ScottBax

Solidarity with all striking workers! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿MD ANT🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

On my way, Clacton.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

For 40 years, I thought Elton John's 1978 "Song for Guy" was about Guy the Gorilla, who died that year in London Zoo. I was in my fifties when I discovered it was actually written for a 17–year-old messenger boy at Elton John's recording studio, who died in a motorbike accident

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS turns 78 today!

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS in that time followed and retweeted we’d reach a million in minutes.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Throwing it back to 1944 with the incredible Miriam LaVelle in "Meet the People" This jaw-dropping acrobatic routine was part of a wartime musical built to boost morale for American shipyard workers. Talk about explosive energy for Independence Day!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.

2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.

3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian

5) But Facebook is ok? Really?

[ScottBax @ScottBax40]

We're about to go to war with Russia because Jane and Alan from the Isle of Wight cant sail their yacht in a straight line #middleclassproblems #russia #uk

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

£35,000 a year in the UK in 2026 puts you in the lower class.

15 years ago it was a comfortable graduate salary that bought you a decent flat, a few holidays a year, a savings habit, and the realistic prospect of a house.

Today it gives you take-home of about £2,200 a month. Rent on a one-bed in any city worth living in starts at £1,200. Council tax £170. Energy and bills £300. Food £400. Travel £200. That's £2,270, before you've bought a single thing for pleasure.

You're behind on day one of every month.

The wage hasn't moved much in real terms in 15 years. The cost of everything around it has roughly doubled.

Every wage bracket has shifted up by one rung — the £35K that put you firmly in the middle class 15 years ago barely keeps you afloat now, and the salaries that used to count as struggling are quietly slipping into poverty.

The official conversation hasn't caught up.

Anyone calling this an 'economy that works for ordinary people' isn't talking to many ordinary people.

[Adam Bennett @adbennoEFC]

It’s almost as if constantly raising the retirement age results in less jobs coming into the market to be passed down to the next generation.

[• @yducknow]

how life feels when nobody knows what you're up to or where you are

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

MICHAEL CAINE revisits one of the “happiest times” of his life — the Norfolk village to which he was evacuated during WW2.

A really lovely, absolutely fascinating clip from

CANDID CAINE: A SELF PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL CAINE (1969)

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Fiona Bruce, "SNP, you want a compulsory cap on food?"

Stephen Flynn, "Absolutely we should do this"

"I have spent the last six and a half years in politics outraged at the fact that there are people in our communities who can't get back"

"So many of them rely on food banks, and they can only do so much work"

"It's incumbent upon politicians of all colours that people's basic needs, the ability to feed themselves can be met"

"We're seeking to bring forward legislation to cap the price on some specific items that we all find in our shops and that people need for a godo healthy balanced diet"

"I'm at a loss as to why an individual who sits in the House of Lords would seek to disagree with that - maybe because he's completely out of touch"

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Tesco make £3 billion plus profits and yet nearly ALL of their shop floor staff are in receipt of universal credit. Shareholders and profits directly subsidised by the taxpayer.

Tescos are the benefit scroungers.

How hard can it be to outlaw this?

[ScottBax @ScottBax40]

@Nulsh

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Mick Jagger’s found God but Al Pacino, Michael Caine & Keith Richards are NOT impressed.

STELLA STREET (1997-2001)

One of the greatest joys in the British TV Comedy canon.

#PhilCornwell #JohnSessions

[Keith @keetmuise]

For a brief couple of months in 2020 when Covid arrived, it seemed like people coming together for the greater good was going to be the trend going forward.

Boy was I wrong.

[ScottBax @ScottBax40]

@paulabearthe2nd Walking a whippet while drinking a stout for sure!

[Cozy @cosyposter]

THIS IS SPARTA!

[📖🎧 @inkandseerah]

everytime a book gets adapted into a movie, they start using the movie poster as the book cover and it's honestly the ugliest thing in the world

[Canada Goose 🇨🇦 @CanadaGoose911]

Do data centres next

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

And so it begins.. The UK Media PR campaign to sell you a Mandelson trained, Palantir owned, backstabbing, pet shop burning, Israeli dickrider, by trying to allude that he’s a ‘working class’, man of the people & none of the things you’ve seen with your own fucking eyes.