@Ryanair I paid £60 for a sports bag when booking, but no longer need it for golf. After waiting over an hour for support, I was told it can’t be changed to a normal suitcase, even though my flight is 3 months away. I was also told I can’t use the sports bag for clothes. Why?
Find it baffling how people will sit in the middle lane of the motorway tootling along at 63mph, get passed by cars in both lanes either side of them and not realise they’re doing anything wrong
Minimum wage was £5.00 in 2005, & a first class stamp was 32p
One hour of work got you 15 first class stamp
Now in 2025, minimum wage is £12.21 & a 1st class stamp is £1.35
Now one hour of work will only get you 9 1st class stamps
That’s a 321% rise in stamps but only 142% rise in pay
If wages had kept up with the price of stamps, the minimum wage would be £16.05 an hour
This is NOT just inflation, this is worse. The economy is ruined in the U.K. This is about much more than stamps. Food, electricity, travel are all similar The hard working people are struggling to survive because costs are soaring far quicker than wages
Something needs to change, but will it? Is this why so many people are leaving the U.K.?
Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for?
My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month.
For what?
We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected.
The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood.
The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit.
So where is the money going?
Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time.
Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline.
We are expected to pay more and more for less and less.
And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed.
So I’ll ask again.
What exactly are we paying for?
The whole system is broken.
If a small plane enters British Airspace, the UK will scramble 4 £120 million Typhoon Fighter Jets to potentially shoot it down.
But if a boat filled with 60 military age men arrives, who we don't know, the UK escorts them in.
Why is that? I'm just curious.
Convinced people have no clue how to drive on motorways 😭
Just done 3 hours basically in the fast lane because the middle lane is full of traffic people doing 60mph so I’m overtaking constantly 🙃
Letter To @AndyBurnhamGM Mayor Of Manchester.
Dear Mayor Burnham,
I am writing to you not only as a football supporter, but as someone who believes deeply in Manchester’s identity, heritage, and future.
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the regeneration application put forward by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family. This proposal is not about the people of Manchester, nor about football, nor about genuine regeneration. It is about power, vanity, and profit at the expense of a historic institution that helped put this city on the global map.
For nearly 20 years, Manchester United has been systematically hollowed out by the Glazer family. Since their leveraged takeover in 2005, the club has been burdened with over £1 billion in debt, interest payments, fees, and dividends. While rival clubs invested in stadiums, training facilities, local jobs, and community infrastructure, Old Trafford was allowed to decay its roof leaking, facilities falling behind, and safety repeatedly questioned. This neglect was not accidental; it was the predictable outcome of an ownership model designed to extract wealth rather than build value.
During this period, the Glazers paid themselves hundreds of millions of pounds in dividends while the club’s competitiveness, reputation, and relationship with supporters steadily eroded. This is not regeneration. This is extraction.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS now present themselves as saviours, yet their actions raise serious concerns. This project increasingly appears to be a vanity-led redevelopment, using Manchester United’s cultural and emotional capital to secure planning permissions, public goodwill, and long-term commercial upside without clear guarantees that the club, its supporters, or the local community will truly benefit.
Manchester United is not a property asset.
It is not a branding exercise.
It is not a financial instrument.
It is a civic institution, woven into the social, cultural, and economic fabric of this city. The club’s name is synonymous with Manchester across every continent. To allow those who have demonstrably damaged it to now reshape large parts of our city in their own image would be a profound failure of stewardship.
You have long spoken about protecting Manchester from decisions imposed by distant elites who do not live with the consequences of their actions. This is one of those moments. Approving this project would reward two decades of mismanagement and signal that global financiers can exploit our greatest institutions, then return asking for civic approval when it suits them.
Regeneration must be done with the people of Manchester, not to them.
It must be rooted in transparency, accountability, and community ownershipnot debt, leverage, and legacy-polishing.
Manchester deserves better.
Manchester United deserves better.
I ask you to stand with supporters, residents, and future generations by rejecting this application and demanding a vision for regeneration that genuinely serves the city and protects its soul.
Yours sincerely,
A concerned Manchester United supporter
So you've got:
James Trafford - Chose to come back to City over being a starter at Newcastle, for them to buy a world class GK 2 weeks later and him be benched
Wissa - Bought for £50m in the last year of his contract, for him to tear his ACL and likely not play this season at all. £50m literally down the drain.
Buonanotte - Mentioned how excited he was to play UCL football, initially left out of Chelsea's UCL squad.
Wirtz - 150m with 0 goals, 0 assists so far
Isak - Missed out on weeks of football, made the NUFC fan base hate him, possibly cost Sweden multiple games because he wasn't match fit for them
But yes, Benjamin Sesko is clearly the worst signing here. 2 goals in 4 starts in the PL so far, looking better every game, is clearly the worst signing here because *checks notes* he signed for Manchester United?
Shocking and lazy journalism.
I'm tapping out for a few days, this place is turning into a hell hole.
The media are playing United fans for fools constantly, all this Kobbie talk, truthful or not is put out with 1 intention - cause divide and turn fans on the manager.
Thats ALL the media want, thats why they word every article so carefully that the spin everything to fall on the manager.
The did it to Moyes, VanGaal, Ole, Ralf, Erik and now Ruben.
Disrupt and cause fan divide.
Gone are the days where you can just be happy supporting your club, everything has to be so dramatic, every story has to be an apocalypse. The age of content creators, youtube and crappy journalism is taking all the fun out of supporting this club.