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[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

10 BILLION FFS

Any chance of a single bloody consequence?!

Or no, because…posh, rich dudes?

[Marc Webber @marcwebber]

Hi @wimbledon.
Why don’t you have a day where you invite lifesavers & normal people that have done good stuff into the Royal Box?
I promise that will go viral better than a gaggle of influencers who don’t actually watch the tennis.
It would be a good thing to do as well.

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

Unbelievable, just when you think they can't sink any lower Sky news have doorstepped Count Binfaces family

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

The financialisation of education was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made.
An educated population helps everyone.
We are regressing as a society.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

STUDENT LOAN NEWS: The Treasury Committee of MPs has put out its report into student loans. Here's my view:-

I’ve long condemned the Chancellor’s planned freeze of the student loan repayment threshold next April as immoral and a breach of natural justice. So today is an important moment, as the cross-party Treasury Committee of MPs echoes this language in calling out a “moral obligation” for this to be reversed.

Changing terms for future students is a political choice, but that’s not what is planned next year. Freezing the threshold on existing Plan 2 loans effectively increases the amount those with those loans must repay each year. It is a retrospective, one-sided contractual change that would not be allowed in almost any other circumstance or sector. Worse, those hit often signed these contracts while just 18, with little or no explanation of what they were getting into.

This has to stop, and never be allowed again. That’s why one of the Committee’s most important proposals is that the Government should effectively be bound by the same Consumer Duty for student loans as a commercial lender, backed by proper fairness rules. Though it is only taking about student loan promotions, I think it should be for all student loan behaviour.

I have been pushing for this for over a decade. In 2016 we even got Wes Streeting, then a new MP, to propose FCA regulation of student loans and place restrictions on negative changes as a parliamentary amendment. It was rejected. Had that protection been in place, it could have stopped successive governments tinkering with the system, resulting in a horrific degradation of the original terms.

I hope this report, feeding into a new administration, means there is now a realistic chance of stopping the planned freeze and any future freezes.

Yet let’s be clear: that alone will not fix the Plan 2 student loan crisis - it’ll just stop it getting even worse. The report is titled "Student loans: broken and unfair?". There is no need for the question mark. The repayment threshold should be many thousands of pounds higher, interest should be reduced, maintenance thresholds need uprating, and the whole system, including the way it is communicated, needs a fundamental reset.

Here is the report: https://t.co/MPIOFE7mjy
Here is the MSE submission to the report: https://t.co/RIUPRO2svQ

[Paul Thomas @NeathJack1]

Fuck off with your elitist bullocks. Every single parent would like to send their kids to the best school possible but that is a privilege for only the rich.

Get rid of private schools and the state school system will improve to give all kids the level playing field you fear.

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

The news cycle moves on quickly - particularly when there’s huge and consequential things happening - like a change of prime minister.

But there’s one story that I haven’t been able to get out of my head. And I don’t just want to move away from.

It’s the story of what happened to little Preston Davey.

He was born to a murderer. When she was 15, his mum killed a pensioner, crammed her in a bin and used her savings to buy crisps and chocolate. Preston was taken from her when he was five days old.

Preston was then adopted by two men who abused him in the most unimaginable way. One of them - a teacher - was given a whole life order for sexually abusing him and causing his death.

Preston was only 13 months old.

But here’s the thing. Because it is not true to say Preston only knew abuse. To say Preston never knew happiness.

Because from the age of 5 days to 10 months, Preston was looked after by two people who actually sound pretty amazing.

His foster parents.

I haven’t said the names of his biological mother or his adoptive parents. But Preston’s foster parents are two people whose name we should remember.

Sandra and Paul Cooper.

Sandra told the court: "Paul and I will often watch the videos we took of Preston when he was happy with us laughing and giggling, playing with his toys smiling. Preston's face would light up when we looked at him; he was joyful, so content and happy, with sparkly smiling eyes. That is how we want to remember him.”

They warned the social workers about concerns they had over his adoptive parents. But they weren’t listened to.

And they’ve been left devastated by his death.

Sandra says she dreams of Preston. He’s still alive in those dreams. Paul says he cries for him every single week.

Sandra and Paul fostered dozens of children. Preston was going to be their last - their retirement baby. but now they feel they have to keep going, in Preston’s memory.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Yes, Nigel Farage needs to explain what he's done with the £5 million he got from Christopher Harborne, offshore crypto CEO.

But we should also be asking what Harborne wants in return for his £25 million donation to Reform.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://t.co/JM73OorKHT

[moose 🐦‍🔥 @usermooseontwt]

shes rich. why are we still doing this

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Haha

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind.

"One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing."

Amazing powers of prediction.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is how Belfast looks on my femicide map.

Each of the ~1,000 pins is for a woman or girl murdered in Belfast between 1900 - 2025.

Almost all of them murdered by men and mostly by the type of men who were strolling around Belfast tonight wrecking their own city. /1

[Gee to the Bee @Baggieglenn]

How the feck can the ceo of @nextofficial stand up and say they are struggling to pay 16-24 yr olds MINIMUM wage whilst the group makes profits of nearly £1.25 billion. Corporate greed at its absolute worst. The world is going to hell in a handcart

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK

“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

[Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas83]

If anyone we knew took more than one holiday a year my mother would dub them Judith Chalmers

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Elon Musk has today updated the formula that decides if you see this tweet.

Each tweet is scored.

S=Σ (probability of reaction × value of reaction)

A like = 0.5 points.
A reply = 13.5.
A full argument? 75+

That’s why outrage travels faster than facts. https://t.co/yc50CjyZPY

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Este año no estaremos en Eurovisión, pero lo haremos con la convicción de estar en el lado correcto de la historia.

Por coherencia, responsabilidad y humanidad.