Neil Thackray

@maitlis “Witch” ha ha ha

@realDonaldTrump/posts/116278159912794855" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru… I AM PLEASE TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE COUNTRY OF IRAN, HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WITCH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A FIVE DAY PERIOD, SUBJECT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ONGOING MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

@duncanwc @stephenRB4 It’s a wonderful book. You’ll love it.

@stephenRB4 Yesterday of course !

When did you last buy a book? 📚

@bphillipsonMP @HilaryBurrage I’ve had lunch. Hurrah. I’m no longer poor.

Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. The Tories and Reform UK voted against. Only Labour will give children growing up in our country the best start in life.

@bphillipsonMP @HilaryBurrage I’m all for this. But is just lunch. It’s not a panacea for solving poverty. That’s bonkers.

@adamboultonTABB 41. Time to die. Or maybe visit Tahiti.

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@BenFletch @ShaanVP I did it while balancing a glass of wine on my head and playing Yankee Doodle dandee on the harmonica and I’m 65.

I did that last year - was brutal. Don’t forget you need to wear a 20lb vest too. Also clean movements - arms fully straight at the bottom of the pull up, chest touching the floor in the push up, and thighs parallel to the ground in the air squat. I only got to 67 minutes. But I am 54…

Update: this is going to be hard My fitness challenge for the year is to do a "Murph" (1mi run, 100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, 1mi run) in under an hour Did a baseline test today (0.3x Murph)..tough stuff! getting to 100 pullups (w/ no band) will be the hardest part

@Eyeswideopen69 He seems to be saying that if we don’t make more money we won’t have more money. Which is not the greatest economic insight ever.

From the guy who boasted about transferring government funding from vulnerable communities to rich, leafy Tory areas… What a prick.

@tomfgoodwin I see you.

I have this weird thing where I feel like I’m in the middle on almost every issue ever and can see both sides and more often than not they both seem wrong and a bit nuts

@RaymondSnoddy I was convinced the letter wassatire.The juvenile sentence length,the tantrum tone,how ridiculous it makes Trump look etc.But it appears to be real.“The King is mad. How stiff is my vile sense that I stand up and have ingenious feeling. Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract”

Just when you think Trump couldn't sink any lower - but there again he is probably now completely away with the fairies

@marcportermagee @LukeJohnsonRCP The failure of the economy destroyed our healthcare

Healthcare ate our economy

@SophyRidgeSky @RidgeandFrost If they are collecting mileage at MOT what happens when your car is less than 3 years old and doesn’t require a MOT?

We've had so many emails into our @RidgeandFrost inbox about electric vehicles - people finding it confusing and also mixed messaging from a Gvt previously encouraging people to switch to electric Wasn't expecting to see this volume! Any other thoughts - mornings@sky.uk

@Peston Making long term fiscal policy on the basis of a short term forecast which changes frequently and often, is madness.

Here are the fiscal facts as the Chancellor and Treasury currently understand them, with 11 days remaining before the budget. The hole she has to fill, to meet her fiscal rules, is now nearer £20bn than the £30bn to £35bn she had expected only a week ago. What's happened? What went right? Well, the deficit that stems from the Office for Budget Responsibility's downgrade of the outlook for productivity and growth is still a mighty £21bn or £22bn. No improvement there. But, as I mentioned in my last post, there is new data that shows tax revenues coming in more strongly - partly as a result of Rachel Reeves's big tax increases in the last budget, and because they are expected to continue to flow in more strongly, thanks to wages that are rising faster. What this upgrade in the forecast tax take means is that the overall net hole that the Chancellor needs to fill has dropped from £30bn-to-£35bn to nearer £20bn. That is a very significant forecast improvement, although £20bn is still a proper hole, and £20bn is still a big chunk of new tax to find.  And on top of the £20bn-ish, she also needs to find circa £6bn to increase her fiscal headroom from the current £9bn to around £15bn. That has become a bedrock of her plans, to reassure the nation's creditors, and reduce bond yields, or the implicit interest rate paid by the Treasury. Also, she wants to be able to offer some "goodies" to her MPs and Labour supporters, most notably she has to find more than £3bn to abolish the two-child limit on universal credit.. The point is that the net effect of all this is - she feels - she is no longer under the same pressure to break Labour's manifesto by putting up income tax rates. So she has changed her mind and won't raise the basic rate of income tax, after all. The Chancellor believes she can raise the sums she requires by  1) freezing income tax thresholds for two more years 2) abolishing the salary sacrifice scheme for pension contributions, which will have the effect of raising more tax and national insurance from employees and more national insurance from employers (it is a backdoor, less visible tax rise - that would probably discourage pension saving). 3) a new tax on electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles that would see their owners pay a levy based on mileage. There are bound to be other tax increases as well. But these three measures would go a long way to fill the £20bn hole. And by the way, I am told that the FT's suggestion is wrong that she will reduce the nominal thresholds at which income tax rates kick in (although the FT was right about her u-turn on raising income tax rates). Here is the nutshell: her planned tax increases will have less predictable income streams and will be more complicated than a simple increase in the basic rate of income tax. And they will still upset large numbers of voters and may be viewed slightly warily by the nation's creditors. But they are certainly way less politically explosive than announcing the first increase in the basic rate of income tax for 50 years.

@jonsopel Censures! The King believes the victims not Andrew.

As if this wasn’t jaw-dropper enough, the final par looks like a firm rebuke to the prince - sorry, Andrew Windsor - for not having said a word about that in his perfunctory statement of a couple of weeks ago.

@Peston @HilaryBurrage If it’s a “censure” then the King must believe there is something to be censured for.

This is a jaw dropping statement from the King A STATEMENT FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.

@Eyeswideopen69 It’s 90 days in any 180 for Uk visiting EU but 180 days in 360 for EU to Uk. So after 90 days you have to leave the EU and not return for ninety days. Visitors to UK can stay for a consecutive 180 days before they have to leave. So the deal is not the same.

So — ”Big Dave”. Let’s do the maths together: The UK allows 180 days in 360. So does the EU. What the fuck are you whingeing about?

@MartinSLewis Maths Red, Physics Yellow, Geography Brown, English Green, French Blue.

Imagine you're at school. You've a series of binders and are going to do a different colour for each subject. What colour binder would you put Maths in?

@mikebutcher Good luck Mike. Chapeau!

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@journalism_news More cutting of journalism to increase quality and find growth. A strategy that is as mad as it sounds and has failed for the last ten years but hey .... it keeps the HR dept busy.

More than 320 jobs to go with 135 posts created in ‘biggest-ever’ Reach shake-up dlvr.it/TMxbPv

@JeremyClarkson Hey Siri, compose the worst possible take on the Rayner affair.

We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.

@InGillingham @twlldun If only their logo had been better.

@NeilThackray @twlldun That's why He turned over the tables of the money changers.

Every so often I peer at American right discourse and it’s just like what are you people fucking talking about