Donald Trump has revoked former vice president Kamala Harris’ extended secret service detail. According to CNN, Harris’ protection will now end on 1st September, having been quietly extended by Joe Biden in the last days of his presidency. Under federal law, former vice presidents are entitled to six months of secret service protection upon leaving office. That expired in July…
CNN says Trump has now cancelled Biden’s year-long extension in a new letter:
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris.”
Just as Harris is gearing up for a lucrative book tour in which she tries to explain her defeat last November…
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Think tank Policy Exchange’s offices were attacked by the pro-Palestine faction of a group called ‘Shut the System’ last night. The vandals sprayed the building with red paint and smashed windows…
David Spencer, Head of Crime and Justice for Policy Exchange said:
“We have seen that Shut the System are prepared to use violence to undermine parliamentary democracy with outrageous attacks such as this. We are committed to a vibrant market of ideas and Policy Exchange will not be intimidated by acts of sabotage and terrorism. This is a criminal act that should be condemned across the political spectrum – by both left and right. We await a response from the Government to this act of terrorism.”
This is the third time Policy Exchange’s offices have been violently attacked. The group claimed that one of the reasons for their attack is “labelling Palestine Action as terrorists”. Chilling…
Torsten Bell personally raved about the revenue benefits of dragging millions of taxpayers into ever-higher rates. This is the man writing the budget…
Bell mused in a long essay some years ago in 2017 about the possibility of the Tories freezing income tax thresholds – something they eventually did:
“Raising money by ending the recent big increases in the Personal Tax Allowance is the right thing to do… indeed freezing thresholds for more than one year could raise very significant sums – a further 2023 freeze would save £5.5 billion a year.”
Torsten praised the stealth tax as a “progressive form of taxation with revenue raised coming overwhelmingly from better-off households.” Labour will probably designate anyone who earns above average as a non-working person just before the budget…
The freeze was extended until 2028 by the Tories. In 2023 Torsten noted that “there are some things spiralling that the Treasury can live with – like the revenues from freezing every income tax and national insurance threshold until 2027-28… we now project that the freeze could raise around £40 billion a year.” Greedy eyes in the Treasury now eyeing an extension of that tax…
Reeves pledged to unfreeze thresholds at the budget because failing to do so “would hurt working people.” When Starmer was asked to repeat that pledge before recess he refused…
The Treasury is madly briefing about different taxes it is considering raising in the budget. Now we know what the document’s author thinks would work. Taxpayers staring down Bell’s barrel…
Starmer’s close friend Philippe Sands has said that calls the quit the ECHR takes us back to the 1930s. Debating with former Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind – who said he’d changed his mind on and argues to ‘suspend recognition’ of the ECHR – Sands said on the Today Programme:
“I think it’s pretty clear what’s happening, Nick. I mean, this is a move that is essentially taking Europe and the world back to the 1930s. We know what that leads to, and it’s a lesson that I think people are going to have to take on board and learn pretty quickly. Britain led the world in 1945 in putting in place a series of rules and the idea that the United Kingdom would now abdicate that role to me is tragic.”
It wasn’t that long ago that Starmer’s other learned friend Attorney General Richard Hermer compared calls to leave the court to the Nazis. With friends like these…
Nigel Farage had some fun with Guido’s story about Essex County Council on GB News last night. Labour’s Lord Glasman called it “the lanyard class in action“. Guido’s inclined to agree. Who’d have thought offering council staff a therapy session for spotting a few flags would cause so much trouble?
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
