🤑 The average FTSE 100 CEO is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker.
⚖️ The Green Party would introduce a 10:1 pay ratio, meaning the highest-paid employee cannot earn more than ten times the lowest-paid.
Per reporting:
- U16s: total social media ban, across the board
- 16, 17: No social media after dinner
- Watching live streams: banned
VPN providers are going to make piles of money.
There’s a clear pattern here: removing trial by jury for a whole layer of cases; blocking Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the country; the Filton 4 being sentenced as terrorists but not charged as terrorists (yes, really); a British citizen in Russia having his citizenship removed without being charged with anything; stuff like this - constantly.
It’s becoming so normal now. There’s a great phrase ‘turnkey tyranny’: you might like the people doing this today, or despise those on the receiving end, but tomorrow it WILL be different. The end point is very obvious. And these tools, and this trajectory, in the wrong hands, is quite a terrifying thought.
The Inequality Movement in the UK doesn't seem to care one bit about the the slew of existing forces compressing wages & consumption in this country. As long as billionaires (or trillionaires) exist anywhere, even if not in our country, it's evidence that We're Not Doing Enough.
Max drives like if he doesn't hit every single apex Kelly will feed his cats cyanide pills meanwhile you literally tell Leclerc is in his cockpit trying to decide if he should use the Guerlain or Chanel Sublimage face serum after the race. Yet his fans will say hes generational
a friend did a college project about right wing politics in Czechia and one thing that was funny to her, and funny to me, is that Czechia is hyper tweaking about this issue despite having basically no 3rd world migrants either legal or illegal and basically no Muslim population
Drama on Czech X after anti-migrant Prime Minister Andrej Babiš teams up with an alt girl with a nosering influencer to promote himself. One detractor complains about it and others call him gay in response. Czechia continues to have most advanced anti-migrant politics in the west
On a separate note, Purple Aki in any other era would be a Loch Ness monster type myth, imagine trying to tell someone there is a random 6’5 black guy who randomly pops up in different cities in England just to squeeze people’s muscles without sounding like a deluded racist
I was going to do a thread on this, but I'd rather enjoy the World Cup. This Britain does exist. The problem is that many people have never encountered it, so they assume it's fictional. Equally, it cannot be assumed to be representative of the national experience. It isn't.
🚨 NEW: The Government has announced all Year 13 pupils starting university this September will be offered the MenB vaccine
The first dose will be given from July and the second in August
Under-25s starting university for the first time will also be eligible
I am genuinely interested in the counter factual where winter fuel didn’t happen. Nearly 2 years on it still comes up more often than not in focus groups (and contrary to what some assume just as often from non pensioners) as the moment people lost faith in Starmer and his Govt
Tbh before the campaign I thought Burnham would be a clear improvement over Starmer, but given how many u-turns Burnham’s made in just the past few weeks, I’m not so sure now. It just feels like he’s just making it up as he goes along with no real plan for the country.
NEW: Burnham *rules out* awarding financial compensation to Waspi women demanding billions of pounds, following an angry backlash within Labour
Greater Manchester mayor has instead floated the idea of offering early access to cheaper travel schemes as recompense
https://t.co/J2IMe6jLW2