Ben 🇺🇦

The state pension is a benefit. You pay NI for the entitlement to access it, but the cash you get back does not come from your own contributions. Be thankful that it does not: the typical 60-year-old has paid in £134k in NI, but will get back £222k in SP payments. 4/5

Guess it was always going to happen… Yanis Varoufakis dancing at a conference in Moscow to the viral techno track about himself, made by Russian DJ Sasha Melior.

Yanis Varoufakis is at a conference in Moscow dancing to a sonf in which the only words are “Yanis Varoufakis.” This is the man who has been lecturing Western leader for years, accusing them of having an immoral foreign policy.

The grim result of current UK building regs - such as British Standard 8213-1:2004, which requires that all windows be cleanable from inside by women aged 64–75 without the use of ladders or cleaning devices and without stretching.

The grim result of current UK building regs - such as British Standard 8213-1:2004, which requires that all windows be cleanable from inside by women aged 64–75 without the use of ladders or cleaning devices and without stretching.

💥What we’ve all feared is happening: Hungarian Russia expert András Rácz wrote three days ago about a potential Russia-backed false flag attack in Serbia targeting the gas pipeline to Hungary. The same information had already reached multiple journalists, including myself, weeks earlier, from sources connected to Hungarian government circles. Now Viktor Orbán has announced that Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić informed him about “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. Orbán and his propaganda machine are already amplifying the news everywhere, with the prime minister convening his security cabinet. It remains unclear what measures the government might take using this alleged false flag operation as a pretext. But if the second part of the information we received also proves true, Orbán could declare a state of emergency, significantly affecting the election campaign—which he is currently losing—and potentially disrupting the organization of the April 12 election. The opposition Tisza Party has been widening its lead to 15–20 points, if not more. Orbán accuses them of being "Ukrainian agents" for months. His propaganda would very soon link the Serbian false-flag both to Ukraine and the Tisza Party, I have no doubts about that. I encourage all foreign reporters covering the Hungarian election to pay close attention and not fall for the government’s propaganda or the narratives pushed by its pundits on the Orbán government payroll, including here on X. The situation could soon be very serious.

The Triple Lock Theory of Everything is probably the worst of the Theory of Everythings. Discourse around it is bordering insane at this point. It's not why Britain is at all in the doldrums.

wages in the UK honestly don’t add up. how are people expected to afford rent thats over £1,000 a month, then still cover gas, electricity, and groceries? by the time everything is paid there’s basically nothing left

In Kharkiv, the Holy Pokrovsky Men's Monastery in the city centre is burning after a russian strike. It is over 300 years old.

The UK has a achieved a level of cooked that's so far beyond any other western country.