
ALT Daily Telegraph news story on 17 October: Afghan 'child' with Adam's apple wins £25k payout Migrant awarded compensation after immigration judge rules officials were wrong to conclude he was over 18 Gift this article free ث Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor 17 October 2025 11:05am BST An Afghan migrant deemed to be an adult by UK authorities because he had a "protruding Adam's apple" has won £25,000 after an asylum judge ruled that he was a child. The migrant - who came to Britain on a small boat - was awarded the payout after an immigration judge ruled officials were wrong to conclude that he was over 18.

ALT My Lords, it is always a joy to follow a couple of Earls, except possibly into battle. It was a great pleasure to hail the noble Lord, Lord Brady of Altrincham, and bid farewell to the noble Baroness, Lady Quin. I enjoyed both their speeches very much. I spoke at length in the debate on the reform of the House of Lords, so I will stick to the Bill. At first reading, I was reminded of the words of the popular music group Bananarama when they sang “Na na na na Na na na na Hey hey hey Goodbye”, for is a very simple Bill, somewhat terminal for some of us. I was tempted to draft an amendment adding the words “except for my friends and me”, but I did not think that the Public Bill Office would wear that one.

ALT Jemima Kelly hits the crypto nail on its virtual head. How we name things influences how we understand them, and so I particularly appreciate her avoidance of two words that are often used in articles about crypto: "currency" and "investment". Crypto "coins" or "tokens" are entries in a digital ledger and do not come close to meeting the basic definition of a currency, which is that it be a unit of account, a means of exchange, and a store of value. And anyone putting money into crypto is a speculator, not an investor On what basis would you buy a crypto token? It pays no dividend, it is backed by no underlying assets, and it cannot be transported in a money belt when storm troopers kick in your front door as you slip out the back. It can, of course, be stolen by hackers, and is useful for laundering dirty money. But the only reason for the average Joe to buy any crypto token is the hope of selling it at a higher price to someone else. This is the greater fool theory in a nutshell.

ALT Tweet by @AsafRonel: Our terrorist Minister of Finance @bezalelsm: in two years we can eliminate more than half of the Palestinian population in Gaza Screengrab of Smotrich's words saying "It is possible to create a situation where in two years Gaza will have less than half of its current population".. On top of it, crudely joined together by the Hebrew letters like a join-the-dots puzzle, are the handwritten words "YEARNS FOR PEACE", "2 STATE SOLUTION", "MOST MORAL ARMY"















