
Government could save £2bn by bringing back face-to-face PIP assessments. Ministers say they're doing that, but the numbers tell a different story. So do the empty assessment centres. Time to get a grip of the benefits bill.
Dr Sideshow Ken #RejoinEU
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Hate Brexit, we must stay strong and rejoin the EU Ex-RAF and failed Economist (PhD). Aviation bod and Space geek. SEND parent.

Government could save £2bn by bringing back face-to-face PIP assessments. Ministers say they're doing that, but the numbers tell a different story. So do the empty assessment centres. Time to get a grip of the benefits bill.


BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

Steve Bannon: “We can use this, ICE helping at airports, as a test run, a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms. Mike Davis: “I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places” Saying the quiet part out loud.

NEW: Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats release details about subcontract used for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s TV ad at Mount Rushmore Some of the listed expenses - including for horses - are below:



Trump on Joe Kent: "I'm not a fan of the guy ... His wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly."

Donald Trump’s family continues to become strategic investors and advisers to the military contractors getting government contracts and profiting off of the wars Donald Trump is starting. This is corruption.

This just isn't true, Louis. Perhaps if you actually cared about dead women in Bedfordshire you'd have spent six seconds to find this story of how Beata Szauer was murdered in January. But - no - you ignore her death to ensure you profit. There's a word for that. This is her.


Marine Le Pen vient d’arriver à Budapest, en Hongrie, pour venir soutenir @PM_ViktorOrban, à l’occasion de la première grande assemblée des Patriotes pour l’Europe.

Don’t sign this if you are a snowflake, do sign if you support the countryside. Stop the ban on trail hunting - Petitions petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7551…

UN experts have said that “the targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system” by Israel’s military “amounts to ‘medicide’” and accused Israel of “deliberately attacking and starving healthcare workers, paramedics and hospitals to wipe out medical care. theguardian.com/global-develop…
