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@MartinSLewis Maybe it’s 30g of Wotsits and 6g of optional orange dust at the bottom of the bag…depends on how messy you’re prepared to get your fingers

Wots going on. This type of labelling seems designed to confuse. Apparently a serving size is 5/6th of a bag. Who eats 5/6ths. Just state the facts about the bag. Pointless, misleading, nonsense.

@MartinSLewis This is now far beyond the frozen repayment threshold Martin. I’m glad the whole student loan issue is in the media. It’s not about not paying for uni (I have 2 uni age kids) it’s the crippling interest. Still can’t believe @RachelReevesMP said out loud it was paying for the NHS!

On a Plan 2 Student loan? Why freezing the repayment threshold from 2027 to 2030 is, in my view, a breach of natural justice. A brief audio explainer

@OliDugmore I find it *almost* funny that @UKLabour and @RachelReevesMP are doubling down on uni tuition fees being fair (or rather, the interest/repayment structure) at a time when there’s a real alternative for the ‘youth vote’ with the @thegreenparty. And votes for 16y/o coming

Oxford, free Cambridge, free Cambridge, £3,000 LSE, £9,000 Cardiff, £27,000

@DrSteveTaylor @RachelReevesMP @UKLabour I have two uni age kids. I don’t have a problem with them paying for it, it’s the rampant monetisation of the loan. It’s so short sighted. A generation that will already struggle to own homes won’t pay into private pensions and face almost 50% tax if they get a good job

It’s not the loan that’s the issue - it’s the interest on the loan which means students effectively will pay double for their university This is a scandal @RachelReevesMP and you know it Wes knew it and many @UKLabour MPs know it

@AndyBurnhamGM That’s utter nonsense Andy. You absolutely have not thought about the best interests of the city region you represent. If this decision opens the door to Reform for either the seat or mayoral race, you’ll be done, which will be a shame. Do the job you were voted in to do instead

I have today written to the Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee seeking permission to enter the selection process for a candidate for the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. Read my letter here.👇🏻

Please @AndyBurnhamGM, not now. Keep going with the valuable work you are doing to improve lives and livelihoods around Manchester. And if it opens the mayoral race to Reform, some people may never forgive you. Your time will come

@LabourfutureUK Can you start by doing something for young working people? Crippling student loans, cost of housing/rent. It’s so shortsighted. We’ll have a generation with no savings and little in the way of pensions. The monetization of student debt needs sorting asap.

2026 is the year that Labour must turn things around. We need real growth in the economy. Real improvements to public services and the public need to feel better off with falling energy costs. 2026 is the year that will make or break our fortunes. labourfuture.co.uk/2026-the-year-…

@LePapillonBlu2 I suspect he’s working towards there being grounds for no presidential election in ‘28

Trying to provoke both a world war and a civil war at the same time while demanding a Nobel Peace prize is a level of insanity we’ve never seen ever before.

@NobelPrize So will you be rescinding the award and taking it back from Trump?? Please do

Statement from the Nobel Foundation One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed. For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-re…

@mariana057 And trolleys, for those who took a basket but then arrived at the wine aisle

Grocery stores should have baskets in the middle of the store for those "I really overestimated how much I can carry" moments.

@Apple There are families that rely on keeping older phones to hand down to kids (the value of older phones still being high) so WHY would you introduce and update (ISO 26) that won’t run on even an iPhone 12 without everything being slow and popular apps struggling #iso26

@m11ker @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski I hope my kids are as fiscally responsible. They are both currently at uni so are in the wave of students paying higher interest, on (now) ever-increasing fees, not written off for 40 years. That said, I’m happy with their choice to go to uni

@fi_lynch @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski I can safely say that I’ve had no issue with the repayments of my student loan and paying into a pension.

🤯 The government have announced that university tuition fees in England will increase every year in line with inflation from 2026. 🧑🎓 Education should be a right, not a privilege. 💚 That's why the Green Party would scrap tuition fees altogether.

@dowden_amy misses a year due to cancer and had to step away in ‘24 due to injury and now you give her Tom Skinner as a partner. Hasn’t the girl been through enough?? @bbcstrictly

@BethRigby @PaulTwinn @IzzyLosseff Seriously @BethRigby used to love you, despite never knowingly pronouncing a “g”, but this is just embarrassin’

WATCH: New policies, politicians, & members: you can see the momentum at the Reform conference. The next challenge for Farage is to scale up if he wants to be ready to govern & develop policies that stand up to proper scrutiny Our report @PaulTwinn @IzzyLosseff 🎥 Caleb & Jake

@GovPritzker All part of his plan to stay in power, which he can manipulate, if the US is ‘at war’. Just wouldn’t have thought it would be against itself

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

@atotalposer They’d better not be coming for Wordle next!?

THE NEW YORK TIMES PAYWALLED THE MINI CROSSWORD

@DrClownPhD Looks like Patrick, his son

@MANCHESTERMUS10 @antonyszmierek doing The Smith’s ‘How soon is now’. A good fit for vocals and guitar

MANCUNIAN COVERS • SO TELL US If your favourite Manchester musicians could record a song originally recorded by other Manchester musicians, what song would you choose? ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ʀᴇꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜ ꜱᴏ ꜱʜᴀʀᴇ ᴀꜱ ᴍᴜᴄʜ ᴀꜱ ᴘᴏꜱꜱɪʙʟᴇ. ᴡᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ʟᴏᴀᴅꜱ ᴏꜰ ɪᴅᴇᴀꜱ. #manchester #manchestermusic

@elonmusk And all we’re asking Elon, on behalf of a world that needs a bit of good news atm, is that first order of the day is “what really happened in the swing states?” Let’s just put that one to bed. Be on the right side truth

All I’m asking is that we don’t bankrupt America 🤷‍♂️