Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense | Heather Stewart 07. October 2026 (19:16) The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthyKemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a snap general election.In practice, Osborne’s plan involved a £1m threshold for inheritance tax – and given the global financial crisis had blown a hole in the public finances by the time the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010, it never came to pass. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us 07. October 2026 (19:12) Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerousThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdayDonald Trump’s campaign rallies can be repetitive. Very repetitive. He calls himself the “greatest” president leading the “greatest” movement inside the “greatest” economy. He rails against “Dumocrats” for the “transgender mutilization” of children. He lambasts the “fake news” and reheats election lies. He describes illegal immigration as an “invasion” and recites the poem The Snake.If we were all frogs being slowly boiled alive, we’ve now reached the stage of blackened toad. After a decade of this, presidential utterances that would once have caused outrage are met with a shrug. We are no longer shockable. Or so we thought. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
The Bra Top Is Everywhere This Fashion Season 07. October 2026 (19:06) Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, sees the next big trend at the influential Miu Miu show in Paris: the bra top.(New York Times)
German court orders detention of former intelligence chief after spying arrest 07. October 2026 (19:03) August Hanning, 80, appears before judge after being accused of treason and espionage on behalf of foreign stateA formal arrest warrant has been issued against Germany’s former top spy, with a judge ordering him to be held in pre-trial detention, a day after he was arrested on suspicion of treason and spying on behalf of an overseas intelligence agency.August Hanning, 80, is accused of buying secret documents from a former colleague and using them to advise a foreign intelligence service, according to the office of the federal prosecutor. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Scorned Hawaii wife grabbed knife and aimed for husband's jugular vein weeks after couple filed for divorce and she accused him of cheating, cops say