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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 1h

omg it’s over! Don’t buy their online shit. It’s Shein polyester with a Ted logo.

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🏳️‍🌈Ryanando🏳️‍🌈 @ryanando.bsky.social · 2h

They could always sell the £1million house and then.............. Have nowhere to live unless they move to a completely different area with zero support network in their 70s? Yes not everyone in a 1m house is poor. Yes, some are and it's not as easy as just sell up or remortgage at that point. 🤷

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3h

When it comes to pensioners having “assets”like valuable houses, bearing in mind it’s not just a house it’s a home with decades of memories, until it’s absolutely necessary for care reasons etc my 86 year old mother will moving over my dead body!

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3h

God when are we going to tax wealth in this country and stop dickheads like the Duke of Westminster and Charles Windsor avoid inheritance tax instead oh fighting over crumbs

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously if I knew I was about to be means tested for a state pension and had savings my holidays would be 5 star and my Bentley fully specced!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4h

Living in a £1 million house =/= having £1 million of disposable income (ask me how i know) and firm believer that one of the richest nations in the world can have neither pensioner nor child poverty

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4h

Somewhere in BMW is a manager who has lifelong experience who knows not to do something like say, put the fuel tank behind the rear bumper and AI hasn’t got this knowledge as it’s not in the sources they’ve scraped 💥

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4h

Just to add to this pension discussion my mum doesn’t get the full state pension as she did not amass 35 years of Ni contributions this will apply to a lot of women some of whom won’t have any other source of income

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 5h

And the same about food is true in the States. The only well-spiced "American" food is from other cultures...and even in the best cities like NY, you can't get any Indian food as good as the most average or even mediocre Indian food in the UK, and I include sauces in jars.

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sexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 6h

British Indian food slaps and I'm sad I can't get it in Australia

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 6h

We keep telling them that everyone in the UK has eaten British Indian food even the smallest towns and they’re like “haha they’re not British” and they were calling this latest viral take “comedy genius”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 7h

Back before I quit my PhD, I kept coming up against this data while trying to write about the effect of austerity on people's social and personal lives. Those cuts have been so big and so devastating for the affected local areas.

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 7h

Just straight-up removing money and services from local economies and then acting mystified when high streets die and the NHS is under increased pressure.

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Space Yak 🇻🇪🇨🇺🇵🇸 @spaceyak.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know but Eric Pickles got a knighthood for it.

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Joel @thatjoelfella.bsky.social · 8h

The tories changed to funding formula to favour tory councils too, more money used to be given to poorer areas, they redistributed it on the basis of age so areas with older populations got more.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 8h

It wasn't just the funding cuts either, at the same time David Cameron decided to switch more services from central to local government, telling them they had to do more with less

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11h

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 8h

Why is this ruinous and uncorrected tory austerity rarely discussed?

During the 2010s, councils' overall core funding per person fell by 26% in real terms, on average, with higher council tax revenues only partially offsetting a 46% fall in funding from central government. But these cuts affected areas differently: in the most deprived tenth of councils, funding per person fell by 35%, compared with 15% in the least deprived areas. Councils in the North and London were also relatively harder hit.

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David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social · 9h

I'll never be convinced a government is taking the country's issues seriously unless they announce truly massive increases to local authority budgets alongside whatever other improvements they suggest.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 9h

Always been struck by the same. Other countries respect and look after elders…in the UK your “value” is only judged economically - it is a disturbing cult!

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 9h

Dawn Foster was right about him from Day One, and the Guardian fired her for it.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve always said this country is total bad vibes when it comes to elders when you visit other countries and see old people enjoying themselves and very much part of society. And people proposing more pensioner poverty prove my point. Anyone who refers to funding elders as a “burden” - vile

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The UK devotes a smaller percentage of its GDP to state pensions and pensioner benefits than most other advanced economies." commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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Pensions: international comparisons

A look at how UK pensions compare with those in other countries. The note compares the UK state pension with similar systems in Europe and goes on to look more broadly at the structural differences in...

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

Really fucking gullible or playing the game so they can return to cosy two party politics. Why not both

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

A US gallon of diesel in the UK is about $10…

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

Remember when Jeremy Corbyn promised 2 billion trees and it was explained how this is indeed possible and how THEY laughed !

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 9h

It's the incel human resources meme. Instead the handsome man is Andy Burnham saying better things are possible, and the other man is Jeremy corbyn saying better things are possible. Ian dunt is saying awful you're sweet to Burnham I'm calling human resources on Jeremy

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h

Most TV is just this now.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 9h

“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

A key point people are missing about the link to earning in the triple lock

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

This is what happens when you hire a Director General from Google

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turns out the dead-eyed tax dodging tech ghoul funding the destruction of democracies & global mass surveillance is actually a sound man who gave the local GAA a bit of a dig-out. Well this changes EVERYTHING. www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

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Mark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to Waterford GAA clubs after buying castle in the area

Meta founder and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle in August

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P. Thomas Johnson 🇨🇦🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 21h

Not even that long ago, leaders of all the main parties would at the very least put on the pretense of caring about social cohesion & people of colour with statements of support - "we see you and we support you" kind of thing, now they can't even be arsed to pretend.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h

They are actually nationalising Avanti trains though so I’ll give them that. The evil is DEFEATED

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h

I think they may be missing the point of why Heated Rivalry was popular

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 23h

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The clappy emoji is currently being so over used by a lot of people who are - unaffected by current government actions - won’t be bothered that Burnham will do nothing but tinker around the edges for the next 3 yrs - be thoroughly disappointed when Burnham/Labour fail to follow through in 2029

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h

There’s a lot of saying but not much evidence of doing Ian

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