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Elon Musk: "Who does Bill Gates think he is to make comments about the welfare of children, given that he frequented Jeffrey Epstein? I wouldn't want that guy to babysit my kid."

Today’s headlines show energy bills could increase by more than £200 a year to almost £1,900 with OFGEM’s new price cap 📈 But while families struggle with bills, our research shows energy giants announced record profits making a total £30billion in 2024 and pay billions to shareholders. It’s clear who the privatised system is really working for, and it's not us.

🚨⭐️ Official: Man United talent JJ Gabriel has been named Jimmy Murphy Player of the Year. Youngest to win the award, at 15 years old.

If a Housing Secretary can underpay £40,000 of stamp duty and not get fined by HMRC, then how could HMRC ever fine anyone else? Especially as the underpayment was brought to light by the media, not anyone else.

I hope this cunt gets sacked, what a fucking jobsworth.

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide. I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud. Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

Bruce Lee called Chuck Norris for an epic fight scene in The Way of the Dragon, Norris had one concern. “You know, in your movies, nobody really touches you.” Bruce replied: “Then this one will be different. A real fight. Back and forth.” Norris liked the idea, but asked the obvious question: “So… who wins?” Bruce answered without hesitation: “I do. I’m the star.” Chuck laughed. “You want to beat the world champion?” Bruce said: “No. I don’t want to beat the world champion.” A pause. “I want to kill the world champion.”

The salary you actually need to feel comfortable in the UK in 2026 has more than doubled in the last 15 years. In 2010, £35,000 was a solid graduate salary. You could rent decently, eat out, take a holiday, save a bit. In 2026, the equivalent number — same lifestyle, same level of comfort — is closer to £75,000. That's the difference between 'affording your life' and 'getting by.' £35K used to put you on the comfortable side of that line. £75K is now the entry point. Most people earning £45-£60K in 2026 are quietly running paycheck to paycheck, feeling vaguely confused about why a salary that sounds substantial doesn't actually go very far.

Ireland will not broadcast the #Eurovision this week - and instead of the final, RTÉ will air a repeat of the Father Ted Eurovision episode A Song for Europe rte.ie/entertainment/…

🇮🇱Netanyahu at 7:00 PM — “EU, back us against Iran or you’ll lose who you are.” 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez at 8:00 PM –– 🔥 “Support Israel? Not happening. I’m getting the EU together to pitch a full Israel boycott and cut all ties.” “This Tuesday. We might make a big move based on how Israel’s acting.” 🫡 What a leader, He is the SPINE of Spain🇪🇸 🔥

“Consumers don't produce inflation. Producers don't produce inflation. Inflation is produced only by too much government spending and too much government creation of money, and nothing else.” — Milton Friedman

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021. That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it. In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel. If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700. Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030. The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels. The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.

The Prime Minister says his government has got "the big political decisions right". Let's go through them. The government chose to cut welfare so it could spend even more on weapons and war. The government chose to demonise the sick and disabled. The government chose to keep children in poverty until it was dragged kicking and screaming to finally scrap the two-child benefit cap. The government chose not to bring water into public ownership, not to tax wealth and not to implement rent controls. The government chose to arm Israel and participate in genocide. The government chose to let the US use British air bases for its war crimes in Iran. The government chose to let Palantir get its hands on our NHS. The government chose to scapegoat migrants and refugees for its own failures. Poverty, inequality and genocide. Those are the government's big decisions. And that is how this government will be remembered.

ONE WOMAN TRIED TO STOP BRITAIN'S BIGGEST CORPORATE COLLAPSE Emma Mercer was new to her finance job at Carillion, one of Britain's biggest construction companies. Six weeks in, she found something that should have stopped everything. The numbers in the company accounts were made up. Debts were hidden. Profits were invented. Projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds were lying on paper. She told her boss. He ignored her. She told the CEO. Same. She went to HR because she had nobody left to tell. A board member later put it in writing. Emma was a whistleblower who did not feel she was listened to. She was right about every single thing. So what did the board do? They cancelled the independent investigation and gave the job to KPMG @KPMG instead. The same company that had been checking Carillion's accounts every year for 19 years and calling them healthy. The same company being paid £29 million by Carillion to do it. MP Frank Field @frankfieldteam said it out loud in Parliament. KPMG were asked to mark their own homework. They gave themselves top marks. Eight months after Emma raised the alarm, Carillion collapsed. January 2018. The biggest company bankruptcy in British history. Here is what that meant for real people. 3,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. 28,500 people saw their pensions cut. There was a £2.6 billion hole in the pension fund that ordinary workers had paid into for years. Taxpayers spent £150 million just keeping hospitals, schools and prisons running while the mess was cleaned up. Meanwhile, the former Finance Director Richard Adam sold every share he owned on the exact day the 2016 annual report was published. He walked away with £750,000 in his pocket. The shares were worth nothing a few months later. The regulator @FRCnews took five years to do anything. When it finally did, KPMG was fined £21 million, the biggest fine ever handed to an auditor in Britain. It also came out that KPMG staff had faked meeting notes and changed spreadsheets to fool the regulator when it came to inspect. The lead auditor was banned from the profession for 10 years. The fine was still less than what KPMG was paid by Carillion. One woman walked into a new job and told the truth in her first six weeks. She was ignored and pushed aside. The executives who ignored her kept their bonuses. The auditors who backed them up kept their fees. The workers who had nothing to do with any of it lost their jobs and their pensions. Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP said it at the time. The board claimed they never saw it coming. Emma Mercer saw it in a month and a half. This is how British corporate accountability works. Sources: BBC News @BBCNews The Guardian @guardian Financial Times @FT Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews Accountancy Age @AccountancyAge

@celestialbe1ng David Attenborough perpetuated the climate change scam on the BBC platform. Whilst David Bellamy exposed the climate change fraud with verifiable science on the BBC and was subsequently sacked / de-platformed for doing so. RIP David Bellamy. Died on 11 December 2019. Age of 86.

apology when? @TheAthleticFC

That yellow card is a joke. How many fouls in the 1st half went unpunished for Liverpool. Poor referee

@UnitedStandMUFC 2-0 up against Liverpool. Not interested in possession. They are toothless upfront, it's called tactics!

Rooney didn't just pass the ball... he calculated an equation only Van Persie could solve😭🔥

HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF. In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths. That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower. What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all. Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing. Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession. No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency. During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release. The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy. He hasn't. Sources: The Guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | Protect @WhistleUK | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice