In 2015 the UK started charging people 5p for plastic carrier bags. Minimum wage in 2015 was £6.70 which means you could buy 134 carrier bags with an hour's wage.
Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and carrier bags are now around 40p meaning an hours wage would buy you 31 carrier bags.
That's 103 less carrier bags and a 700% increase on the original price.
But only a 89% increase in wages.
We're getting robbed in this country.
¡UFFFFF, QUÉ POSTAL! 🇨🇻🥹❤️
Justo después de conseguir el segundo punto en la historia de Cabo Verde en una Copa del Mundo, Vozinha no corrió hacia sus compañeros.
Miró directamente a la tribuna.
Y ahí estaba ella.
Su madre, Ana Cândida Évora, celebrando con una enorme bandera de Cabo Verde mientras su hijo le devolvía la sonrisa con los brazos en alto.
Lo más emocionante es que hace apenas unos días esta imagen parecía imposible.
Ana tuvo que ver el debut mundialista de su hijo desde Cabo Verde porque no pudo costear la visa para viajar a Estados Unidos. Su historia se hizo viral, conmovió a miles de personas y finalmente recibió un permiso especial para poder acompañarlo.
Y el destino les tenía guardado este momento.
Un abrazo a la distancia. Una sonrisa compartida. Un empate histórico. Y una celebración que ninguno de los dos olvidará jamás.
Porque a los 40 años, Vozinha acaba de vivir uno de los días más felices de su vida.
Pase lo que pase en este Mundial, hay algo que ya nadie les podrá quitar:
Vozinha y Ana Cândida Évora ya ganaron para siempre. 🇨🇻❤️
IMPOSIBLE NO EMOCIONARSE.
Tenemos que detenernos a DIMENSIONAR lo de Cabo Verde, por favor. Nunca antes habían disputado una Copa del Mundo. La población de su país es de poco más de 500,000 habitantes. Y sí, en su primera justa mundialista empataron ante la España de Lamine Yamal e igualaron ante la Uruguay de Fede Valverde. Consiguieron sus primeros puntos y sus primeros goles mundialistas ante países que ya han sido campeones del mundo. Y llegarán a la última jornada con SERIAS OPCIONES de clasificar a la siguiente ronda. Los Tiburones Azules se han ganado el respeto de todo el planeta fútbol. La revelación de la Copa. LA SELECCIÓN DEL PUEBLO.
🎙️David Beckham defends Jeremy Doku against critics saying ‘he’ll never get that moment back’
🗣️“I’ve seen some people saying Jeremy Doku is letting his country down by leaving for the birth of his child, and I think that’s completely unfair.
Football is incredibly important, but there are moments in life that are bigger than the game. Becoming a father for the first time is one of them.
People talk a lot about family values in football until a player actually chooses his family, then suddenly it becomes a debate. Jeremy has given everything for Belgium whenever he’s pulled on that shirt. Missing a match or two to be present for the birth of his child doesn’t make him any less committed to his country.
When your career is over, medals and trophies stay in a cabinet. The memories of being there when your child enters the world stay with you forever.
Anyone criticising him should put themselves in his shoes for a moment. I think he’s making a decision that any good father would be proud of.”
I think it’s pretty clear by now that the two people responsible for watching the disabled man who threw a toddler into a crocodile pit were so far beyond negligent that they need to invent a new word for them. If it turns out that this man had a history of violence, both carers need to face criminal prosecution and significant prison time.
@DavidWootton69 A lovely film and once again we are reminded of a generation who had no idea what was coming, hopes & dreams would be wiped away by a pointless war and an epidemic beyond cruel.
There are also hundreds of thousands of men who would love to be Dad's but can't. Having a child might also never happen again in your life.
The Dad is not useless at the birth. What an abhorrent quote and attitude towards life this woman has. Go and meet your child, Jérémy ♥️
Saturday morning, 1970. Mrs Jenkins walks the high street with a wicker basket, shopping for the week ahead. In it:
- Beef topside from Mr Pearson, for the Sunday roast
- Streaky bacon, sliced thick on the slicer
- Lamb's liver for Tuesday tea
- Pork sausages, made on the premises that morning
- A whole chicken, giblets in a paper bag inside
- Suet for the steak and kidney pudding
- Butter in greaseproof, a wedge of Lancashire off the wheel
- Two dozen eggs from the farm down the lane
- A pound of dripping in a stoneware pot, for the chips
- loaf baked that morning, four ingredients
About six pounds, and it fed a husband and three children for the week, with enough left for Monday. Nobody was overweight. Nobody had high cholesterol. Nobody was on tablets.
Her granddaughter, 2026, does the Saturday shop from the sofa on the Tesco app:
- Six chicken breasts, water-injected
- "Low-fat" turkey mince
- Yoghurts with fourteen ingredients a pot
- A "buttery" spread of palm and rapeseed oil
- Pre-grated cheddar with anti-caking agent
- Two ready meals branded "Healthy Living"
- A "soft white medium" loaf, eleven ingredients
- Squeezable mayonnaise and a chlorine-washed bag of salad
It feeds two people for three days before she reorders on Wednesday. She is in her early forties and on statins. Her husband is on metformin.
The grandmother traded a butcher for a megafarm, a cheese counter for an anti-caking agent, a dairyman for a logistics chain, and a wicker basket for an app. She was sold a trolley of water, palm oil and additives, fed her family less of it and worse, and paid the balance in statins and metformin.
The supermarket called this progress. Mrs Jenkins would have called it being had.