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‘A naive and stupid idea’: how Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund spent millions on failed firms

The then chancellor’s loan scheme, set up as Covid hit, was supposed to keep dynamic startups going, but ended up giving taxpayer cash to long-established or lame duck businesses

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023

Stirling statue has new home at Bannockburn listed building

Decorative stonework associated with Stirling’s historic Craigforth House has a new home. It has emerged that the unicorn statue, which had stood within the grounds of the B-listed building for many decades. was transferred to Bannockburn House last

Daily Record · Apr 13, 2023

Government ‘retreating’ over post-Brexit plans to ditch EU laws this year

The Retained EU Law Bill would see more than 4,000 EU laws automatically scrapped

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2023

Please Please Us: Lost tape of Beatles school gig could be saved for the nation

Sixty years ago, a little-known Liverpudlian band took to the stage at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023

Labour is still in thrall to the low tax regime championed by my friend Nigel Lawson

The key legacy of the former chancellor, who died last week, was to put the fear of god into the party’s leaders

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

Yvette Cooper was ‘not told’ about Labour’s Sunak attack ad in advance

Shadow home secretary was not consulted about the widely criticised advert that claims Rishi Sunak did not believe in jailing child abusers

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

Student faces deportation from UK after arriving early for course at university’s request

A mix-up on dates meant Rasikh Aziz travelled from Pakistan too soon. Now the University of Law has reported him to the Home Office

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

Balmaha car park customer left stung with £100 fine - after being less than two minutes late to buy ticket

He appealed the decision twice but has been left desperate after those efforts fell on deaf ears.

Daily Record · Apr 7, 2023

Good Friday Agreement: the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British government that made peace possible

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.

The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023

Dragging Democracy into the Future

As the Texas Observer survives to muckrake another day, Steven Monacelli highlights the battle for democracy happening in the Lone Star State.

Texas Observer · Apr 3, 2023