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Student turns sleuth to track down her stolen Ford Fiesta

<更新日時> 05月27日(土) 21:47

A student took matters into her own hands when her Ford Fiesta was stolen from outside her home - by using an Apple AirTag to track it down herself and documenting the journey on . 

Zoë Pettit, EVDEN eVE naKLiyAt 22, was horrified when she woke up for an early gym session and realised her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, , last week.

Helpfully she had tucked an Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone, Evden evE NakliYat into the lining of her boot after fellow students advised her about a spate of car thefts in the area.

So when the business student discovered her car had been stolen, she and two university friends set on a mission to find it - and were successful within a matter of hours despite police reportedly failing to have any luck. 

 Zoë Originally from Norwich, Norfolk, explained: 'Every morning I just double check it's there because you see quite a few posts from people saying their car was stolen overnight.

'I looked up the road and I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't see it.'

Her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, Birmingham, last week

Panicking, University of Birmingham student Zoë searched the surrounding streets, questioning if she had perhaps parked it somewhere different and it had slipped her mind.

But she couldn't see it anywhere.

'I went onto my phone and checked the AirTag - and I see that it's seven miles away from where I am,' she said.

Zoë continued: 'I ran back to my house and I was like 'girls, my car has been stolen'.I was quite frantic.

'We rang the police, and in all fairness to them they were very helpful.

'They assigned someone straight away and there was an officer driving to where the AirTag was.'

As the tag showed the car was moving, a cop reportedly tried to track it down for a few hours but couldn't see it.

In the end police gave up the search, she says, leaving Zoë with no choice but to accept defeat and report it as stolen to her insurance provider.

Zoë decided to take matters into her own hands - against the advice of her parents

She used her Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone, to pin down the car's whereabouts

She said: 'The police were really helpful and did as much as they could.It was about midday at this point, and I found out at nine o'clock my car had been stolen.

'My dad was getting ready to call up my insurance company and tell them it was stolen at this point basically.

'A couple of my housemates came home from their morning lectures, and one of the girls said that she had got her car with her - so why didn't we just go and try to find it? If you loved this posting and you would like to obtain additional info regarding evdEN EVE NaKliyAt kindly visit our own web page. '

She added: 'My parents were like 'do not drive to the AirTag, whatever you do.Just leave it'.'

However, the girls went anyway, driving half an hour to Saltley, an inner-city area to the east of Birmingham.

She said: 'At first we couldn't find it, we drove around for about 20 minutes and I was just thinking this is bizarre.

'In the end I just thought it's not there, maybe they chucked the AirTag out of the car, let's go.'

But a chance left turning as they were leaving the estate led the girls right to the missing white Ford - although its plates had been changed.

'I pressed my car key and it unlocked, I freaked out.I was like 'Oh my God it's my car!'

The student could not believe it when she spotted her car - though the registration plate had been changed

The friends celebrated with a McDonald's on the way back home 

Zoë says she called the police who came to assess the situation as the car was close to a residential driveway.

Detectives reportedly said it was safe and the girls were allowed to take the car back - celebrating with a McDonald's on the way home.

Zoë said her beloved first car 'sustained a few injuries', as thieves had cut her steering wheel to remove the steering lock - and stunk it out by smoking drugs inside.

But she added that she was 'chuffed' to have her car back - although she does feel 'uncomfortable' knowing that a stranger was driving it around.

Zoë said West Midlands Police are currently investigating the crime.

A spokesman for the force told MailOnline: 'We were called on 31 January after a white Ford Fiesta was stolen in Birmingham. Fortunately, eVden eVE NAkLiyaT the car's owner had a tracker inside the vehicle and was able to track down its location. 

'The car had appeared to be in a location in Birmingham, EVdEn EvE NAKliYat but when officers attended, it was no longer there. 

'Subsequently a different location was identified by the owner, who went there herself and took back her car. 

'Officers supported her in recovering the vehicle and are continuing to investigate the theft and identify suspects.Anyone with information can call 101 or use Live Chat on our website quoting crime number 20/13098/23.'

<更新日時> 05月27日(土) 05:43

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An insider told that bosses are hoping to secure her long-term future on the show after they feared she would quit.

The source said: ' has some phenomenal programming ideas built around Susanna for later this year, all ones to which she has typically very proactively contributed to and helped build and inspire, EVDen eVE naKLiyat so why would she walk away from them?'

Details surrounding the filming are not yet known but a number of programme ideas are said to be in the works.

MailOnline has reached out to Good Morning Britain for comment.

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Kanye West’s Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year

<更新日時> 05月26日(金) 16:14

Kanye West's Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year.

Parents at the exclusive Christian school received an email near midnight on Wednesday explaining that the school would be 'returning with a vengeance,' the following morning, a hard U-turn from a message they received just hours earlier from school administrators.

On Wednesday, Academy Principal Jason Angell sent an email to parents explaining that West, 45, had decided to close the school 'effective immediately,' with classes being cancelled as of Thursday.

But an internal email from 'Parents of Donda' obtained by told a much different story.

'Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy,' the email read.With the help of our parents and community, we are back and returning with a vengeance!'

'The children of Donda are going to change the world,' the message added.' Apologies for the late email! See you bright and early!'

It is unclear whether the school itself is reopening in an official capacity, or whether parents and staff are taking it upon themselves to continue educating their children.  

The bizarre twist comes as  around his anti-semitic behavior, which has included repeated claims of 'Jewish people' in the media conspiring against him, and planned parenthood controlling black populations through genocidal abortions. 

Kanye West's exclusive Christian school announced it would be closing for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year as the rapper continues to face fallout for his repeated anti-semitic comments

Students at West's Donda Academy wear black Balenciaga uniforms designed by West himself.Above, Celtics basketball player Jaylen Brown pays a visit to the school

A school in the Simi Valley, just north of Los Angeles, which is believed to be the Donda Academy

West returned to Instagram on Thursday after being banned earlier this month, announcing he lost $2billion in a single day, in an apparent reference to Adidas dropping his Yeezy shoe line

On Thursday the rapper returned to Instagram after being banned earlier this month, posting that he 'lost 2 billion dollars in one day' in an apparent reference to the flock of brands which have dropped him in the wake of his bigoted behavior.

This week Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoe line - a deal which was worth $1.5billion - with Gap, Footlocker, TJ Maxx, and Balenciaga all following suit and cutting ties with the rapper.

Donda Academy's closure and sudden reopening come just two months after it started up in August.The school did not respond to DailyMail.com requests for comment. 

The exclusive pre-K through 12 school - named after West's mother, Donda - is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student.About half the student body receives financial aid and scholarships, according to The Post.

The school enrolls about 100 students and employees 16 teachers.  Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret and to say nothing about it.

There are reportedly a number of celebrities' children in attendance - including R&B singer Keyshia Cole's son Daniel - and the school is well known for its high-powered basketball team.Rising star Robert Dillingham, evDEn evE nakliYat 17, plays for the school, and NBA players like Celtics player Jaylen Brown have made appearances at the school. 

Students wear all black Balenciaga uniforms and Yeezy shoes designed by West himself.

Despite running the school, West's children do not attend, EVDEN eve NAkLiyAT and he have clashed with Kim Kardashian on the matter.

West previously complained on social media that Kim wouldn't agree to send their four children for '[two] days at one school, three days at another.' 

As of September the school had not yet been accredited, according to the , which means colleges might not accept diplomas from the school.

The Donda Academy website states that the school's goal is 'to provide the youth with the passion, purpose and spiritual foundations they need to thrive in tomorrow's world.'

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program. 

The school enrolls about 100 students and 16 teachers, with a number of students being the children of celebrities

The exclusive pre-K through 12 Donda Academy is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student

Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and EVdeN evE NAkLiyaT science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program

Angell emailed parents on Wednesday announcing the school's closure for the remainder of the school year.

'At the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately, he wrote.

'There is no school tomorrow [Thursday].'

Angell noted that the school's leadership would help parents and students transition into their new school, and added that the Donda would begin 'afresh' in September 2023. 

On Wednesday the school's basketball team was booted from the The Scholastic Play-By-Play Classics tournament, saying West's 'words and actions violate our values as a company and a country, and what we seek to ensure at all of our events - a spirit of diversity, sportsmanship, inclusion, equity and mutual respect.'

Representatives for the tournament expressed their remorse that West's words cost his students the experience of participating in the coveted high school basketball tournament. 

'While we are firm in our reasoning for this decision, it does not diminish our heartache and regret for Donda's hardworking athletes who will lose out the most as a result of Kanye's actions,' the school added. Should you cherished this article in addition to you want to acquire more info about EVdeN EVE NAkLiYat kindly stop by the web-site.  'Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience host an organization founded and directed by Mr.West at our events.'

TJ Maxx has become the latest company to sever ties with Kanye West in the wake of his vile anti-Semitic outbursts (pictured yesterday at a bagel shop in Los Angeles before arriving at the Skechers HQ) 

He was seen near a parking lot before he was escorted out of Sketchers HQ

TJ Maxx, whose CEO is Ernie Herrman (pictured in 2014) follows Gap and Foot Locker in no longer stocking any Yeezy merchandise in its stores 

Yesterday, the rapper was embarrassingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand a day after being dropped by Adidas and having his songs banned by Peloton.

Ye was taken out by two 'executives' according to a statement released by the company Wednesday afternoon. 

 said in a statement: 'Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West.

'We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.' 

West may have faced additional opposition if he had gotten a preapproved sit-down meeestimates comes from real estate, cash, his music catalog, and a 5 percent stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian's shapewear firm, EVden eve NakliyaT Skims.

But as corporations around the world break off deals with Ye, music streaming service said it would not remove the rapper's music unless his label requested it.

Recent anti-Semitic remarks made by the rapper are 'just awful comments,' and would have warranted removal from Spotify for violating its policies if they had been on a podcast or recording, Spotify chief Daniel Ek said.

However, music from the artist now known as Ye does not violate anti-hate policies, and any anti-Semitic comments he has made cannot be found on the music streaming platform.

'It's really just his music, and his music doesn't violate our policy,' said Ek, adding, 'It's up to his label, if they want to take action or not.'

Universal Music's Def Jam label, which owns the copyright to West's recordings from 2002 through 2016, and continued distributing his releases until last year, issued a statement condemning Ye's remarks, saying: 'There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society'.But the label has not asked for the removal of Ye's recordings, many of which are critically acclaimed works.

Kanye West has seen several high profile and lucrative partnerships with major brands severed amid the backlash from anti-Semitic remarks

Ye has refused to walk back his remarks, blaming Jewish people for his mental health struggles in a recent podcast

A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, in Garden City, New York, U.S., October 25, 2022

LIZ JONES on the terrifying insecurity of having to rent in your 60s

<更新日時> 05月26日(金) 13:59

The call came on a Saturday morning last month.I always knew it would. It had been lurking in the background as I tried to carry on, make plans. I knew that it would all end, swiftly. Not with a whimper but with a bang.

I'd been told there was a viewing planned at the cottage I've rented since 2018.It's been up for sale since April. I learned it was going to be put on the market in February, when the landlady turned up with little warning, an estate agent in tow.

The agent started taking photographs of every room and my courtyard garden. Without asking first.Or even talking to me. Because who am I, other than a lowly private renter, unworthy of even a kindly 'Good morning'.

The viewing was scheduled for 11.30 am (there had been a few). I walked my dogs early, then raced up a steep hill to make sure I was back in time to tidy.

At 11.45, my mobile rang.It was the landlady. 'The viewing is cancelled but there is another one at half past one.'

I dared to express my dismay, my upset at the constant intrusions. Yet another no-show; another day when I was unable to do as I pleased.

Liz Jones, 64, (pictured) opens up about being given two months' notice to leave her rented cottage

'Right!' the landlady snapped.'I'm serving you with a Section 21. You have two months' notice to move out as of Monday.' I crumpled. Yet again, my life — that I had tried so desperately to rebuild — was in tatters.

No-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices, enable landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason or establishing 'fault' on the part of the tenant.

No matter how long you've lived there (for me, four years) or how much you've spent on the place (in my case £59,000 — I cashed in my pension and got a loan to pay for everything from a new kitchen to underfloor heating, new bathroom and white goods) you can be summarily dismissed.

How is this allowed?We are protected at work if we are sick or lose our jobs, but when we rent a home — and surely a home is integral to our health, productivity and sense of belonging — we can be thrown to the sharks.

Surely, there is more to being a landlord than having me pay your mortgage when I have paid the rent on time and looked after your property?

A lifeline was dangled in front of our poor, cold noses last month when Michael Gove — since appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under Rishi Sunak — voiced his support for Boris Johnson's commitment to ending no-fault evictions.

Mr Gove knows as well as anyone that it isn't the workshy who end up renting.After all, divorce is a common factor. The Government won't get growth from a workforce that wonders if getting out of bed is worth the bother.

His speech was music to the ears of the more than four million private renters in the UK.

The misery, the uncertainty.Goodness only knows how families with school-age children cope with the disruption, the endless reading of meters and changing of suppliers, the redirection of post, the changing of council tax and on and on and on … It's all so unbelievably stressful.

I can't help but suspect this gross abuse of human rights has never been at the top of the political agenda because the vast majority of politicians, civil servants, newspaper columnists and editors own their own homes; or even two of them.

The writer (pictured) says renters can be 'thrown to the sharks' and swiftly dismissed.Liz says  she has rented nine properties in her adult life, and has been evicted four times

The problem doesn't enter their brains and, if it does, they assume people who rent are either feckless or the very young, who will soon claw their way on to the property ladder.These are the sort of people who write pieces along the lines of 'What's with the annual DFS adverts on TV? Why do people buy a new sofa every Christmas? I inherited mine!' (That was an actual column.)

I have rented nine properties in my adult life and been evicted four times — and the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Times are bad for Generation Rent — the poor 20 and 30-somethings who are unable to scrape together a deposit, or afford a mortgage.But to be in your 60s and to be renting, as I am, after a lifetime of hard work, is infinitely worse.

Why? Because, at 64, I am perilously close to retirement.

I did manage to get a mortgage offer before the current crisis but, even then, the rate I was offered was nearly 5 per cent and the maximum term I was allowed was 12 years.There is no hope of a partner on the horizon to split bills with.

I have sympathy for homeowners whose rates have just gone up, but renters aren't immune, EVden eve NAkLiYaT as there are no caps on what we pay. Landlords will pass any increase onto us (I might die of cold if I move to Scotland, but at least Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a rent freeze).

Note, too, that higher interest rates, EvDeN eVE NAKLiYAt as well as new rules about long-term rentals being insulated, mean the number of long-term rental properties (as opposed to holiday and Airbnb lets) has shrunk.

This led to a report last month of a rise in London of 'blind bidding' — people leasing rental properties without first viewing them.There are 49 per cent fewer new listings than in 2019, reports Hamptons estate agency, and the average rent in a newly-let home in Britain is up 6.9 per cent on September last year.

I owned my own home from 1983 until 2016. I've never not had a good job and I've never taken a day off sick.But in 2016 I lost my home — a Georgian mini mansion, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a lawn that swept down to a river.

I put in stone floors, salvaged from a derelict church, railings … I can't go on, it's too upsetting.

When I was made bankrupt in 2015, I was forced to put it on the market for £400,000 less than I paid for it.(A long story: there's a memoir, if you're interested.) Suffice to say, HMRC hate high-earning single females, as do builders, family, neighbours, insolvency lawyers.

As a bankrupt, my rental choices were limited. I found a small house nearby, just outside the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, for £1,700 a month.The search was made extra hard given the fact I (then) had four cats and three dogs. Most rental properties, even those in rural areas with ghastly swirly carpets, stipulate: 'Sorry, no pets.'

In 2020, a white paper was drawn up to allow renters to keep dogs and cats, EVdeN evE NAkliYAT given that they are, after all, family members, and less likely than toddlers to scribble on walls, but it's not yet on the statute books.

The wonderful charity Dogs On The Streets (DOTS), which helps the pets of the homeless, reveals the number of pets given up due to being banned from rentals has rocketed: 'We get 20 to 30 calls a day from tenants unable to keep their pets.'

So I went with this house, but was told: 'Sorry, it comes furnished.' I had a lot of furniture.Conran sofas. A 1920s desk. An Eero Saarinen marble table. I was your typical used-to-live-in-Islington high-end cliché. So I begged and said: 'Well, can't you put your stuff in storage?' I was also mindful of my muddy dogs, scratchy cats, but it was no.

The landlady turned up with little warning and an estate agent in tow - my home was up for sale 

So I put all my furniture in storage and gave my brand-new appliances — a Smeg range cooker, Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer — to a friend.But storage proved so expensive that, one by one, I had to sell everything on eBay.

Imagine my shock when the landlord, a year or so later, said they'd bought a holiday home in Devon and were coming for their furniture. (This is why people buy DFS sofas.)

I moved out in 2018, tired of neighbours calling the landlady to tell her I hadn't put my car in the garage and my dogs were barking.

That same year, I rented a one-bedroom flat in North London at more than £3,000 a month — to save on hotel bills for work.

Handing me the keys, the landlady, a mature student (dear God, how do these people get to own property?), pointed out that I would 'need to buy expensive saucepans' as the hob was induction, instructed me not 'to let water pour on the floorboards' in the kitchen and not to let the front door slam.

Or wear jeans on the sofa as 'they wear it out'.

When I later complained about the filth of the communal areas, which only I vacuumed, she said: 'Oh, that's a surprise, as apart from you, every flat is owner-occupied.'

She kept emailing me — never, ever rent via OpenRent, where you deal with the landlord direct — saying: 'I've read you have collies.They are not in the flat, are they? No pets allowed.' I kept assuring her they were safely in Yorkshire. She enlisted an upstairs neighbour to spy on me.

I was again evicted, for no reason, in 2019, having spent a fortune moving books, magazines, clothes and my desk 250 miles.(I know the names of the nice men at Watson Removals; I even know the birthdays of a couple of them.)

She said the flat was being sold but, a few weeks later, I saw it up for rent again on Rightmove at an escalated price.

She wanted to withhold some of my deposit as the cheap-looking fairy lights were no longer on the balcony.They broke!

The writer (pictured) says renters close to retirement are 'infinitely worse' off than those in their 20s or 30s

Then there was the place in Clerkenwell.I had to give notice when I lost my job but the two male landlords, who lived in Hong Kong, made me stick to a six-month notice period, when they could have said: 'OK, if we can rent it faster you can leave'.

And they told me to vacuum my radiators as they were making a 'mark' on the walls.(Mad!)

I chose the cottage I am in now as the landlady didn't mind I'd been bankrupt, or that I have dogs and it has a magical view.

When I moved in, it had no heating, laminate flooring and a fuse box that was 26 years old.The washing machine broke and there was no tumble dryer, though the lease bans putting up a washing line. The roof and windows still leak. Exiting the front door on a rainy day is like braving Niagara Falls (I have videos).

I know it was idiotic to spend tens of thousands of pounds of my own money on it, but I work from home and needed heating.The bathroom was mouldy and having a hot bath is my one luxury.

In all, I spent £59,000. I updated the heating with a new boiler and radiators upstairs and EVDEN eVE NAkLiyaT replaced the fusebox. I put in flagstones, I had the chimney swept, installed new blinds and shelving and I spent more than £12,000 on a beautiful Neptune kitchen.

I know.People warned me not to do it up, as I have no legal redress. But my home is so important to me: I get depressed in a dump.

And so here I am, terrified of being homeless, again. I went to look at another rental the other week. The woman opened the door and a huge Labrador emerged, when her ad had stipulated 'only one small dog considered for an escalated rent'.

'How many dogs do you have?' she asked me, craning to look at the two (out of now four) who had come along for the ride.Me: 'Um.'

She showed me round and it was lovely. 'It will come unfurnished. When you adored this article as well as you desire to acquire guidance about EvdEN EVe NAKLiYat kindly stop by the web site. ' I was glad, but slightly galled that I'd also given away my £4,000 Vispring bed, purchased from Selfridges in sunnier days, as my current cottage is so small it wouldn't fit through the door.

I couldn't work out the layout of the house.'Ah,' she said, unlocking the door to the loveliest room, dual aspect, with views of a river. 'We will be locking our furniture in here. This is our forever home. We'll be back in two years. Which is when you'll have to move out.'

Aaaaargh!!!!!

LIZ JONES on the terrifying insecurity of having to rent in your 60s

<更新日時> 05月26日(金) 06:20

The call came on a Saturday morning last month.I always knew it would. It had been lurking in the background as I tried to carry on, make plans. I knew that it would all end, swiftly. Not with a whimper but with a bang.

I'd been told there was a viewing planned at the cottage I've rented since 2018.It's been up for sale since April. I learned it was going to be put on the market in February, when the landlady turned up with little warning, an estate agent in tow.

The agent started taking photographs of every room and my courtyard garden. Without asking first.Or even talking to me. Because who am I, other than a lowly private renter, unworthy of even a kindly 'Good morning'.

The viewing was scheduled for 11.30 am (there had been a few). I walked my dogs early, then raced up a steep hill to make sure I was back in time to tidy.

At 11.45, my mobile rang.It was the landlady. 'The viewing is cancelled but there is another one at half past one.'

I dared to express my dismay, my upset at the constant intrusions. Yet another no-show; another day when I was unable to do as I pleased.

Liz Jones, 64, (pictured) opens up about being given two months' notice to leave her rented cottage

'Right!' the landlady snapped.'I'm serving you with a Section 21. You have two months' notice to move out as of Monday.' I crumpled. Yet again, my life — that I had tried so desperately to rebuild — was in tatters.

No-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices, enable landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason or establishing 'fault' on the part of the tenant.

No matter how long you've lived there (for me, four years) or how much you've spent on the place (in my case £59,000 — I cashed in my pension and got a loan to pay for everything from a new kitchen to underfloor heating, new bathroom and white goods) you can be summarily dismissed.

How is this allowed?We are protected at work if we are sick or lose our jobs, but when we rent a home — and surely a home is integral to our health, productivity and sense of belonging — we can be thrown to the sharks.

Surely, there is more to being a landlord than having me pay your mortgage when I have paid the rent on time and looked after your property?

A lifeline was dangled in front of our poor, cold noses last month when Michael Gove — since appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under Rishi Sunak — voiced his support for Boris Johnson's commitment to ending no-fault evictions.

Mr Gove knows as well as anyone that it isn't the workshy who end up renting.After all, divorce is a common factor. The Government won't get growth from a workforce that wonders if getting out of bed is worth the bother.

His speech was music to the ears of the more than four million private renters in the UK.

The misery, the uncertainty.Goodness only knows how families with school-age children cope with the disruption, the endless reading of meters and eVDEN evE nAKliyAt changing of suppliers, the redirection of post, the changing of council tax and on and on and on … It's all so unbelievably stressful.

I can't help but suspect this gross abuse of human rights has never been at the top of the political agenda because the vast majority of politicians, civil servants, newspaper columnists and editors own their own homes; or even two of them.

The writer (pictured) says renters can be 'thrown to the sharks' and swiftly dismissed.Liz says  she has rented nine properties in her adult life, and has been evicted four times

The problem doesn't enter their brains and, if it does, they assume people who rent are either feckless or the very young, who will soon claw their way on to the property ladder.These are the sort of people who write pieces along the lines of 'What's with the annual DFS adverts on TV? Why do people buy a new sofa every Christmas? I inherited mine!' (That was an actual column.)

I have rented nine properties in my adult life and been evicted four times — and the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Times are bad for Generation Rent — the poor 20 and 30-somethings who are unable to scrape together a deposit, or afford a mortgage.But to be in your 60s and to be renting, as I am, after a lifetime of hard work, is infinitely worse.

Why? Because, at 64, I am perilously close to retirement.

I did manage to get a mortgage offer before the current crisis but, even then, the rate I was offered was nearly 5 per cent and the maximum term I was allowed was 12 years.There is no hope of a partner on the horizon to split bills with.

I have sympathy for homeowners whose rates have just gone up, but renters aren't immune, as there are no caps on what we pay. Landlords will pass any increase onto us (I might die of cold if I move to Scotland, but at least Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a rent freeze).

Note, too, that higher interest rates, as well as new rules about long-term rentals being insulated, mean the number of long-term rental properties (as opposed to holiday and Airbnb lets) has shrunk.

This led to a report last month of a rise in London of 'blind bidding' — people leasing rental properties without first viewing them.There are 49 per cent fewer new listings than in 2019, reports Hamptons estate agency, and the average rent in a newly-let home in Britain is up 6.9 per cent on September last year.

I owned my own home from 1983 until 2016. I've never not had a good job and I've never taken a day off sick.But in 2016 I lost my home — a Georgian mini mansion, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a lawn that swept down to a river.

I put in stone floors, salvaged from a derelict church, railings … I can't go on, it's too upsetting.

When I was made bankrupt in 2015, I was forced to put it on the market for £400,000 less than I paid for it.(A long story: there's a memoir, EVdEN EVE nAkliyAT if you're interested.) Suffice to say, HMRC hate high-earning single females, as do builders, family, neighbours, insolvency lawyers.

As a bankrupt, my rental choices were limited. I found a small house nearby, just outside the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, for £1,700 a month.The search was made extra hard given the fact I (then) had four cats and three dogs. Most rental properties, even those in rural areas with ghastly swirly carpets, stipulate: 'Sorry, no pets.'

In 2020, a white paper was drawn up to allow renters to keep dogs and cats, given that they are, after all, family members, and less likely than toddlers to scribble on walls, but it's not yet on the statute books.

The wonderful charity Dogs On The Streets (DOTS), which helps the pets of the homeless, reveals the number of pets given up due to being banned from rentals has rocketed: 'We get 20 to 30 calls a day from tenants unable to keep their pets.'

So I went with this house, but was told: 'Sorry, it comes furnished.' I had a lot of furniture.Conran sofas. A 1920s desk. An Eero Saarinen marble table. I was your typical used-to-live-in-Islington high-end cliché. So I begged and said: 'Well, can't you put your stuff in storage? If you have any sort of concerns regarding where and ways to utilize eVdeN eVe naKLiyAT, you can call us at our internet site. ' I was also mindful of my muddy dogs, scratchy cats, but it was no.

The landlady turned up with little warning and an estate agent in tow - my home was up for sale 

So I put all my furniture in storage and gave my brand-new appliances — a Smeg range cooker, Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer — to a friend.But storage proved so expensive that, one by one, I had to sell everything on eBay.

Imagine my shock when the landlord, a year or so later, said they'd bought a holiday home in Devon and were coming for their furniture. (This is why people buy DFS sofas.)

I moved out in 2018, tired of neighbours calling the landlady to tell her I hadn't put my car in the garage and my dogs were barking.

That same year, I rented a one-bedroom flat in North London at more than £3,000 a month — to save on hotel bills for EvDEn eVe NAKLiYAT work.

Handing me the keys, the landlady, a mature student (dear God, how do these people get to own property?), pointed out that I would 'need to buy expensive saucepans' as the hob was induction, instructed me not 'to let water pour on the floorboards' in the kitchen and not to let the front door slam.

Or wear jeans on the sofa as 'they wear it out'.

When I later complained about the filth of the communal areas, which only I vacuumed, she said: 'Oh, that's a surprise, as apart from you, every flat is owner-occupied.'

She kept emailing me — never, ever rent via OpenRent, where you deal with the landlord direct — saying: 'I've read you have collies.They are not in the flat, are they? No pets allowed.' I kept assuring her they were safely in Yorkshire. She enlisted an upstairs neighbour to spy on me.

I was again evicted, for no reason, in 2019, having spent a fortune moving books, magazines, clothes and my desk 250 miles.(I know the names of the nice men at Watson Removals; I even know the birthdays of a couple of them.)

She said the flat was being sold but, a few weeks later, I saw it up for rent again on Rightmove at an escalated price.

She wanted to withhold some of my deposit as the cheap-looking fairy lights were no longer on the balcony.They broke!

The writer (pictured) says renters close to retirement are 'infinitely worse' off than those in their 20s or 30s

Then there was the place in Clerkenwell.I had to give notice when I lost my job but the two male landlords, who lived in Hong Kong, made me stick to a six-month notice period, when they could have said: 'OK, if we can rent it faster you can leave'.

And they told me to vacuum my radiators as they were making a 'mark' on the walls.(Mad!)

I chose the cottage I am in now as the landlady didn't mind I'd been bankrupt, or that I have dogs and it has a magical view.

When I moved in, it had no heating, laminate flooring and a fuse box that was 26 years old.The washing machine broke and there was no tumble dryer, though the lease bans putting up a washing line. The roof and windows still leak. Exiting the front door on a rainy day is like braving Niagara Falls (I have videos).

I know it was idiotic to spend tens of thousands of pounds of my own money on it, but I work from home and needed heating.The bathroom was mouldy and having a hot bath is my one luxury.

In all, I spent £59,000. I updated the heating with a new boiler and radiators upstairs and replaced the fusebox. I put in flagstones, I had the chimney swept, installed new blinds and shelving and I spent more than £12,000 on a beautiful Neptune kitchen.

I know.People warned me not to do it up, as I have no legal redress. But my home is so important to me: I get depressed in a dump.

And so here I am, terrified of being homeless, again. I went to look at another rental the other week. The woman opened the door and a huge Labrador emerged, when her ad had stipulated 'only one small dog considered for an escalated rent'.

'How many dogs do you have?' she asked me, craning to look at the two (out of now four) who had come along for the ride.Me: 'Um.'

She showed me round and it was lovely. 'It will come unfurnished.' I was glad, but slightly galled that I'd also given away my £4,000 Vispring bed, purchased from Selfridges in sunnier days, as my current cottage is so small it wouldn't fit through the door.

I couldn't work out the layout of the house.'Ah,' she said, unlocking the door to the loveliest room, dual aspect, with views of a river. 'We will be locking our furniture in here. This is our forever home. We'll be back in two years. Which is when you'll have to move out.'

Aaaaargh!!!!!

Kanye West’s Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year

<更新日時> 05月26日(金) 00:35

Kanye West's Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year.

Parents at the exclusive Christian school received an email near midnight on Wednesday explaining that the school would be 'returning with a vengeance,' the following morning, a hard U-turn from a message they received just hours earlier from school administrators.

On Wednesday, Academy Principal Jason Angell sent an email to parents explaining that West, 45, had decided to close the school 'effective immediately,' with classes being cancelled as of Thursday.

But an internal email from 'Parents of Donda' obtained by told a much different story.

'Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy,' the email read.With the help of our parents and community, we are back and returning with a vengeance!'

'The children of Donda are going to change the world,' the message added.' Apologies for the late email! See you bright and early!'

It is unclear whether the school itself is reopening in an official capacity, or whether parents and staff are taking it upon themselves to continue educating their children.  

The bizarre twist comes as  around his anti-semitic behavior, which has included repeated claims of 'Jewish people' in the media conspiring against him, and planned parenthood controlling black populations through genocidal abortions. 

Kanye West's exclusive Christian school announced it would be closing for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year as the rapper continues to face fallout for his repeated anti-semitic comments

Students at West's Donda Academy wear black Balenciaga uniforms designed by West himself.Above, Celtics basketball player Jaylen Brown pays a visit to the school

A school in the Simi Valley, just north of Los Angeles, which is believed to be the Donda Academy

West returned to Instagram on Thursday after being banned earlier this month, announcing he lost $2billion in a single day, in an apparent reference to Adidas dropping his Yeezy shoe line

On Thursday the rapper returned to Instagram after being banned earlier this month, posting that he 'lost 2 billion dollars in one day' in an apparent reference to the flock of brands which have dropped him in the wake of his bigoted behavior.

This week Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoe line - a deal which was worth $1.5billion - with Gap, Footlocker, TJ Maxx, and Balenciaga all following suit and cutting ties with the rapper.

Donda Academy's closure and sudden reopening come just two months after it started up in August.The school did not respond to DailyMail.com requests for comment. 

The exclusive pre-K through 12 school - named after West's mother, Donda - is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student.About half the student body receives financial aid and scholarships, according to The Post.

The school enrolls about 100 students and employees 16 teachers.  Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret and to say nothing about it.

There are reportedly a number of celebrities' children in attendance - including R&B singer Keyshia Cole's son Daniel - and the school is well known for its high-powered basketball team.Rising star Robert Dillingham, 17, plays for the school, and NBA players like Celtics player Jaylen Brown have made appearances at the school. 

Students wear all black Balenciaga uniforms and Yeezy shoes designed by West himself.

Despite running the school, West's children do not attend, and he have clashed with Kim Kardashian on the matter.

West previously complained on social media that Kim wouldn't agree to send their four children for '[two] days at one school, three days at another.' 

As of September the school had not yet been accredited, according to the , which means colleges might not accept diplomas from the school.

The Donda Academy website states that the school's goal is 'to provide the youth with the passion, purpose and spiritual foundations they need to thrive in tomorrow's world.'

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.If you liked this short article and EvDEN EVe NaKLiyAt you would certainly like to get more info relating to evdeN EVe nakliYAt kindly see our internet site. Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program. 

The school enrolls about 100 students and 16 teachers, with a number of students being the children of celebrities

The exclusive pre-K through 12 Donda Academy is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student

Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program

Angell emailed parents on Wednesday announcing the school's closure for the remainder of the school year.

'At the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately, he wrote.

'There is no school tomorrow [Thursday].'

Angell noted that the school's leadership would help parents and students transition into their new school, and added that the Donda would begin 'afresh' in September 2023. 

On Wednesday the school's basketball team was booted from the The Scholastic Play-By-Play Classics tournament, saying West's 'words and actions violate our values as a company and a country, and what we seek to ensure at all of our events - a spirit of diversity, sportsmanship, inclusion, equity and mutual respect.'

Representatives for the tournament expressed their remorse that West's words cost his students the experience of participating in the coveted high school basketball tournament. 

'While we are firm in our reasoning for this decision, it does not diminish our heartache and regret for EvDeN evE nAKLiYAt Donda's hardworking athletes who will lose out the most as a result of Kanye's actions,' the school added. 'Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience host an organization founded and directed by Mr.West at our events.'

TJ Maxx has become the latest company to sever ties with Kanye West in the wake of his vile anti-Semitic outbursts (pictured yesterday at a bagel shop in Los Angeles before arriving at the Skechers HQ) 

He was seen near a parking lot before he was escorted out of Sketchers HQ

TJ Maxx, whose CEO is Ernie Herrman (pictured in 2014) follows Gap and Foot Locker in no longer stocking any Yeezy merchandise in its stores 

Yesterday, the rapper was embarrassingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand a day after being dropped by Adidas and having his songs banned by Peloton.

Ye was taken out by two 'executives' according to a statement released by the company Wednesday afternoon. 

 said in a statement: 'Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West.

'We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.' 

West may have faced additional opposition if he had gotten a preapproved sit-down meeestimates comes from real estate, cash, his music catalog, and a 5 percent stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian's shapewear firm, Skims.

But as corporations around the world break off deals with Ye, music streaming service said it would not remove the rapper's music unless his label requested it.

Recent anti-Semitic remarks made by the rapper are 'just awful comments,' and would have warranted removal from Spotify for violating its policies if they had been on a podcast or recording, Spotify chief Daniel Ek said.

However, music from the artist now known as Ye does not violate anti-hate policies, and any anti-Semitic comments he has made cannot be found on the music streaming platform.

'It's really just his music, and his music doesn't violate our policy,' said Ek, adding, evdEN eVe NAkliYaT 'It's up to his label, if they want to take action or not.'

Universal Music's Def Jam label, which owns the copyright to West's recordings from 2002 through 2016, and continued distributing his releases until last year, issued a statement condemning Ye's remarks, saying: 'There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society'.But the label has not asked for the removal of Ye's recordings, many of which are critically acclaimed works.

Kanye West has seen several high profile and lucrative partnerships with major brands severed amid the backlash from anti-Semitic remarks

Ye has refused to walk back his remarks, blaming Jewish people for his mental health struggles in a recent podcast

A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, in Garden City, New York, U.S., October 25, 2022

Rich kid who 'never had a paid job' gets a taste of the skint life

<更新日時> 05月26日(金) 00:26

An heiress used to a comfortable lifestyle in Chelsera got a taste of the real world by staying with a family-of-five on the breadline for the TV show Rich Kids Go Skint. 

Veronika, 20, admitted on the show, which aired last night on 5Star, that she's never had to worry about earning money, evDEn evE NaKliYaT enjoying an allowance from her family, who also pay her bills and for her rented flat in Chelsea. 

She goes to stay with Brandon and Rachel Slater, who live in a rented three-bedroom house with their three children, Brooke, Declan and Olivia in Leeds, who work multiple jobs to make ends meet. 

Thanks to her time with the family, who have only a couple of hundreds pounds left to enjoy after bills per month, Veronika gained a newfound appreciation of her privileged life, while the family were surprised by how 'lovely' she was. 

Veronika, 20, admitted on Rich Kids Go Skint last night on 5Star, that she's never had to worry about earning money, enjoying an allowance from her family, who also pay her bills and the rent of her flat in Chelsea

The 20-year-old was born in St Petersburg, but was raised in France and moved to the UK when she was eight. 

She was educated at Marlborough College, where the Princess of Wales also studied, and where tuition can reach £40,000 a year. 

The heiress lives alone, in a one bedroom flat in the affluent neighbourhood of Chelsea, with her dog, and EvdeN eve naKliyat likes to indulge in shopping trips to Selfridges  

The rich girl goes to stay with Brandon and Rachel Slater, who live in a rented three-bedroom house with their three children, Olivia, Brooke and Declan in Leeds

Living in London, Verokina admitted she's never had to work at a paid job, but added she's done work experiences for free 

'I do love to take myself on a Selfridges trip when I can,' she said. 

She is also the proud owner of a designer bag collection, however, most of them were not bought by her, and were inherited from her mother, now holding a sentimental value. 

'A girl can never have too many bags,' the heiress joked, adding that getting her hair extension, her hair cut and her nails done costs her up to £600 a month. 

Veronika said she hoped going to stay with the Slaters would teach her how to be more reasonable with her spending.  

'I feel like this experience will teach me that it's a lot easier to save up than I think, and I should be saving a lot more money than I do,' she said. 

She travelled to Leeds to stay with the Slaters, whose financial reality was very different from hers. 

The heiress revealed on the show that she loves to treat herself to regular trips to Selfridges, but added she is aware that she privileged to be able to do so 

Brandon has an 'on an off' bouncy castle for hire business he's kept going for 14 years.

To make ends meet, he's turned to making toys for soft play in his free time, and sometimes picks up shifts as a carrier if the family needs extra cash, which has become a common occurrence for them in the face of the cost of living crisis. 

Brandon admitted on the show that he doesn't know what he is going to make month-to-month, and whether he'll have enough of one job to feed the family, or if he'll need to take on three jobs at the same time to make ends meet. 

Meanwhile, Rachel works in a nursery and owns a floristry business on the side. 

While the family struggled financially, only being left with about £200 at most of disposable income for the month, Brandon and Rachel said they wouldn't have it any other way. 

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'We've got everything.That's worth more to me than what their dad's given to them with their credit card,' he added. 

Brandon owns a bouncy castle for hire business, as well as making soft play toys and working as carrier to make ends meet while Rachel works in a nursery and owns a floristry business on the side

The family spend £830 on rent, and £220 on a storage unit, plus on food for five and the essentials. 

They also have five pets: two dogs, two tortoises and a bearded dragon, which made Veronika feel like she was in a 'petting zoo,' she said when she visited. 

Asked what he expected the rich kid to think of his family, he said: 'I think they will be shocked at how much work goes into what we do every day of life for a little money. 

'I don't know whether they have a job or just spend their mum and EvDEn EVe NaKLiyAT dads inheritance or eVDEN EvE nakliYAt money.

'They're certainly not going to do what I do for 50 quid, and they're not going to do what I do for a 100 quid,' he said, adding: 'they probably spend that on a pizza.'

Veronika didn't pack too many brands in the overnight bag she took to the Slaters, but still took her Chanel bag and a £300 woollen hoodie, Gucci trainers, and a £150 pair of jeans. 

Veronika is more used to a privileged lifestyle than living skint, but she said she hoped the experience would teach her to budget her money better 

'I'm just kind of getting ready to be independent from my family and making my own money, so seeing families that operate on a much tighter budget would be a good experience to prepare me for the real world,' she said. 

Right after meeting, conversation between Veronika and the Slater turned awkward after the heiress admitted: 'I've never had a paid job.But I've done work experience at places.'

She went on to say that the two things she has to spend money on per month is herself and her dog. 

One of the luxuries in the Slater household is a pool table they paid £800, and for which the couple saved for eight months in order to afford.  

The Slater family have not always struggled with money, but lost their savings after running into some life set backs. 

'We're not left with a fortune, couple of hundred pound a month leftover, before Declan decides he needs some new trainers for school, Brook needs new tights, it is a struggle at the moment,' Brandon said. 

Brandon and Rachel also told Veronika they haven't had a glass of wine since their wedding day because they can't afford it.  

After a game of football at the park with Brandon and Declan, the heiress followed Rachel to the local shop, where she was tasked with getting a meal for six for just £10. 

Veronika spent £9.49 on a couple of chicken breasts, one pepper, one onion, tortillas and some seasoning, and set out to make fajitas, relying on the family's cupboard to make the meal. 

While it was too spicy for most of them to enjoy, Brendon and Rachel were thankful for the efforts she put in. 

'I think I could have done better but considering the limited options at the shop, this is probably the best they could do,' she said. 

'Definitely would have bought the proper fajita kit,' and added it would have been even better 'if we have the budget to get guacamole, sour cream.'

The next day, Veronika surprised Brandon with her positive attitude as he took her and Brook and friend Mila to help with the bouncy castle business.  

The experience was an eye-opener for the heiress, who said she couldn't believe that after all the work they put in, Brandon, the girls and herself only made a £65 profit out of setting up the bouncy castle for an event. 

'It really makes me appreciate my life and how privileged I am with what I've got,' she said. 

'I don't have necessarily a passion for bouncy castles, so I will probably try to pursue my own career in something else,' she said. 

She went on to help Rachel with her floral arrangements for her floristry business, before packing up to go back to London. 

'I've had the best time ever, thank you so much for having me, it's been a great experience,' she told Brandon and Rachel, adding she was '100 per cent' glad she came to live with them. 

'It wasn't what I was expecting it to be,' she said. 

'It's been a very interesting experience, and I think the main thing that I got out of it is you can't always judge a book by its cover,' the heiress said. 

'Despite the fact the family have a lovely home, obviously, they do struggle financially to maintain that

'I have also realised a lot of labour goes into things behind the scenes, such as having to load up the truck every morning and not just showing up and setting everything up,' she said, about Brandon's bouncy castle business. 

The father-of-three also admitted to have been surprised by his 'lovely' guest.  

'She was different from what we expected,' admitted they expected Veronika to be 'a brat and a bit spoiled,' but adding she was none of those things. 

He added they could definitely see themselves being friends with Veronika.  

To thank the family for allowing her to stay with them, Veronika also treated them to a go-carting experience.  

At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall

<更新日時> 05月25日(木) 20:45

At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you'll find Russia's most famous shopping mall.

Known as GUM, the ornate neo-classical building sits a stone's throw from St Basil's cathedral and the mausoleum of Lenin, the man who attempted to overthrow capitalism. 

Yet it has, in recent years, been filled with 'landmark' stores owned by luxury brands anxious to soak up the cash being liberally sprayed around by the post-Soviet oligarch class.

When they aren't applauding the tanks that occasionally rumble over nearby cobblestones, cronies of Vladimir flock to this marble-floored emporium, arm-in-arm with their high-maintenance wives, mistresses and girlfriends to spend ill-gotten roubles on handbags, Tiffany jewellery and Hugo Boss suits.

One of the still open Brtish shops is Paul Smith, the Nottingham-based purveyor of stripy scarves and modish menswear that its eponymous multi-millionaire founder and owner likes to describe as 'classic with a twist'

Also open for business is GUM's branch of Agent Provocateur, the upscale English underwear brand popularised by Kate Moss in the 1990s.It is also stocking designs from the new season

At least they did. In late February last year, everything changed. That was when their autocratic President decided to invade Ukraine, EVDen EVe NAKliyat turning Russia into a global pariah overnight.

As Putin's soldiers raped and murdered their way across the country, Western consumer brands began responding to public revulsion by literally shutting up shop. 

Within weeks, the UK, EU and many Western countries had imposed sanctions to prevent fresh supplies of luxury goods from reaching Russia.

Today, the GUM centre's Chanel, Tiffany and Hugo Boss outlets have closed their doors. 

You can no longer shop for shoes by Jimmy Choo or John Lobb, or handbags from the houses of Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Hermes. 

As they boarded up their boutiques and cancelled shipments of fresh stock to Russia, these famous purveyors of luxury goods simultaneously issued earnest PR statements expressing their desire to, as the saying goes, 'stand with Ukraine'.

But today, almost a year after Putin's tanks rolled over the border, shopaholics of the Russian elite aren't entirely out of luck.

For beneath the building's glass-domed roof, the Mail this week made a scandalous discovery: outposts of not one, but two famous British luxury brands are very much still open for business.

One is Paul Smith, EVDEN eVe NAKliYAt the Nottingham-based purveyor of stripy scarves and modish menswear that its eponymous multi-millionaire founder and owner likes to describe as 'classic with a twist'.

While their compatriots fire missiles into Kyiv's schools and apartment blocks, I can reveal Russians are still rattling the tills at the local Paul Smith boutique from 10am to 10pm, seven days a week, happy to fork out 16,900 roubles (£197) for one of the brand's signature colourful ties and much else.

The shelves remain well-stocked with many of the very latest Paul Smith products.

Indeed, on Wednesday an assistant attempted to flog our reporter an 'embossed leather folio' — a sort of briefcase — from the firm's 'new season' range, which only went on sale in the UK a few weeks back. Its price?A trifling 90,000 roubles, or £1,050.

Scandalously, the man whose firm made (and is therefore profiting from) this expensive trinket is not just a Knight of the Realm.

For in addition to being honoured by Tony Blair in the heyday of Cool Britannia — having served on New Labour's Creative Industries Task Force — Sir Paul Smith, 76, was last year invited to Buckingham Palace so that Prince William could elevate him to membership of the Order of Companions of Honour, one of the highest gongs available to anyone in the creative industry.

For example, Barbour, which used to have a franchise outlet at GUM, refused to ship a single item of new stock there from the day of the invasion and has now exited

A fifth historic British brand, the former Crown jeweller Garrard — which like Farlows has a Royal Warrant — was this week advertising no fewer than ten Russian stockists on its UK website, apparently under the terms of a supply deal that pre-dates the invasion of Ukraine

The Moral Ratings Agency, a lobby group which monitors Western firms operating in Russia, describes his firm's presence there as a 'disgrace', telling the Mail Sir Paul ought to get his brand out of Russia or be stripped of his titles.

A few doors down from Paul Smith's red-fronted shop — and also open for business — you'll find GUM's branch of Agent Provocateur, the upscale English underwear brand popularised by Kate Moss in the 1990s. It is also stocking designs from the new season.

One of no fewer than ten Russian Agent Provocateur boutiques that are still open — all of which remain advertised on its British website — we found it selling crystal-embossed leather bondage whips for EvDEn eVe naKLiYat 73,000 roubles (£850), bejewelled pink brassieres for 110,000 roubles (£,1280) and thongs for up to 85,000 roubles (£990) each.

An assistant told us the last shipment of new stock arrived shortly before Christmas and a new one is due in March — just in time for International Women's Day.

Again, it's hard to see how this British luxury goods firm squares its presence in Moscow with the supposed values listed on its website. 

Shamelessly, given Russia's ongoing use of rape as a weapon of war, Agent Provocateur claims to be dedicated to promoting 'fearless femininity' and is 'adhering to the highest standard of ethics'.

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His moral compass was seemingly untroubled by his recent sale — for more than twice what he had paid — of football club Newcastle United to a Saudi Arabia-backed consortium.

Once they have stocked up on clothes and lingerie, every good oligarch needs a bespoke Rolls-Royce to whisk them from central Moscow to their gaudy dacha.

Which takes us to the British luxury car firm's main Russian showroom, on the ground floor of an upscale hotel just across the Moskva river, roughly two miles west of Red Square.

Rolls-Royce insists it no longer sells new cars in Russia, claiming in a holier-than-thou media announcement that: 'We stand for the peaceful co-existence of all cultures all over the world, in all times and at all locations.'

Kanye West’s Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year

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Kanye West's Donda Academy announced it would be reopening its doors on Thursday, just hours after the principal said the school would shutter for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year.

Parents at the exclusive Christian school received an email near midnight on Wednesday explaining that the school would be 'returning with a vengeance,' the following morning, a hard U-turn from a message they received just hours earlier from school administrators.

On Wednesday, Academy Principal Jason Angell sent an email to parents explaining that West, 45, had decided to close the school 'effective immediately,' with classes being cancelled as of Thursday.

But an internal email from 'Parents of Donda' obtained by told a much different story.

'Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy,' the email read.With the help of our parents and community, we are back and returning with a vengeance!'

'The children of Donda are going to change the world,' the message added.' Apologies for the late email! See you bright and early!'

It is unclear whether the school itself is reopening in an official capacity, or whether parents and staff are taking it upon themselves to continue educating their children.  

The bizarre twist comes as  around his anti-semitic behavior, which has included repeated claims of 'Jewish people' in the media conspiring against him, and planned parenthood controlling black populations through genocidal abortions. 

Kanye West's exclusive Christian school announced it would be closing for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year as the rapper continues to face fallout for his repeated anti-semitic comments

Students at West's Donda Academy wear black Balenciaga uniforms designed by West himself.Above, Celtics basketball player Jaylen Brown pays a visit to the school

A school in the Simi Valley, just north of Los Angeles, which is believed to be the Donda Academy

West returned to Instagram on Thursday after being banned earlier this month, announcing he lost $2billion in a single day, in an apparent reference to Adidas dropping his Yeezy shoe line

On Thursday the rapper returned to Instagram after being banned earlier this month, posting that he 'lost 2 billion dollars in one day' in an apparent reference to the flock of brands which have dropped him in the wake of his bigoted behavior.

This week Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoe line - a deal which was worth $1.5billion - with Gap, Footlocker, TJ Maxx, and Balenciaga all following suit and EvDen EVE Nakliyat cutting ties with the rapper.

Donda Academy's closure and sudden reopening come just two months after it started up in August.The school did not respond to DailyMail.com requests for comment. 

The exclusive pre-K through 12 school - named after West's mother, Donda - is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student.About half the student body receives financial aid and scholarships, according to The Post.

The school enrolls about 100 students and employees 16 teachers.  Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret and to say nothing about it.

There are reportedly a number of celebrities' children in attendance - including R&B singer Keyshia Cole's son Daniel - and the school is well known for its high-powered basketball team.Rising star Robert Dillingham, 17, plays for the school, and NBA players like Celtics player Jaylen Brown have made appearances at the school. 

Students wear all black Balenciaga uniforms and Yeezy shoes designed by West himself.

Despite running the school, West's children do not attend, and he have clashed with Kim Kardashian on the matter.

West previously complained on social media that Kim wouldn't agree to send their four children for '[two] days at one school, three days at another.' 

As of September the school had not yet been accredited, according to the , which means colleges might not accept diplomas from the school.

The Donda Academy website states that the school's goal is 'to provide the youth with the passion, purpose and spiritual foundations they need to thrive in tomorrow's world.'

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program. 

The school enrolls about 100 students and 16 teachers, with a number of students being the children of celebrities

The exclusive pre-K through 12 Donda Academy is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student

Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret

The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, evdEN eVE naKLiYaT and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program

Angell emailed parents on Wednesday announcing the school's closure for the remainder of the school year.

'At the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately, he wrote.

'There is no school tomorrow [Thursday].'

Angell noted that the school's leadership would help parents and students transition into their new school, and added that the Donda would begin 'afresh' in September 2023. 

On Wednesday the school's basketball team was booted from the The Scholastic Play-By-Play Classics tournament, saying West's 'words and actions violate our values as a company and a country, and what we seek to ensure at all of our events - a spirit of diversity, sportsmanship, inclusion, equity and mutual respect.'

Representatives for the tournament expressed their remorse that West's words cost his students the experience of participating in the coveted high school basketball tournament. 

'While we are firm in our reasoning for this decision, it does not diminish our heartache and regret for Donda's hardworking athletes who will lose out the most as a result of Kanye's actions,' the school added. 'Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience host an organization founded and directed by Mr.West at our events. If you cherished this article and you would like to obtain more info pertaining to EVDEn evE NakliYat nicely visit the web page. '

TJ Maxx has become the latest company to sever ties with Kanye West in the wake of his vile anti-Semitic outbursts (pictured yesterday at a bagel shop in Los Angeles before arriving at the Skechers HQ) 

He was seen near a parking lot before he was escorted out of Sketchers HQ

TJ Maxx, whose CEO is Ernie Herrman (pictured in 2014) follows Gap and Foot Locker in no longer stocking any Yeezy merchandise in its stores 

Yesterday, the rapper was embarrassingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand a day after being dropped by Adidas and having his songs banned by Peloton.

Ye was taken out by two 'executives' according to a statement released by the company Wednesday afternoon. 

 said in a statement: 'Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West.

'We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.' 

West may have faced additional opposition if he had gotten a preapproved sit-down meeestimates comes from real estate, cash, his music catalog, and a 5 percent stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian's shapewear firm, Skims.

But as corporations around the world break off deals with Ye, music streaming service said it would not remove the rapper's music unless his label requested it.

Recent anti-Semitic remarks made by the rapper are 'just awful comments,' and would have warranted removal from Spotify for violating its policies if they had been on a podcast or recording, Spotify chief Daniel Ek said.

However, music from the artist now known as Ye does not violate anti-hate policies, and any anti-Semitic comments he has made cannot be found on the music streaming platform.

'It's really just his music, and his music doesn't violate our policy,' said Ek, adding, 'It's up to his label, if they want to take action or not.'

Universal Music's Def Jam label, which owns the copyright to West's recordings from 2002 through 2016, and continued distributing his releases until last year, issued a statement condemning Ye's remarks, saying: 'There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society'.But the label has not asked for the removal of Ye's recordings, many of which are critically acclaimed works.

Kanye West has seen several high profile and lucrative partnerships with major brands severed amid the backlash from anti-Semitic remarks

Ye has refused to walk back his remarks, blaming Jewish people for his mental health struggles in a recent podcast

A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, in Garden City, New York, U.S., October 25, 2022

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