UK economy: Surprise fall in unemployment rate to 4.9% ONS data shows the jobless rate at its lowest level since last summer, but wage rises falling back towards the pace of inflation in the economy.

Unemployment fell...before Trump's Iran war.

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US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

Make Aid not War

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'Trump mini-me, Farage, is profiteering in plain sight with shameless appeals' "The potential windfall from persuading punters to put their own money onto his gravy train could potentially dwarf the seven-figures he’s already invoiced from numerous second jobs promot...

Reform is a business profiting Trump mini-me Nigel Farage with a political party attached.

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Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100,000 in corporation tax Deputy leader ran shell companies that reportedly did not pay tax on profits from 2020 to 2022, during which time his firm donated £1.1m to party

Will Reform deputy leader Richard Tice now resign over fresh allegations about nudging another £100,000 tax after he demanded Angela Rayner quit over £40,000?

Changed his tune.

"A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors."

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The Private Eye Players Present: Prince Harry's DMs - HIGHLIGHT YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine

Harry "Mr Mischief" Mountbatten-Windsor's messages with a Daily Mail journalist he insists he didn't know was a journalist are a wincing insight into his(and her) privileged world and could influence the High Court case.

Read by @PrivateEyeNews.

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I adore the knitted hats and scarves put on the Conversation Piece 22 bronze figures by Juan Muñoz in South Shields.

Keeps them warm when it’s windy on the seafront.

Episode 31: Call that a ceasefire? YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire

Call that a ceasefire?

Trump lost his war but despite everything Starmer had a good war because he had no war.

The latest Pierce Vs Maguire

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A small incident in the great outdoors On campervan life, bladder management and the growing usefulness of artificial intelligence.

"Though I am no longer in the spotlight, there’s always the Kevin Maguire column in the New Statesman to factor in to my decision making."

Gave it up recently after 21 yrs but would've included @tom_watson locked in his camper van needing the toilet 🙂

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'Key provisions in Employment Rights Act and scrapping of two-child benefit cap come into force today' - LabourList Millions are set to benefit from legislation which comes into force today to improve workers' rights and end the two child limit.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Better job rights from today to make work pay and lifting nearly half a million kids out of poverty…

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Happy Easter

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'Labour must tackle Reform and Tories before their Trump fascination escalates' Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially supported Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s disastrous war on Iran, which has led to Trumpflation with petrol now up 17p and diesel 34p a litre

Farage and Badenoch deserve to pay a high price for worshipping Trump and backing his Iran war.until it backfired.

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Farage and Reform wasted police time?

A Greater Manchester Police investigation found no evidence of any intent to influence or stop any person from voting at the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Migrants are making our saves, tackling, passing and scoring the goals yet a Right-wing co-owner could invite the anti-migrant head of an anti-migrant party to the club?

We’re enjoying a great season but this @SunderlandAFC own goal would be stupid.

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Episode 30. Why Has Huw Edwards Not Been Jailed? YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire

Trumpflation, fossil fools, war, Huw Edwards, that missing mobile and no repairing Bob Monkhouse's bad jokes.

Monkhouse said people laughed when he announced he wanted to be a comedian then didn't when he was.

The latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast.

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Don't try to out-Reform the Hard Right Reform is the call in a special "Babelfish" paper sent by Labour donor Dale Vince to Starmer, Ministers, MPs and Peers.

Babel fish BTW in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy put into ears would translate languages

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Matt Goodwin's intellectual suicide In his new book, Reform's in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash

Yep and couldn't happen to a nicer Hard Right prat.

"Matt Goodwin’s intellectual suicide. In his new book, Reform’s in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash."

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Fair point ⚽️😆

Derby day will be tasty on Sunday between Newcastle-Sunderland at St James’ Park but it really was blood and thunder here.

The Colosseum is one of the few monuments I’ve visited more stunning inside than outside.

Lovely Rome weather anarl.

Buckle up

Episode 29. Ambitious Angela Rises From The Ashes YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire

Forcing people building new lives in Britain to wait much longer before they are given security is cruel, unfair and counter-productive but is it really, as Angela Rayner says, "unBritish"?

Pierce Vs Maguire

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Make them pay every single penny owed.

End of.

Trump urges UK and others to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks - live updates Meanwhile, sirens are triggered in Jerusalem, with the Israeli military saying it has detected new attacks from Iran.

Tell Trump No.

We saw him boast he didn't need Britain's help.

The madman's lost control of a war he couldn't justify and doesn't know how to end.

"Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks."

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‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives

Happened in Iraq, now happening in Iran.

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Essex Echo journalist donates kidney to teenager after mum's appeal - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage Feature writer turned out to be a match

Bloody hell 👏

And before you ask, the answer here is No.

I'm not brave enough.

"Journalist donates kidney to teenager after appeal to local newspaper.'

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RIP

The humiliating truth about HSTikkyTokky's £20m fortune He has finally achieved the global attention he long craved as one of the toxic male influencers featured in Louis Theroux' s hit new Netflix documentary Inside The Manosphere.

Who would've thought "influencer" HSTikkyTokky could be accused of being a manosphere fake.

There is another Dubai angle, obvs.

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What did they do and talk about with him?

More questions for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Why only fossil fools would blame renewable energy for a fossil fuel crisis.

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Rachel Reeves issues stern 'exploitation' warning to fuel firms amid price hikes Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will meet fuel industry bosses for Downing Street roundtable in wake of the Middle East fall-out which has seen fuel costs soar

Fuel industry is already price gouging in the UK, ramping up prices for petrol(+7p a litre), diesel(16p) and heating oil(doubled) that was ready for sale in the country.

Hammer the profiteers.

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Middle East crisis live: explosions shake Dubai as rescue effort continues after US military plane crashes in Iraq Blasts heard while fire sends thick smoke across financial hub; US central command says crash in ‘friendly airspace’ was not due to hostile or friendly fire

Operation Epic Fail

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