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[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The UK last built a public water reservoir in 1992.

The population has increased by over 10 million in the intervening years. Including a surge of immigration.

Now, the state has the cheek to announce a hosepipe ban. Why is that necessary?

Because no infrastructure has been built to cope with the expanding population.

It rained for the whole of January but not enough reservoirs to catch the water.

Our governments have been absolutely and unrelentingly crap. Short-termist.

Only interested in importing cheap labour. Not a care for the people who live here and want things to work as they do in a civilized country.

The next reservoir, in Havant, is not scheduled for completion till the early 2030s.

Prepare for more hosepipe bans and collapsing sewers.

Britain urgently needs an effective ruling class before we slide into a failed state.

[Sera Aurelia X @SeraAureliaX]

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[Agent P @AgentP22]

The SNP created a Tax Advisory Group for expert advice.

The experts warned them the numbers didn't stack up.

So instead of listening... they scrapped the experts.

You couldn't make it up.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Socialists imagine a class struggle. In their made-up fantasy the CEO is in competition with low level workers, the wealthy entrepreneur is stealing from the underpaid nurse.

In reality, workers do not compete vertically they compete horizontally.

Entrepreneurs compete with entrepreneurs. Investors outbid each other. CEOs are benchmarked against other CEOs. Nurses are hired from a pool of nurses. Etc.

The CEOs pay has no correlation to the entry level workers. The Football star on £300K a week isn’t linked to the person selling drinks in the stadium. A biotech entrepreneur raising VC capital isn’t paid relative to a cleaner.

What is linked is the demand and supply dynamic of each role.

If a company places an ad for a qualified truck driver and 150 people apply for the role, then the company knows it does not need to increase wages for that role. If the company has an open role for months, it is forced to look at the compensation package.

Same for a CEO. A board representing shareholders would like to hire a CEO for a lot less if they could. Their dream scenario would be to hire a CEO who brings in institutional investors, attracts top executives, drives innovation and growth, keeps margins steady and is a good public face for the business even under pressure. It turns out there aren’t a lot of these people looking for work and if you want one you have to pay more than other companies are offering.

The class struggle isn’t vertical it’s horizontal. CEOs are in competition with CEOs. Retail workers are in competition with retail workers. Demand and supply dynamics set the price.

Sure you can say that a CEO want’s profitability and would like wages to be lower BUT it’s not up to the CEO - demand and supply tension sets the price of workers. An Airline like RyanAir would like free pilots if they could get them but they can’t… so they pay the market rate.

The reason incomes are rising at the top and falling at the bottom is not class warfare. It’s technology and globalisation.

Technology makes basic jobs simple, remote or fully automated. At the same time tech makes executive roles more leveraged, more important and more valuable.

A CEO used to run a smaller organisation. Today a CEO who’s 2% better on a $5B company is generating $100M more. Seems sensible to try and pay a few million to get $100M.

Globalisation has put workers from all over the world in completion with each other - downward pressure on wages. Globalisation has given CEOs more market opportunities to explore - upside opportunity to unlock.

The rich are not very interested in buying houses that poor people own. The poor are not buying up the homes the rich want. They are separate groups living separate lives. Try finding the genuinely rich people whose strategy is to hoard normal residential homes - it barely exists as a thing. About 85% of landlords are people who own 1-4 properties. Super-landlords (100+ properties) are 0.2% of landlords and own a tiny fraction of the 30M homes in the UK… and they’re heavily taxed.

Class warfare isn’t real. It’s an imagined war in the minds of socialists.

Demand and supply dynamics are real. To the degree it is measured in class, it’s a horizontal competition not a vertical one.

[Samuel Leeds @samuel_leeds]

Gary Economics has just ruined its credibility and proven that it clearly knows very little about economics.

The absolute tax legend @DanNeidle destroyed Gary in his own documentary.

The very documentary just a compilation of Gary being proven wrong time and time again about his "solution" to economic inequality.

Let me know if you have watched it.

The Dan Neidle debate has gotta be one of the best moments in the show!!

#garystevenson
@Channel4 @garyseconomics

[Fleur Elizabeth @fleurmeston]

As a former nursery teacher, I always found it uncomfortable that unemployed parents would drop their toddlers off for the 15 free hours, while working mothers were spending half their income on childcare and crying at handover because they had no other choice.

[Thomas Kerr MSP @ThomasKerrMSP]

As a Cranhill lad - what we witnessed yesterday was the latest sign of community frustration at an establishment who has turned their back on them.

This follows several incidents which have heightened tensions across Glasgow communities.

There are questions remaining and I have requested an urgent meeting with Police Scotland to discuss these. In the meantime, I would urge for calm whilst the justice system takes its course.

Locals are saying enough is enough, I hope those in power are listening.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Not true 👇Uniform is the number one way school leaders improve behaviour across schools.

This policy prevents schools from improving- disadvantaged kids suffer.

Bridget is hurting the kids she says she wants to help.🙄

[Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell]

Now today's out the way I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about how:

- Labour's first two Budgets increased taxes on British workers by £36 billion and £26 billion respectively, pushing the tax burden to an historic high of 38.3% of GDP

- The OBR forecasts 240,000 more people will be unemployed in 2026 than it previously projected - it said this is largely attributable to Labour's employment policies

- The UK unemployment rate was 4.9% as of early 2026, up from 4.6% a year earlier, an increase of 124,000

- Total UK welfare spending this year is estimated at £333.7 billion - up from £315 billion

- The UK is spending £301 million per day just to service its debt interest on Labour borrowing

- Labour promised 1.5 million new homes this parliament. Between 9 July 2024 and 15 March 2026, it had build just 342,100, way off target

- More than 1 million young people aged 16-24 were not in education, employment or training in the first quarter of this year - up 89,000

- The NHS waiting list stands at 7.22 million cases

- When Labour took office in July 2024, just 58.8% of patients were treated within 18 weeks. The target is 92%. By March 2026 it had only reached 65.3%

- Around 100,000 patients are waiting over a year for NHS treatment

- Over the past year, approximately 1.56 million people waited more than 4 hours in A&E - a huge breach of the target

- The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court stands at around 80,200 - the highest level recorded since 2016 and more than double the pre-Covid caseload

- A quarter of all Crown Court cases have been open for more than a year

- There are currently 14,749 sexual offences cases waiting to go to the Crown Court - a 75% increase

- There were approximately 530,640 shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales over the past year - the highest in the entire time series on record

- There were 41,000 small boat arrivals in 2025

- Of all people who have arrived by small boat since 2018, only around 7,500 (4%) had been returned from the UK by the end of 2025

- Last year the Home Office spent £4 billion on asylum support. This includes £2.1 billion on hotel accommodation alone - around £6 million per day

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

A frankly very suspicious delay in the publication of HMRC's annual report on the revenue consequences of tax changes.

Various economic illiterates associated with Andy Burnham have claimed that hiking CGT will raise revenues while for years HMRC's calculations have shown the opposite.

An HMRC spokesman said: “We have postponed the publication to allow for the completion of a review of some of the key assumptions underpinning the estimates in the bulletin".

Have Labour figures intervened with HMRC? It sounds like it.

Below we publish last year's figures:
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[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

This is an outright lie from @SkyNews.

They hounded my daughter at home, just days after The Times published where my family live.

Despicable behaviour from the media.

[Dan Wootton @danwootton]

Reform UK sources tell me Farage's fury here was sparked by the fact Sly News had this morning turned up at his daughter's house and "harassed" her.
There is particular rage because this came after The Times published a picture of her home, despite the fact she's non-political...

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[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

NHS advice to anyone with a heart stent is to avoid folic acid. Folic acid is to be added to flour - and so anything
made with flour - and folic acid in rice likely won't be far behind. Good luck with that sandwich ... sausage ... pizza ... curry ...

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Give this woman a raise!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Charlie Chaplin's famous boxing scene from "City Lights" (1931)

[Davie @pub4beer]

@afneil @British_Airways The old one’s a shambles as well 😅

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Possibly, as Minister for Health, James Murray could compel the adult gender clinics to hand over the data they refused to give to Cass. We might then find out just how much benefit these interventions confer long term, without needing to perform experiments on children too young to give meaningful consent.

Read the testimony of the ever-expanding numbers of detransitioners. Grasp that these young people, many of them extremely vulnerable - autistic, care-experienced, abuse survivors, same-sex attracted in unsupportive families - have been irreparably harmed, left with their fertility destroyed, unending medical complications and profound psychological damage.

This is a medical scandal of epic proportions and people of power and influence are still too frightened of trans activists and trans lobby groups to do the right thing and put an end to the insanity. Kids are being sacrificed to ideology and cowardice.