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Couple of questions for @joshbabarinde.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... regarding this somewhat unusual story:
1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided
1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided
Eastbourne MP calls on bank to repay woman £125k after error
A woman cashed a £125,000 cheque from her dying partner but was only paid £125 after it cleared.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Couple of questions for @joshbabarinde.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... regarding this somewhat unusual story:
1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided
1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided
Concerning that this is considered serious analysis by the IMF
We doubled non-British immigration and quadrupled non-EU immigration between 2018 and 2022 and saw asylum claims double
We then halved non-British immigration from 2022-2024 and asylum claims were close to unchanged
We doubled non-British immigration and quadrupled non-EU immigration between 2018 and 2022 and saw asylum claims double
We then halved non-British immigration from 2022-2024 and asylum claims were close to unchanged
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Concerning that this is considered serious analysis by the IMF
We doubled non-British immigration and quadrupled non-EU immigration between 2018 and 2022 and saw asylum claims double
We then halved non-British immigration from 2022-2024 and asylum claims were close to unchanged
We doubled non-British immigration and quadrupled non-EU immigration between 2018 and 2022 and saw asylum claims double
We then halved non-British immigration from 2022-2024 and asylum claims were close to unchanged
Looking through the methodology on this interesting investigation one thing that stood out was the lack of detail on the list of left and right wing influencers used - @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social is this something you could provide?
news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
How Sky News investigated X's algorithm for political bias
In recent months, X has become a focus of political conversation in the UK, with social media experts and politicians saying Elon Musk's platform is sowing political division across the country.
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Looking through the methodology on this interesting investigation one thing that stood out was the lack of detail on the list of left and right wing influencers used - @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social is this something you could provide?
news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
archive.is/kg3zH this is one of the most gloriously fake stories I’ve ever read and is genuinely embarrassing for the @the-independent.com about their editorial standards
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
archive.is/kg3zH this is one of the most gloriously fake stories I’ve ever read and is genuinely embarrassing for the @the-independent.com about their editorial standards
This is the kind thing you only say when you pretty much know there’s a systemic issue but it will make you really sad to think about it
Normalise seeing a news story and just saying "Oh how awful".
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the kind thing you only say when you pretty much know there’s a systemic issue but it will make you really sad to think about it
If some civil servant was “canned” for every program where we had a 2.5% error rate in *giving out* benefits and the program was cancelled, we would give out almost zero benefits
Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If some civil servant was “canned” for every program where we had a 2.5% error rate in *giving out* benefits and the program was cancelled, we would give out almost zero benefits