Vladimir Putin was so close to launching a nuke in Ukraine in October 2022 that Britain was preparing for the fallout, it is understood. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss reportedly spent her final days in office examining weather maps and preparing for UK radiation cases after American spies raised concerns that Putin was seriously close to pressing the button. The shocking details of how close the war came to a devastating escalation have been uncovered in an updated biography of Ms Truss, titled Out of the Blue.

A British manufacturer dubbed the Mail’s ‘most promising firm of the new millennium’ has blamed Labour for closing its factories. Kevin Hancock, managing director of Connectix Cabling Systems, has said he will shut down his four factories in the UK because of the anti-growth Budget. He blamed Rachel Reeves’ £25bn national insurance tax raid and increases to the national minimum wage for making it impossible to produce in Britain.

Oprah Winfrey denied being paid $1million to help Kamala Harris by hosting a star-studded town hall event for the Vice President in September. While walking to her car after a workout in quaint Santa Barbara, Oprah was approached by a reporter for TMZ who quizzed her on some hot topics. ‘Not true’ she said when asked about the alleged payment. ‘I was paid nothing. Ever.’

Gloomy weather may get spirits down – but it’s also putting a damper on the UK’s power output. The amount of wind and solar energy generated has fallen significantly over the past two weeks due to a high-pressure weather system. And the calm, dark skies are expected to continue, according to the Met Office, as one high-pressure system is replaced by another.

Donald Trump announced late Sunday that his former ICE director Tom Homan would serve as ‘border czar’ to oversee the largest deportation of immigrants in US history. The president elect, 78, said on Truth Social that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in the incoming administration just days after his landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris. ‘I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”),’ Trump posted on his social network Truth Social.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to retire, according to those close to her, despite a number of Democrats calling for her to stand down. Liberal pundits have asked the 70-year-old jurist to stand down and allow President Joe Biden to replace her with a younger liberal before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. Their strategy supposes that Sotomayor might not survive Trump’s second term, which would allow him to select a fourth justice for the Supreme Court. But one person close to Sotomayor told the Wall Street Journal that the justice has no plans to step down.

It’s official: Anthony Albanese is now a definite drag on the Labor vote. The government trails the Coalition 49 to 51 percent on the two party vote according to today’s Newspoll. Labor’s primary vote is a meagre 33 percent compared with the Coalition’s 40 percent.

Owners of properties in a former council estate in central London may each have to stump up as much as £66,000 towards a new eco-friendly heating system. Residents on the estate in Pimlico, Westminster may have to pay towards a low carbon ‘heat network’ in order to help the council hit its Net Zero targets. The £185million scheme would modernise the system, which contains 60-year-old pipes, and replace three gas boilers which require frequent repairs and are prone to leaks.

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