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First view of #strictly this series. Not great is it? Its like when you only relaise how great a footballer is/was when he is out of the team through injury or been transferred. Massive Winkelman shaped hole.

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Dogs have to be right wing surely. Compliant. Value traditional family. Routines such as Set mealtimes. Suspicious about outsiders and other breeds. Live within and respect hierarchies.

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Yes. Still higher than id have thought.

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The no opinion/dont know nunbers are startlingly high. After 10 years many of these must be 'won't vote'. Fear is they would turn into 'leave' as clearly not engaged and likely susceptible to Simplistic Facebook arguments.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interesting. Maybe more for the non-celeb version, but i can't see how the 'game stops' having seen the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Inverness airport where they actually sleep. There is no way they wouldnt be speculating away from the cameras or avoid each other.

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UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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I am a Wealth Tax man but not sure markets would let us do that yet. All the chat about triple lock may enable us to have a national convo re pension fairness. Inter generational. Db v dc. Higher rate tax relief on DC etc. Demographics mean much of current sysyem not sustainable.

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5% & 3% is default minimum in private sector via Auto Enrolment, I think. I am not advocating race to bottom but that discrepancy cannot be right. Make DB i dunno, 10% and 20% and give half savings to HMRC and half to pay rises for those in DB schemes. Civil Service Pension employer is 29% employer

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My 28 yo daughter is on an NHS DB scheme.

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Hell yes. I mean admittedly contribution levels are high but employer contribs aka taxpayers contribs are sky high, as are benefits compared with DC. I am convinced cutting DB conts employer/employee would be a win win if you used some of the savings to exchequer to give a pay rise today to ppl.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do you think Suella may have been radicalised by her husband? She is pretty batshit. So fucking weird to see such racist bile coming out of an Asian woman's mouth. #bbcqt

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Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

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A doctor too. A DB pension, therefore. Id have given my right arm to have a DB pension.

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Wqtch the Martin Lewis explainer. Its still a 2.5x lock. TL, current cost of DB and higher reate tax relief on private pensions are all unadfordable in long term. Nationak Care Service of far more benefit to a care recipient than a ratcheted TL enhancement. The TL never was the default baseline.

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Well the National Care Service proposed will prevent the need to sell hpuses. You can't have it all ways. Best wishes.

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Its nowhere near as binary as youre making out. 50 years! Sure fees but its just not right to say a 50 year retirement with just state pension is the norm. And the minimum wage comparison doesnt hold. Many (not all) pensioners asset rich, with savings.

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It wont be worthless. 40 years at £25kx8% (5% employer/3% employee as per AE) at 5% gth pa is £267k. About £15K income pa on current annuity rates.

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I think looking at triple lock and combining with part funding of National Care Service is a great first move. Loads can be done. Use tax/benefits to incentivise downsizing etc. Would reduce need for pension credit claims etc, put money in pensioners' povlckets and get housing market moving etc.

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Its not just state pensions that need to be part of a broader convo. Higher rate tax relief on private pensions and c. 29% 'employer'/taxpayer contribs to Civil Servants' pensions amd other DB are also obvious areas that can be looked at alongside triple lock.

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