Just on the tube, there was a tiny white fluffy puppy (like the one pictured) with the woman next to me. Felt it tap into my leg, so I lent down to give it a little stroke and PLOT TWIST it was a pompom on the end of her scarf. I’ll see the look she gave me until my dying day.
National Insurance is not rising by 1.25%.
National Insurance is rising by 1.25 PERCENTAGE POINTS.
For the vast majority, that means going up from 12% to 13.25%, which is more than a 10% rise.
Got that? Your taxes are rising by 10%. This is a 10% tax hike.
10. Not 1.25.
This is the impact statement written by Susan Everard, Sarah Everard's mum. Her agony is palpable. Rest in peace beautiful Sarah. #SheWasJustWalkingHome
All women should be safe both on the streets and in their own homes.
In solidarity and sisterhood, let's remember Sabina Nessa — another life lost to violence against women.
Let's #SaySabinasName, so she gets the justice she deserves.
Thanks for all the media offers, but I truly can’t find the words to mark the end of our presence in Afghanistan. Truthfully - it’s a very difficult time, incomparable to the Afghans, but for many in this country too. I wrote this on the weekend; I’ve nothing further to add to it
I cannot remember a British Prime Minister attracting the scale of all-Party criticism and anger to which Mr Johnson has been subjected in the Commons today - Democracy was well served by the recall of Parliament for him to hear it.
We live in a country where the rules don’t apply if you are a senior figure in government, or you are a large group of men within a mile of a football game. That’s just the way it is.
Football Association AND Oliver Dowden Sec of State DCMS. PM Boris Johnson.: Ban racists for life from all football matches in England* - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/0uKcN8UJlC via @UKChange
Really want to just, like, enjoy the multicultural sportsmen doing their best a sport, rather than be repeatedly reminded that generations of men are raised to think they can only be horny or angry.