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FRAUD-U-LENT FIGURES
Rachel Reeves claims "almost £400m has now been recovered for taxpayers that had been lost to Covid fraud", but the numbers don't add up.

FOG OF WAR
The Israeli government is employing a company to craft pro-Israeli online messaging "to deliver GPT framing results" – ie to influence AI models.

ENTIRELY FALSE FLAGS
The Manchester synagogue attack prompted GB News to invite conspiracy theorist Maajid Nawaz in to discuss the rise in antisemitism in Britain.

FOLLOWING THE PACT
Kemi Badenoch's announcement that the UK would leave the ECHR under a Tory government makes things awkward for James Cleverly.

NOT-SO-USEFUL IDIOT
Lord Houchen says the Tories must be the party of "sound money" – some statement from a mayor who has presided over a vast waste of public funds.

GOWN & OUT
Barely noticed in the judgment against the Baroness Mone-linked PPE Medpro was the role of an even larger recipient of Covid millions: Uniserve Ltd.

WAGES OF SIN
The most encouraging part of the government's response to the first report on the Post Office scandal was the wording on "full and fair redress" for losses.

COURT CIRCULAR
Prince William's modernising and downsizing agenda means trouble ahead for lesser royals, charities and the global reach of the throne.

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