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Nigel Farage , Issue 1646
Nobody could say the same of Farage. In the last six months, he has made £219,000 from his work on GB News, plus £189,000 as an "ambassador" for a firm flogging gold bullion.
Then there's the small change: £2,800 from his work as an influencer on Facebook, £11,000 from YouTube, £5,000 from X, £54,000 from his Cameo account (selling personal video messages), £65,000 for various public speaking engagements, and £24,000 from the Telegraph.
Hustle memory
Separate calculations by the Guardian show he's spent about 800 hours on these side hustles since the election, averaging out at about 22 hours a week.
On top of all these activities that earned him more than £570,000 in the second half of last year, he's also been to the US eight times since the election.
Unlike "One Job" Badenoch, Farage works incredibly hard for all manner of paymasters – except, possibly, for the people of Clacton.
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After the arrest of the Turkish opposition leader, free-speech-loving Elon Musk acquiesced to requests from the Erdogan government to suppress information.
NERVES OF STEEL
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COURT CIRCULAR
When senior flunkeys strongly advised Keir Starmer not to drag Brian into relations with Donald Trump too early, the PM really should have listened.
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