maybe I’m a liar, maybe I am.
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Just priced up one of the new MacBook Pros - same spec as my current one, just with the OLED Touchscreen
Four thousand eight hundred and twenty eight pounds
Crazy numbers
Just been double checking our council tax band, and it turns out we’re in band D, despite nearly everyone else on the street being band F!
Going to take that as a win!
Welfare now £12,500 per worker
( I know this includes pensions )
NEW The UK's welfare bill now expected to climb to £431.3bn by 2031/32, says the Office for Budget Responsibility.
In March, the OBR had estimated that the UK’s welfare bill would rise to £406.2bn – the equivalent to 11 per cent of GDP – by 2030-31.
Chancellor John Healey says no Government action on welfare until next year after publication of two reviews.
More now on @GBNEWS.
He’s quoted in the article as saying “It doesn’t look good”
…says a man posting for a pic in his pyjamas
China, India, and the US don’t give the slightest toss what we say on the matter
Neither do any of the OPEC countries
Pleased to sign this cross-party letter opposing Rosebank and Jackdaw licences.
The long term costs of new drilling far outweigh any short-term gain.
We cannot credibly urge other countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground while greenlighting new oil and gas projects.
ALT Official House of Commons letterhead and signed parliamentary letter urging Britain not to approve new fossil fuel fields and calling for stronger climate action, concluding with multiple MP signatories and contact details at the foot.
“The Green Party would kill youth employment.”
A shower of pricks.
The Green Party would make the minimum wage £15 an hour - no matter your age.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Left unsupervised for 4 days so far and 25 years of martial conditioning have fallen away and I have devolved to a student.
Should probably pull myself together.
Twelve hours and counting.
( it's a server that hosts some test VMs, which are all running fine, but still... )
Just to whinge pointlessly some more about this, not content with taxing me more… (…4th wall break - wtf is this arm appearing !? …) … they’re also telling me how to spend the bit they haven’t taxed
I suspect this rise is aimed just as much as getting their additional tax take, as any supposed sop to lower earners
Getting thoroughly sick of this constant ratcheting of the minimum wage.
Last month I gave someone a 5% pay rise. In their eyes, most of that will now disappear because the NMW has risen nearly as much, so they'll be back asking for more.
This keeps happening. You can't raise NMW by nearly 50% in 5 years and not expect negative consequences
Her eyes terrify me. Stuff of nightmares
In 2015 Elizabeth Holmes was worth $4.5 billion. She told CBS she didn't own a TV because she worked every waking hour.
When people questioned her blood tests, she had an answer ready.
In the video below, she says that if your invention gets questioned, "that's a sign you've actually done something transformative."
Her company Theranos claimed it could run hundreds of tests from one drop of blood. Walgreens put it in stores. Investors put in over $700 million. Henry Kissinger sat on her board.
The machines never worked. Most tests were secretly run on regular lab equipment. Patients got wrong results about cancer, HIV and pregnancies.
In 2022 she was convicted of fraud. She is serving more than 11 years in federal prison.
The questions she called a sign of success were the truth the whole time.
Was she a liar from the start, or a believer who couldn't admit she failed?
Save the video and follow for more stories about how the rich really made their money.
Getting thoroughly sick of this constant ratcheting of the minimum wage.
Last month I gave someone a 5% pay rise. In their eyes, most of that will now disappear because the NMW has risen nearly as much, so they'll be back asking for more.
This keeps happening. You can't raise NMW by nearly 50% in 5 years and not expect negative consequences
EXCLUSIVE
John Healey will announce plans to increase the minimum wage by nearly 4 per cent but slow the rise for young people after warnings that they are being priced out of jobs
The Times has been told that the national living wage, which applies to those aged 21 and over, is expected to rise from £12.71 to around £13.20 — an increase of 3.9 per cent
However, Healey has decided not to repeat the big rises of the past two budgets in the national minimum wage, which applies to those aged 18 to 21
It will rise broadly in line with the rate for older workers - from £10.85 to around £11.27, an increase of 3.9 per cent
It effectively spells the end of Labour’s manifesto pledge to bring the “discriminatory” minimum wage for young people into line with the living wage for older workers in this parliament
The minimum wage increased by 26 per cent between 2025 and 2026, leading to stark warnings from employers that it risked impeding efforts to get 1 million “Neets” - young people not in education, employment or training - into work.
Healey alluded to the approach in an interview with The Times last week, in which he spoke of the importance of the “trade-off between the level of the minimum wage and the employment rate”
thetimes.com/article/c9142a2…
Thank God that there's no history of corrupt leaders in aid-recipient countries. Bullet dodged!
🚨Wow! Major Trump-Vance policy shift just dropped:
Foreign aid will now go straight to national governments — no more routing billions through NGOs.
This cuts out the middlemen who’ve turned taxpayer dollars into their own bloated business model.
Effect on NGOs: Many will see their funding evaporate overnight. Expect mass layoffs, shrinking budgets, and some outfits shutting down entirely.
The entire aid-industrial complex just took a body blow — no more endless grift.
America First is finally hitting the middlemen where it hurts.
Isca Augusta retweeted
Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital.
Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off.
'One, two, three, four ... who are you?"
"I'm the Prime Minister's husband."
"Six, seven, eight, nine..."
Really don’t understand why at every American sporting event they have to have someone murder the national anthem
It’s remarkable how many of our assets are owned specifically by either me, my wife or one of the kids and not shared.
More wage compression incoming
This constant ramping of the national minimum wage, if you aim to keep 2/3 of median, depends on wage compression. With no wage compression in percentage terms, it’s just an infinite spiral
This week's ASHE release provides us with a snapshot of the UK labour market from earlier this year.
The data shows that the share of workers in low pay failed to fall the first time in 15 years.
It also gives an indication of what might happen to the minimum wage next year.
buff.ly/9lSX3C8
ALT quote graphic Nye Cominetti, Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: “Low hourly pay in the UK has stopped falling for the first time in over a decade. This is the result of the minimum wage moving to a ‘hold steady’ phase after years of being ramped up. It remains the case however that the share of workers on low pay is vastly lower than it was a decade ago. “Today’s data may have implications for next year’s minimum wage. With hourly pay growth surprising on the upside, the minimum wage next year may be significantly higher than the forecast of £13.18 published by the LBC back in April. However, the LPC now have more wiggle room on setting minimum wage rates, so the final number will come down to their judgement.”