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FBI ‘didn’t investigate Prince Andrew’s links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein because he’s a royal’, lawyer for billionaire sex offender’s victims claims in new US documentary

FBI ‘didn’t investigate Prince Andrew’s links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein because he’s a royal’, lawyer for billionaire sex offender’s victims claims in new US documentary FBI didn’t investigate Prince Andrew as he was royal, Epstein victims’ lawyer says By Oliver Price Published: 17:19 EDT, 20 August 2023 | Updated: 17:21 …

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UK newspaper editors call on government to protect FOI Act

Newspapers and publishers have today united to urge MPs to investigate the Government’s ‘disgraceful’ obstruction of legitimate Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. Boris Johnson has said he supports press freedom in Britain but an investigation has revealed that his Government operates a secretive taxpayer-funded ‘Clearing House’ allegedly stifling disclosure of …

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The Covid-19 crisis and the virtues of an active state

In 2014, as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought to take over AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest ­pharmaceutical company, the British government insisted it would not intervene. David Cameron and George Osborne suggested that the bid was purely a commercial matter for shareholders and refused to ­apply a “public interest test”. …

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Google: UK competition watchdog to probe planned changes to Chrome

Google’s command of Britain’s £14billion online advertising market will be probed by the UK’s competition watchdog amid claims it is using Chrome to abuse its position as the dominant power in searches and browsing, it was revealed today. The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a blockbuster antitrust probe after publishers …

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Letter of the week: The sovereignty sham

Philip Collins writes that “sovereignty-obsessives” are “the sponsors of Brexit” (The Public Square, 4 December). One day after 1 January 2021, once we have left a trading partnership with the EU, they will wake up and look around. Hoping to find a free, unfettered England, they will see that Royal …

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