Pollsters have underestimated Trump’s white working-class voter base as their survey methods cater too much to Democratic voters, experts claim
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On the eve of election day, the polls had predicted the closest race in modern times. Instead, it was a rout
Nov 2 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…
@C4Dispatches The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries.
Even parliament has been denied access to the list of landholdings held by the royals
Oct 23 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Sir Keir Starmer has rejected Donald Trump's claims of US election meddling but the Republican presidential candidate has filed an official complaint — follow live updates below ⬇️
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The complaint was filed on Monday by Gary Lawkowski, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, and accuses Labour of “forgetting the message” of the American War of Independence
Sep 28 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Rosie Duffield (@RosieDuffield1) has resigned as a Labour MP, blaming Sir Keir Starmer’s “cruel and unnecessary” policies and the freebies row that is engulfing him and his party
Duffield, 53, has become the fastest MP to jump ship after a general election in modern political history. She is writing to the prime minister today informing him of her decision to resign the whip “with immediate effect”
Jul 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has been accused of “subverting” cabinet ministers in an effort to secure a government bailout of up to £310m to rebuild a derelict stadium in Belfast thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
Sue Gray has angered government officials and ministers by “personally dominating” negotiations for a bailout for Casement Park, a dilapidated Gaelic games venue due to host matches at the 2028 European football championship
May 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, according to local reports ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/slovak…
🔺 UPDATE: Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in the street ⬇️
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The police investigation into Angela Rayner is examining multiple allegations and is not merely limited to potential electoral law offences ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/angela…
At least a dozen officers at Greater Manchester police are investigating the Labour deputy leader over where she lived in the 2010s and the sale of her former council house in Stockport
Jan 27 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades
Young Britons need straight As to get into Russell Group institutes. But their international classmates may have bought their way in through secret routes thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…
Foreign students can buy their way on to highly competitive degree courses with as little as a handful of C grades at GCSE. The courses require British students to have A or A* grades at A-level
Jan 12 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Ukrainians are resorting to extreme lengths to flee the war as Zelensky wants to lower that age of conscription to 25 as casualties mount in the war with Russia ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
More than 17,100 Ukrainians have been detained by the DPSU trying to leave the country illegally since the Russian invasion thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
Nov 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hospitals, once again, are full. In China, once again, there is an autumn outbreak of respiratory disease.
So how concerned should we be? ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/china-…
🔷 Could the China outbreak be the start of a new pandemic?
The simple answer is, almost certainly not — but we don’t know for sure
Nov 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The village army catching speeders — with police radar guns thetimes.co.uk/article/villag…
In the next few days, 29 motorists will receive warning letters from police reprimanding them for exceeding the speed limit on the cramped streets of a Cornish village
Nov 16, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🔺 NEW: A former Supreme Court justice has warned that the government’s Rwanda plan is “constitutionally really quite extraordinary” thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…
The prime minister has said he is prepared to do “whatever is necessary” after the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s plans to send migrants to Rwanda was unlawful
Oct 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🔺NEW: Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has won private backing from President Biden to press ahead with a ground invasion of Gaza, according to accounts of closed-door meetings between the two men thetimes.co.uk/article/us-giv…
On a visit to Israel, Biden told Netanyahu he remained “fully in support” of Israel’s plans to launch an incursion in order to “eradicate Hamas”, despite continuing outrage at Tuesday night’s explosion at a hospital in Gaza which killed hundreds of civilians
Oct 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Free speech is being harmed by “disinformation labels” on social media, over a hundred academics, historians and journalists have told the prime minister thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…
The collective statement, called the “Westminster Declaration”, has been sent to Rishi Sunak and raises concerns over the “censorship of ordinary people, journalists and dissidents”
Oct 11, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Convicted rapists and burglars will be spared jail from next week after judges were told that the country’s prisons are full
Crown court judges have been ordered to delay sentencing hearings, The Times has learnt, as the prison population has reached bursting point
Sep 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
PODCAST: Russell Brand investigation #StoriesOfOurTimes
@RosamundUrwin & @Char_Wace talk to @ManveenRana about their exclusive investigation into Russell Brand and allegations of rape, manipulation and sexual abuse made against him by several women
@RosamundUrwin @char_wace @ManveenRana Listen to the full #storiesofourtimes podcast here 👇
Allegations about the dark side of Russell Brand’s sex addiction are growing, but the comedian’s inappropriate conduct in other areas has long been public knowledge.
Brand joins MTV as a video journalist but is sacked in 2001 for going to work the day after September 11 dressed as the al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden. Brand blames his crack and heroin addictions
Sep 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The fallout engulfing Russell Brand escalated today as YouTube said it had suspended his ability to make money on the site in a potentially significant blow to his finances.
Follow the latest updates here ⬇️
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Brand has 6.6m followers on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google, and used it to post a statement on Friday denying sexual abuse allegations against him
Sep 18, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
After learning of the Times investigation into allegations of abuse, another accuser decided to tell her story alleging the comedian tried to remove her clothes as she screamed and begged him to stop.
This is her account thetimes.co.uk/article/russel…
It was an ordinary working afternoon when Phoebe suddenly found herself alone with Russell Brand.
She was collaborating with him on a project in Los Angeles and, along with other members of the team, she was sometimes required to work from his home in Hollywood
Sep 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The BBC is facing urgent questions about Russell Brand amid allegations that he used its car service to pick up a 16-year-old girl from her school so that she could play truant and visit him at his home thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-ru…
The woman, who accuses Brand of grooming and sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager, has claimed that she went to and from his home in north London in a chauffeur-driven car paid for by the corporation
Sep 17, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: In her first full interview, a woman who alleges that the comedian raped her tells The Times why she is making these claims now thetimes.co.uk/article/russel…
It was summer 2012 and her assailant, Nadia claims, was Russell Brand, the actor and comedian, who at that point was at the height of his fame and living in Los Angeles thetimes.co.uk/article/russel…
