Less than 5 per cent of undergraduates at the Royal Academy of Music are from low socioeconomic backgrounds — and a decline in state-school music education is to blame.

New piece in the Sunday Times 👇🏻

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Dutch football club Vitesse Arnhem deducted record 18 points for rule breaches.

'Indications' that Roman Abramovich 'has or has had control over Vitesse' and 'risks of violation of sanctions and money laundering.'

Follows The Guardian & The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporting.

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Villa the last English team standing in European competition for the first time since 1981-82.

Mark Menzies has relinquished the whip pending the outcome of this investigation. Follows this Times story tonight. Questions will no doubt continue about why Tories didn’t take action earlier, they’ve known about this for 3 1/2 months

Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’

thetimes.co.uk/article/28f948…

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I’m incredibly alarmed by this.

#footballindex users have raised many questions into the failures following the collapse of the platform and have suffered losses of millions of pounds through regulatory failure.

I will be looking to raise this when the House returns.

It is over two years since I spoke in Parliament about the football index scandal & the huge impact it had on my constituents & many others.

We saw a shocking failure from the regulator & DCMS at the time & I know this news below will be a kick in the teeth for those impacted.

🚨Exclusive: Football Index co-founder Adam Cole is behind a strikingly similar new football crypto trading website.

He is investor in and advisor to KiX which uses Football Index as 'proof of concept'. It's a 'kick in the teeth' for campaigners.
thetimes.co.uk/sport/football…

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The co-founder of the failed Football Index gambling website is behind a new trading platform that has striking similarities to the one that dramatically collapsed in 2021, The Times can reveal

Read the full story ⬇️ | ✍️ Joey D'Urso
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