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@JFreshHockey Ship him to the wild in a package for Quinn

Selling high on Nemec before his value crashes could be a big early win for Mehta...

@Artemisfornow Famously food prices have only risen under Labour

Bloody hell … Rachel from accounts / client services has increased the cost of food with Net Zero, carbon taxes, packaging levies, higher NI and wage mandates… then blames supermarkets for putting prices up. Now she wants 1970s-style price caps. Remember supermarkets make less than 3% profit on food, the profit they make is also paid to pension funds that the BLOODY government told us to invest in!!! Seriously I can’t cope. This sort of maths would fail GCSE level, yet Labour MPs think it’s brilliant. That tells you everything you need to know.

@FriedgeHNIC They should cover up the sexual abuse of a player and get off scot free

Vegas/NHL met at 10 am today As it stands, penalties remain as assessed: $100K fine to John Tortorella Second-round pick. There is possibility if Vegas is compliant with rules, there could be some addressing of this in the future…but it doesn’t sound like there’s room for draft penalty to be revoked…

@afneil Imagine thinking Thatcher was good for housing

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

@AATJerseyBlog Pick, Meier, Nemec and next year's 1st for Mcdavid

No, the Devils do not need to trade their first-round pick to do well next season. Might be good to mention that the Devils basically have no serious skater prospects left after Hameenaho and Silayev. Don't rule anything out, but Mehta should be thinking long-term success.

@brexitblog_info Funny how data>>>perception for this when he has the opposite view for trans people

“Don’t try that one on me” Watch as Trevor Philips skilfully cross-examines Zack Polanski. To Polanski the hate marches are “peace marches” & he has no room for anyone else’s view of them. As always with extremists, their own views Trump anyone else’s.

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS So we like Britain again now?

.@POTUS: "Honoring the British King might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence — but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea."

@Mcr_Storm @AOArena @officialEIHL Do Storm fans meetup anywhere? Social groups etc? Can't wait to see them back home

𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗜𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗘 ⛈️ 🔗 manchesterstorm.com/official_state… #homecoming @AOArena | @officialEIHL

@piersmorgan He's converted to Griftianity

I knew my Russell Brand interview would be an interesting experience when he insisted on saying a prayer for both of us before we started.

@AllForProgress_ If you're educated move to an area where wages are higher for your job. The minimum wage earner has a higher standard of living nowadays and that's somehow a bad thing? People have always moved for money

In Doncaster, the minimum wage is now 82% of the median local salary. In Sunderland, it's 80%. In Wigan, roughly the same. A person in Doncaster who has been in the same job for fifteen years, who did the training, got the qualifications, turned up every morning and did it properly - that person now earns barely more than someone who first walked through the door on Monday. The gap between the floor and the middle has been quietly compressed until there is, for practical purposes, no middle left. There is the minimum wage and there is something fractionally above it, and that's it. If you're a hard-working Brit ready to make something of yourself in the 20s, that is the offer. If you're in, say, Reading, the minimum wage is 53% of the local median. There's a bit of a ladder there. The rungs are spaced apart; you can see the next one from where you're standing. In Doncaster the ladder has been sawn off at the second rung and what remains is a stepstool. The North East pays its workers £200 a week less than London. One in five local areas across the North East, North West, and Yorkshire sits in the most deprived decile nationally. That figure - and this is the bit that should grieve anyone who has ever used the phrase "levelling up" without laughing - has not moved since 2019. Five years. Five years of levelling up, which was a slogan the Conservative Party invented because it tested well in focus groups; and five years of its Labour successor, which dropped the slogan but kept the strategy of doing sod-all and hoping the media would keep to its decades-old pact of not giving a toss about the North and not investigate the numbers. That's fine, as it turns out, because the numbers are exactly where they were. Raising the minimum wage every April and calling it economic policy is the equivalent of painting over damp. The wall looks fine for six months and then the stain comes back and the hazard is even worse, because the problem is structural, and you haven't touched the structure. You move the floor up because you've given up entirely on building anything above it; and the people who pay the price are precisely the ones who did the right thing - who trained and grafted and stayed in their town instead of leaving for London - and are now watching the distance between their fifteen years of experience and a first-day wage compress to a couple of quid an hour. There is a word for what happened to these towns, and the word is deindustrialisation, and it was a policy choice, a deliberate strategy. The mines closed. The factories followed. The skilled trades dried up. What replaced them was logistics, care work, and retail - sectors that pay at or near the legal minimum because the market for that labour was flooded, deliberately, by two decades of unchecked low-skilled migration that meant employers never had to raise wages because there was always somebody else who'd do it for less. I want to build Prosperity Zones all across the North and Midlands - special economic zones with lower taxes and lighter regulation, designed to anchor real industries with real skill requirements, not to attract another distribution warehouse or a spurious spot of gig work. Technical colleges running a dual apprenticeship system on the German model, training people in Doncaster and Sunderland and Wigan, Rhyl and Greenock and Mexborough and Grimsby, for the work that exists where they live. And a permanent reduction in low-skilled migration, so that the labour market is tight enough to force wages up on its own, without the government having to legislate another 20p increase every April so that they have something to call progress. We all know that 'progress' just isn't enough. Only Progress wil do. I think the North has been promised enough. I think it's time it got its own back.

@JFreshHockey They could rebrand by relocating

Jackets gotta totally rebrand. Start over. Cannon's not good enough. It's a neat illustration but not a strong logo. Team's been basically irrelevant for 25 years and the boring uniforms don't help.

@JibbaJabb All leasehold too

" That"ll be 500k for a shed mate "

@LegionHoops Not as much as he misses San Antonio

Sometimes I wonder if Kawhi regrets leaving Toronto.

@JacksonDoud I used this with my ice cream man when I was a kid to impress my mate, absolutely devastating stuff. Never bought a Calippo since

Dude behind me at lunch ordered “The usual.” Got hit back with a “and that would be?” Has to be absolutely devastating. Can’t even imagine.

@moving_charlie Service charge hikes makes these units a poor investment for someone getting on the ladder

This Is Money reports the death of One Bedroom Flats as the first rung of the now-toppled housing ladder. A housing staple, this is like the foundations of the housing market crumbling away.

@JFreshHockey I love these, fans of both teams are saying no way!!

Dylan Larkin (5x$8.7M) to the Devils Nico Hischier (sign and trade, 8x$11.5M) to the Red Wings Somebody adds, both teams shake up their leadership groups and core after repeated disappointments. Wings get 2.5 years younger, Devils save ~$3M in cap.

@MissLauraMarcus It was in motion before Starmer became PM, very easy to research that

What I don’t understand is why giving away The Chagos Islands was so very important to Keir Starmer. Maybe I’m naive or something. But I don’t get it. It eludes me.

@WhiteHouse What's it like being fucking retarded?

"The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards..." - President Donald J. Trump

@JamesFl Now check ownership rates, all of these buildings force city centre dwellers into high rental traps that raise the rental value of lesser flats in cities in the process. This is why home ownership will be a massive issue if it's not already

The bollocks about luxury flats sitting empty is one particular piece of boomerslop that's had real buy-in with millennials. Just an absolute nonsense that gets repeated around until everyone believes it's true. And a great gauge of Polanski's level of understanding.

@EylonALevy Art Of The Deal

If President Trump lets the Iranians charge a toll for ships in the Strait of Hormuz, then every time you fill up your car at the pump, you will put money straight in the pockets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This would be a humiliating disaster for the US.