Former First Minister’s husband charged with embezzlement bit.ly/3JukSLO in investigation over £600,000 of political finances

Former PM trussed up by Tom Peck bit.ly/3Qa0cwr

No police enquiry into alleged misuse of political donations by Conservative MP bit.ly/3Q9DZyu

The Department for Work and Pensions continues to go after the poor and weak in its attempts to recover benefits it knew were being overpaid bit.ly/3W4gpXP DWP is reviewing the case and says “we carefully balance our duty to protect the public purse with helping individuals manage repayments”

Unpaid carers who appeal against repayment demands could end up paying more Department for Work and Pensions warns bit.ly/3UjOFNI experts say the threats undermine the legal right to challenge department rulings

Fylde MP Mark Menzies used campaign funds to release him from ‘bad people’ The Times and The Sunday Times reveals bit.ly/3xCiK25 previously £14,000 given by donors for use on Tory campaign activities had been transferred to his personal bank account and used for private medical expenses.

Parris view bit.ly/3w00BLd

Not so much a buddy loan more a body loan bit.ly/3xChuMp you know you’ve got to read it!

Taylor Swift - thieves version bit.ly/4aYb3S7

Delete smoke(ing) substitute use(ing) heroin. Delete tobacco/cigarettes substitute heroin. Hmmmm.

Not a bank. No Financial Services Compensation Scheme protection.

Still waiting to see which company will operate flights to Rwanda with so many ruling themselves out. One that I’ve been told are considering it is AirTanker who would call themselves an aviation services provider (rather than airline). They provide RAF with jets

The answer is clearly ‘no’. Well done Kay Burley

Shit in your own nest always a bad idea! bit.ly/4cYkAKU

UK’s own tax havens miss deadline for public registers of who actually owns companies bit.ly/3vRRMTD Transparency International organisation TI says UK territories and dependencies provide “a safe haven for criminals, kleptocrats and tax evaders to store their ill-gotten gains”.

It’s not about retracting. It’s about not getting it wrong in the first place!

This attack in Sydney, which claimed the lives of seven people was carried out by a white surfer from Queensland called Joel Cauci. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or immigration.

Will Julia Hartley-Brewer delete this and apologise?

Loss £99,000, compensation £7,000 bit.ly/3Uh64ql how Financial Conduct Authority’s 77p in the £ scheme was just a fiction but let platforms off the hook for promoting Woodford’s doomed fund. Everyone except the hapless investors has escaped unscathed from the multibillion pound scandal

Barclays and Lloyds try to use the courts to wriggle out of responsibility for selling overpriced car loans by giving sales staff secret large commission payments bit.ly/4cSrCRf

Can you imagine a more ridiculous idea? bit.ly/49CRYDW and do enjoy the content free official comment straight from the govt spokesperson training school