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Zack Polanski announces he will stand in Holborn and St Pancras by-election
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has announced he will stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, called after former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer resigned as MP. Starmer, who was replaced as Prime Minister and Labour leader by Andy Burnham in July following a series of setbacks and poor local election results, said it…
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Blundering Canadian officials gave millions of taxpayer cash to son of Iranian vice president who helped Islamic Republic develop MISSILES
Canadian federal agencies awarded millions of dollars in contracts to a company founded by the son of a former Iranian vice president, even while intelligence officials were investigating him over alleged involvement in developing missile and jamming systems for Iran’s military. Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, who operates under the name “Sal Ghafouri” in Alberta, secured…
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Coalition Backs 80% Tobacco Excise Cut, Reducing Cigarette Prices by Around $30
Australia’s Coalition, under the leadership of Angus Taylor, has announced an ambitious proposal to reduce tobacco excise by 80 percent. This substantial tax cut would lower cigarette prices by approximately $30 per pack
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Trump vows to help Republicans campaign for midterm elections as he urges candidates to run on his record in White House
Donald Trump has pledged to spend the final month before November’s midterm elections campaigning intensively for Republican candidates, telling party members at a White House Rose Garden dinner that he will focus on 35 key races and warning that a Democratic takeover of Congress could trigger fresh impeachment efforts against him. The pledge comes as…
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Coalition proposes 80 per cent cut to tobacco excise
Australia’s Coalition, led by Angus Taylor, has unveiled a plan to cut tobacco excise by 80 per cent, closely following One Nation’s earlier proposal to slash it by 75 per cent, prompting accusations that the move is aimed at outflanking Pauline Hanson’s party as much as tackling the illicit tobacco trade. The policy responds to…
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Trump $1 coin makes him first living president on US currency in a century
Donald Trump’s portrait now appears on a US $1 coin, making him the first living president featured on American currency in a century. Launched by the US Mint to mark America’s 250th anniversary, the coin bears Trump’s likeness alongside the words “LIBERTY” and “IN GOD WE TRUST” and sold out on the Mint’s website within…
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Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit challenging California policy allowing biological males in girls’ sports
A US federal judge has dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit that sought to force California to bar transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports, allowing the state’s existing policy to remain in place. This matters because it marks a setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to use Title IX enforcement to…
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Cigarette prices to drop $30 under radical Coalition plan – as Angus Taylor denies lifting policy from One Nation
The Coalition, led by Liberal leader Angus Taylor, is pushing to cut Australia’s tobacco excise by 80 per cent, which would slash roughly $30 off the price of a pack of cigarettes to levels last seen in 2013. Taylor argues that making legal cigarettes more competitively priced would undercut the booming illicit tobacco trade, which…
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Trump’s DOJ Skewered By NYT For Backing OpenAI & “Trillion-Dollar AI Companies” In Media Heavyweights & Star-Studded Scribes Copyright Suit
The US Department of Justice has filed a court submission backing OpenAI in a major copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times, several other newspapers and a group of prominent authors, prompting a sharp rebuke from the Times. The intervention matters because it signals the Trump administration’s willingness to use federal legal weight to…
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Markets raise UK borrowing costs after Burnham renationalisation plans
Daily Mail columnist Alex Brummer warns that Prime Minister Andy Burnham risks triggering a repeat of the market turmoil seen under Liz Truss, after a Commons speech outlining plans to reverse Thatcherite reforms, avoid “crude cuts” to welfare and pursue “relentless” renationalisation of utilities such as water and energy. The article argues that bond markets…