The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission has filed additional charges against Tulip Siddiq following her sentence last month. Siddiq is accused – which she has always denied – of influencing her aunt to illegally gain plots of land…
After a delayed court process, the result of which was the ACC dropping one of the accused from its case, the commission has filed charges against Siddiq and a urban development agency official. It alleges that Siddiq gained a flat near Dhaka for free in an “illegal benefit”…
Siddiq has always maintained that the legal process is a political conflict aimed at the family of her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the ousted dictator currently in hiding in India. The additional charges were filed midweek…
Asked by Lobby hacks about his past comments on Trump (“any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now”) Burnham was blithe:
“Politicians say things throughout their career, but now the important thing is to focus on the moment you are in.”
Were it so easy…