‘Non-working’ royals raking in cash and living rent-free in palaces – including Andrew

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‘Non-working’ royals raking in cash and living rent-free in palaces – including Andrew

An audit by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed the disgraced former prince Andrew and his kids are making cash and/or living rent-free in palaces, despite performing no official duties. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his titles over the Epstein scandal. He has also been exposed engaging in dodgy dealings as UK trade envoy role his mother pushed for him to receive. His brother Charles paid out millions to settle the lawsuit brought against Andrew by the late Virginia Giuffre. But Andrew has continued receiving rental payments on the Royal Lodge estate he received rent-free from the Crown. The amounts…

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‘Top’ French media pundits can’t name three living Chinese people

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‘Top’ French media pundits can’t name three living Chinese people

This is genuinely incredible and says SO SO MUCH about the perception of China in the West. This is the #1 news show in France, and the host – David Pujadas – asks the pundits around the table (a sample of the top media figures in France) if they can name 3 living Chinese… pic.twitter.com/gkkWxTKfni — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 29, 2026 This selection of French media pundits was offered a simple challenge: name three living Chinese people. As you’d expect, a familiar response came: Xi Jinping; then… nothing. Rien. Juste l’embarras. These are not some random fellows interviewed vox-pop on…

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Burnham hits back at Blair’s complete disregard for dismal living standards in the UK

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Burnham hits back at Blair’s complete disregard for dismal living standards in the UK

Andy Burnham has finally hit back at Tony Blair’s thinly veiled criticism of his potential leadership of the Labour Party. Blair previously published a rambling article via his eponymous think tank, the Tony Blair Institute, detailing his belief in the so-called ‘radical centre‘. From what we can tell, that means private-sector deregulation, centering AI above all, slashing welfare and wages, and sucking up to Trump. Really radical, that lot. The section of Blair’s essay which reads as an attack on Burnham is this: the alternative which thinks the answer is moving even further left on taxes, spending and welfare, spun with…

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Cost of living crisis compared to Shell mega profits

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Cost of living crisis compared to Shell mega profits

Campaigners from Fossil Free London staged a protest outside a supermarket in Hackney on Sunday 24 May, to draw attention to the rising cost of living in contrast with fossil fuel corporations’ soaring profits. The stunt involved two trolleys. One, pushed by a campaigner dressed as an oil executive, was filled with sacks of money. The other was filled with placards shaped like common food items. Each placard displayed the item’s current cost and the amount it has risen by. For example: “Orange juice, £1.79, up 130%”. Behind them, a banner read: “Shell profits. We pay the price”. The protest comes…

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Labour’s summer cost of living policies reduce it to the Groupon administration

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Labour’s summer cost of living policies reduce it to the Groupon administration

Labour has announced some cost of living policies that treat voters as children. Rather than any significant economic strategy for real change, the ruling party is offering voters temporary gimmicks like no import tariffs on chocolate and biscuits for the summer. Instead, Labour could deliver cost price essentials such as water, energy and telecomms to significantly reduce costs for every person and business. Labour — The gimmicks It’s almost laughable. This is the Groupon administration. As well as cutting costs for supermarkets on trivial items, the ruling party is cutting VAT on summer days out for families from 20% to 5%.…

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