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Transactional is not a synonym of avaricious and shouldn't be used as such.
When considering whether a profession is overpaid ask yourself these two questions. Could I do it? Would I do it?
Which jobs do Britons think are overpaid?
Most overpaid (of those polled)
Male footballers: 93%
Company directors: 78%
MPs: 76%
Bankers: 76%
Actors: 57%
Barristers: 51%
Accountants: 47%
Train drivers: 43%
Civil servants: 35%
Journalists: 34%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Most overpaid (of those polled)
Male footballers: 93%
Company directors: 78%
MPs: 76%
Bankers: 76%
Actors: 57%
Barristers: 51%
Accountants: 47%
Train drivers: 43%
Civil servants: 35%
Journalists: 34%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
August 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
When considering whether a profession is overpaid ask yourself these two questions. Could I do it? Would I do it?
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
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Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024 | CNN Politics
US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered a Russian medal to the grieving family of an American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024, a senior administration official told CNN.
www.cnn.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
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Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
August 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
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This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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The government continues to use as its primary social media platform the one most responsible for introducing children to porn, not to mention fascism and all that
X is now the most common place for children in the UK to be exposed to pornography. 27 percent of children surveyed said they'd seen porn before the age of 11. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The government continues to use as its primary social media platform the one most responsible for introducing children to porn, not to mention fascism and all that
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US Christian conservative groups like ADF - who helped overturn Roe v Wade - are now targeting the UK.
We’ve been watching their rise for some time. US interference in British law is alarming, and we must resist these attempts to roll back rights.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
We’ve been watching their rise for some time. US interference in British law is alarming, and we must resist these attempts to roll back rights.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
US Christian conservative groups escalate support for UK ...
Network of well-funded bodies backs cases in UK after JD Vance’s challenge on buffer zones outside abortion clinics
observer.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
US Christian conservative groups like ADF - who helped overturn Roe v Wade - are now targeting the UK.
We’ve been watching their rise for some time. US interference in British law is alarming, and we must resist these attempts to roll back rights.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
We’ve been watching their rise for some time. US interference in British law is alarming, and we must resist these attempts to roll back rights.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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It would of course be trivially easy for the press and his political opponents to make this sort of action unthinkable for a mainstream politician, by the simple act of noticing all the violent Neo-Nazis attending these rallies and making Jenrick accountable for that. Alas...
Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
August 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It would of course be trivially easy for the press and his political opponents to make this sort of action unthinkable for a mainstream politician, by the simple act of noticing all the violent Neo-Nazis attending these rallies and making Jenrick accountable for that. Alas...
So, I stole £100.17 from you and have been punching you repeatedly in the face in the hope of extracting more money from you. But my arm is getting tired and also you kicking me in the nuts is bugging.
How about we sign a truce and in exchange for a further £30 I'll give you these 17 shiny pennies?
How about we sign a truce and in exchange for a further £30 I'll give you these 17 shiny pennies?
August 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
So, I stole £100.17 from you and have been punching you repeatedly in the face in the hope of extracting more money from you. But my arm is getting tired and also you kicking me in the nuts is bugging.
How about we sign a truce and in exchange for a further £30 I'll give you these 17 shiny pennies?
How about we sign a truce and in exchange for a further £30 I'll give you these 17 shiny pennies?
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Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
August 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
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🚴🍔 In 2016 I worked as a Deliveroo rider & earned the equivalent of £11.20 an hour – 55% more than the then min wage of £7.20 📈
In 2024 I worked as a Deliveroo rider and earned £5.28 an hour – 54% *less* than min wage of £11.44 📉
How insecure work has become more precarious …🧵 1/2
In 2024 I worked as a Deliveroo rider and earned £5.28 an hour – 54% *less* than min wage of £11.44 📉
How insecure work has become more precarious …🧵 1/2
August 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🚴🍔 In 2016 I worked as a Deliveroo rider & earned the equivalent of £11.20 an hour – 55% more than the then min wage of £7.20 📈
In 2024 I worked as a Deliveroo rider and earned £5.28 an hour – 54% *less* than min wage of £11.44 📉
How insecure work has become more precarious …🧵 1/2
In 2024 I worked as a Deliveroo rider and earned £5.28 an hour – 54% *less* than min wage of £11.44 📉
How insecure work has become more precarious …🧵 1/2
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Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
People who object to offshore windfarms on aesthetic grounds are mad and shouldn't be allowed to use sharp objects unsupervised.
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
People who object to offshore windfarms on aesthetic grounds are mad and shouldn't be allowed to use sharp objects unsupervised.
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Any news source that repeats the claim that Trump is really thinking about "very severe consequences for Russia" as if it's credible can't be taken seriously in their reporting on Trump-Russia (despite the many excellent journalists that work for, e.g. the BBC and the Guardian).
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Any news source that repeats the claim that Trump is really thinking about "very severe consequences for Russia" as if it's credible can't be taken seriously in their reporting on Trump-Russia (despite the many excellent journalists that work for, e.g. the BBC and the Guardian).
Is there a bigger signal that you should short a company's stock than this?
August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Is there a bigger signal that you should short a company's stock than this?
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Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up'
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Investors are frogs in a Trumpian pot
[FREE TO READ] People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer
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August 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up'
me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ
me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ
Looking at a financial chart and thinking that looks like a "V" shaped recovery rather than a "U"shaped one. This means it was eroded by a river not a glacier.
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Looking at a financial chart and thinking that looks like a "V" shaped recovery rather than a "U"shaped one. This means it was eroded by a river not a glacier.
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One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
August 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
All these Trump sees things as a business man/real estate developer takes would stand up to scrutiny better if Trump's record as a business man/real estate developer wasn't so shoddy.
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
All these Trump sees things as a business man/real estate developer takes would stand up to scrutiny better if Trump's record as a business man/real estate developer wasn't so shoddy.
Describing creative work as slop, whether created by AI or not, is unhelpful and won't save your job.
August 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Describing creative work as slop, whether created by AI or not, is unhelpful and won't save your job.
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Awful lot of folk only focused on the first part of this, I reckon the second part is just as bad, politicians and commentators of the right trying to incite riots is just as important.
Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.
August 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Awful lot of folk only focused on the first part of this, I reckon the second part is just as bad, politicians and commentators of the right trying to incite riots is just as important.
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An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...