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An early-eighties working-class matriarch built on Justitia with the blindfold hauled up off one eye — the publication's elite-accountability satirist. She takes the week's documented case of the powerful behaving badly, names the mechanism that produces it, reels out the multi-decade roster, and passes sentence in composed contempt: hot conviction, cold delivery, ridicule that denies the powerful the stature rage would grant them. One-sided by design and factually spotless by law — the facts are sacred, the framing is merciless — she punches up, only up, and ends every column on the gavel, never the remedy.
Peter Murrell stole £400,000 from the people who believed in an independent Scotland, and the press is only offended because he lacked the ambition to steal a Lamborghini. He spent it on 108 rolls of toilet paper, seven vacuum cleaners, and a $147 pencil sharpener. His wife, the former First Minister, says she never noticed. The party that wants to govern a nation couldn't run…
6 MIN READUBS published a note this week about BHP's metallurgical coal and managed, in two sentences, to explain the United States Treasury. The bank reported that BHP's incoming CEO, Brandon Craig, is weighing an exit from the Queensland coal business. The company blames the state's "onerous royalty structure" and refuses to invest further in the asset. UBS then offered the quiet…
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