Max Hill

It now costs 6% more daily to travel on TfL than it did in 2025 and 35% more since 2021 Another fact: TfL is the most expensive transport system in the world.

He basically ran from Manchester to Wigan in under an hour. That’s nearly faster than the train @northernassist pattern up fam.

Faking a head injury to kill 3mins, fake concussion sub, scores an own goal

If Man City sign Guehi in January as being reported. Pep Guardiola will have signed an entire starting 11 worth over £500m since last January alone. 🤯

piracy. it's a crime.

To take home the same amount as a three-child family with combined benefits, a worker would now require a salary of around £71,000 before tax or £90,000 to match a family with 5 kids -centre social justice

A worker on £35k a year will be £1,400 poorer because of the freeze in income tax Yet a family with 5 kids on UC will be £10,000 better off. This is the most unfair budget in my lifetime

Tax rises for me Benefits for thee

When Labour announced VAT on private school fees, they promised it would raise £1.7 billion for state schools. With 25,000 pupils already forced out, eight times more than predicted, the policy is on track to cost taxpayers money rather than raise it. A thread🧵

“Labour plans to become the only country in Europe to tax education. It was one of their core manifesto pledges & one of their most vindictive. The result of their attack on the independent sector is not more teachers in state schools, but fewer. 400 fewer.” @LauraTrottMP

Yet more reasons why UK taxes are going to rise substantially in the November budget. Government borrowing now £11.4bn more than forecast so far this financial year — £83.8bn borrowed since April after the state borrowed another £18bn in August (of which £8.4bn went to service debt interest) The highest August figure for five years and £5.5bn higher than the official forecast. So far this financial year borrowing is £11.4bn above the £72.4bn projected by the Office for Budget Responsibility in March.

My thoughts on Labour’s promise to build 1.5m net additional homes, when it was elected last summer, by August 2029. It implied an average of 300,000 a year over five years.  When Housing Minister Angela Rayner fell on her sword last week some Labour ministers praised her for getting off to a great start in meeting that target. But the stats don’t bear that out. Between July 2024, when Labour took office, and June 2025 Labour added 187,000 new homes in England — only 62% of the required annual run rate and well below the 221,000 the Tories managed in 2023/24.  This leaves Labour now having to add at least 325,000 new dwellings in the remaining four years — a tall order for the new housing minister Steve Reed.  Of course completions reflect some of Labour’s Tory inheritance. But the latest figures for starts don’t look encouraging. The Home Builders Federation says residential units approved in Q2 2025 were 23% down on Q2 last year. Social housing units were 31% lower and the 1,559 housing projects approved was 45% down on the year. That 1.5m target increasingly looks like mission impossible. Which isn’t just bad for housing but bad for the government’s growth strategy, which was meant to be spearheaded by a housebuilding boom.

We have a Labour deputy prime minister who seriously thought it was a good idea as a Manchester MP working in London to designate a seaside flat in Brighton as her "principal residence" to save £40k in tax. You couldn't make that up. One that she'd be so greedy and two so stupid.

It is one of the great scandals of our time. Drax, which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North America, is more expensive than gas, more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil. Yet it is, incredibly, designated as ‘sustainable biomass’, pocketed £870m in subsidies last year and will likely trouser another 2 billion subsidies over the next four years – all to allow Ed ‘The Zealot’ Miliband to include Drax in his net zero calculations. Not just a scandal but an expensive scandal for the taxpayer.

If I saw her in a bar I'd get drunk and not talk to her at record speed

Rachel Reeves hikes stamp duty. So people stop buying houses. So she gets less in stamp duty tax than she did before hiking the rates. Rachel Reeves hikes NI and minimum wage for employers. So employers go bust. So she loses all their tax and pays benefits to the now unemployed staff. Rachel Reeves got rid of the winter fuel payments but it cost more to then administer all the claims for pension credit that then ensued. Rachel from Accounts should have stayed in Accounts. The economy and politics aren't really her thing.

The government: “Give us your photo ID and credit card details if you want to access adult websites. They will kept confidential.” Also the government: “We accidentally sent the names of 20,000 enemies of the Taliban to the Taliban.”

I am loath to criticise my former BBC colleagues and I’m aware they weren’t in on the story. But the idea of a TV presenter losing his job being the top story on the website as opposed to Parliament being kept in the dark for two years about the Afghan data leak is risible.