It is still just so extraordinary to me that the government basically loan sharked an entire generation of students.
If they’d outsourced it to Wonga, the outcomes wouldn’t have been much worse
🚨 Exclusive
Labour MPs asked planted questions in Commons
Anneliese Dodds and Sir Chris Bryant made allegations in Parliament after briefings by former MI6 spy
Read the full investigation here 👇
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Burnham may be steering the UK back towards Brussels, but Europe is changing, moving right, more protectionist, more populist. Le Pen looms.
How might this affect the rejoin ambitions of Britain’s “ode to joy” coalition?
My analysis w/ @Peter_Conradithetimes.com/article/428f203…
EXCLUSIVE: Insight reveals SAS soldiers hunting Isis leaders in Syria were arrested for murder and had homes raided — only to be sent back behind enemy lines
Our report on Operation Tanglement ends years of secrecy to expose crisis in UK special forces
thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
🚨 EXC with David Collins
West Yorkshire Police are investigating deputy Green leader Mothin Ali.
This follows an incident at Leeds Civic Hall on September 15, which involved a phone being smashed.
Ali is being investigated for criminal damage
thetimes.com/article/6c579fd…
Do people not know that Harold Godwinson was a largely Danish usurper without a shred of legitimacy save an elite election in circumstances without precedent, whose family (quite probably including himself) were deeply involved in the murder of an English prince, or not care?
"There's obviously something that's happened that they don't want coming out.”
The daughter of Sir David Amess, Katie Amess, says she won't give up fighting for a public inquiry into the murder of her father.
There was speculation Jonathan Powell would leave with Starmer. He stayed on, which was a boon for Burnham, given Powell’s unique role in Labour foreign policy.
But he appears to have lost influence in this government. Now Tim’s reporting, suggests he may call it a day
National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell telling friends he might quit - which would be pretty huge. He’s the collective memory on the political side and one of the few with good contacts in Washington and the Middle East spectator.com/article/does-a…
Great line up for The Times at One on @TimesRadio today
Featuring:
- Trump and Ukraine with @NoahCRothman
- Reform and racism with @MichaelLCrick
- 5 years since David Amess was killed. With @KatieAmess
- Burnham vs the SNP with @zubirahmed
Two weeks until the Budget, and everyone has a view on what the Chancellor should do.
I talked to @joshglancy at @TimesRadio earlier today about the Budgets I worked on, and the one to come.
Spoiler: none of the choices are easy.
piped.video/Yv4X68S5XA8?si=tA-v…
🚨I’m presenting The Times at One today on @TimesRadio
Featuring:
- @KMartUK, former CoS to Rachel Reeves, on the budget
- John Hutton on Trump, Zelensky and Burnham
- @Bobby_Dean on where Lib Dems go from here
- @ZvikaKlein on Israel’s election - end of the road for Bibi?
Edwin Montagu has become a pin-up for today’s anti-Zionist left, from Zack Polanski to Mehdi Hasan to Benjamin Moser.
But who was the patrician Montagu and how does his thinking hold up today?
My essay for @JewishNewsUKjewishnews.co.uk/edwin-monta…
You heard it here first.
Here’s what Emily Thornberry told Josh Glancy when asked if a referendum would be necessary to reverse Brexit.
“I think we should just have it in the manifesto that we’d rejoin the EU.”
@EmilyThornberry | @joshglancy
This is an excellent piece by @joshglancy, dissecting the claims made by various anti-Israel obsessives about their new favourite Jewish historical figure, Edwin Montagu.
jewishnews.co.uk/edwin-monta…