*checks OUP word of the year for 2025*

It’s crackers. There is no impact from the doc coming out early that hadn’t already been dwarfed by weeks of constant drip-feeding of contradictory policies to the press!

I have no issue with the state pension, that wasn’t the point

Between this and decreasing the tax incentive on cash ISA investing - logical on its own I guess - it’s just pushing people to chase higher and significantly riskier returns. I’m sure trading platforms are rubbing their hands

Simple explainer of the law, and the statistics that are available* with @alicedonald.bsky.social

Extreme libertarianism in action!

This is just a rebrand of 'Someone was mean to me on Twitter so I drew a swastika on my face and started goose-stepping down the Mall' though isn't it? Yes, there are smug twits on social media, but most of us don't actually *matter*

The amount of 'Of course, if we look back 8 years then *everyone* was a massive danger, that's just how it was!' this morning - eek

Sigh, link didn’t post from Firefox OS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paying penance

It cannot be overstated - there is no impartiality you can achieve when one side’s views include ‘Actually, I’m fine with a few kids getting shot to death on a regular basis because gun rights’, or ‘Black women are stealing white men’s spots in politics’

Have you got a bet on Amol Rajan taking this on?

Once again; amazing how the incorruptible, sweet-scented elected PM just needs to be given the chance to do the right thing, while his bastard unelected svengali associates get it wrong time and again. Imagine!

‘Artists-turned-activists’ is just perfect Chomskian word soup, all the appearance of something that makes sense but just… nothing there

The quoted post is just flabbergasting when Trump is in office tbh

Bergé doesn’t sound like a super great character, but the way this story is reported here is so nakedly partisan that it could give the UK papers a run for their money!