Simon Grant

I don’t eat animals, Evertonian, Gig Goer (Punk, Post Punk, Reggae), Buddhism, Republican, living in Stockton via Birkenhead, Singapore, Nairobi, Jakarta.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.”

- my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today.

Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

[LBC @LBC]

‘I’ve never known it to be this bad in 30 years of being in this industry.'

@Sacha_Lord says Chancellor Rachel Reeves has failed British businesses.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech

He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.

Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.

That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.

At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.

Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.

Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Brilliant reprise of the sewage scandal, from start to finish, the whole sorry, sad, saga, what happened, how we got here and where we need to go next.

If you're going to read anything today it's right here...👇

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Calls grow for the government to wipe out student loan debt entirely are growing, as Martin Lewis confronts ministers

By @MaddisonW92
https://t.co/4VVxIor2z9

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

The govt's Student Loan Plan 2 repayment freeze in April 2027 must be reversed. It isn't moral.

I'm concerned that my debate with Kemi Badenoch this morning distracts from the most immediate problem. In April 2027 Rachel Reeves will freeze the Plan 2 student loan threshold until 2030 which by then will increase graduate repayments by £300/yr more.

This is effectively a unilateral negative breach of the student loan contract. Students were told the threshold would rise with average earnings. No commercial lender would be allowed to do this. The govt shouldn't do it either.

Changing the terms of future students loans is a political decision - people may not like it but it is transparent. Negatively changing the terms of contracts already signed, and long in place, is a breach of natural justice.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@MartinSLewis @GMB Should be interest free at the very least. Ideally write off all student loans. Reeves is out of her depth, she doesn’t understand finance.

[LBC @LBC]

‘We pay £500 million for the Royal Family… and for what?’

Caller Claire lays out the ways in which she thinks the British public is being 'extorted' by the monarchy.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

On a Plan 2 Student loan? Why freezing the repayment threshold from 2027 to 2030 is, in my view, a breach of natural justice. A brief audio explainer

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@LBC @lewis_goodall There should be no interest on student loans. McFadden is clueless, where do they find these people with no financial knowledge?

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

A scandal that has caused immeasurable damage to this country & a failure of policy by governments of all colours since Blair privatised university education.

We cannot continue to treat our students as a revenue stream. It now falls to this Government to clean up the mess, lift this financial millstone from the necks of graduates and return their futures to them.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@SkyNews @AnnaJonesSky @KamaliMelbourne No interest should be charged on the loans. Raise the threshold and reduce the term to 10 years.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@RachelReevesMP What are you going to do about student loans? They should be interest free. It’s a disgrace.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@RachelReevesMP But you support unfair student loans! There should be no interest charged on student loans.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@LabourfutureUK When are you going to stop the graduate tax and stop charging massive interest rates on young people. Your party is a disgrace.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@LBC @lewis_goodall Reed, another one waffling on and trying to justify a terrible tax which needs to be scrapped.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@PeterStefanovi2 She needs to go, out of her depth.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@OliDugmore Reeves is out of her depth, she’s never had a senior finance job and she is Chancellor!

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@PeterStefanovi2 Terrible this Govt isn’t stopping charging interest on student loans.

[Simon Grant @simongrant1000]

@LabourfutureUK When are Labour going to reduce the interest rate charged on student loans. They should be interest free. This Govt is a joke.