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🟪 Supplement — Exclusive: Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms — @josiahmortimer

Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving…

https://t.co/4fI9cuw41t

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🔴 Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms — @josiahmortimer

Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket…

https://t.co/uIkKg62tgC

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📌 ICYMI — Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation — David Hencke

Beatrice and Eugenie continue to be housed in Kensington and St James' Palace, despite not being working royals, a new report reveals

🔗 https://t.co/w0gTrT7meW

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🟨 Print Edition — Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus

How did Nigel Farage’s head of policy move from corporate law to political…

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More from @NafeezAhmed on Bannon, Epstein and the crypto power European movement here

https://t.co/4Y2sRXFeRI

And from @peterjukes on Farage’s role in the scheme

https://t.co/FOR7PBIJtf

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

There’s so much disturbing detail @HeidilBlake’s Tate brothers investigation.

Their MAGA connections shows that, like Epstein, money and sexual violence are key to Trump world.

Just like Bannon and Epstein in 2018 they were planning a European movement funded by crypto

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

There’s so much disturbing detail @HeidilBlake’s Tate brothers investigation.

Their MAGA connections shows that, like Epstein, money and sexual violence are key to Trump world.

Just like Bannon and Epstein in 2018 they were planning a European movement funded by crypto

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🔎 Archive: ‘Rape of Britain’: Russia Rolls Out the Red Carpet for 'Tommy Robinson' — Sarah Hurst

🔁 Relevant again: Yaxley Lennon back today seeking Putin’s support

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Not the first time Yaxley Lennon has sought support from Putin.

We reported his trips to Russia six years ago

https://t.co/RbM5HYR6a0

[Joe Mulhall @JoeMulhall_]

Can't be absolutely certain but it very much looks like Tommy Robinson is in the Shalyapin Bar of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow with Errol Musk.

[Joe Mulhall @JoeMulhall_]

Can't be absolutely certain but it very much looks like Tommy Robinson is in the Shalyapin Bar of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow with Errol Musk.

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Kherson: the aftermath of night-time Russian drone attacks.

Residential buildings are burning down.

The spreading fire is fuelled by winds.

Fire fighters do not have enough resources to extinguish the fires and face deadly danger as drones are attacking first responders.

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📌 ICYMI — Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation — David Hencke

Beatrice and Eugenie continue to be housed in Kensington and St James' Palace, despite not being working royals, a new report reveals

🔗 https://t.co/w0gTrT7meW

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[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

The icing on the cake: five of the paper's co-authors work for the Big Oil giants set to benefit from the proposed special 'fiscal regime' they recommend (but never model) to start drilling. Badenoch forgot to mention that. As did the rest of the press. /9

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

Even worse, we'd produce about 325 days of UK gas demand, and that wouldn't happen consecutively - we'd produce it over a period of about a decade. And guess what. This paultry production wouldn't start coming online until 14-17 yrs later. Do you see the grift here? /8

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The losses to the Treasury from drilling in the West of Shetlands would mount up potentially as high as nearly £10 billlion. That bill would be footed by the British taxpayer. The oil and gas giants would take the profits. /7

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🟪 Supplement — Big Oil Employees Wrote Paper Behind Kemi Badenoch’s North Sea Fantasy — @NafeezAhmed

The Conservative leader and her media supporters used a new study as evidence to support her plan to increase drilling in the North Sea, without…

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[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

I and my colleague Divyesh Desai, a former senior director at Shell in Asia specialising in LNG, modelled North Sea drilling costs and benefits. It's a conservative model, but the numbers are devastating. Check it out here /6 https://t.co/RnEdt8VKXa

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

Tory leader Badenoch used this paper to claim it's "utter madness" to not drill more in North Sea. But she ignored that the paper said: “an in-depth economic benefit analysis of such a move is beyond the scope of this paper.” No wonder. There are no benefits. /5

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

To be fair to the authors, the undiscovered caveat is actually acknowledged in the paper. Even in the press release. Which just goes to show how little the "energy" and "business" jounos at The Telegraph and Mail understand energy or business. /4

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

4.7 bn barrels is an estimate of potential undiscovered resources. This not even an estimate of actually existing resources - it's an estimate of how much might be found if money is spent on exploration. But typical actual commercial recovery from such estimates is about 8% /3