'Zack Polanski is calling for the introduction of a 10:1 Pay Ratio as part of a package to tackle the "affordability crisis". ... a good idea?'
via Politics UK

Yes - it starts to tackle obscene wealth
of the superrich who - not migrants - create
poverty, wars & climate change

‘Pestering for a role’: how Mandelson talked his way back into the Labour fold Officials, MPs and other insiders recall a need for clarity and Blair-era frisson before election – even if Sue Gray was wary

But do see this. Mandelson‘s career moves preceded Trump’s election. The sui generis argument may have been the clincher, but the preparatory work was extensive.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not sure about going to the open casket funeral. Remains to be seen.

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

Denmark ran their entire country on renewables for all of March, just Wind and Solar.

If the UK can't manage full renewables by the end of this parliament, it will be a catastrophic failure caused entirely by corruption.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

We should start removing the citizenship of weasels like this. If you don’t like paying your taxes and want to live in another country, fine, go, but you won’t be getting back in

"There is no alternative to a strong UK EU relationship" is quite the message from the European Parliament President, and not one you would have heard in Brussels or London even six months ago.

There was no good way to organise this visit and nothing gained by sending him. A severe risk to national dignity, undertaken for no advantage whatsoever.

Brits warned cost of living will rise worse-than-feared for two years due to war The Washington-based International Monetary Fund slashes forecasts for UK economic growth and warned the global outlook has “abruptly darkened”

GOP recession?

UK households 'to suffer highest inflation of any G7 country over next 2 years'.
By Graham Hiscott.

"Households in the UK will endure a worse-than-feared cost of living spike for the next two years due to the Iran war, a top body has warned."

www.mirror.co.uk/money/global...

"Growth in GDP per capita will be the second weakest in the G7 in Britain over the next half decade, experts predict, behind other large economies like the US, France, Canada, Germany and even Italy!"

No

UK economy faces hardest hit from Iran war of G7, says IMF Growth in Britain is forecast to take the biggest knock from the conflict, leading to the joint-highest inflation of the group of seven rich nations

Wrecked by the financial crisis, some of the most savage austerity in the aftermath; hardest hit by Covid and now hit hardest by America’s disastrous new war. Did something uniquely enfeebling happen in Britain over the last, say, 50 years that left us with very little resilience or spare capacity?

The League Against Cruel Sports is on BlueSky and I will think the world of any of you that follow them

@leagueacs.bsky.social

#AnimalRights
#AnimalWelfare

The US military has 22 sites in the UK.

Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran.

This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more.

The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

This is why the 25th Amendment exists.

This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment.

To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.

The President of the United States commemorates Easter by threatening war crimes and dropping an F-bomb

We need a new president, immediately, insomuch as this one has lost all control over his faculties

Old for having a kid

The Handmaids of Nashville, carrying signs with the names of the men who are in the Epstein files.🔥🗽

I’m a ‘sandwich-generation’ caregiver. Chances are you will be, too Some 16 million Americans in mid-life caring for aging relatives and minor children at the same time - and those numbers are expected to grow significantly in the coming decades. America isn’t ready, Julia Musto discovers

I’m a ‘sandwich-generation’ caregiver. Chances are you will be, too

The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮‍💨

Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝

3,000+ events this Saturday.
Choose your side.
March 28.
#NoKings2026

Helen Whateley tried to get to grips with the Iran war in real time and was so bad even Fiona Bruce was moved to intervene
www.thepoke.com/2026/03/20/helen-whateley-tried-to-get-to-grips-with-the-iran-war-in-real-time-and-was-so-bad-even-fiona-bruce-was-moved-to-intervene/

Evil little shits

It’s ironic that the people who waffle on the most about being free from the state and big business are triggered by bikes and a few solar panels on roofs.

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Recap:

Hour 1: We hit them like they’ve never been hit before.

Day 1: We already won this war. It was easy. Yay us.

Day 5: We don’t need any help. Don’t bother showing up after the war is over. Losers.

Day 13: Why isn’t the world helping us? There will be be consequences.

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

Trump: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much."

What the "very" giveth, the "pretty much" taketh away.

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies | George Monbiot If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...