If you could go back to a better time, a time when you were most happy when and where would it be and why?
Late 80's for me, best music, best films and none of this crap now, just felt..right.
BREAKING NEWS
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Exclusive footage from POB.
Happening now, a huge fire has erupted.
A recycling plant in New Cross, South London burns.
This same building was set alight only a few months back.
You can see by our videos that trains are still being allowed to pass close to where the fire is, who is allowing the service to run? How is that safe for those on board when the building has highly flammable materials inside.
Thick clowds of black smoke fill the air local to our block.
This is gonna be a long night for the emergency services.
Yet another historic church has gone up in flames.
This time it is St Andrew’s Church in Leicester, dating from 1862.
Across Britain. Across Europe. Across the West.
Dearborn, Mich. (Aug. 18) — A riot is feared to spark at any moment as police struggle to keep behind far-left radicals trying to attack the rally organized by provocateur Jake Lang.
Diane Abbott believes that Jason Arday is the victim of a racist witch-hunt by other professors and the media.
Just a reminder that she irresponsibly posted that Sasha Johnson was targeted for her political activism with no evidence.
Her accusations of racism should be ignored.
🚨🚨🚨🤞🤞🤞NATIONAL LOTTERY UPDATE: REGIONAL FIGURES
Earlier this week, we published the headline figure from our National Lottery audit from 2021-2026:
£114.7 MILLION.
Now we can show where it went.
London — £499,631
Globe Community Project, Bethnal Green: “Touching Safe Ground: gentle yoga & English for refugee & migrant women.”
North West — £246,225
Afrocats, Manchester: cultural, social and wellbeing programmes for refugees and asylum seekers, including creative programmes, workshops and community events.
Yorkshire & the Humber — £350,739
Mafwa Theatre, Leeds: “Mafwa in Bloom” — gardening clubs, art workshops and community events for refugees, asylum seekers and settled communities.
West Midlands — £326,913
Newbigin Community Trust, Birmingham: a three-year community regeneration project including “Animal Encounters” with alpacas and sheep and a mobile cooking school where recipes are taught by refugee and asylum-seeker women
East of England — £496,460
Ipswich Community Media CIC: “IConnect 2” — courses and engagement workshops for migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Ipswich and Suffolk.
East Midlands — £250,800
BrightSparks: Arts in Mental Health, based in the Midlands: “Comedy Asylum 2” — comedy workshops, performances and peer-to-peer support.
South West — £129,888
Trigger Productions: “Humanity Hotel” — support aimed at refugees and asylum seekers housed in North Somerset.
North East — £359,564
Teesside Vineyard Church: “Nurturing Families” — workshops, mentoring and community activities, with a particular focus on refugee and asylum-seeking families.
Scotland — £193,127
Outdoors For You SCIO: five years of free indoor and outdoor activities, including access to nature and sport, with a specific focus on refugees and asylum seekers.
Wales — £330,985
Displaced People in Action: “Shaping My Future” — workshops, social activities, wellbeing sessions, cultural information and hate-crime awareness for asylum seekers and refugees.
Northern Ireland — £187,766
Street Soccer NI: activities for vulnerable people including asylum seekers and refugees, covering football/physical activity, walking groups, cookery classes, creative writing and family fun days.
London and the North West alone account for more than £43 million.
And this is still only one funding stream.
There is MUCH MUCH more coming later this week.
More regions.
More organisations.
More funding streams.
More historical data.
The £114.7 million was the opening number, you are not going to believe what's coming down the line...
STAY TUNED.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
There’s a MASSIVE opportunity here
Lime Bikes (and their riders) are insured up to £1.7m
Step on to zebra crossing. Lime bike (illegally) fails to stop….. bang…claim….keeeerching! 💰💰
(Make sure someone is filming 🙂)
Please share
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Four people have been arrested including two police officers as part of an inquiry into alleged bribery & fraud linked to the Police Federation of England & Wales.
One man arrested is former Police Federation chief executive Mukund Krishna.
Det. Superintendent Jim Halkett said, "the complex investigation is making significant progress thanks to valuable information provided by the public."
The UK’s finances are flashing red and people really need to start paying attention.
The OBR forecast borrowing of £117.7 billion for 2025/26. The latest estimate is £132.7 billion.
That is a £15 BILLION underestimate in just ONE YEAR, around £41 MILLION of extra borrowing EVERY SINGLE DAY above what was forecast.
To put £15 billion into perspective, it is roughly equivalent to the entire annual amount raised from Inheritance Tax AND Capital Gains Tax combined.
And borrowing this year is already running ahead of the OBR forecast again.
It looks increasingly likely that Labour’s solution will be to raise taxes yet again. Rachel Reeves had already announced around £60 billion of tax rises across her two Budgets. How much more can taxpayers take?
We simply cannot keep spending more than we raise, borrowing more than we forecast and then taxing people more to fill the hole.
Eventually the markets will decide enough is enough. If confidence goes, borrowing costs rise, debt interest climbs and the Government has even less money to spend.
If we continue down this road, without serious spending reform and with borrowing continually exceeding forecasts, a financial crisis becomes increasingly difficult to avoid.
You cannot tax and borrow your way out of a spending problem forever. At some point the numbers simply stop working.
The woman is a disaster.
First her dreadful Workers Rights Policy and now this 👇
“Rayner paves way for more traveller sites.
Housing Secretary removes key rules used by residents and councils to block illegal encampments’
Angela Rayner has softened planning rules for traveller sites, giving councils fewer ways to block them.
The Housing Secretary has removed two key rules that councils and residents have used to oppose unauthorised traveller camps.
She made the changes in an update to England’s planning rules on Monday, which also paved the way for more development of the green belt.
The Tories claimed the reforms meant more communities would be “forced to tolerate lawbreaking from a small minority of travellers”.
There has been a 73 per cent rise in the number of unauthorised traveller caravans across England”
Telegraph
She’s done it again!
Most people have no idea this happened, but former Housing Secretary Angela Rayner quietly pushed through a massive funding shift.
Labour has actively taken cash away from local councils like Wandsworth and given it to other councils across the country.
Because their local money has been stripped away to fund other areas, Wandsworth Council is facing a devastating 40% cut to its central government funding.
That means Whitehall is taking £84 million out of the local budget.
Whitehall didn't just target Wandsworth.
They singled out 6 specific councils across London for these brutal cuts - and 5 of them are Tory.
Labour won’t stop there other councils will be vulnerable.
Labour is deliberately plundering well-managed, low-tax areas to bail out overspent councils elsewhere.
How does a council survive when the government strips away £84 million to spend elsewhere?
Whitehall knew exactly what they were doing.
To cover the damage, they gave Wandsworth special permission to smash through the standard 5% cap on annual tax rises - without needing a referendum.
Now, because their funding was taken to bail out other regions, Wandsworth is being forced to consider a massive 160% increase on its share of council tax to keep local services running.
If this goes ahead, it will be the largest single council tax increase in English history.
Typical Labour - penalise those that do the right thing.
An MIT professor offered his class a coin flip: win $125 or lose $100. Most students said no. Then he proved refusing was the smart move, and it explains why you're bad with money.
The bet is a steal on paper. Flip a coin, win $125 or lose $100. Do the math and you come out $12.50 ahead on average. It's what economists call a more than fair bet. Most of the room still turned it down.
They weren't being dumb. They were being human.
Here's the idea underneath it. You don't actually care about dollars, you care about how much each dollar changes your life. And the dollars you already have are worth more to you than the ones you might win. So losing $100 stings harder than winning $125 feels good.
Then he pushed it further. He told the class he'd force them into that winning bet unless they paid to walk away. How much would they pay? The answer, with their standard math, was $43. People will hand over almost half their money to dodge a bet that's tilted in their favor.
That's not weakness. That's a law of how the mind values risk, and it has a name: risk aversion.
And it's the whole reason insurance exists. Being uninsured is just this coin flip in disguise. You quietly pay to never be the person who gets wiped out, even when the math says the odds are on your side.
Once you see it, you notice it everywhere. Every warranty, every premium, every bet you've refused. You weren't being irrational. You were pricing the fear.
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