Spot on!

Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many

"Around 1.2 million unpaid carers in the UK are estimated to be living in poverty, (with 400,000 in deep poverty)."

Unpaid carers sacrifice their own lives to look after someone.

And there's so much more in this article. It's truly grim.

Well done starmer 🖕

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The truth matters!

International Women's Day: Concerns equality is 'going backwards' Three women who spoke with BBC Wales are concerned some people feel gender equality has gone too far.

It's gone nowhere near far enough, but fake resentment is being stoked up among certain men and fed on by certain politicians, aided by social media. No one presents equality as an opportunity for everyone to escape from stereotypes, they thrive on exploiting difference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

UK gambling companies covertly track visitors to their websites and sending data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.

Meta uses the data to flood gamblers with ads for casinos and betting sites.

Will Govt stand up to predatory corporations?

Really enjoyed that Carrick, as always your analysis is fascinating.

Carrick is always an interesting read. Worth a few mins to read over a cuppa and follow.👇🏼

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment

Just dreadful!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My YouTube rambles on the Ireland squad features some head to head statistical comparisons

Viewer discretion is advised 🥵

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Sad news about Jimmy Carter, he was a really decent person.

Nollaig shona dhaoibh go léir!

I fancied Ulster, good result for Munster though!

Number Crunching (from Private Eye) 5 years to rebuild Notre Dame 7.5 years since Grenfell and 85% of remediation work still not done.

This country needs to pull its finger out on many fronts.

Every time the figures come out, the media describe them as "the number of homeless". This is false. It's always reinforced with a photo of a rough sleeper, a group explicitly excluded from the figures. If it's poor journalism with no agenda, then it's remarkably consistent in sparing the govt #ge24

The European Federation of Journalists—the largest organization of journalists in Europe—announced that they’ll stop posting on Twitter as of January 20, 2025: “We can no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

1/12 ARE WE USING THE WRONG WORDS?
What if we talked more of “sharing” and less of “socialism”? What if we spoke more about “fairness” and less about “equality”, and more about “unfairness” instead of “inequality”? What if we relentlessly shamed the rich hoarders? A thread… 🧵

I lost this ring in the toilets in Bounce in Farringdon tonight. It’s hardly worth anything, but it’s a ring my dad gave my mum and it’s priceless to me now that he’s not here. It’s gold, with a diagonal band of green stones on it. If you find it can you please get it back to me

Ian Hislop brilliantly explains which 'farmers' will actually pay 20% inheritance tax - the landowner’s name at the end will shock you. #ukpolitics

Best of luck mate, enjoy!

People who think professional wrestling is real think that the allegations of covering up sexual assault against Linda McMahon and her husband Vince are fake.

Make it make sense.

How many of these do we have?