Paul Lewis
@paullewismoney.bsky.social
Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
Virgin on the ridiculous! Govt may let some British Overseas Territories keep secret the register of the real owners of companies widely used for tax evasion bit.ly/48jM38r
UK accused of caving-in to British Virgin Islands over access to companies register
Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summit
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November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Virgin on the ridiculous! Govt may let some British Overseas Territories keep secret the register of the real owners of companies widely used for tax evasion bit.ly/48jM38r
Judge removed a week before Palestine Action proscription judicial review was due to begin and replaced with a panel of three top judges bit.ly/43LIkiw no reason has been given.
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
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November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Judge removed a week before Palestine Action proscription judicial review was due to begin and replaced with a panel of three top judges bit.ly/43LIkiw no reason has been given.
Listening to the excellent and frightening You and Yours on @BBCRadio4 about fraud. My tip on cold calls or messages? The moment you engage you are in the thieves’s dark world. So if you get a cold call use this ⬇️ to end the call. Do not listen or speak just hang up.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Listening to the excellent and frightening You and Yours on @BBCRadio4 about fraud. My tip on cold calls or messages? The moment you engage you are in the thieves’s dark world. So if you get a cold call use this ⬇️ to end the call. Do not listen or speak just hang up.
Heathrow third runway approved bit.ly/4oh2HLS but govt says only for flights to a suburb just outside Birmingham and confirms flights to Manchester or further north will not be allowed. 😂
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Heathrow third runway approved bit.ly/4oh2HLS but govt says only for flights to a suburb just outside Birmingham and confirms flights to Manchester or further north will not be allowed. 😂
The one Black Friday rule to remember - never buy anything in the week before or after and especially anything labelled BF which does indeed have your name on it! bit.ly/44qk2e3
Buyer beware: worst retailers for Black Friday bluster revealed
Which? says 83% of home, technology and health products were cheaper or the same price at least once outside the four-week annual sales frenzy
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November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The one Black Friday rule to remember - never buy anything in the week before or after and especially anything labelled BF which does indeed have your name on it! bit.ly/44qk2e3
Motability hopes to take the heat out of criticisms by taking posh cars out of the scheme bit.ly/4ikutWl but convertibles may still be available! 😉
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Motability hopes to take the heat out of criticisms by taking posh cars out of the scheme bit.ly/4ikutWl but convertibles may still be available! 😉
No-one - real or artificial - can beat the markets in the long run bit.ly/4ihBqaL New study confirms AI not better than humans (though they are normally assisted by algorithms and AI nowadays). AI can’t devise a perpetual motion machine either!
AI stockpicking skills greatly exaggerated, fund managers told
A study rejects claims that artificial intelligence models can outperform benchmarks by up to 40 per cent, saying many of the supposed gains are illusory
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
No-one - real or artificial - can beat the markets in the long run bit.ly/4ihBqaL New study confirms AI not better than humans (though they are normally assisted by algorithms and AI nowadays). AI can’t devise a perpetual motion machine either!
This rather partial article seems to omit one key extra cost of benefits from April bit.ly/48mDMRc The Universal Credit Act 2025 introduces an uplift of a further 2.3% on universal credit standard allowances on top of the 3.8% rise with inflation - an increase of 6.18%
Reeves’s welfare giveaway to top £15bn
Tories accuse Chancellor of forcing ‘hard-working families’ to ‘pick up the bill’
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November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This rather partial article seems to omit one key extra cost of benefits from April bit.ly/48mDMRc The Universal Credit Act 2025 introduces an uplift of a further 2.3% on universal credit standard allowances on top of the 3.8% rise with inflation - an increase of 6.18%
The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
97 ‘peace walls’ still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down?
Twenty-seven years on from the Good Friday agreement, miles of ‘peace walls’ still separate Protestants and Catholics in Belfast. Some people want them built higher
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
Who owns the £10 bn Royal Collection of art - 550 Leonardo drawings, Fabergé eggs, Monet paintings - and why is the inventory of it - showing which items are theirs personally and which are ours - kept secret? bit.ly/4prvApl
Who really owns the £10bn treasure in the Royal Collection?
The world’s largest private art collection includes Da Vincis and a £1.5 billion diamond but its full contents and who benefits from them remains a mystery
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November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Who owns the £10 bn Royal Collection of art - 550 Leonardo drawings, Fabergé eggs, Monet paintings - and why is the inventory of it - showing which items are theirs personally and which are ours - kept secret? bit.ly/4prvApl
In continuing Budget pre-announcements @hmtreasury announces further work by targeted benefit investigations to save an additional £200m a year for next 6 years (£1.2bn as it puts it) tackling the 13% of universal credit claims which include error & fraud bit.ly/44pR2mA
Billions to be saved by driving down benefit fraud and error
Additional £1.2 billion of savings to be made as Chancellor expected to continue efforts to identify incorrect Universal Credit payments to 2031.
6,000 strong team at the Department for Work and Pensi...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In continuing Budget pre-announcements @hmtreasury announces further work by targeted benefit investigations to save an additional £200m a year for next 6 years (£1.2bn as it puts it) tackling the 13% of universal credit claims which include error & fraud bit.ly/44pR2mA
Teenager convicted over car tax (VED) on birthday present she didn’t even own at the time and ordered to pay £1.67 bit.ly/47Wunk9 another triumph 😤 for the Single (In)Justice System
Teenager convicted over £1.67 unpaid tax bill for 18th birthday gift
The prosecution of the teenager happened in the controversial Single Justice Procedure
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November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Teenager convicted over car tax (VED) on birthday present she didn’t even own at the time and ordered to pay £1.67 bit.ly/47Wunk9 another triumph 😤 for the Single (In)Justice System
King’s ransom bit.ly/48rKqGO what the Royal Family really costs as its income ratchets up from the Sovereign Grant after soaring Buckingham Palace costs and offshore wind
How much does the royal family really cost the British public?
The Windsors are the most expensive royal family in Europe, with coronations, weddings, funerals all funded by UK taxpayers. Norman Baker crunches the numbers
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November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
King’s ransom bit.ly/48rKqGO what the Royal Family really costs as its income ratchets up from the Sovereign Grant after soaring Buckingham Palace costs and offshore wind
Language and Classics professor suspended for quoting the @OED to show how the meaning of an offensive racist term had changed over time bit.ly/3K37mTA he did so in a disciplinary meeting with no students present
Freedom of speech rules face early test after professor suspended
Peter Pormann was banned from Manchester University campus after discussing a racial slur while defending a colleague during a disciplinary meeting
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November 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Language and Classics professor suspended for quoting the @OED to show how the meaning of an offensive racist term had changed over time bit.ly/3K37mTA he did so in a disciplinary meeting with no students present
Prosecutors try to overturn Quran burning acquittal bit.ly/49yIT2T but @NatSecSoc says that is an attack on free speech even if it offends people
CPS appeals against acquittal of man convicted of burning Quran
Campaigners fear ‘blasphemy laws by the back door’ as prosecutors query the decision to overturn Hamit Coskun’s conviction
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Prosecutors try to overturn Quran burning acquittal bit.ly/49yIT2T but @NatSecSoc says that is an attack on free speech even if it offends people
The new dogs of war prepare to storm the beaches of, well, somewhere that was, is, or might be part of China bit.ly/3LGHUUj the video is a truly terrifying glimpse into the future
China stages invasion of the ‘robot wolves’ with sights set on Taiwan
The People’s Liberation Army recruits four-legged troops in attempt to mimic the overwhelming force of the Mao era’s ‘human waves’
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November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The new dogs of war prepare to storm the beaches of, well, somewhere that was, is, or might be part of China bit.ly/3LGHUUj the video is a truly terrifying glimpse into the future
Tim Allan is PM’s head of comms. He also has a stake in a PR firm which has energy suppliers and horse-racing as clients bit.ly/4nVChii both of which could be hit - or not - in the Budget. Either way it is a conflict of interest
Keir Starmer aide in ethics row over shares in lobbying group
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are demanding an investigation into whether Tim Allan, the prime minister’s head of communications, broke rules
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November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Tim Allan is PM’s head of comms. He also has a stake in a PR firm which has energy suppliers and horse-racing as clients bit.ly/4nVChii both of which could be hit - or not - in the Budget. Either way it is a conflict of interest
Unregulated crypto currency promoters replace bookies on Premier League shirts bit.ly/49CFFeP even though crypto is gambling with even worse odds than most bookies!
Premier League clubs have crypto sponsors not covered by Britain’s financial regulators | The Observer
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November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Unregulated crypto currency promoters replace bookies on Premier League shirts bit.ly/49CFFeP even though crypto is gambling with even worse odds than most bookies!
I’m a Celebrity stars to bank between £75k and £250k, claims @DailyMail from documents reportedly leaked to @TheSun bit.ly/47YhIMv horrid work if you can get it! Even I have heard of some of these people!
I'm A Celebrity 2025 salaries 'LEAKED'
The hugely-popular ITV show has signed some huge names over the years and 2025 is no exception.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m a Celebrity stars to bank between £75k and £250k, claims @DailyMail from documents reportedly leaked to @TheSun bit.ly/47YhIMv horrid work if you can get it! Even I have heard of some of these people!
Journalists pleased the @Telegraph deal has failed bit.ly/4oF820f but the paper still has a very clear political direction which presumably comes with it for any future buyer
RedBird pulls out of Telegraph takeover
Private equity firm’s £500m bid had come under fire over the role of its UAE-owned partner
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November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Journalists pleased the @Telegraph deal has failed bit.ly/4oF820f but the paper still has a very clear political direction which presumably comes with it for any future buyer
Historic vote in Isle of Man to end rights of Bishop to vote in Tynwald leaving UK in a strange club of three with Vatican and Iran where senior clerics have votes in Parliament.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Historic vote in Isle of Man to end rights of Bishop to vote in Tynwald leaving UK in a strange club of three with Vatican and Iran where senior clerics have votes in Parliament.
Govt announces that main provisions of the new Renters’ Rights Act 2025 will come into force on 1 May 2026 bit.ly/3K26yhC important changes but still leaves tenants (as I still call them) with fewer rights than in countries such as Germany where rental market thrives
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Govt announces that main provisions of the new Renters’ Rights Act 2025 will come into force on 1 May 2026 bit.ly/3K26yhC important changes but still leaves tenants (as I still call them) with fewer rights than in countries such as Germany where rental market thrives
Rather like Wriothesley (pron. Risley’) in Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall books was known as ‘call me’, the man previously known as Andrew is now just called ‘hyphen’
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Rather like Wriothesley (pron. Risley’) in Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall books was known as ‘call me’, the man previously known as Andrew is now just called ‘hyphen’
£400m? What £400m? says convicted thief as prosecutors try to recover proceeds of crime stolen from gullible ‘investors’ bit.ly/49Smk9k son Matthew was also jailed for fake ethical investment scam where the only green assets were the ‘investors’.
Fraudster behind Caribbean resort scam ‘hiding millions abroad’
David Ames, who was jailed in 2022 for 12 years over an Essex-based scheme, claims he is penniless as prosecutors seek to retrieve the proceeds of crime
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November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
£400m? What £400m? says convicted thief as prosecutors try to recover proceeds of crime stolen from gullible ‘investors’ bit.ly/49Smk9k son Matthew was also jailed for fake ethical investment scam where the only green assets were the ‘investors’.
Association of Digital Verification Professionals warns govt digital ID won’t stop illegal working bit.ly/48a5fXb
Digital IDs ‘won’t stop illegal worker impersonation’
Experts who conduct right-to-work checks have written to the government, casting doubt on the viability of the scheme
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November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Association of Digital Verification Professionals warns govt digital ID won’t stop illegal working bit.ly/48a5fXb