Pay for new care service by higher tax, people say, but not on us bit.ly/4xmDchc as old vote for wages tax, young vote for inheritance tax

Generational divide over how to pay for social care reform

Pensioners favour higher income tax on working people while younger voters prefer a ‘death levy’ to fund long-term care, polling shows

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Missing the World Cup? Every food or drink of every country in the contest, all in one Instagram reel instagram.com/reel/Da-joNPMd… and all done in London. Is there another city in the world where that could be done? Tell me your favourite.

With 89 days to go, Cabinet Ministers told to cut budgets to pay for spending pledges already made and to come bit.ly/4bTHeFe taxes may rise within Labour’s manifesto promise as Healey signals he will be bound by the same shackles as Reeves

John Healey tells cabinet ministers to prepare for budget cuts

In a joint letter with Andy Burnham, the chancellor said there was no new money available to ensure the prime minister’s pledges could be funded

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Labour sees off Reform challenge in Manchester bit.ly/3Rta8oV it wasn’t even close at any stage

Claude on the run bit.ly/4pPJRxK skynet becomes self aware

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent

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Them and us - as lawns die to brown dirt patches, private schools and golf courses keep theirs a lush green thanks to exemptions bit.ly/4w4uovg

‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

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SNP should review high tax rates to assess if they really do result in lower revenues bit.ly/3S32TnK the call comes by ex-insurance boss who now represents high earners in Scotland.

SNP urged to review high tax rates ahead of budget

Sandy Begbie leads calls for an independent audit after analysis found the 48p top rate of tax would likely cost the public purse £22 million in its first year

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Court told celebs and others have insurance to cover less than half the costs of press court challenge which failed bit.ly/4fMTXeb and some are still saying court was wrong which doesn’t help them

Prince Harry’s insurance for Daily Mail court case falls short

The prince and claimants including Elton John and Baroness Lawrence are being pursued to cover Associated Newspapers’ £34.5m costs after losing their case

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Follow the money bit.ly/4pOAYVc always follow the money. Fiona Cottrell gave money to Reform UK it it came from her son, the convicted fraudster George

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

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The battle to save Jodrell Bank bit.ly/4fJHS9F rhetoric and politics damages the search for truth

Mad world pt 94: Plan to scrap 2 hated taxes the deeply unfair council tax and the mobility stifling stamp duty & replace them with a tax on land value leaving 77% better off with protection for the 23% who’ll be worse off bit.ly/4wx8dyW is immediately hated by the London right wing elite and halted

This is very troubling. Protesters not prosecuted as terrorists as prosecutors feared they would not have been convicted. So charged with criminal damage. Guilty. And now CPS wants them sentenced as terrorists. bit.ly/4x5xiRf What is happening to our sense of justice?

No new taxes or borrowing to pay for social care says Badenoch bit.ly/4fWIb20 pay for it with cuts, but does not say where the £18.5bn of cuts would fall.

Fund social care through cuts not taxes, Kemi Badenoch insists

Andy Burnham has said the system should ‘operate on the NHS principle’ and be free at the point of need, a move projected to cost £18.5 billion a year

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PM to publish ‘free’ care service plans next week bit.ly/4yBt1Xr but no indication yet of where the £16bn cost will come from. Can only be either raising general taxation - unlikely - or from a new dedicated tax probably on the value of houses.

‘Free’ social care offer won’t cover food, housing or energy costs

Andy Burnham’s plan for NHS-style cover, costing £18.5 billion a year, is unlikely to include ‘daily living costs’

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Criminal charges against water executives for cheating bit.ly/3Tg1drl

Former Southern Water executives face criminal charges

Environment Agency claims four ex-employees including chief executive tampered with testing

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Lawyers for @BBC play hardball over Trump’s $10bn lawsuit by demanding information he will not want to give bit.ly/44HCnTO his lawyers have already limited its scope though not changed the damages claimed

Trump must divulge financial details about businesses in $10bn BBC lawsuit

US judge’s ruling could open up window into first family’s multiple ventures, in drawback of lawsuit on media

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Rolls Royce demands £200m from govt for new engine despite its £3.35bn aero engine profit bit.ly/4fsHjkj

Don’t waste money on managed funds - trackers outperform them and are now almost too cheap to measure bit.ly/4wj9I3w even Vanguard looks expensive!

Cornwall Insight says typical domestic electricity bills will be £924.71 from 1 October. Cutting VAT from 5% to 0% will mean a £44.03 reduction to £880.68. NB only electricity bills NOT gas bills. Reducing VAT from 5% to 0% is not a 5% cut! It is 5/105=4.76% cut.

VAT taken off domestic electricity bills - but not gas bills. The 5% tax will go from 1 October, a 4.76% cut in the bills. Paid for by scrapping digital ID cards.

Too big, too rich, too important to tax bit.ly/4bNCi4D the lobbying begins, first up - banks

JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon warns of ‘consequences’ if Andy Burnham taxes banks

Banking chief says any tax raid by new UK prime minister would threaten bank’s planned £3bn London office

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Yes is the answer. bit.ly/3QYn4mt They are unregulated and offer high returns. But if there is easy money made it is by the promoters.

Are unregulated loan notes the City’s next major scandal?

Seven years after the furore over the ‘largest Ponzi scheme in British history’ there are signs that the problems have grown worse

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Govt says they will be old enough to vote but wants to set their bedtime bit.ly/3T4hdwr and control what they see on social media

Keir Starmer to announce midnight social media curfew for teenagers

There will be default settings for 16 and 17-year-olds that will block use of the apps between midnight and 6am, as well as stopping doomscrolling

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Pension age to rise to 68 from 2037, Treasury tells @OBR_UK under plans set by previous Conservative government bit.ly/4wAuefy Labour govt is now consulting on what state pension age should be

Millions forced to work longer under state pension age extension plan

Treasury officials have told the Office for Budget Responsibility that the state retirement age will rise to 68 seven years earlier than legislated

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No intelligible explanation, no appeal, customer of 30 years banned by First Direct for buying a coffee and snacks in Ukraine bit.ly/4gJtpg5 ‘a sanctioned country’ it told him.

HSBC debanked me after I spent £36 in Ukraine on an aid visit

Andrew Boff, chair of the London Assembly, wants clarity over how sanctions rules are applied after losing access to his First Direct account

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Commons tributes to Ann Widdecombe are absolutely on the mark bit.ly/4vEcP56 I have interviewed and talked to her, promoted her campaign about older workers when she was employment minister. In many ways I admired her and I was - and am - deeply upset by her awful death

Shabana Mahmood leads poetic tributes to ‘forthright, fearless’ Widdecombe

If the subject of the eulogies was ‘listening in’, it’s doubtful ‘Widders’ would have taken them too seriously

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Vaping as bad as smoking for the lungs and health of young people, research study finds bit.ly/4fzq8yF perhaps doctors will stop recommending it now, rather quicker than it took medical profession to stop recommending smoking in the mid-C20

Vaping ‘reduces fitness in the young as much as smoking’

Research shows both vapers and smokers have a 15% reduction in fitness compared with those who have never smoked or vaped

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I’m sorry for them: but they don’t own a flat! The freeholder owns it - the walls, the ceilings, the floors, the land it is built on and the right to charge any amount to maintain them. They only own the right to live there for a finite and diminishing time bit.ly/4fwtliy that’s what they’re selling

My children can’t sell their flat because of a neglectful freeholder

A legal expert offers advice on a landlord who hasn’t maintained communal areas. Plus, readers recommend compact crockery for downsizers

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How a tax specialist at one of the top advisory firms passes the time - evading his own tax liabilities bit.ly/4w3kACz now claims he was mugged by the court

Millionaire who passed assets to wife to avoid paying debts could lose home

John Dixon, a tax specialist for Ernst & Young, was made bankrupt in 2017, owing more than £600,000 in unpaid tax, penalties and interest

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If we win on Wednesday we want the Malvinas (Falkland Islands) say Argentina fans bit.ly/44ZGRVO

Argentina fans: ‘We want to play England for the islands, Malvinas’

The South American country’s fans in Miami are in no mood for diplomatic relations as a rematch with England resurrects old grudges on both sides

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