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A director at energy regulator Ofgem has resigned, accusing it of favouring businesses over consumers with a rule change that will add as much as £400 to the average UK household energy bill. Christine Farnish, a non-executive member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (Gema), Ofgem’s board, tendered her resignation to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, in early August. Farnish said the regulator “gave too much benefit to companies at the expense of consumers”, according to a leaked internal Ofgem announcement. Across the UK’s 27m retail energy customers a £400 annual bills increase could cost households more than £10bn. Ofgem is…

Manchester United’s attempt to buy Juventus’s Adrien Rabiot is almost certainly off because of the midfielder’s wage demands, and Real Madrid’s Casemiro is being explored as an alternative to strengthen this department of Erik ten Hag’s squad. United had reached an agreed fee with Juventus of an initial £15m for Rabiot but the 27-year-old player’s mother and agent, Veronique, wished him to be paid more than many of the club’s top earners such as Bruno Fernandes, who receives around £240,000 a week. This is because the Frenchman is a free agent next summer. While the deal may yet be revived…

Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, but thousands of parents and children of the victims have still received nothing. Ministers have accepted the urgency of the need to make the £100,000 payments to about 3,000 surviving victims, after being warned that those mistakenly infected with HIV and hepatitis C were dying at the rate of one every four days. But parents and children of the victims accused the government of perpetuating the scandal by failing to recognise their own trauma and loss in today’s announcement. Contaminated blood products administered in the 1970s…

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter on Tuesday that he’s buying Manchester United, without providing further details. “Also, I’m buying Manchester United [you’re] welcome,” the billionaire wrote on Twitter. Characteristic of Musk’s non-linear logic in Twitter posts, his statement was a reply to an earlier tweet about his political views, in which he said he supports “the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party.” It is not immediately clear whether Musk, who’s known for making facetious statements on Twitter, is officially committed to the deal. Some of his 100-million Twitter followers have asked him to purchase Manchester…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the FBI returned the three passports that the federal agency seized during its raid of his Mar-a-Lago resort. “The DOJ and FBI just returned my passports. Thank you!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Unfortunately, when they Raided my home, Mar-a-Lago, 8 days ago, they just opened their arms and grabbed everything in sight, much as a common criminal would do. This shouldn’t happen in America!” he continued. The FBI “stole” three of Trump’s passports during the Aug. 8 raid on his resort, the former president said on Truth Social on Monday. Trump said the seizure was “an…

Pfizer’s CEO announced on Aug. 15 that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for #COVID19,” Albert Bourla, who also is the company’s chairman, wrote on Twitter. He reported experiencing mild symptoms, although he didn’t identify any of them. He said he’s “feeling well.” Bourla, 60, said he has received four doses of his company’s COVID-19 vaccine, which has proven increasingly ineffective against infection from the virus that causes COVID-19. “We have come so far in our efforts to battle this disease that I am confident I will have a speedy…

A federal judge in Florida has avoided ruling on whether to unseal a key document related to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort, instead scheduling a hearing to hear arguments from parties in person. Judicial Watch’s motion to unseal the search warrant affidavit and other materials, backed by a number of other businesses and groups, will be the subject of the Aug. 18 hearing at the federal court in West Palm Beach. The nonprofit urged the court on Aug. 10, two days after the raid, to unseal the warrant, the affidavit, and related documents. “Given the political context, and the highly…

Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five additional ministries while Australia’s prime minister, in what his successor has labelled an “unprecedented trashing of the Westminster system”. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Tuesday he was waiting on legal advice over any possible ramifications of the secret appointments and was “open to reforms and suggestions” so the situation did not reoccur. Morrison now faces calls to resign from parliament over the revelations, including from one of his former ministers. Karen Andrews, a former minister for home affairs, which is one of the departments to which Morrison appointed himself, said: “This is totally…

Legal experts told The Epoch Times the seizure of former President Donald Trump’s passports during the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid of Mar-a-Lago seems legally questionable. The law enforcement agency will have to return the travel documents to Trump, one of the lawyers said. Their comments come after the former Republican president took to social media Aug. 15 to complain that the FBI “stole” his passports during the recent raid. “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” Trump wrote on his @realDonaldTrump page at Truth Social in a post…

Darwin Núñez sent a message on his full Premier League debut and it merely added to Liverpool’s problems in this fledgling campaign. The new £64m striker showed Anfield and rival defenders everywhere that he can rise easily to provocation by collecting a straight red card and a three-match ban for head-butting Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen. Núñez lost his head at precisely the moment Liverpool needed him to use it wisely. Only two games in but four points behind Manchester City already, Liverpool’s start to the season has brought Jürgen Klopp one headache after another. His team’s display against Palace was not…