The House of Commons Library confirms British food prices increased 38.6% in just five years, between November 2020 and November 2025.
The ONS real regular pay series shows average inflation adjusted weekly earnings rising from £460 in 2016 to £493 in 2025
An increase of just 7.2% across the same period.
And you wonder while you feel Skint 🤷🏼♂️
The IMF reported in September 2025 that global debt exceeded 235% of world GDP, including public debt approaching 93% of GDP
Have a little sit down with a cup of coffee and a biscuit and just put that into perspective for a while…..
An asset doesn't have to become objectively safer to attract capital. It only has to become relatively more attractive than the alternatives investors are abandoning
During a systemic financial collapse, liquidity could migrate into the cryptocurrency market as an entire asset class
When confidence in banks, sovereign debt, equities and fiat currencies deteriorates sufficiently, investors may stop viewing crypto primarily as a speculative risk asset and begin viewing it as the alternative financial system
Is this the plan 🤔
What happens when the financial system itself becomes the risk, rather than the assets traded within it?
Perhaps inversion of traditional safe haven behaviour is shown during a systemic financial collapse.
Holding cash might feel more dangerous than holding assets traditionally labelled risky.
That could create demand for gold, crypto, real estate, commodities and other assets perceived to exist outside the weakening currency system.
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This is just not true. As soon as I became foreign secretary I asked the security services the same question and they replied that there was no evidence of any successful interference in the 2016 referendum, by Russia or any other power.
Either the security services have changed their view - which would be very odd - or Burnham is lying about what he has been told. After all Starmer was in power for two years and had access to exactly the same information.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
Can anyone tell me what happens when all of the AI company stock goes pop?
Is that the stop point for AI and does it stop operating because they have no more funding?
So I am sat in a restaurant at a hotel airport
And some French c**nt has just pulled his laptop out and plonked in the table - which is bad enough at the dinner table
But he’s just put his headphones in and now talking out loud on the phone - in Fck’n French
The annoying PRIK
What should I do:
1. Ignore
2. Call him out
3. Punch his light out
4. Ask the waiter to move me
