is it just me?

“Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?”

[is it just me? @algraco1]

Watching a mother cradling her pup looking for non existent sea ice to rest .. you have to think ‘My God what have we done’ #BluePlanet2

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

The joy on her face was amazing god bless her❤️

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's new Education Secretary is off to a flying start.

[is it just me? @algraco1]

I may have this wrong but isn’t this the MP who had to leave accused of fraud?? #louisehaigh

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Louise Haigh has been appointed as First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office @cabinetofficeuk.

[is it just me? @algraco1]

@RachelReevesMP So why did Andy sack you? I am confused?

[is it just me? @algraco1]

You didn’t use a hose I hope!

[Nick 🇨🇦 @Nick28T]

I’m so lost with F1. I love the sport, I love motorsports in general, I love who is winning… BUT I cant bare to watch these races anymore, it’s so bad.

- they don’t show speeds or battery stats
- the cars are slow and boring
- it’s all about batteries and software
- driver skill is at a minimum in terms of their effects on the race

I mean I went outside and watered my garden mid way through the race at Spa today, I was that bored.

Anyone else feeling this way about current #F1? 😔

[Steve @StevoCook]

Call me all-fashioned but I prefer my HT cringefest soaked in sherry

#WorldCupFinal #ncfc

[RJC @RJC1627894]

#halftimeworldcupshow #worldcupfinal

[Joy Mutter 📚🇬🇧 @Joyster2012]

@RachelD1892 I was going to suggest Lammy should get the job of feeding Larry the cat but not sure he’s capable of doing it properly. Wouldn’t be fair on Larry.

[is it just me? @algraco1]

That’s my lot! #WorldCupFinal

[Craig Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @craigyjones17]

Please make this stop.

Please.

#WorldCupFinal

[is it just me? @algraco1]

Next ‘celebrity’ they show it’s being turned off!!
#WorldCupFinal

[is it just me? @algraco1]

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[🏳️ @Gini_220]

Most people will say 4

Only the sharp ones will get the real answer

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

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 ✌🏼🇬🇧

[is it just me? @algraco1]

Yep!

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

After having nearly 48 hours to cool down, should England sack Thomas Tuchel?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[is it just me? @algraco1]

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[Kalam Center @KalamCenter]

Interesting puzzle here.

What do you think?

[is it just me? @algraco1]

The wonderful Anne

[is it just me? @algraco1]

Ouch?

[Right Said Fred @TheFreds]

👍

[is it just me? @algraco1]

@CamillaTominey aww Camilla.. I was feeling depressed after the result lat night but after watching you brilliant podcast with Jacob … you have put a smile back on my face! Cheer up now we need you to lift your fans!