Every cloud has a silver living, and yesterday’s was this lad’s knock. An unbeaten 162 from just 59 balls, including 18 6’s & 10 4’s. A personal best. Stunning.
Batted, Sam! 👊
The Financial Times asks Keir Starmer how £101m per year for 99 years payment to Mauritius for leasing back a Chagos military base adds up to just £3.4bn rather than £10bn.
Starmer’s reply is a typical masterclass in slippery obfuscation.
Supporting jk_rowling and Supreme Court judgement,which states blindingly obvious-exactly what she had been saying. Ricky Gervais simply ridiculed the ridiculous. Trans individuals absolutely must have rights but these should not trounce those of women
Labour’s core priority mission to grow the economy. A ‘progress’ report:
The UK economy grew by 0.9% in Q1 2024 and 0.5% in Q2 — the last two quarters of Tory rule.
The UK economy did not grow at all in Q3 and by 0.1% in Q4 — the first two quarters of Labour rule.
The economy grew by 1.1% in 2024, pretty much all of it before Labour came to power.
Real GDP per person (which was popular on this platform when the Tories were in power but, strangely, not so much now) did not grow at all in 2024.
The economy declined by 0.1% in January 2025.
Well that was just a waste of time! Thank you @RachelReevesMP for effectively destroying small businesses everywhere! Just got 55k to find now for wages, ni and rates….
Last year, Jeffrey Sachs delivered a most important history lesson at the European Union.
This is why Ukraine is at war.
Ask yourself, who actually is the aggressor in this conflict?
If you're going to steal #Russian money #Starmer (for which you will pay a high price I'm sure) couldn't you have given it to our shivering pensioners instead?
Drax — the energy company that cuts down trees in North America, ships the wood as pellets for its power station in the UK and calls that Green!! — banked more than £800 million of subsidies from UK energy billpayers last year, helping to propel the power company that is Britain’s biggest emitter of C02 to record profits of almost £1.1 billion.
A massive scam in plain sight.
E Miliband, of course, recently agreed a deal with Drax that will see energy consumers pay an estimated £500 million a year to keep the plant operating for another four years.
UK energy policy in action: Robbing the poor to pay the rich.
If you support single sex spaces for women that include bathrooms, changing rooms & sports please Rt & like. I firmly believe biological females have that right, to personal dignity & fair sport in the Uk but across the whole world. I’m prepared to stand up & be counted. Are you?
Watch this clip, and share this clip - evidently, people need to hear it.
The European, and British, political establishment HATE it. Why? Because @JDVance is speaking the ugly truth.
Unvetted illegal migrants have put us all at risk.
Vance is right - we need to change course.