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Employs 42,000 people ✅
Pays £837m in tax ✅
Restored and saved 100 listed historic buildings ✅
Provides affordable food and drink ✅
Creates sense of local community for people ✅
Tim Martin is a fucking hero and snobs can get fucked
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Fresh horror every single day
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🚨 NEW: Ed Miliband is reportedly blocking AI investment into Britain over concerns it harms net zero
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Hierarchies are collapsing and people who’ve invested deeply in them are not happy:
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“That’s a decline of 27.5% percent over the comparable period last year”
Recruiter James Reed shares exclusive data from Reed.co.uk showing a decline in graduate job listings over the past year. The decline in graduate jobs represents almost twice the 15.2% fall in all job postings.
#Newsnight
I’m from a very working class home and I despise her. Demeans the dignity of her office.
Snobbery triggered by that Angela Rayner vape picture showed some still have a big problem with people from working class homes.
She's the first guest on @DailyMirror new YouTube channel Sense Check with Nicola Thorp.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/a…
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After the financial crisis, public spending in Greece was cut by 25%, the civil service was slashed from one million to slightly over 600,000, and pensions were cut 11 times. But now it is growing again, its debt is falling, and its borrowing costs are below Britain and France.
That’s because Bond isn’t a Spy. He’s an assassin.
James Bond is not a very British spy, the new author for the 007 series has said.
Charlie Higson, whose new Bond novel has been published, said his protagonist was too “glamorous” to be traditionally British.
He compared Bond with George Smiley, the agent in John le Carré’s novels such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Spy who Came in from the Cold, saying that Le Carré’s are more “tea” than “cocktails”.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
#Newsnight
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When I set my business up 10 years ago today Employers NI was 13.8%, Corporation Tax was 20% falling to 19% in Apr 2017. The tax free dividend allowance was £5,000, the top rate of tax on dividends was 38.1%. You could sell your business and make the first £10 million of gains at a rate of 10%.
By every single metric setting up a business in this country has become less attractive. Before you get to the mechanism actually trying to do anything as bold as opening a bank account working a 5 day week etc...
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From @Telegraph: "There are more seven-year-olds on disability benefits than 50-year-olds". With that kind of stat on the go, I don't think it is possible to deny that there is a problem with welfare in the UK.
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Anyone under 30 today can have no real conception of what it was like to live in Britain in the late 1990s, & what Britain's place in the world was.
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The Britain I was born into was a stunning success story.
Gleaming new infrastructure, net energy exporter, efficient and growing private sector, public sector cut down to size, on the road to a sparkling budget surplus.
We really had turned things around from the horror show of the 1970s. It was a remarkable success story. A second coming.
New Labour coasted on that for a decade. And ran down the investment.
The last new motorways, nuclear power stations, runways, reservoirs - they’re all from the Long 90s.
And all we’ve done since then is squander that inheritance, instead of build on it.
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Everything Martin Lewis campaigns for is in service of the least scrupulous in society. Now it’s weaker council tax enforcement… the second-order effect of which will naturally be increased non-payment, leaving those who do pay their bills to shoulder an ever-greater burden.
When I met Angela Rayner to campaign for change to overly aggressive council tax debt collection, with its unprecedented rapid escalation to balliffs, she nodded like most politicians do.
I explained it was destructive for individuals, councils and the economy. She listened more then said she'd change it. I was sceptical. Yet a consultation was launched within weeks and delightfully the change announced within 18mths (its in place from next April) - bullet train pace for politics.
I've a rule that if I campaign for a politician (of any party) to do something, and they do it, I say thank you. Its important to recognise it. So thank you so much Angela Rayner for listening and more importantly acting. The changes coming are a great start.
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Normally I am stickler for men wearing ties in a formal setting, but if he is going to keep rolling out this "binman at a flat roof murder pub wedding reception" monstrosity he can wear his fucking Johnny Marr t-shirt.
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Breaking news: the UK has been conducting the largest UBI experiment for two decades.
Results are in. Many People did not respond by finding meaningful work but did lease a new car.
UK spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than infrastructure since 2006, as Burnham urged to get a grip on welfare bill lbc.co.uk/article/uk-benefit…
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The Boriswave added another £15,000 to housing costs xitter.cf/ben_a_hopkinson/status…
What's the cause of the housing crisis: high migration or low housebuilding?
The UK has the second fewest homes per 1,000 of any Western European country and is now 6.9 million homes short of the average.
Despite building 1.1 million homes between 2020 and 2025, England's homes per 1,000 people actually decreased, which indicates a housing shortage that is getting worse due to record migration.
Had net migration stayed in the tens of thousands since 2020, house prices would be roughly £15,270 lower in England. And if net migration had been kept to 100,000 a year since 1997, about a third of that 6.9 million home shortage would disappear.
But high migration is only one side of the story. Our chronic failure to build enough homes explains the rest.
Since 1982, England has built on average only 178,000 homes a year. If England had just matched France's building rates since the 1980s, half of the housing shortage would have been eliminated. France has consistently built homes faster than its population grows, while England has stagnated since the mid-2000s.
Combining building an achievable number of homes with sustainable migration levels would have effectively closed most of the housing shortage.
You can read the full briefing here: cps.org.uk/research/the-uks-…
