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New post: The Big Picture for the forthcoming UK Budget that the media largely ignores mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-... Because of tax rises already set in place, as well as recent data and current plans, the UK has the strongest 'fiscal credibility' of all the G7 economies.

Sigh. Last line of this story "As a proportion of the economy, debt was ​lower than a year earlier, the ONS said."

Utterly misleading headline. Does an interviewee not get consulted about headlines for a piece like this?

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

I basically think if you've ever written a 'defence spending has to go up' column (and I've written a fair few), you have no business asking any one else to take a hit from *that* if you won't even take the hit of not being on X.

This is the same San Diego that Trump has invited Iran to "take out"? BBC News - ​​Watch: USS Abraham Lincoln docks after 10-month mission - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Our contemporaries are having kids already? 😮

Wonderful thread

LOL BBC News - Man jailed for 15 years over Ulez camera blast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drinking wine in a pub. An appalling state of affairs indeed.

So now we don't need AI after all? Right?

I remember back in the day an old lefty explaining how the Thatcherite Right proudly used "radical right" to falsely appropriate the positiveness of radicalism associated with the Left, in the same way the Nazis used "socialist".

Wait, this is the same Telegraph that rails against the spendthrift ways of Gen Z for buying a sandwich for lunch instead of living entirely on the cheapest boiled greens available because that way they’ll have a house deposit saved in a mere 15 years? They need to make their mind up.

Wait, is this real? 😯 Not generated with the auto Telegraph headline generator?

The RNLI a voluntary service, and are real life heroes. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Taking a shadowy super rich US businessman to some desolate Clacton beer garden for Oysters is the funniest thing IMO.

The polling company JL Partners is unwilling to follow the rules, so should not be in the polling council. Also the Telegraph appears to have lied about the provenance of the poll it published. Even if they didn't know that Reform commissioned it, it was dishonest to suggest it was a Telegraph poll.

In a now deleted tweet, Brain of Britain, Adam Brooks, criticises Andy Burnham's performance at PMQs, even though it doesn't take place until tomorrow.

This article is utter garbage because it never mentions demand, it never mentions composition of 'traders' portfolios (more LNG, less pipe) and it buried this 2/3 of the way down in an article with 'panic' in the headline. Shameful gutter nonsense. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.

I see all of the anecdatalists are out in force today after that Times shit-stirring about bis stops. The nearly hit wards will have to declare a major incident by tea-time.

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Binface's helmet looks great for eclipse watching.

There are no eclipse glasses left but the shops are full of pedo glasses.

They're calling them "mega-boats" for christ's sake

or boycott it in solidarity with the Sahrawi? africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

What's the etiquette here? Should Carapaz have waited? (Although I think he'd have beaten Kuss anyway on the final climb)

Barrister Rajiv Menon KC is facing potentially two-years in prison for doing his job. This has never happened in British legal history. Sign the petition 👇 https://netpol.org/2026/07/15/stop-the-prosecution-of-rajiv-menon-save-britains-juries/

SUVs are higher at the front and three times more likely to kill a child when they hit them. SUV drivers drag the child under their vehicle, and then they crush the child to death. It's incredible that SUVs don't have higher tax, and why not lower speed limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Driverless car yet again. Amazing. BBC News - Man critically injured after car hits pedestrians in Arnold - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

Great thread.

Ice cream machines and doughnuts for those rugged warfighters.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social