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Very much so! Autumn and winter telly in the UK is seriously good. It’s my happy time.

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And it would basically be with your colleagues.

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Claudia Winkleman Asks for Quiet

Watching The Traitors now, and I’ve realised I would absolutely have to be a Faithful. The thought of socialising all day, watching everyone finally go off to bed, and then having to attend another meeting for strategy and scheming? Nope. Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

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I understand the distinction you personally make between the two words - I’m just not sure why that distinction needs to be universal or why we would need to police the language in this particular case.

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I get that - but I don’t understand the narrative you’re trying to convey. When I say my home, I mean where I live, which in my case is a flat - and when buying a house, it would also be buying a home. When I talk about where I grew up, I also refer to it as my childhood home, not house.

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I could be wrong, but I genuinely do think you can call them both. I live in a flat, but it’s still my home.

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Fully get that - and I’m not painting it as the perfect era, however, in 2024 our mortgage on our flat nearly doubled when we came off our fixed term, so it’s something we’re not immune to now either. My point was about affordability at purchase, not nostalgiacising the whole decade. 🐻

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Buy a small family home, no more than three bedrooms, for around 4 times my annual salary and not live in constant worry about the cost of shelter. That’s it. That’s the dream.

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Chris Mason’s CV has just had a nice little polish, methinks.

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I sort of suspected that’s exactly where it was going to go.

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Reform UK took one look at GB News and decided that what it really needed was less subtlety. We’re about to discover previously unimagined quantities of the phrase “BREAKING: NIGEL FARAGE ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS…”

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One Year On and the Tories Are Still not Okay

A year on, the Conservatives are doing better in the polls, but that looks largely down to Reform shitting itself quite visibly in public. So, looking at their conference, is there any substance to this “Kemaissance”? Honestly? I'm not convinced.

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Badenoch’s recovery owes more to Reform falling over than to anything the Tories have done

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Bearly Politics: A Quick Survey

Morning, All, A more adminny post today - and it includes a survey. It is, of course entirely optional, but if you did feel like giving some feedback on Bearly Politics, this is the time to do it. Best, Bear

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One True Sentence @nico0511.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ps worse news..an even more handsome bear is on the block…meet Dave - 2 days in, think he’s settling in

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I mean, I’ve been called a doos before, but I don’t know if that’s the same thing.

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It took us ten years to get to the point where we could even think of booking a show in the Royal Albert Hall. Since getting here, it was always a bucket listy thing. Tonight, on arrival, we got upgraded from right at the top to a Grand Tier Box. I am an extremely lucky and grateful bear.

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The point of the post was to push back against the hyperbolic nonsense that Laila Cunningham keeps putting out about London being a wartorn hellhole - something it most clearly isn’t.

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Don-Key @don-key1959.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I live in London, and not nearly on a six figure salary. Is it expensive? Yes. Is it still a brilliant city to live in? Also yes. Do I have access to good public transport links, amazing amenities and am I surrounded by a lovely community of people? Yes. Does it have issues? Of course it does.

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Early 80's. Me a bricky's labourer, my wife a student nurse. Our first house, £11,450. 10% deposit was roughly 11 weeks pay on my wage. Fast forward to today and 10% deposit on average house for someone earning average wages and you're looking at roughly 10 MONTHS pay. We had it way easier.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the 1960s the UK built one new home for every 14 people. By the 2020 that had fallen to one new home for every 43 people And that, right there, is the story www.theguardian.com/housing-netw...

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the people who came before, including Boomers, Gen-Xers and even to some extent millennials. And I want to stress, this is not an “old vs young” situation, because that will also solve nothing.

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The average salary in 1976 was around £3,744 while the average house cost £12,700. That’s currently seven times the average wage vs around 3.5 times in the 70s. In London it’s even worse. We have to get to the point where we acknowledge that young people do have it significantly harder than

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Hi Sue, In all fairness, many of especially Gen-Z do this as well - the difficulty is less what they’re spending their money on and more the fact that the cost of buying a property seriously outstripped salaries. The current average salary in the UK is £39k, while the average house costs £273k.

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I actually went with the highest cost - it starts at around £6.50 a month for the basic plan.

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The pension conversation has turned, yet again, into Netflix and avocados. A quick thing though. Netflix: £20.99pm / £251.88pa Avo: 0.69p an avo - so £251pa if you had an avo every day. So, just over £500 a year Average 10% deposit? £27,300. So just 54 years to save there FFS.

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London is officially the second-best city in the world

New York was first - and I think it was omitted from the headline as this was from Timeout London.

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But which city took the top spot?

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I… don’t get the point of your post?

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Oh look, another award for London. Someone might want to pass this on to Reform’s mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham. Perhaps she could dial back the relentless shitting on the city I live in by, say, 5%.

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