RoyM
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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The more I think about the two child limit the crosser I get, and the more pleased that they ditched it. No one decides their family size this way.* Making ordinary people think that this is how other people act is incredibly divisive.
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The more I think about the two child limit the crosser I get, and the more pleased that they ditched it. No one decides their family size this way.* Making ordinary people think that this is how other people act is incredibly divisive.
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
*Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?
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A big part of this, I think, and Labour's general failing is caring about the first 15% of people who were going Reform, not the second 15%.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
It is genuinely mortifying how the only people I see pointing Reform's links to Russia out are /not/ Labour.
Stop Ukraine joining NATO?
"If that is what Moscow insists on being part of any settlement.”
- Richard Tice, Reform August 2025
"If that is what Moscow insists on being part of any settlement.”
- Richard Tice, Reform August 2025
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A big part of this, I think, and Labour's general failing is caring about the first 15% of people who were going Reform, not the second 15%.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
Should have boxed them into being a crank party.
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god tier cameo casting
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
god tier cameo casting
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This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.
Excellent and courageous investigative journalism.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.
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I remain very sceptical about the long-awaited AI productivity boom.
AI makes it much quicker and easier to produce a lot of corporate crap.
AI makes it much quicker and easier to produce a lot of corporate crap.
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I remain very sceptical about the long-awaited AI productivity boom.
AI makes it much quicker and easier to produce a lot of corporate crap.
AI makes it much quicker and easier to produce a lot of corporate crap.
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
Clear as day now. Not a single UK government department, local authority or institution should be still on X by the end of the week
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Clear as day now. Not a single UK government department, local authority or institution should be still on X by the end of the week
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We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
Repair Café
Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
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The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.
Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.
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Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
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Let’s stop buying from Amazon
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Let’s stop buying from Amazon
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This isn't just stupid because Polanski is criticising nuclear. He's criticising a nuclear project that is *overwhelmingly commercially funded*!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Green Party leader criticises Hartlepool new nuclear site plans
Zack Polanski says it is old technology and money would be better spent on wind and solar power.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This isn't just stupid because Polanski is criticising nuclear. He's criticising a nuclear project that is *overwhelmingly commercially funded*!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today is the 610th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Don't forget.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Today is the 610th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Don't forget.
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
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Then share. Thank you.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
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A reminder there could always be a hidden Saxon church inside your house
✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England. #thread
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A reminder there could always be a hidden Saxon church inside your house
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To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
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However it is dressed up, a project to remove thousands of people who came to this country according to rules set by our government should be repudiated for what it is; faintly disguised racism; a poor attempt to apply a genteel face to it, but it is racism and ingratitude all the same.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
However it is dressed up, a project to remove thousands of people who came to this country according to rules set by our government should be repudiated for what it is; faintly disguised racism; a poor attempt to apply a genteel face to it, but it is racism and ingratitude all the same.
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The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago
David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.
Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.
Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.
This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.
Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.
(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )
Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.
(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )
October 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago
Who are these people?
I suppose I’m too old and cynical to expect ‘one nation Tories’ to stand up and be counted yet?
"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."
October 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Who are these people?
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Famous words of many Nobel Peace Prize winners.
🚨 TRUMP: IF THIS LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT IS NOT REACHED, ALL HELL, LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE, WILL BREAK OUT AGAINST HAMAS.
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Famous words of many Nobel Peace Prize winners.
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91 years.
All of them Good.
All of them Good.
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
91 years.
All of them Good.
All of them Good.
What a pathetic bunch of spineless nobwits.
"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
royalsociety.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What a pathetic bunch of spineless nobwits.
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september 30 // october 1
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
september 30 // october 1
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Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)