Will Crawford

@zirkwood_ 5 times the player Rice is

Said it before but I can really believe how good he is 🤣 spawned out of nowhere at Newcastle with little hype, then an innocuous move to Forest for a relatively low fee. But he’s just unbelievable. Genuinely reckon this is the best midfielder in England

Someone earning £33,000 in 2010, if their salary had gone up by inflation, would now be a higher rate tax payer, despite being £11,000 below the threshold at the time. The minimum wage in 2010 was £5.80, if increased by inflation it would be £9.09. It will be £12.71 from April. These two factors combined with student loan thresholds and infinity low skilled migrants are the "productivity puzzle" in the UK. We have regulated ourselves into not rewarding working harder.

This week, the Starmer administration voted to get rid of jury trials, a right enjoyed by British citizens for over 800 years. But my investigations reveal THREE pro-Israeli lawyers pushing for the change. Here are their names:🧵

@itstommyttv Chinese Herman Miller. Can’t go wrong. amzn.eu/d/0b1WC4LY

What computer chair do you guys use? I know the Herman miller’s are probably bis but almost impossible to grab one unless you’re spending 1.4K 🪑

200 – Games taken to reach 200 goal involvements for Man Utd in the Premier League era: 295 – Wayne Rooney (133G, 67A) 314 – Bruno Fernandes (104G, 96A) 339 – Cristiano Ronaldo (144G, 56A) 393 – David Beckham (85G, 115A) 424 – Ryan Giggs (90G, 111A) 564 – Paul Scholes (138G, 62A) Icon.

Spurs are there for the taking here, hope we put them to the sword next week

"We'd batter them." 😂 Wayne Rooney on how his 2008 Man Utd side would get on 🆚 current Arsenal 👀

Cannot breathe 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@zirkwood_ Been awful, no width in the team at all.

Having no natural wingers on the pitch not helping

This is seismic. When the Telegraph - the house paper of Brexit - publishes a 2,000-word obituary admitting: 📉 Brexit has cut UK GDP by up to 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% 📉 No trade benefits 📉 No regulatory freedom 📉 No immigration control 📉 No growth …it’s over. This isn’t Remainers talking. This is the Telegraph saying Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure. The numbers are now so bad, so undeniable, that even the architects of the project can’t keep pretending. Brexit wasn’t a reset. It wasn’t sovereignty. It wasn’t taking back control. It was a slow economic strangulation: a textbook case of national self-harm, dragging investment, wages, growth and confidence down with it. We can’t build a future on a foundation of lies. Time to repair the damage. Time to rejoin the single market. Time to put the country first.

🔴 Working families will be £18,000 worse off than jobless parents claiming benefits following Rachel Reeves’s abolition of the two-child cap in the Budget, an analysis has found Read the full report here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

I’m on a Plan 2 student loan and the repayment threshold has been frozen into oblivion, just like income tax. Every year, without a vote or a headline, more of my income is quietly taken through fiscal drag and student loan repayments. At the same time, the government finds endless money to raise pensions above inflation and to uprate benefits, but nothing for the people actually working and paying for all of this. It is a joke. I am sick of being treated as a walking cash machine for an ever-growing population of the economically inactive.

Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must. Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a Taskforce to set out a path to getting affordable, fast nuclear power Britain. Our final report today sets out 47 recommendations, among them: - Creating a one-stop shop for nuclear approvals, to end the regulatory merry-go-round that delays projects at the moment. - Simplifying environmental rules to avoid extreme outcomes like Hinkley Point C spending £700m on systems to protect one salmon every ten years, while enhancing nuclear's impact on nature. - Limiting the ability of spurious legal challenges to delay nuclear projects, which adds huge cost and delay throughout the supply chain. - Approving fleets of reactors, so that Britain’s nuclear industry can benefit from certainty and economies of scale. - Directing regulators to factor in cost to their behaviour, and changing their culture to allow building cheaply, quickly and safely. - Changing the culture of the nuclear industry to end gold-plating and focus on efficient, safe delivery. If the government adopts our report in full, it will send a signal to investors that it is serious about pro-growth reform and taking on vested interests for the public good. A thriving British nuclear industry producing abundant, affordable energy would be good for jobs, good for manufacturing, good for the climate, and good for the cost of living. And it could enable Britain to become an AI and technology superpower. Britain can be a world leader in this new Industrial Revolution, but only if it has the energy to power it. Our report is bold, but balanced. Our recommendations, taken together and properly implemented, will forge a clear path for stronger economic growth through improved productivity and innovation. This is a prize worth fighting for. gov.uk/government/pub…

Spinning back kick was exceptional

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SOUND ON 🎧 This radio commentary from Alasdair Lamont!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BBCFootball

„In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people, and is likely to emit nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as ExxonMobil, the world’s largest non-state carbon emitter.” Via Alan Kirk (h/t PCA Permaculture Climate Action) truthdig.com/articles/the-e…

New research from Stanford, the Bank of England, and King’s College London finds Brexit has hit the UK hard: ⤵️GDP: Down 6–8% since the referendum 👉roughly £2,000 per person per year lost. ⤵️Investment: Down 12–18%, a drag that compounds over time. ⤵️Employment & Productivity: Each down 3–4%.

The real losers are the mid career cohort of professionals and skilled workers in their late 20s to late 40s. They are the group that actually saves, depends on salary sacrifice efficiency, and has enough years left for this policy to inflict permanent damage on their pension adequacy and lifetime wealth trajectory.

It cuts the after tax reward to disciplined saving and shrinks employer pass through top ups, so both take home pay and future pension pots deteriorate. It weakens pension adequacy because small annual cuts compound into meaningfully smaller retirement wealth. You’re getting penalised for being financially responsible and caring about your future. And for what? Extra funding to waste on stupid shit today.