as he plots a path to Downing Street, it was revealed yesterday.

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7 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK on eve of party conference

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the ex-Conservative culture secretary said ‘the Tory Party is dead’.

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7 h. ago Worst wildfire year on record after crews respond to nearly 1,000 so far

Meanwhile the number of firefighters is down 25% since 2008, the equivalent of around 11,000 wholetime crew members, the NFCC said.

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7 h. ago I don’t want childen. Is it hypocritical to not be forthright about this soon after meeting someone? | Leading questions

Not wanting kids isn’t especially unusual, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. It might help to frame the conversation as what you’re saying yes to rather than what you’re refusingRead more Leading questionsI know that I don’t want to have any children, and that to not offer this up early in any relationship would make me a hypocrite. But I have become convinced that the reason I never meet anyone is because I am forthright about my opinion about children. How can I meet someone without having to be a liar or a hypocrite?Eleanor says: If it’s your job to figure out when to share this, it’s also a partner’s job to figure out when to ask. Wanting kids isn’t like monogamy or working for a living, where until instructed otherwise people can basically assume that’s your plan. More people than ever are deciding they don’t want kids. The fact that you’re one of them is not shocking, confronting or even especially unusual. If that’s a dealbreaker for a partner, they need to share ...

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7 h. ago I don’t want children. Is it hypocritical to not be forthright about this soon after meeting someone? | Leading questions

Not wanting kids isn’t especially unusual, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. It might help to frame the conversation as what you’re saying yes to rather than what you’re refusingRead more Leading questionsI know that I don’t want to have any children, and that to not offer this up early in any relationship would make me a hypocrite. But I have become convinced that the reason I never meet anyone is because I am forthright about my opinion about children. How can I meet someone without having to be a liar or a hypocrite?Eleanor says: If it’s your job to figure out when to share this, it’s also a partner’s job to figure out when to ask. Wanting kids isn’t like monogamy or working for a living, where until instructed otherwise people can basically assume that’s your plan. More people than ever are deciding they don’t want kids. The fact that you’re one of them is not shocking, confronting or even especially unusual. If that’s a dealbreaker for a partner, they need to share ...

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7 h. ago Head of Britain's trade union movement urges Rachel Reeves to set up new wealth tax to boost services

Paul Nowak called on the Chancellor to look at hitting those worth more than £10 million with fresh levies while hiking capital gains tax - insisting this would not lead to an exodus of the wealthy.

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8 h. ago Nigel Farage tells his party to prepare for a 2027 General Election as he warns economic woes will force Keir Starmer's hand

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail ahead of the conference, the former City trader highlighted the rising borrowing costs being forced on Labour by sceptical financial markets.

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8 h. ago Elliot Anderson ‘really thankful’ he made the decision to focus on England

The midfielder represented Scotland at youth level from Under-16s to Under-21s.

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8 h. ago STEVE REED: No ideas Nigel Farage and his clueless crew don't have a plan for Britain

Environment Secretary Steve Reed warned that 'the hardworking public are going to pick up the tab for Nigel Farage’s vagueness, slogans and vacuity' ahead of Reform UK's conference

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8 h. ago Nigel Farage jets back from 'talking down Britain tour' in US for Reform conference

Nigel Farage will set out his vision for Britain at Reform’s annual conference - after comparing the UK to North Korea in an address to the House Judiciary Committee

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9 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK and declares ‘Tory party is dead’

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK

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9 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform declaring: 'The Tory Party is dead'

Former culture secretary becomes highest-profile Conservative defector to Nigel Farage’s party on eve of its national conference

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