Owning a £400,000 house with a £350,000 mortgage in the UK in 2026 means signing a 25-year contract to give the bank around £2,050 a month, in exchange for the right to maintain a building you'll spend another £4,000 a year keeping dry, warm and structurally sound.
At a 5% fixed rate, the total interest over the life of the mortgage is around £264,000. The total mortgage cost ends up at roughly £614,000.
The price tag on the front door says £400K. The actual cost of living in it for 25 years is closer to £750K, before council tax, repairs, insurance and the new boiler.
This is what the country has been calling 'getting on the ladder.'
I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.
His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.
Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.
The same parents who travel long distances to help/ grieve/ celebrate their friends?
The ones greeting almost everyone from church to the market? They model alot about community and friendship. Alot of us think we're too good for mundane things.
Let's be serious please.
Close Parliament.
We have had enough of these shenanigans.
You were in government for 8 good fuckin years and you are now coming to sell us this crap ????
This is what Elon Musk doesn't want you to see on this platform. This’s what your media won’t report.
Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed in real time.
Slavery was probably 100x sicker than what we think it was.
I really see why older black folks don't rock with white people at all. They've seen some real atrocities in their life.
I don't know who wins the World Cup but all i want is USA getting eliminated from the World Cup in the most humiliating way, preferably by a Muslim nation as well.
This is the kind of thing the international community condemns China or North Korea for doing. Anyone who thinks we’re still a free country is completely deluded.
Start hosting your own stuff. Rely less on the cloud across everything. This isn’t about having something to hide, it’s about basic rights to privacy.
It’s very easy to run a small home lab type setup with some basic services.
Protectli VP4670 + Proxmox hypervisor lets you run containers and VMs.
Then back up your data to multiple locations using restic. Offsite could be a parent’s house or a friend’s place.
Por si no te lo contó la prensa, EEUU bombardeó con drones anoche unos depósitos de agua potable en Sirik (Irán), que abastecen a más de 20.000 personas de la zona, se trata de infraestructura civil vital, no hay objetivos militares aquí.
Esto es un crimen de guerra pero como es EEUU ni siquiera te enterarás de ello.... pero si un dron supuestamente ruso se desvía medio metro, te lo ponen hasta en la tapa de los yogures.
"Si los israelies no donan su propia piel ni sus órganos, por motivos religiosos, ¿como es posible que tengan el mayor banco de piel y órganos del mundo? ¿De donde lo sacan? Están expoliando a un pueblo hasta llegar a quitarles la piel".
La activista turca Aycin Kantoglu, miembro de la flotilla humanitaria Sumud, se cuestiona de donde salen los órganos y la piel que compone el banco donante más grande del mundo de "Israel".
The Visa process is dehumanizing.
It is my theory that they made it intentionally so.
To remind the black African of who he is and why he must undergo all that stress and humiliation to get a visa.
We must unite to make Ghana better. Others mock us!