Jim Pickard

this isn’t a new photo - I took it a few years ago - but wanted to share it regardless

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

does he become….symbol…?

this is as robust a defence as Rachel Reeves could hope for, lettings agent has coughed up that it’s their mistake www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

FT: Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be ordered to repay more than £38,000 in rent after admitting breaching housing rules by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence. www.ft.com/content/b1ed...

Thames

The Tony Blair Institute is undergoing a major restructuring that includes staff lay-offs, as the not-for-profit set-up by the former UK prime minister searches for a more sustainable funding model. www.ft.com/content/1196...

who chooses the photographs? www.ft.com/content/1f79...

swan, Thames, this morning

the only silver lining for Labour from the Caerphilly disaster: what if there is a potential anti-Reform voter coalition out there, almost everywhere? www.ft.com/content/fed0...

possibly the funniest political moment of the year

this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case over to you, Kemi Badenoch? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...