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BLUNT FORCE
The National Police Chiefs Council chair claimed "around 40 percent" of chief constables are women, but in fact the number has been falling rapidly.

PEER REVIEW
Since her return to Britain a year ago, new chief economic adviser Baroness Shafik has voted in Lords motions just four times and has not spoken at all.

LEUNG STORY
The major AI companies and the government have become more entwined with the appointment of the government's new AI adviser, Jade Leung.

REVERSE FERRET FARAGE!
Last year Nigel Farage said it was "a political impossibility to deport hundreds of thousands of people". Now he is denying he said that.

GALLAGHER'S GALL
Nine years after the Sun ran its false "QUEEN BACKS BREXIT" headline, editor Tony Gallagher's Times now says: "The Queen was a Remainer."

RUNNING GAGGERS
Even as one of its partners faces prosecution, law firm Carter-Fuck is trying to prevent the world knowing the identity of its underworld clients.

DRAX UNDER FIRE
The Financial Conduct Authority is at last formally investigating some of tree-burning power company Drax's many deeply implausible public claims.

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