We've reached the point in the UK where working full time doesn't actually mean anything anymore.
It used to mean stability. It used to mean you could afford a home, eat properly, maybe go away once a year and not panic if your car made a weird noise.
Now it just means nothing.
You wake up early, work all day, come home tired, and still somehow sit there wondering how you're going afford everything.
Rent is ridiculous. Bills are constant. Food prices change depending on the mood of the supermarket.
And wages? Basically frozen in time.
You're not lazy. You're not bad with money. You're just trying to survive in a system where everything goes up except what you get paid.
Today the @DailyMail published the findings of my two-year investigation "The Brass Pass" into the hidden epidemic of domestic abuse suffered by military wives and girlfriends.
A dossier of 52 cases reveals torture by Army men against their wives.
Every nation should treat billionaires like a natural resource and mine them of their riches until exhausted, just like a nice thick seam of coal or a reservoir of oil, then make the spoils available to the nation's citizens. If they crop up again, mine them again.
Just imagine if these rags led with headlines like:
• OIL GIANTS BANK RECORD PROFITS WHILE BRITAIN FREEZES
• SUPERMARKETS RAMP UP PRICES AS EXECUTIVES POCKET MILLIONS
• BILLIONAIRES BUY UP HOMES — FAMILIES PRICED OUT
• BOSSES CASH IN WHILE WORKERS SKIP MEALS
A girl can dream…
I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.
A petition is circulating to ban banks from denying service to sex workers due to their profession. This is very serious so let’s take action. Sign the petition if you’re in the UK.
https://t.co/KIZloIUPKM
🚨 THESE ABSOLUTE FUCKING DEGENERATES 😡💀
Look at this gang of 5 evil bastards.
They kidnapped a 38-year-old man from his own home, balaclavas on, dragged him to Reigate, terrified him with two agitated dogs, blindfolded him, force-fed him, then hauled him to a house in Farnborough where they tortured him and sexually assaulted him — all in ONE DAY.
Neighbour called it in. Hampshire police rescued him that same afternoon (April 26 2025), poor lad was in a total mess.
Guildford Crown Court just sentenced them:
• Reece Armstrong, 30 → 9 years
• Tarelle Thompson, 28 → 9 years
• Lorna Swyer, 21 → 3 years 4 months
• Sebastian Love, 21 → 3 years 4 months
(and the fifth rat in the crew)
Total 36 years for the lot.
Kidnapping, torture, sexual abuse… and they walk out one day? Victim scarred for life. Sentences are a joke.
No mercy for these animals. None.
Share their faces. Name every single one.
Protect innocent people from scum like this.
(Uk database)
This woman - who was in the audience at the BAFTAs on Sunday evening - takes a fair and compassionate stance on the guest with Tourette's shouting a racial slur at two black actors.
She provides important context: the audience had been briefed about John Davidson’s Tourette’s and his vocal tics had already been evident earlier in the evening.
She also articulates something we don’t hear often enough.
Words can cause discomfort. They can hurt. And they can do so for many reasons. But that alone does not make someone “wrong” or prove ill intent. Nor does it justify destroying someone’s reputation.
Sometimes we have to hold two truths at once - that harm can be felt and that intent and context still matter.
And sometimes we have to set aside our own feelings and consider the needs and vulnerabilities of others.
A principle worth remembering in many areas of public life.
Apparently there are a lot of people around today who are under the impression that Tourette’s is something that can be controlled. I wonder if these are the same people who would tell someone with chronic depression to just 'cheer up'?
They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
Mark Payne stabbed a 14 year old boy multiple times nearly killing him, he was convicted of Attempted Murder but only spent 4 years in jail.
He also sexually harrassed two teenage girls.
Now he is out on streets 'protecting women and girls'.
These people ARE the threat.
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start.
While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.
When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation.. His face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.
'Oh, that's my trouble tree,' he replied 'I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children.. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again.' 'Funny thing is,' he smiled,' when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. We all need a Tree!
Worth the share 🥰