Michael K

More than 70,000 retired public sector workers are on pensions above £50,000 a year, and almost 4,000 enjoy more than £100,000 annually – guaranteed, inflation‑linked, backed by the full power of the state. These aren’t one‑off anomalies; they are a structural feature of a system designed to shower the top of the public sector with lifetime security, regardless of economic reality for everyone else. Try telling a delivery driver, a care worker, or a small‑business owner who’s never had a pension that they must subsidise five‑figure and six‑figure state‑sector pensions forever because “the rules say so”. Try telling a generation locked out of home ownership that they must accept higher taxes and worse services so a political and bureaucratic class can retire early on packages the private sector stopped offering years ago. Yes, many ordinary public‑sector workers retire on modest pensions. That truth is routinely weaponised by defenders of the system to obscure the existence of this pension aristocracy at the top – the people whose lavish deals drive the biggest costs, whose interests Labour is most keen to protect, and whose comfort is quietly prioritised over the needs of struggling families staring at rising tax bills and decaying public services.

University of Edinburgh students have staged multiple graduation walkouts over the institution's ties to Israeli-backed companies

🚨BREAKING: Islamic Marriage Ceremonies are to be legally recognised in the UK for the first time ever The overhaul of the marriage law will allow Islamic officiants legally conduct the ceremonies within Mosques The Islamification of the UK continues

The triple lock is a distraction. Public sector pensions are the real issue. They are unaffordable. The State is eating itself.

🚨 LABOUR GERRYMANDERING - LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION 🚨 Today's announcement proves what I've been warning about all along. Labour councils redrawing the electoral map in their own favour. Well-run Conservative councils carved up to prop up debt-ridden Labour councils. This isn't about empowering local communities. It's about reshaping local government for Labour's political advantage. If this is Steve Reed's final Statement as Secretary of State, his legacy won't be genuine devolution. It will be gerrymandering local government.

Yes taxpayers, last night Labour really did decide to give Pakistan £153 MILLION in aid! … because they struggle with getting their own citizens to pay tax! And they did this even though Pakistan has refused to take back a grooming gang boss saying it’s our own fault 🤡