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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

REVEALED: MoD Blows £16 Million on Government Credit Cards in a Single Month

Ministry of Defence staff racked up £16.3 million on taxpayer-funded procurement cards in March alone, with the spending including £133,000 in restaurants and bars and stays at The Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons. Wasn’t Starmer supposed to snip these cards in half? The transparency data, quietly published this week, reveals 5,975 transactions on MoD electronic…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Strategic Defence Review Author: Labour’s “Corrosive Complacency” Has Put Britain in Peril

Labour peer George Robertson – author of the landmark Strategic Defence Review- has today aimed all of his guns at Starmer and his government for “corrosive complacency” on defence. The Defence Investment Plan was meant to set out funding for the SDR’s proposals – it has been delayed by half a year so far… Robertson…

Defence
Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

Labour Wars: Starmer the Sec-EU-rocrat

Guido members get exclusive access to Labour Wars, the inside track on what’s really happening at the top of government. Tomorrow’s news, today… Fawkes Friends and Premium Plotters also receive priority tickets to all our events, like our recent Save Chagos Boat Party. Click here to become a member today…

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Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

Farage and Yusuf Say ‘Boriswave’ Migration Will Cost Britain £622 Billion

Reform told the Express last night that an inquiry into inward migration during the last government would seek to establish whether policies enacted by Boris and Priti Patel “amounted gross negligence rising to the level of criminal conduct.” Should be a hoot… The party has launched a website on the matter: “The ‘Boriswave’ is the…

ImmigrationDefenceReformCrime
Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

LISTEN: Starmer U-Turns on Last Week’s Criticism of Trump for Iran War Price Rises

Starmer has walked back his attack on Donald Trump after comparing to the US President to Vladimir Putin last week. Too rich for his blood? Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, the PM was asked if he blamed Trump personally for rising prices as a result of the war: “In terms of where the blame…

Defence
Guido Fawkes11 Apr 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 912,523 visitors visited 834,553 times viewing 866,399 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Faulty HMS Dragon Withdraws to Port BBC Apologises to Ex-SpAd After ‘Unfair’ Stewart Lee & Armando Iannucci Programme Bar Standards Board Dismisses Jolyon Maugham’s Trans Complaint Labour Instructs ‘Fair Work’ Employment Policeman to Recommend…

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Guido Fawkes10 Apr 2026

Healey: Starmer Went to the Gulf ‘To Scope Discussions’ on Iran

John Healey has summarised Starmer’s trip to the Middle East as ‘scoping work’ during a televised interview this morning. Meetings, meetings… The Defence Secretary talked up Starmer’s role in changing Britain’s posture at the London Defence Conference: “I thought that was a really important speech um and a very important sort of declaration of first…

Defence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

BBC Apologises to Ex-SpAd After ‘Unfair’ Stewart Lee & Armando Iannucci Programme

The BBC has apologised to an ex-Tory SpAd after a radio programme aired in which filmmaker Armando Iannucci and comedian Stewart Lee accused him of ‘spreading misinformation.’ Maybe only the brightest and best comic thinkers should venture out of their stand-up remit… In an episode of Iannucci’s programme for Radio 4, called Strong Message Here,…

Defence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Sarwar Says “This Is Not Over” as Polling Shows Labour Heading for Holyrood Wipeout

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted it is “all to play for” in Holyrood next month despite fresh polling from STV putting Labour a whopping 24 points behind the SNP. Labour is on track for its worst-ever defeat north of the border…  Party Vote Share ■ SNP 39% ■ LAB 15% ■ REF 15%…

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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Downing Street Meets With AI Firm Representatives Amid Cybersecurity Scare

Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning. Along with other AI specialists… Anthropic’s latest AI model Mythos can identify critical vulnerabilities in a vast array of security systems (including national ones). It can do so with software that is more than 30 years old. Anthropic is keeping the model…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Disaster for Miliband as OpenAI Pauses Huge UK Project Over Energy Costs & Regulation

Gargantuan Silicon Valley tech firm OpenAI has paused a major UK infrastructure. Blaming energy costs and regulations… Stargate is being paused: “We see huge potential for the UK‘s AI future… AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation…

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