Top stories in the latest issue:
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
Angela Rayner’s apparent enthusiasm for vast data centres will please industry consultancy Northpoint Strategy – where her significant other happens to work.
EXILE ON MOAN STREET
Monaco-based fiscal whinger and Man United supremo Jim Ratcliffe told the BBC that Britain is on the slide. But do his pub-bore assertions ring true?
CALLED TO ORDURE
Much gnashing of dentures in the Lords, where proposals for peers to retire at 80 left some wondering if it’s a polite way of suggesting they’re past it.
RIGHT ORR WRONG?
Reform’s defenestrated head of policy, James Orr, has been masterminding fireside chats in Cambridge between theologians and right-wing luminaries.
WORKING CAPITAL
While the party is eager to publicise its planned clampdowns on migrant workers, Reform is considerably keener on migrants with cash to spare.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Canadian premier Mark Carney is negotiating a new deal with the EU that will cause pique in Whitehall for the access it offers to lucrative defence contracts.
KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON
Russian leader Vladimir Putin is happy to ignore his people’s plight at the petrol pumps. But a desperate need for diesel is a different matter.


























