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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...


Cummings: Small boat’s crisis is easy to solve – ‘kill or capture’ the people smugglers

Dominic Cummings, the controversial political strategist best known for leading the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum and serving as chief adviser to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, joins The Daily T for an unfiltered and wide-ranging interview. In this clip, Cummings shares his bold and contentious solution to the ongoing UK migrant crisis. The …

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