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Transactional is not a synonym of avaricious and shouldn't be used as such.

When considering whether a profession is overpaid ask yourself these two questions. Could I do it? Would I do it?

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The government continues to use as its primary social media platform the one most responsible for introducing children to porn, not to mention fascism and all that

US Christian conservative groups like ADF - who helped overturn Roe v Wade - are now targeting the UK. We’ve been watching their rise for some time. US interference in British law is alarming, and we must resist these attempts to roll back rights. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

It would of course be trivially easy for the press and his political opponents to make this sort of action unthinkable for a mainstream politician, by the simple act of noticing all the violent Neo-Nazis attending these rallies and making Jenrick accountable for that. Alas...

So, I stole £100.17 from you and have been punching you repeatedly in the face in the hope of extracting more money from you. But my arm is getting tired and also you kicking me in the nuts is bugging. How about we sign a truce and in exchange for a further £30 I'll give you these 17 shiny pennies?

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

🚴🍔 In 2016 I worked as a Deliveroo rider & earned the equivalent of £11.20 an hour – 55% more than the then min wage of £7.20 📈 In 2024 I worked as a Deliveroo rider and earned £5.28 an hour – 54% *less* than min wage of £11.44 📉 How insecure work has become more precarious …🧵 1/2

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

People who object to offshore windfarms on aesthetic grounds are mad and shouldn't be allowed to use sharp objects unsupervised.

Any news source that repeats the claim that Trump is really thinking about "very severe consequences for Russia" as if it's credible can't be taken seriously in their reporting on Trump-Russia (despite the many excellent journalists that work for, e.g. the BBC and the Guardian).

Is there a bigger signal that you should short a company's stock than this?

Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ

Looking at a financial chart and thinking that looks like a "V" shaped recovery rather than a "U"shaped one. This means it was eroded by a river not a glacier.

One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial. Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.

All these Trump sees things as a business man/real estate developer takes would stand up to scrutiny better if Trump's record as a business man/real estate developer wasn't so shoddy.

Describing creative work as slop, whether created by AI or not, is unhelpful and won't save your job.

Awful lot of folk only focused on the first part of this, I reckon the second part is just as bad, politicians and commentators of the right trying to incite riots is just as important.

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests Median protest is a few dozen, below 100. "Usually Several hundred at a time" is false. - should say *occasionally* < 1/10 protests have 200 people "Sometimes thousands" I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7

1/ - Trade Policy in 2025 - Step 1. Donald Trump invents threatened new tariff rates on your country based on some combination of the trade balance, vibes, personal grievance, vibes, how much he likes you, vibes, or a Peter Navarro formula so stupid it made Lesotho enemy #1. Also vibes.

Concurrency: a currency with no inherent value designed to steal from the gullible, e.g. Trump coin

I want to normalise deporting Rupert Lowe.

Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means. Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Four right-wing voices – Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Allison Pearson and Matt Goodwin – suggest the only way to prevent rioting is to give those taking to the streets what they want. All four called on the government to ban or crack down on the dramatically less violent Gaza protests or XR.

Using colorway when colour would suffice makes me look for an alternative product.

Israeli tactics: 1. Stop aid entering Gaza 2. Deny famine is taking place 3. When famine becomes undeniable, stall as long as possible 4. When western pressure mounts, do the minimum possible 5. When western attention moves on, return to step 1.

It's Your Party and you'll cry if you want to...

Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.

Not reading this because I'm going to be too disappointed if the man who has been found guilty isn't called Grant Shapps:

The government has signed up every electricity bill-payer in the country to paying at least £120 towards the cost of building this nuclear power station That's not OK Sizewell C will be the fifth and sixth (and final) EPRs built in Europe. The preceding four are 37 years late and £55B over budget

Electricity grids are communist.

Very irresponsible of @theguardian.com to stoke inter-generational distrust in this way:

Two things: How is this news? And how is this news in July 2025?

I truly hate being this person, but HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?

Check out UKAs for a classic vomiting camel candlestick pattern 🐫:

Very interesting. Not officially charities.

Holy shit the government's Restoring Trust in Democracy policy paper is good.

Source: Time Out search.app/WYofK Spoiler: it's not in Britain

Moth, of Salt Path fame, is short for Mothra.

"Though there's nothing glacial about it, Trump is ushering in America’s ICE age. He's catapulted it into America’s best-funded law enforcement agency, increasingly beyond accountability.That makes it Trump’s private army — his security state within the state." My column www.ft.com/content/b6a5...