Hugo spritz boom shakes Aperol’s fizz

Financial Times Sunday 02 August 2026, 17:42 UTC 1 min read

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US sales of Campari’s orange spirit outstripped by Bacardi’s St-Germain elderflower liqueur

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The dead can’t take wealth with them, as my mam is fond of saying, so a levy on estates would be a fair way to fund Andy Burnham’s free social care revolution. I tell my own brood they’d be extremely lucky to be charged inheritance tax because it would mean the three were sharing upwards of £500,000 and 95% leave less or absolutely nothing. Slap on a 10% social care surcharge, a rate Burnham toyed with 16 years ago, and my lot would still be banking wads of moolah they never earned.

Daily Mirror 23m ago

GOP Sen. Moreno says ex-son-in-law Max Miller shouldn't serve in House, needs 'serious psychological help'

Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio said his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, should not serve in the House of Representatives and "needs serious psychological help" after the senator's daughter accused the congressman of domestic abuse. "If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives," Moreno, who was elected to the Senate in 2024, said in a statement posted to X on Sunday.

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Hugo spritz boom shakes Aperol’s fizz

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