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In light of this @BBCLondonNews please take a gander at the bill I just received for my building's 4-year-old heat network, controlled by @Redrow. The bottom figure is usage...
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevn…
The £4 standing charge was introduced in July 2025 to make up for historical backbilling and we revert to £2 in January 2026. We also got a last minute demand for all of 2024 before they hit the Ofgem cutoff. Now all that's sorted, they've decided they'd like to keep the £4pd...
I’ll say one thing for this series of #RHOSLC - it’s really renewing my desire to go to Greece (and possibly stay there all winter…)
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A newly created Polymarket account invested over $30,000 yesterday in Maduro's exit. The US then took Maduro into custody overnight, and the trader profited $400,000 in less than 24 hours. Insider trading is not only allowed on prediction markets; it's encouraged.
I think it might be a British person but I never quite *got* why everyone loves Fran Lebowitz but I did find this interview hysterically funny...I aspire to be able to burst everyone's balloon like this when I am old...
variety.com/2025/film/news/f…
🎵 ‘it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas’ 🎵
Families who spent, in some cases, hundreds of pounds to attend a Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Christmas drone show have described it as a 'shambles' and a 'disaster'.
itv.com/news/meridian/2025-1…
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Could we run out of water? “People would be shocked if they knew just how close we’ve come", a former Environment Agency officer told me. To many on this damp little island, the idea’s preposterous. But it’s a very real threat. Here's what I know...
watershedinvestigations.com/…
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This FT graph showing the student loans threshold and the minimum wage converging is quite the thing.
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I can only speak to us who have plan 2 student loans, but my marginal tax will be 51% on any earnings above £50k. Makes it really difficult to justify picking up any additional shifts, or not reducing my existing hours. Such a backwards system that disincentivises working hard.
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.@DanNeidle is right and I would add: it's the young grads on ~£50-80k who are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the freeze.
A 30 year old earning 50% above median wages would have paid ~£10-11k in taxes and loan repayments in 2020. A 30 year old in 2030 will pay almost double that, a huge rise relative to wage growth.
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So triple-locked pensions and benefits rise with inflation -- but not tax thresholds or student loan repayment levels? That seems weird to me, totally unequal fiscal drag on working people vs recipients of state spending.
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Treasury confirms threshold increases will see basic state pensions now subject to income tax
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There are now 25 fire engines and 150 firefighters responding to the fire in #Southall.
This will be a protracted incident with crews carrying out firefighting operations throughout the day.
More info london-fire.gov.uk/incidents…
ALT A firefighter using a ground monitor to project water onto a burning structure.
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Read my full exposé for @_TheLondoner here:
the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-00…
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The more you think about it, the more extraordinary - and disturbing - it is...
A group of hackers have singlehandedly caused a fall in UK GDP. Weeks ahead of the Budget.
Can anyone think of a parallel in recent economic history? I can't.
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guy who’s listened to 10 taylor swift songs: you have to listen to fearless
guy who’s listened to 100 taylor swift songs: you have to listen to coney island from the underground album evermore
guy who’s listened to 1000 taylor swift songs: you have to listen to fearless
