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The real problem with Britain’s Political Traitors show is that no one is very faithful to anything for long | Robert Hutton

For Westminster’s special budget edition of the series, politicians have played to their strengths. Bombast, duplicity, distrust: it’s all second nature You join us on a steam train in Scotland as we head to the next episode of the BBC’s hit show Political Traitors. It’s like the celebrity edition, except that everyone is less comely – politics being the practice of show business for ugly people. For this week’s task, the players have to construct a “budget” of tiny crowd-pleasing measures, carefully balanced by invisible tax rises. What makes the show so compelling is that the players don’t k

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Military

The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized

The tech mogul’s midterm donations backing Republicans have made him the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history Elon Musk has poured so much money into US politics this midterms election cycle that his donations could fund half a dozen SpaceX rocket launches or buy thousands of Tesla Cybertrucks. At the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles, Musk could order more than 31.9m cheeseburgers with the money he has spent on the midterms. Musk, the world’s richest person, has funnelled at least $445.77m into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year, acc

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International

【米中間選挙2026】 トランプ氏は不正投票が「横行」と主張 だが証拠によると極めて珍しい

アメリカの中間選挙を前にトランプ大統領は、郵便投票や、投票権をもたない非市民の投票によって、不正が「横行」していると主張している。しかし、研究では、そうしたことは実際には極めて珍しいとされる。BBCヴェリファイ（検証チーム）は、関連する証拠を検証した。

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International

Security forces are dispatched to Poland's Constitutional Court, escalating conflict between government and court leaders

Polish police deployed security forces to the Constitutional Court on the 30th. In the country, tensions between the pro-European government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the head of the constitutional court appointed by the previous right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government have escalated, with the government suspending two top judges and initiating criminal prosecution.

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