Top stories in the latest issue:
BUDGET SMUGGLERS
Rachel Reeves’s greatest gift to her successor John Healey was to tweak the “fiscal rules” that now provide him with political breathing space.
RATES OF CHANGE
The financial effect of budget plans for business rates to be retained entirely by local and regional authorities by 2030 hardly matches the hype.
WAGES OF SIN
Nigel Farage warns that tough gambling regulation would merely drive people to the black market – which one of his closest backers might know about!
HOUSING NEWS
The chancellor’s theme of “breathing space” for hard-pressed families was contradicted by a decision not mentioned in his speech or the budget small print.
CALLED TO ORDURE
Peers are up in arms over potential changes to sitting hours – because it would disrupt their precious subsidised lunches and dinners.
ACCESS OF EVIL
Despite being exposed selling access to MPs to a fictitious Chinese AI investor, a former MP’s Westminster networking operation has carried on regardless.
LEGAL NEWS
The battle between Carter-Ruck and the SRA has ramifications for accountability over one of the darkest chapters in recent legal history.
LUCKEY FOR SOME
US war secretary Pete Hegseth’s bizarre plan for a livestreamed firing squad execution did have one notable supporter: Palmer Luckey of arms firm Anduril.


























