Born again Born This Way Monster, fury, schiebe and adoration. Follow me just as the Minions do and enjoy the world that follows...Gaga Gaga Gaga GAGA!! #FAME
@AuthorEvleon@Brunte84@andyburnham I just can’t with this Poll Tax crap. This is all the left can pin on her but she said she was going to bring it in if re-elected and sure enough she won so she stuck to her word. Something most modern politicians do not do!
@seeker_the28691@Brunte84@andyburnham This is surely also due to successive governments since then, not meeting housing targets or even coming close to it.
Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼
• Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third
• Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners
• Home ownership: 55% → 67%
• Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults
• Foreign holidays: roughly doubled
• Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten
• Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms
• Infant mortality: down almost 40%
• Real GDP: up by almost a third
• GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s
• Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s
• Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million
• Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon
• Britain became a net oil exporter
• London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986
• Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90
• National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%
• State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%
• The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000
• Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%
• Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms
• Higher rates of income tax: nine → one
• Death duties: fourteen rates → one
• Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years
• 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector
• The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987
• British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)
• BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen
• "Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986
• British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"
• The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed
• The Falklands liberated in 74 days
• Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War
• Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧
With MAYHEM, Lady Gaga reminded the world what a fully committed era actually looks like. She was everywhere: hosting SNL, delivering a career-defining Coachella headlining set, staging an historic concert at Copacabana that broke the world record for most attendees for a female performer, sitting down for interviews, touring the world on one of the biggest and most in-demand treks in recent memory, releasing smash singles, and weaving herself into film and television both as a performer and a writer. The album itself debuted at #1 across multiple markets, while singles like “Disease,” “Abracadabra,” and “Die With A Smile” dominated airplay charts and playlists globally, with the latter two already cementing themselves as iconic entries in her catalog.
The era also brought home Grammy wins, further solidifying MAYHEM as one of the defining albums of her career. But beyond the spectacle, this era gave us something more meaningful: Gaga visibly happier and healthier than she’s been in well over a decade.
And then came MAYHEM Requiem. Intimate, cinematic, and completely unapologetic, it was the perfect final chapter to one of the most ambitious artistic cycles in recent pop history. A farewell worthy of everything that came before it.
It was a reminder that the artist her fans and the general public fell in love with never went anywhere. She’s simply ever-evolving, growing stronger with every new chapter she steps into.
Thank you for this wonderful era, @ladygaga. This journey was something else. Until next time. 🤍
@primetateHQ@Keir_Starmer Oh yeah sure…try telling someone else who believes your shit. Nobody in Britain likes you, you proved to everyone the kind of person you are, you didn’t need politicians to do that!
🚨 SHOW Studio have released a video from their fashion archive of body cam footage worn by Lady Gaga in 2010.
“Lady Gaga offers a glimpse from within her world of celebrity in this short film. Nick Knight asked her to wear a webcam on the walk from car to hotel.”
Lady Gaga has now concluded her legendary “MAYHEM Ball Tour.”
Over the course of a full year on the road, she performed 95 shows, including “The Art of Personal Chaos” promotional dates, across 35 cities in 15 countries.
It is now her highest-grossing tour to date, with an estimated $400 million. Every show sold out, driven by unprecedented demand. Official final numbers are expected soon.
The tour was acclaimed worldwide, with major publications calling it the tour of the year, the tour of the decade, and praising it for setting a new standard for pop performances.
It also marks her first tour since “artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball” in 2014 to reach its planned conclusion without being cut short.
Beyond the numbers and accolades, this tour represents a defining shift in her career. She has found a place of happiness and stability, allowing her to perform on this scale again after a time when she believed she never could.
None of this would have been possible without every single person who showed up, supported her, and the entire crew behind the scenes.
For those who couldn’t attend, a filmed special was recorded in Los Angeles on February 18, 19, 22, and 23, and is expected to premiere on HBO at a later date.
🚨 UNITED PASSENGER CATCHES INSANE NASA ROCKET LAUNCH FROM PLANE WINDOW — FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOSES IT MID-AIR
A United flight just turned into a front-row seat to history.
A woman captures the exact moment NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches… straight from her window at 30,000 feet.
And then you hear the flight attendant:
“15 years of flying… I’ve been praying to see something like this.”
• Rocket blasting through the clouds
• Crew calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment
He said he flew to Florida multiple times just to see a launch…
Canceled. Every time.
And then this happens midair.
What are the chances you randomly look out your window… and see history taking off?