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2 weeks, 6 days ago

DAN HODGES: Why Labour bigwigs already wonder if this will be Starmer's first - and only Christmas - in Downing Street

Labour MPs have begun to think the unthinkable. Last week, precipitated primarily by the outcry over Sir Keir Starmer’s perceived betrayal of the Waspi women, something shifted within the Government and the Labour Party. But discussions are now being held among Labour MPs – including Cabinet ministers – about the potential need to remove Starmer if his personal performance, the …

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3 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Ruthless, cynical and cunning - why Mandy is the perfect choice as US ambassador

Daily Mail

Peter Mandelson is cynical, manipulative, ruthless, calculating, cunning and ambitious – and the perfect choice to be Britain’s new ambassador to Washington. The Prime Minister’s decision to appoint the man once dubbed ‘The Prince of Darkness’ to the coveted role has caused consternation, especially among his old foes in the Labour movement. Peter Mandelson is cynical, manipulative, ruthless, calculating, cunning …

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1 month ago

DAN HODGES: 'Pensioners will die freezing and alone', a minister confided to me about the winter fuel axe. And more Labour MPs tell me they fear worse is to come

Daily Mail

It will begin with an unanswered knock on the door. But among the Cabinet, Labour MPs and party activists, there is a growing belief the decision to unexpectedly axe pensioners’ £300 winter fuel allowance has become a ticking timebomb under Sir Keir Starmer’s fledgling premiership. I have yet to find a single person within Labour’s ranks who genuinely believes in …

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1 month ago

DAN HODGES: Truth about Elon Musk's giant donation to Reform... as Labour and Tory insiders reveal to me what they REALLY think of the news

Daily Mail

The news Elon Musk is considering donating £80million to Reform to help drive Keir Starmer out of power has been greeted with delight - from within Downing Street. What’s her plan?’ Elon Musk is considering donating £80million to Reform but there is scepticism about whether the cash will ever actually materialise Inside Badenoch’s team there is frustration about the media …

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1 month, 1 week ago

DAN HODGES: The Tories didn't just lose control on migration - they willingly and knowingly flung the UK's doors wide open

Daily Mail

When Home Secretary Yvette Cooper learnt of Thursday's immigration figures – which covered the Tories' final year in power – she was in Erbil, in Kurdish Iraq, signing a new cross-border security agreement. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp had been so confident the new Office for National Statistics estimates would show a dramatic fall he had spent the morning touring …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Out of touch Starmer should be talking to furious farmers and freezing pensioners - NOT sucking up to big business

Daily Mail

So, Sir Keir Starmer has finally decided to grace us with his presence. Sitting opposite a smiling BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Starmer cheerily tweeted: ‘I’m determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets. Pictured: Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer But the reality is business isn’t buying it. In response to Smith’s …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Globetrotting Keir Starmer needs to get his posterior back into Downing Street to deal with all the crises piling up on his watch

Daily Mail

At least Keir Starmer didn’t say, ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Although to be fair to Jim Callaghan, he didn’t say it either. On returning from a Caribbean summit in 1979 to a nation in the grip of a blizzard and industrial chaos, the Prime Minister fatefully declared: ’I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you’re …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: The right-to-die Bill is Starmer's idea. So why has he begun to wash his hands of it?

Daily Mail

The Assisted Dying Bill is dying. We need to stop and think”.’ Over recent days, the Bill’s sponsor, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, Kim Leadbeater, has been holding private meetings with MPs to try to reassure them. And he’s vanished.’ A few weeks after July’s General Election, I was told by a senior Cabinet minister that Downing Street was …

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2 months ago

DAN HODGES: If Trump had commissioned Dr Frankenstein to build the opponent he could beat most easily, Kamala would have been the result

Daily Mail

I could have warned Kamala Harris. Having warned anyone who would listen that Trump was ‘a threat to democracy’, they attempted to have him removed from the ballot in a raft of Democrat-leaning states. As voters – both men and women - told every pollster the most important issues to them were the cost of living and the economy, the …

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2 months, 1 week ago

DAN HODGES: This Budget was crude, old-fashioned class politics... and that's why it's bad news for the Tories

Daily Mail

In the run up to her first Budget, Rachel Reeves set a trap for the Tories. Over the last few weeks, a flurry of leaks indicated she was set to break her election pledge not to raise taxes on working people, but it was all a political feint, DAN HODGES writes But she knew it was real long before, because …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Sleaze. Cronyism. And lashings of hypocrisy. We all are now living in Starmer's Animal Farm...

Daily Mail

At the start of George Orwell's Animal Farm, Napoleon, the self-styled ruler of the recently emancipated group of creatures, outlines his governance philosophy. Keir Starmer has dismissed the criticism he and his new government have been receiving Keir Starmer with his wife, Victoria, after delivering his first speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference The slogan for Labour's …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Belly Up celebrates 50 years of bringing rock, reggae and rowdy good times to Solana Beach

LA Times

Steel Pulse performs during a concert as Belly Up Tavern celebrates its 50th anniversary in Solana Beach. This month marks Belly Up’s 50th anniversary, and instead of throwing a single event to honor that milestone, the music venue has been hosting a series of concerts — 50 in all. We understand what your vision is, and we wouldn’t mess it …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: This was Starmer's worst week yet, but Labour is nervous about three MORE looming crises... and struggling with life in the 'big league'

Daily Mail

For the first time in a long while, the Tory MP was gleeful. ‘Boris, Truss and Rishi were doing their boosterish “great days are ahead of us” shtick and people simply thought, “These guys are so out of touch with my life it’s a joke.”’ That’s why the Prime Minister resolutely rejects calls to deploy his own sunny vision of …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Lucy Letby killed babies. Those who think she's innocent have fallen for a conspiracy theory: Here's the evidence that's convinced me

Daily Mail

You’ve probably never heard of Buell Frazier. The campaign to free Lucy Letby is a crazy conspiracy theory too far, writes Dan Hodges So it is with the small, but increasingly fanatical, army of Lucy Letby ‘truthers’. Letby's supporters, who believe she is innocent of the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of seven more, outside the Court of …

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4 months, 1 week ago

DAN HODGES: The biggest deportation flight in history and how Labour have drawn first blood in battle against the small boat crossings

Daily Mail

Inside Downing Street and the Home Office they’re hardly daring to whisper it. ‘They ran around saying, “We’ve finally got this under control!” And then the numbers surged.’ But two months after taking office, there are tentative signs Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper may just be starting to get with grips with the Government’s most significant – and seemingly intractable …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Cause of death determined for Lucy-Bleu Knight, daughter of Slash’s girlfriend

LA Times

Lucy-Bleu Knight, the daughter of Slash’s girlfriend, died by suicide, according to the L.A. County medical examiner’s office. In a Thursday statement, the medical examiner’s office said that the 25-year-old — the daughter of Slash’s girlfriend, Meegan Hodges — died last month from hydrogen sulfide toxicity. Knight was found unresponsive in a private residence on July 19 by law enforcement, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Will Boris Johnson step in as kingmaker or queenmaker for the Tories?

Daily Mail

Carrie Johnson has returned to the political frontline. To some Tories, Boris remains the kingmaker – or queenmaker ‘Boris is the endorsement they all want,’ a former Cabinet Minister told me. ‘If we continue along our present path, we risk doing lasting damage to the reputation of the Conservative Party for competence and good government.’ In response, Jenrick’s aides claim …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Major parties' response to grim report on Tasmania's finances 'extremely disappointing', JLN says

ABC

On Monday, a leading economist gave a pretty dire warning about the state of Tasmania's finances — but within hours, both major political parties had ruled out implementing its main recommendations. Report a 'timely reminder' of budget challenges Deloitte Access Economics partner Cedric Hodges said Mr Eslake's report was a "timely reminder of Tasmania's fiscal position and where we could …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meet the ‘uncommitted’: How Gaza hangs over Democratic National Convention

Al Jazeera

Uncommitted delegates say Kamala Harris should back a Gaza ceasefire and apply US laws to end weapon transfers to Israel. Chicago, Illinois – The “uncommitted” delegates at the Democratic National Convention in the United States have a message for their party: “Help us help you.” Approximately 30 such delegates earned a spot at the convention in Chicago after hundreds of …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

'These are some weird people': Jan. 6 police officers stump against Trump in Michigan

Raw Story

Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from an attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, said in Flint on Friday that Michigan is the “epicenter of preserving democracy.” Harry Dunn, who served in the U.S. Capitol Police, made the comment during a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris that also included Daniel Hodges, an officer with the District …

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5 months ago

DAN HODGES: The three key decisions that stopped the riots revealed - but now Labour's 'frozen' on small boats

Daily Mail

It was early on Wednesday evening that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper started to realise the strategy she’d put in place to head off another night of mayhem on Britain’s streets was paying off. You can’t afford to be complacent with this stuff.’ Home Secretary Yvette Cooper immediately instigated a system of regular liaison with the individual police chiefs responsible for …

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5 months ago

DAN HODGES: The man with a Swastika tattoo and his friends did not emerge from a vacuum. There's one way to reclaim our streets from them

Daily Mail

Let’s start with the facts. The overwhelming majority of the violence and disorder we have seen on Britain’s streets is being perpetrated, organised and provoked by the Far-Right. It’s right-wing extremists, and it’s very highly organised.’ A man with a Swastika tattoo attends a Far-Right protest in Sunderland this week ‘What’s caught everyone by surprise is the speed with which …

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5 months ago

Billy Ray Cyrus finalizes divorce from singer Firerose 3 months after filing

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cyrus, 62, cited irreconcilable differences and “inappropriate marital …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Friends of gospel group The Nelons break their silence after three band members die in tragic plane crash

Daily Mail

Friends of gospel group The Nelons share heartbreaking message on Sunday following the families death during a tragic plane crash. Friends of gospel group The Nelons share heartbreaking message on Sunday following the families death during a tragic plane crash Kelly, Jason and Amber were amongst those killed in the accident, with Amber's husband Nathan Kistler, and three friends also …

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DAN HODGES: Why Labour bigwigs already wonder if this will be Starmer's first - and only Christmas - in Downing Street

DAN HODGES: Ruthless, cynical and cunning - why Mandy is the perfect choice as US ambassador

DAN HODGES: 'Pensioners will die freezing and alone', a minister confided to me about the winter fuel axe. And more Labour MPs tell me they fear worse is to come

DAN HODGES: Truth about Elon Musk's giant donation to Reform... as Labour and Tory insiders reveal to me what they REALLY think of the news

DAN HODGES: The Tories didn't just lose control on migration - they willingly and knowingly flung the UK's doors wide open

DAN HODGES: Out of touch Starmer should be talking to furious farmers and freezing pensioners - NOT sucking up to big business

DAN HODGES: Globetrotting Keir Starmer needs to get his posterior back into Downing Street to deal with all the crises piling up on his watch

DAN HODGES: The right-to-die Bill is Starmer's idea. So why has he begun to wash his hands of it?

DAN HODGES: If Trump had commissioned Dr Frankenstein to build the opponent he could beat most easily, Kamala would have been the result

DAN HODGES: This Budget was crude, old-fashioned class politics... and that's why it's bad news for the Tories

DAN HODGES: Sleaze. Cronyism. And lashings of hypocrisy. We all are now living in Starmer's Animal Farm...

The Belly Up celebrates 50 years of bringing rock, reggae and rowdy good times to Solana Beach

DAN HODGES: This was Starmer's worst week yet, but Labour is nervous about three MORE looming crises... and struggling with life in the 'big league'

DAN HODGES: Lucy Letby killed babies. Those who think she's innocent have fallen for a conspiracy theory: Here's the evidence that's convinced me

DAN HODGES: The biggest deportation flight in history and how Labour have drawn first blood in battle against the small boat crossings

Cause of death determined for Lucy-Bleu Knight, daughter of Slash’s girlfriend

DAN HODGES: Will Boris Johnson step in as kingmaker or queenmaker for the Tories?

Major parties' response to grim report on Tasmania's finances 'extremely disappointing', JLN says

Meet the ‘uncommitted’: How Gaza hangs over Democratic National Convention

'These are some weird people': Jan. 6 police officers stump against Trump in Michigan

DAN HODGES: The three key decisions that stopped the riots revealed - but now Labour's 'frozen' on small boats

DAN HODGES: The man with a Swastika tattoo and his friends did not emerge from a vacuum. There's one way to reclaim our streets from them

Billy Ray Cyrus finalizes divorce from singer Firerose 3 months after filing

Friends of gospel group The Nelons break their silence after three band members die in tragic plane crash