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Los periodistas británicos son mucho más duros que los estadounidenses. Por eso pasan cosas como esta:
(El entrevistado es Steven Cortes, aliado de Donald Trump. El entrevistador es Mehdi Hasan).
So let me get this right, you can be a criminal and enter America without a passport???
🤔
Bolsonaro / Trump
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Defrauded the UK taxpayer out of £120m
Not in prison
Never been prosecuted
Never paid back a penny
Still a peer
There's your two tier justice system
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Kemi Badenoch: “The Conservatives don’t believe in a something‑for‑nothing culture”
It would appear that not everyone got the memo.
@BBCBreakfast @GMB
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Here is how it works.
Thatcher convinced your grandad to buy his council house where he was born. Then he moved upmarket and paid off his mortgage. Then after your grandma died, he had to move in a home run by Joe Enrepreneur. After a short while he was out of savings and needed to sell his house to pay for his care. RJoe Entrepreneur moved to Monaco to avid paying taxes.
That was Tory Britain.
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'Ending' the State Pension triple lock: what is really likely to happen? Many are confused, and think the State Pension won't rise. Actually the change is subtle, it's about loosening, not ending, one of the three locks - the link to average earnings. So I want to try to explain as simply as I can.
CURRENT TRIPLE LOCK
The State Pension(s) rise each April by highest of:
- 2.5%
- CPI inflation
- Average earnings growth
[State Pension(s) as it applies to the new State Pension and older basic State Pension. Though not the old additional State Pensions (eg SERPS) and a few other additional pension which only go up with CPI. The new system will likely be similar.]
PROPOSED NEW SYSTEM
The State Pension(s) will rise each April by at least the higher of:
- 2.5%
- CPI inflation
The 'at least' is because it will also rise due to average earnings, but not specifically for that year instead over a longer period.
Yet the exact mechanisms aren't set out, so I'm going to use one example of a way it could work, where the rise keeps up with average earnings since the system start date of 2030, as I think its easier to understand.
HOW THIS COULD WORK IN PRACTICE
Here's a made up example to set it out...
Current System:
Year 1: Inflation 3%, earnings up 2%. Pension rises 3%.
Year 2: Inflation 4%, earnings up 6%. Pension rises 6%.
Year 3: Inflation 3%, earnings up 1%. Pension rises 3%.
TOTAL RISE: 12.5% over the 3yrs as the increases compound.
New system:
Year 1: Inflation 3%, earnings up 2%. So it rises 3%.
Year 2: Inflation 4%, earnings up 6%.
A rise of only 4% would be a total rise since the start of 7.1%, yet that's less than the total rise in average earnings of 8.1%. So the Pension would rise about 5% that year to match the total rise in average earnings.
Year 3: Inflation 3%, earnings up 1%, so it rises by 3%.
TOTAL RISE: 11.4% over the three years
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I hope that makes sense, again this is just a rough example to give you an idea as best as I understand it, but I think I'm in the ballpark.
I will try and do a video on it if time as that may make it easier to understand.
The BBC reporting that the farmer who alerted the emergency services to the RAF Fairford attempted terror attack initially tried to call the the MOD Police at RAF Fairford, only to find that they didn’t pick up!!! 😳
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Andrew Neil on #bbcqt: "The big problem we face is 6.7 million adults of working age who aren't working and are living on out-of-work benefits. 6.7 million. No country can prosper with that number of people able to work who are not working."
The first half is broadly right. DWP figures show 6.7 million people in Great Britain claimed some combination of out-of-work benefits in March 2026. However, the second half is misinformation because it misdescribes that statistic.
DWP's out-of-work benefits category deliberately includes people the state has assessed as unable to work, or does not currently expect to work.
DWP's own breakdown shows that 4.6 million of the 6.7 million, around 68%, have no work requirements at all.
DWP explains that this is generally because they are too sick to work or are the main carer for a very young child. That group includes 2.8 million Universal Credit claimants on the health route and 390,000 on Employment and Support Allowance and older incapacity benefits.
Only 2.2 million, about a third, are expected to take any steps towards work, and 590,000 of those are themselves on the health route.
Treating the whole 6.7 million as available labour turns a count of claimants into a count of idle workers, which the data simply does not support.
The official labour market figures tell a very different story. The ONS puts unemployment, meaning people actively looking for and available for work, at 1.78 million for May to July 2026. The Learning and Work Institute estimates that 3.9 million people are out of work but say they want a job, and that there are 5.5 of them for every vacancy.
There is a serious debate to be had about rising sickness claims and appropriate support. It is not helped by presenting people the state itself has judged unable to work, or not required to, as if they were simply choosing not to.
Nobody challenged Neil. Nobody corrected the misinformation. Neil got a round of applause. Someone could have told Fiona Bruce the facts in less than a minute. This is just one example which helps explain why many people understandably treat @bbcquestiontime as a joke.
Sources: DWP Benefit Combinations, March 2026; ONS/House of Commons Library, September 2026; Learning and Work Institute, September 2026.
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Ed’s always had the reputation of being one of the decent ones. The rare guy in the music industry who actually lifts people up, nurtures them and genuinely sees music as a way to inspire and bring people together. His entire vibe is wholesome and earnest, the kind of guy who believes in the power of love and all that (it’s way too kumbaya and saccharine for my tastes).
Which is what makes this whole affair so grim.
Because he should be the last person to receive so much hate and vitriol.
When he says he’s lost friends over this, the thing that jumps out to me is the really bad behavior of his “friends” in the music industry.
You know, the ones he actually invited out on his massive tour. Macklemore and the other opening acts get bigger crowds, bigger paydays and a platform most of them wouldn’t have had on their own.
First, Macklemore used Ed’s stage to make the night all about his own cause. Bro you’re the opening act, nobody is paying for those tickets to see you.
Second, after Robert Kraft and the other stadium owners made it clear the shows weren’t happening with Macklemore on the bill, what did he do? He threw his “friend” under the bus.
The decent move would’ve been for Macklemore to say to the public, “this wasn’t Ed’s fault. Don’t turn him into the villain.”
Instead he’s watched Ed take every arrow on social media and get churned through a full-blown media storm. He lets the climate in which activists hysterically accuse Ed of being complicit in genocide and post absurd cartoons of him personally shooting a Palestinian kid with an RPG fester and bloom.
There were lots of things Macklemore could’ve said to take some of the heat off the man who actually put him on that stage. But he didn’t.
Neither did the other openers who walked. Instead they framed it as principle and solidarity. From the outside it just looks like they took the opportunity, cashed the goodwill, and then left Ed trying to figure out how to keep the tour alive for hundreds of thousands of ticket-holders and the crew who actually depend on the tour to get paid. Ed is the one who took all the risk after all.
This dynamic reminds me of those child actors who built careers off @jk_rowling’s work and then publicly disowned her the second her views became inconvenient. These are not good people and they don’t know gratitude.
Ed’s finding out, the hard way, just how many shitty people were around him.
It’s a terrible experience to go through but in the long run, he would be all the wiser for it
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In 2014 Nigel Farage went on LBC to complain about hearing foreign languages on trains.
James O'Brien: But your wife and kids speak German.
That was the first and last time they ever spoke.
Wow, America under this current Trump government really does like to protect pedophiles.
US embassy child abuse images suspect flown from UK before police interview bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj…
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🚨 “This isn’t a donation. It’s an investment.”
@sebastiansalek on the crypto billionaire giving Reform £36 MILLION.
Anne Diamond tries the inevitable “but Labour gets union money” defence.
And it falls apart.
Trade unions represent hundreds of thousands of workers.
This is ONE billionaire putting £36m behind a party that has proposed cutting taxes on crypto.
As Salek puts it:
“Unions are campaigning for things like stronger workers’ rights. This is one billionaire campaigning to pay less tax.”
🔥 Follow the money.
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*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
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First it was a hoax
Then entrapment
Then just ‘contractors’ mouthing off
Now: ‘I wasn’t listening’
He was there. He was on camera. He was part of the conversation. He knew
We’re back! #bbclaurak Farage tells me he ‘frankly wasn’t listening’ when his former chief of staff and undercover reporters were discussing donations of thousands of pounds
