Farmers are threatening to blockade roads across the United Kingdom in response to the leftist Labour government’s new farm tax, which could force small farmers to sell their land. Next week, farmers are set to hold a protest in London against the new levy—an inheritance tax of 20 percent on inherited farming assets worth at least £1 million (~$1.3 million).
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned that many family farmers can have assets worth a million pounds but only five-figure incomes, meaning their inheritors would be forced to sell up to pay a 20 percent death tax. It is set to be implemented in April 2026.
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Clive Bailye, an organizer of next week’s protest, warns, “If Tuesday doesn’t work, then the Government will have picked a fight with the wrong group of people. Farmers have lots of vehicles and equipment, and if they wanted, they could shut down every road in Britain.”
The average age of a British farmer is 59, with 40 percent being over 65, meaning that many farms could be set to be passed on in the coming years.
Similar farmer rebellions have been seen in Continental Europe, where governments have targeted farmers in countries like the Netherlands to enforce European Union (EU) climate diktats. Dutch farmers were told to restrict their fields to two cows each in order to combat climate change and implement other EU measures related to nitrogen, methane, and other gases.
The farmers in the Netherlands blocked roads with their tractors, blockading supermarket distribution centers in 2022.
The mass movement led to the formation of the Farmer-Citizens Movement, which now has seats in the Dutch Parliament, the Senate, and the European Parliament.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Amazon is set to cut up to 30,000 corporatejobs, amounting to ten percent of its corporate workforce.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED:Amazon corporate employees, including those in human resources, services, and operations divisions.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Job cuts will begin this week, with notifications starting Tuesday, across Amazon’s global corporate offices.
🎯IMPACT: This marks the largest job cut at Amazon since late 2022 and signals a shift towards automation and AI integration within the company.
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Online retail giant Amazon is preparing to cut up to 30,000 white-collar jobs, representing ten percent of its corporate workforce—though a much smaller share of the retailer’s total 1.5 million employees. These cuts, Amazon says, are part of the company’s efforts to reduce expenses following a hiring surge during the pandemic.
The roles being eliminated will impact several divisions, including human resources, services, and operations. Amazon employees in affected teams were instructed to undergo training on how to communicate the layoffs effectively, with emails to impacted employees scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
This reduction marks Amazon’s largest job cut since late 2022, when 27,000 roles were eliminated. The company has been reducing its workforce across multiple departments over recent years, while also advancing its use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline operations.
The National Pulse reported last week that Amazon aims to replace up to 600,000 roles with AI-powered robots as part of its long-term goal to automate 75 percent of its operations. Additionally, Amazon has introduced an AI seller assistant on its platform, which is currently in beta testing.
Despite these cuts, Amazon plans to hire 250,000 workers for the holiday season, primarily in fulfillment and delivery roles. However, the company declined to specify how many of these positions would become permanent.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Zohran Mamdani, the Democrats’ socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has admitted he does not have an “aunt” who stopped riding the subway after 9/11, as he previously claimed. He now claims he was referring to a distant cousin of his father, who is now dead.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Zohran Mamdani, the Mamdani family, relatives of 9/11 victims, and Vice President J.D. Vance.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: New York City, October 2025.
💬KEY QUOTE: “I find what [Mamdani] had to say completely insulting to all of the people that suffered a horrible loss that day.” – Terry Strada, widow of a 9/11 victim.
🎯IMPACT: The episode has sparked backlash from 9/11 families and raised further concerns about Mamdani’s honesty and integrity.
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Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan Muslim immigrant selected as the Democrats’ candidate for New York City Mayor, has admitted to fabricating a story about his “aunt” being too scared to ride the subway in her Islamic hijab after the 9/11 attacks. After Internet sleuths discovered that his only living aunt, Masuma Mamdani, lived in Tanzania in 2001 and does not wear a hijab, Mamdani claimed he was actually referring to a distant cousin of his father who is now dead.
During a press conference, Mamdani claimed, “I was speaking about Zehra fuhi, my father’s cousin, who passed away a few years ago.” The term “fuhi” translates to paternal aunt in Urdu and Hindi. Notably, Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, despises America, alleging it is “the genesis of… settler-colonialism,” and “the inspiration” for the Nazis and the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, while also showing Adolf Hitler that “genocide was doable.”
Zohran Mamdani’s father: America is the root of all evil and was the inspiration for the nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.
Mamdani was already under fire for his tearful story about his “aunt” feeling uncomfortable on the subway after 9/11, given her alleged discomfort’s insignificance next to the mass death of the radical Islamic terror attack’s victims. Terry Strada, whose husband died in the North Tower, criticized the socialist politician’s remarks as “insulting and insensitive,” saying, “To compare an aunt being uncomfortable on the subway to all of these families that were murdered was just very insensitive and shows his true colors.”
Previously, Vice President J.D. Vance had observed that, “According to Zohran, the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.”
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson criticized a reporter’s use of the term “illegal aliens,” calling it “racist” and “nasty” during a press briefing.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Mayor Brandon Johnson, a reporter, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The press briefing occurred in Chicago on Friday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “We don’t have illegal aliens. I don’t know if that’s from some sort of sci-fi message that you wish you’ve had.” – Mayor Brandon Johnson
🎯IMPACT: The mayor’s remarks came after the reporter questioned him about a report on city spending related to illegal aliens that was allegedly required to be filed with the White House.
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Far-left Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) claims the term “illegal aliens” is “racist” and “nasty,” blasting a reporter’s use of the label during a press briefing on Friday. The mayor’s remarks came after the reporter questioned him about a report on city spending related to illegal aliens that was allegedly required to be filed with the White House.
Video of the press conference captured Johnson responding immediately to the reporter’s question. “We don’t have illegal aliens,” Johnson said. “I don’t know if that’s from some sort of sci-fi message that you wish you’ve had.”
He added, “Well listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term too? So, look, let’s just get the language right.” Johnson further insisted, “We’re talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing I’m gonna do is accept the type of racist, nasty language, to describe human beings.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “We don’t have illegal aliens. I don’t know if that’s from some sort of Sci-Fi message…”
“That’s the legal term.”
“We’ll listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. Do you want me to use that term too?”
The mayor quickly tried to shift focus to his administration’s budget priorities, highlighting a $16.7 billion investment in areas such as education, transportation, housing, youth employment, and environmental justice. He stated his intent to “challenge the ultra-wealthy” to ensure they “pay their fair share.”
Following the press conference, Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) backed Johnson’s remarks, stating, “Immigration violations are not criminal offenses. It is very important that people in Illinois and across the country understand the immigration system is a civil system. Undocumented presence in the United States is not a criminal offense. And so thank you for the clarification on language.”
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Roughly 2,800 U.S. flights were delayed, and 109 were canceled on Monday due to staffing shortages amid the ongoing Senate Democrat-led government shutdown.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Air traffic controllers, the Department of Transportation (USDOT), and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Monday, October 27, 2025, across U.S. airports.
💬KEY QUOTE: “They got a big fat no paycheck is coming on Tuesday,” said Secretary Sean Duffy.
🎯IMPACT: Delays and cancellations are expected to increase as the shutdown persists, adding stress to already strained air traffic controllers.
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On Monday, October 27, 2025, approximately 2,800 flights were delayed, and 109 flights were canceled across the United States. The disruption comes as the Senate Democrat-led government shutdown enters its 27th day, with essential workers, including air traffic controllers, increasingly failing to report to work.
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Sean Duffy explained the situation during a television appearance early Monday, noting that air traffic controllers are under significant financial strain due to missed paychecks. “They got their notice on Thursday and Friday. They get a notice of what they are going to be paid on Tuesday. And they got a big fat no paycheck is coming on Tuesday,” Duffy stated.
Duffy highlighted the stress faced by air traffic controllers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck. “I’ve been out talking to air traffic controllers, and you can see the stress. These are people that oftentimes live paycheck to paycheck… they are concerned about gas in the car, they are concerned about childcare,” he said.
On Sunday, FlightAware recorded over 8,700 delays across the U.S., with 22 “staffing triggers” reported at air traffic control towers nationwide. Duffy warned that these indicators signal worsening conditions, predicting higher levels of delays and cancellations in the coming days as staffing shortages grow more severe.
The U.S. faced a shortage of air traffic controllers even before the shutdown began, but the ongoing impasse threatens to exacerbate the issue. The National Pulse reported in January 2024 that the former Biden government prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), resulting in qualified air traffic controllers being turned away despite numerous open positions. Concerningly, the former Biden government even sought to ensure that a portion of new hires included individuals with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
An internal FAA safety report highlighted that the tower’s staffing levels were “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic” during the deadly January 2025 collision between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport. A single air traffic controller was responsible for managing both helicopter activity in the vicinity and the movements of aircraft departing from and landing at the airport. Two controllers typically fulfill these duties.
The shortage of air traffic controllers created under the Biden government was significant, with a reported shortfall of about 3,000 controllers as of early 2024.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump reportedly called former Vice President Mike Pence a “wimp” during a phone call on January 6, 2021, over Pence’s refusal to block the certification of the 2020election results.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Jonathan Karl, who revealed the details in his upcoming book, Retribution.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: January 6, 2021, during a phone call at approximately 11 AM. Eastern, hours before the Capitol breach.
💬KEY QUOTE: “You’ll go down as a wimp. If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago,” Trump reportedly said to Pence, according to the former Vice President’s notes.
🎯IMPACT: Pence has attempted to position himself as and capitalize on being the foremost anti-Trump voice in the Republican Party. However, Pence has shown a lack of fortitude and success even in that endeavor.
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In a phone call on January 6, 2021, hours before the Capitol protests, President Donald J. Trump reportedly criticized then-Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to block the certification of the 2020 election results while state-level challenges were underway. According to notes taken by Pence, Trump called him a “wimp” and said, “If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago.” These details come from Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book, Retribution.
Pence’s notes, written in his day planner, were intended to be used as evidence by former Special Counsel Jack Smith in his investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Pence had previously referenced this call in his 2022 memoir, So Help Me God. Trump later stated during a speech on January 6 that he hoped Pence would “do the right thing” by declining to sign off on questionable Electoral College votes, but the then-Vice President refused to back the America First leader.
During the certification process, Trump tweeted criticism of Pence, stating he “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
Trump has denied calling Pence a “wimp,” contradicting his former Vice President’s recollection of events. Notably, Pence has attempted to position himself as and capitalize on being the foremost anti-Trump voice in the Republican Party. Even in that endeavour, however, Pence has shown a lack of fortitude. The National Pulse reported in May that Pence, while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his actions in January 2020, avoided criticizing President Trump by name, instead opting to attack the President through innuendo.
In January, Pence—in his role as an establishment mouthpiece to attack President Trump and his agenda—lobbied Republicans in the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Pence’s political organization, Advancing American Freedom, unsuccessfully whipped Republican senators against the ex-Democrat Kennedy’s nomination on the pretext of his past support for abortion access.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Leftists are rallying around Pascal Robinson-Foster, a.k.a. Bobby Vylan, who chanted “Death, death to the IDF” at a music festival and performed a song including the lyrics “I heard you want your country back, ha, shut the f**k up, you can’t have that.” This follows British Airways withdrawing a sponsorship from Louis Theroux and his podcast for giving Vylan a softball interview.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: British Airways, Louis Theroux, and Bobby Vylan.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The podcast episode aired earlier this month; British Airways’ response followed shortly after.
💬KEY QUOTE: “We and our third-party media agency have processes in place to ensure these issues don’t occur, and we’re investigating how this happened.” – British Airways spokesman.
🎯IMPACT: The sponsorship has been paused, and the associated advert removed.
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British Airways (BA) has pulled sponsorship from Louis Theroux’s podcast following a softball interview with Pascal Robinson-Foster, a.k.a. Bobby Vylan, the frontman of the hip-hop duo Bob Vylan. Bobby Vylan was previously broadcast leading chants of “Death, death to the IDF” (Israel Defense Forces) at a music festival by the BBC, and also produced a song directed at anti-mass migration patriots, including the lyrics “I heard you want your country back, ha, shut the f**k up, you can’t have that.”
A spokesman for the airline stated, “The interview breaches our sponsorship policy in relation to politically sensitive or controversial subject matters.” They added, “We and our third-party media agency have processes in place to ensure these issues don’t occur, and we’re investigating how this happened. Our sponsorship of the series has now been paused, and the advert has been removed.”
Notably, on the podcast, Vylan defended his Glastonbury “Death to the IDF” chant, saying he had no regrets and would do it again, and that BBC employees cheered him on.
However, some on the left are rallying around Vylan—in part by throwing Theroux under the bus. “But oh wait, no, it was interviewing someone critical of Israel that was the problem,” commented activist Phillip Proudfoot, sharing a promotional image for Theroux’s Louis and the Nazis documentary.
Commentator Bushra Shaikh complained that “British Airways was fine sponsoring Louis Theroux’s podcast when he was interviewing Daniella Weiss, the psychopathic genocide-supporting Israeli settler leader” while drawing a “red line” against “Bob Vylan’s hurty words about the IDF.”
New Lines Magazine Associate Editor Idrees Ahmas was more sympathetic to Theroux—who was not sympathetic to the aforementioned subjects in the way he was to Vylan—saying, “So [British Airways] is trying to financially punish a British journalist to protect from criticism a foreign army implicated in a genocide? This is a game two can play. Add BA to the boycott list. There are better and cheaper alternatives.”
The Trump administration withdrew the Vylan duo’s U.S. visas in the wake of the chanting scandal, with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau remarking, “Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
Oops! Bob Vylan lets slip that BBC staff loved his ‘death to the IDF’ chant.
Of course BBC faithful Louis Theroux tries to play it down but Bob Vylan just can’t help spilling the beans. The corporation is rotten from top to bottom. #DefundTheBBCpic.twitter.com/29jFBdNuYA
❓WHAT HAPPENED: A march of masked Muslim men carrying flags and chanting slogans took place in east London over the weekend, spurning leftist “anti-racism” activists who attempted to support them.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Islamists, ‘Stand Up To Racism’ and other left-wing activist organizations, and Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Over the weekend in east London, with key events taking place in Whitehall and Tower Hamlets.
💬KEY QUOTE: “It was like a foreign invading army marching through our streets.” – Nigel Farage
🎯IMPACT: The march has raised concerns over public safety, demographic change, and social disintegration in Britain.
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Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has described a march of masked Muslim men in east London over the weekend as “one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” The group, dressed in black and carrying Palestinian and Bangladeshi flags, marched through Whitehall in response to a UKIP protest—which the police banned—over the weekend.
Speaking at a press conference alongside Muslim grooming gang survivor Ellie-Ann Reynolds, Farage lamented the “outright intimidation to the point of sort of basically urging the mass wipe out of huge numbers of Jewish people” during the march, and chastised the left for allying with the marchers.
“[W]hat a telling moment; the leftist, Stand Up to Racism were there with their banners, and one of them says to these masked marchers, ‘We’re on the same side,’ to which the response comes, ‘No, we’re not,'” Farage said, recalling an incident from the march which has gone viral on social media.
“Maybe one day the deluded left will wake up to realize they’ve been with very strange bedfellows. Organizations like Queers for Palestine spring to mind,” he said, adding that the scenes were “absolutely terrifying… like a foreign invading army was marching through our streets,” he added.
“Maybe one day the deluded left will wake up and realise they’ve been with very strange bedfellows” — Nigel Farage, after masked Islamists marching through London told ‘Stand Up to Racism’ activists that they are not on the same side: pic.twitter.com/98J6QOFqcr
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced an extension of the trade deadline between Mexico and the U.S. to discuss pending issues.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The announcement followed a conversation on Saturday, with Sheinbaum addressing the matter in her Monday press conference in Mexico City.
💬KEY QUOTE: “I was interested in making sure that November 1 didn’t arrive without us having communicated and that we were in agreement that our teams were still working,” said Sheinbaum.
🎯IMPACT: Following the announcement, Mexico’s peso saw a modest gain, strengthening by 0.29 percent to 18.38 per dollar, reflecting confidence in the ongoing negotiations.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Monday that she had spoken with President Donald J. Trump over the weekend, resulting in an agreement to extend the trade deadline for discussions between the two nations. The original pause in tariff increases, agreed upon in July, was set to expire this week.
Sheinbaum stated during her morning press conference, “I was interested in making sure that November 1 didn’t arrive without us having communicated and that we were in agreement that our teams were still working.” She added that the focus remains on resolving 54 outstanding trade barriers.
Following the announcement, Mexico’s peso saw a modest gain, strengthening by 0.29 percent to 18.38 per dollar, reflecting confidence in the ongoing negotiations. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has largely shielded Mexico from significant tariff hikes in recent years, but the deal is set for review next year.
Earlier in October, Sheinbaum expressed optimism about reaching a favorable trade agreement and highlighted plans to advance projects related to electric vehicles, semiconductors, satellites, drones, and artificial intelligence (AI). “We continue working and there is no situation in the near future where there could be any special tariff on November 1,” she noted.
When asked whether Mexico would continue to approach U.S. trade talks independent of Canada—including next year’s USMCA review—Sheinbaum urged caution. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” she said. Last week, President Trump broke off trade talks with Canada over a lack of progress and meddling by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The East Wing of the White House was demolished, and its debris was transported to various locations.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Donald J. Trump, construction workers, and local reporters.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: October 2025, East Potomac Park and Hyattsville, Maryland.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Oh, they’re gonna turn it into another hole,” said an employee at East Potomac Golf Links.
🎯IMPACT: The debris is being used for potential redevelopment, including a new golf course hole.
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The East Wing of the White House has been demolished to create space for a grand ballroom to host state functions, with the resulting debris—including soil and various materials—hauled off to multiple sites across Washington, D.C., and its environs. Reports indicate the dirt has been dumped at East Potomac Park, close to the Jefferson Memorial.
Trucks hauling construction materials have been observed pulling into the East Potomac Golf Links, where they unload the dirt at a fenced-off zone. An employee told reporter Nancy Walecky that “they’re gonna turn it into another hole.” President Trump is reportedly eyeing a rebrand and overhaul of the East Potomac Golf Links as the Washington National Golf Course.
Notably, the East Wing is not part of the iconic White House Executive Residence, but a fairly unremarkable outbuilding, dating in its current form to the 1940s, when it was rebuilt to hide the parallel construction of a bunker for the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Nevertheless, the Democrats have exploited the East Wing’s replacement to smear President Donald J. Trump—who is funding the new ballroom at his own expense alongside private donors—as destroying America’s heritage, and exaggerated the building’s historical importance, at one point mistakenly sharing a picture of the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in London, England, in a social media post bemoaning the demolition.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Actor Steve Coogan and two production companies have agreed to pay substantial damages to settle a libel case brought by a university academic over his portrayal in the film The Lost King.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Steve Coogan, university academic Richard Taylor, Baby Cow Productions, and Pathe Productions.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The settlement was announced in court on Monday, following the 2022 release of The Lost King.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The outcome of this case represents success and vindication after a long and gruelling battle.” – Richard Taylor
🎯IMPACT: The defendants will pay damages, legal costs, and make changes to the film to address Taylor’s defamation claims.
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British actor Steve Coogan, together with Baby Cow and Pathe Productions, has agreed to pay substantial damages to Richard Taylor, a university academic, to settle a high court libel case concerning his portrayal in the 2022 film The Lost King. Coogan is noted for his leftist activism, denouncing Brexit supporters in degrading terms and arguing that Jesus Christ was a “socialist” who “would have hated Republicans,” among other outbursts.
Coogan’s movie portrays the 2012 discovery of King Richard III’s lost remains under a parking lot in Leicester, England. Taylor, then deputy registrar at the University of Leicester, took legal action against the filmmakers for depicting him as “devious”, “weasel-like”, and a “suited bean-counter”. A judge previously determined that the portrayal was defamatory.
William Bennett KC, Taylor’s lawyer, stated in court that the depiction caused “serious harm to his professional and personal reputations” and resulted in “enormous distress and embarrassment”. The settlement includes damages, legal costs, and changes to the film to address the claims.
Now chief operating officer at Loughborough University, Taylor welcomed the resolution, calling it “success and vindication”. He recognized Philippa Langley’s role in starting the project to find Richard III’s remains but stressed the vital contributions of the University of Leicester and its academic team.
In a joint statement, Coogan, Baby Cow, and Pathe Productions reaffirmed their dedication to authentic storytelling, saying, “We remain incredibly proud of this film and are pleased this matter has now been settled.”
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