NEW Treasury Committee is calling in the govt's Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation to ask them questions about the effectiveness and implementation of Russian sanctions. Next Tuesday. Def one to watch 👀 committees.parliament.uk/work/8654/work…

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Thanks to Yvonne, Naomi and ‘Joanne’ on the “Recycling Lives” programme Recycling Lives Charity and Alasdair Jackson who runs it and to the MOJ and staff at Styal prison. And to the brilliant Liz Lane who produced this film.

Well worth a listen to what Scarlett Roberts has to say

Good to see the record 5% increase in #rail fares is paying dividends SWR Watch Network Rail

EXCLUSIVE with @journoamrogers Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to an offence connected with misleading the police while a parliamentary candidate in 2014, Sky News can reveal.

“The question is not about convincing a few dozen people in his former neighbourhood mosque, it’s convincing millions of Syrians across the country who will be looking on with a lot of anxiety about what exactly his rule and this new dawn in Syria entails for them”. Our

Prof Carl Heneghan presented his research on oral hormone pregnancy tests to MPs yesterday. Invited by Yasmin Qureshi MP, chair of All-Parliamentary Party Group, Carl discussed his systematic review & meta-analysis of studies concerning Primodos, a used between 1958 - 1978.

“This could go wrong very quickly”— Yalda Hakim Richard Engel in #Damascus this morning open.spotify.com/episode/4WZgey…

"We are just weaving through this prison, and we've found what we are being told is a torture chamber." Watch The World tonight at 9pm with Yalda Hakim for her full report from inside Sednaya prison. 📱 trib.al/zff6Z7W 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YT

New episode of The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim --- Live from Damascus: Inside the fall of Assad podfollow.com/the-world-with…

In defiance of the Taliban’s ban on music, a group of young Afghan musicians from ANIM risked it all to keep their country’s music alive. Now, they’re taking their message to the world stage as an orchestra in exile. NBC News’ Richard Engel tells their story – Notes of

‘The police gave up on this area years ago.’ With the Met nowhere to be seen, North Londoners have turned to private policing. Fred Sculthorp: 👇 buff.ly/4fkitRz

A must read here by Fred Sculthorp

OUT NOW: Our most important report yet.. It exposes how Imagination Technologies, Britain's 2nd biggest semiconductor company, which designs chips for AI, has siphoned off core assets to China. This is BIG. (thread)

So many #Xmas cards this year (as usual)! I can’t thank you all in person so seasons greetings. And wishing Mark Daly Sophy Ridge Yalda Hakim a full recovery from the mystery ailment that prevents them from getting off their arse and finding a post box.

This is the last time I will be make my beauty tips available for free. From now on you’ll have to the Toby Always Looks Fantastic channel. Coming soon.

In 1974 private eye Jake Gittes investigated how the city of Los Angeles stole the water from surrounding farmers. Fifty years later Angelenos are asking where it all went.

For UnHerd I've written an essay about the ongoing discord at the National Trust, and in particular the struggle for the soul of a peculiarly British institution: the aristocratic country house. unherd.com/2025/04/the-wa…

If you have not read this please give it a go. Nicky's tale is both poignant, hilarious and remarkable. A kid with a pocket full of United dreams who got to pull on that red shirt...