The triple lock is the only hope keeping pensions up with inflation. Even then, the UK has one of the poorest state pensions in Europe.

Spend all your working life with a retirement age of 65. Then it gets pushed up to 66 and now age 64, am informed it's going up to 67. It's easy to see how benefits costs are going to increase with more elderly folks physically unable to do the jobs they once did and find an easier alternative.

Spring has sprung. Change the hour and swap over to summer tyres. Puolarmaari Parkrun, Espoo, starts the season Saturday 4th April.... Next Saturday! #parkrun

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

No taxation without representation led to a revolution!

New photos give glimpse inside Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests Exclusive: images and testimony from the January uprising, when Iranian security forces are believed to have killed thousands of men, women and children who had flocked on to the streets

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A price can not be put on the soft power of the BBC world service. Across Europe we already miss access to BBC Sounds and the varied radio output that gave.

I suspect the HMRC gave early retirement or redundancy to the more expensive staff. The more experienced who could stand a chance of chasing the big boys. Pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

If you live in the country, pay the tax owed there. If a company operates in the country, pay the tax there without these sleight of hand accounting practices transferring it to an off shore business or head office elsewhere.

The USA already controls TicToc, Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Are they not wasting tax payers money for this bribe thanking right-wing organisations for their support?

Warmed up to -9 today. Hurrah! The piste basher has been through, which makes Nordic skiing much easier.

It's so cold (-18), hence an indoors activity. The studio, and now a museum of the famous Finnish painter Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

A strange glow on the horizon. A rarity over the last couple of months in Southern Finland.

We are lucky to have so many swimming pools within 8km of home. This is the newest 50m pool.

Tory party defecating to Reform 💩

Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.

👉NEW -- Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders

by John McEvoy

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-...

Rantings of a mad man

A possibility if the legs hold out. Went X country skiing yesterday

Last week Lux. Where to this week?

HS2b

The shadow fleet of old tankers, that swap their flag depending on what sanctions their avoiding, need taking off the seas. They are also an ecological disaster waiting to happen with their bad safety record, poor maintenance and dubious insurance cover.

This shadow fleet of tankers change their flag depending on the sanctions they're breaking. So is it piracy to remove these tankers carrying sanctioned oil? There are also big questions about their insurance and safety condition as they tend to be old ships that should have been scrapped by now.

We don't often see a temperature warning symbol so it must be fairly cold 🥶

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Criminal gangs have built a mountain of illegal waste by the River Cherwell.

The police are calling the mega fly-tipping across the county ‘the new narcotics’. It’s time Labour clean this mess up in Oxfordshire and everywhere else.

Why is a democratic country entertaining a monster instead of arresting him with the ICC warrant?

The best climate books to give and read over the holidays Fiction and nonfiction picks (some quite uplifting) for closing out 2025

Thanks @climateandcap.bsky.social & @blairpalese.bsky.social for listing #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly) on your list of "The best climate books to give and read over the holidays" www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-best-cli...

What happened to the previous Russian interference investigation? Did Boris bury it??

Winter tyre time