More revenue vs capital problems, with the ever-joyful grandfathered utility powers degrading quality.

Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right? www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...

Pension savings are largely not taxed while invested. I believe it is unfair to get 45% relief on the way in and pay 0% (tax free cash lump sum) or 20% on the way out. All I’m saying is that higher earners need less incentive to save into their pensions and lower earners need a bit more help.

This is such an obvious solution, that could dovetail with increasing relief for standard rate tax payers - we aren’t saving enough as a nation.

Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

With all the leaves and puddles, I usually try to avoid the Stretford Cycleway at this time of year. But with random closures, it’s worse than ever right now.

Ed Davey is right. Musk’s abuse of social media ownership to destabilise our democracy should now be treated as a serious national security threat, resulting in appropriate countermeasures. I have little faith that Starmer will rise to the challenge, however.

She showed that a single mum from a council estate can become deputy prime minister, while vaping and going clubbing. She's a threat to their narrow-minded buttoned-up classist bullshit.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

Thanks to @artsemergency.bsky.social for a great evening in Manchester, reminding us all the amazing work they do. And concluded by a great performance by Tony Walsh. Proud to be a supporter.

Or this:

How am I meant to sleep with memes like this popping up on my feed??

Set the "techbros reinvented the bus" timer back to zero

Blair’s anti-net zero intervention today suffers from one of his major blindspots - his inability to see (or call out) how political debate has been warped by garbage media coverage

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

Liz Truss: *kills queen* JD Vance: Hold my communion wine

The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social raises an important question about the corruption of the justice system. Why was not one farmer arrested for blocking roads & bringing the whole country to a standstill? Climate protesters are in prison, farmers aren’t, why? What happened to equality under the law?

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The whining of the masters of the universe is one of the oddest features of the current moment These guys - they’re almost all guys - own political, economic and social power entirely. And yet all they do is whine on and on and on. It’s like we’re all paying the price for their unhappy childhoods

Myles Lewis-Skelly, at 18, scores the opening goal of the Tuchel era on his England debut at Wembley

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Trump now moonlighting as a car salesman tells us all we need to know about who is running the White House

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves

We are devastated - a beautiful life ended after just three years. The only reason she won't go home tonight is because we collectively fail to acknowledge the harm that cars bring to our cities. This is on all of us.

I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

So it begins.

All the Telegraph ever needs to do is reach for the next one of the Tufton Street Lazy Susan of Mediocrity.

For self styled masters of the universe, the tech bros really are incredibly craven Exhibit #3624

Image projected onto Tesla's factory in Berlin

Well, this is unsurprisingly horrendous.

This is gold.

He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization. He is who we think he is.

“Odd looking” How cowardly and venal can you get?

"The markets"? Don't get me started on "the markets". thecritic.co.uk/kemi...

I mean it’s sort of amazing that the incoming US President has basically said he’s going to declare war on Denmark, annex Canada and rename bits of the globe to his liking and broadcast news is just rolling with it like he’s delivered a sombre and thoughtful policy announcement. Absolute insanity.

Paying the President protection money is a completely normal feature of functioning democracies

I think if anyone answers “oh that’s classic BBC” rather than answering the question, you know they’ve lost. Really don’t think Clarkson is helping the farmers at all with his involvement

They look for all the world like 4 year olds on their first outing to McDonald's

In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year. Mainly people escaping Balkan wars. Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers. Had you been taken in? I wouldn’t blame you.

Who made this? Ahahaha

1. Trump’s preposterous claim that a “savage Venezuelan prison gang” has “taken over Times Square” is a reminder that people like him actually know nothing about the world, because they never step out of their suites and chauffered cars, offices and private planes.🧵