MPs to investigate student loan system.
Student loan debt in England is £267bn, expected to hit £500bn by 2040.
Govt transferred public debt to households, real rates of interest, low repayment threshold, lives blighted.
No Uni tuition fees in most of Europe or Scotland.
I want to make sure everyone knows that "plastic production" includes your clothes. Polyester, nylon, "synthetic," are all basically plastic fibers, made from oil. And every time you wash those polyester clothes they release microplastics into the water!
An investigation has been launched after customers using Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Halifax apps reported being able to see other users' transactions on their accounts this morning
Beware
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Dennis went off to boarding school, and later Vietnam, rarely seeing his father for the rest of his life. His fictional counterpart, born in the optimistic 50s, remained sunny. There’s more about what an unspeakable shit Hank Ketcham was here:
An early incarnation of Dennis: a boy with a spiky mop of black hair and bandy, knobbly-kneed legs, walks down a street carrying a tin of red paint, watched suspiciously by a policeman
It’s the 75th anniversary of a man in Dundee called David Law creating the “world’s wildest boy”, who lived in the pages of The Beano, and later that same year acquired a stripy jumper which he never again took off – and in 1968 got a dog as disciplined as its owner: Gnasher 🧵
Stunning that a long standing super power nation has been successfully dismantled and ravaged in 13 months. A vanity war, loss of lives, crashing economy, plundered environment & collapse of the world order. By a 34x convicted felon, accused rapist, reality TV personality descending into dementia.
My god. wtf is wrong with people?
It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.
Finally, somebody with some balls. Oh, it’s a woman…
Not enough people are talking about this sudden increase in disability.
‘Sly stowaway’ fox finds new home at Bronx Zoo after illicit transatlantic trip
...and places an immoral burden on future and far future generations who will be be forced to protect the plant and its 3,900 tonnes of radioactive spent fuel till the late 2100s. 3/3
#SayNo2SizewellC
...the sea' and 'coastal erosion has always haunted the Suffolk coast'. This, and the fact that there has already been unexpected erosion in front of the Sizewell C site before it has even been built, is why TASC believe the Sizewell C site is not suitable for new nuclear... 2/3
It's admirable that our MP has a desire to assist residents of Thorpeness in their mission to protect the village from coastal erosion and she's right that the Suffolk Coast is 'fragile', 'under threat', 'has a long & painful history of battling - and often losing - to... 1/3
I’m sorry but late stage American democracy collapse is really fucking funny now
Before decimalisation we had a half crown, which was an eighth of a Pound, so closer.
there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
A lady and child viewed from behind stand in an art gallery looking at Norman Garstin’s 1889 painting The Rain It Raineth Every Day, a misty seaside promenade scene with figures, umbrellas, and wet pavement; promotional badge reads “Nominate Us! Muddy Stilettos Awards 2026 #InLoveWithLocal.”
Please nominate Penlee House Gallery & Museum in the Arts, Culture & Theatre category for the Muddy Stilettos Cornwall Awards 2026.
Every nomination counts — thank you for your support! 💛
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Adult social care privatised since the 1980s. Local councils spend 70% of budget on it.
83% of social care controlled by private equity, 20%-40% profit margin.
Will Govt end profiteering, ensure only not-for-profit entities, including local councils, provide care.
Watch the Minister's reply.
Yeah, no shocker there. COVID and Long COVID are STILL KILLING PEOPLE.
My dad was still treating victims of the Spanish flu in the late ‘50s early 60s. The type of Parkinson’s they developed led to new surgical techniques.
Wow, what a quote.
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And stomping around looking like a WW2 cosplay…
Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?
To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics
The warnings are there for us all to see
It’s the obedient followers that get me, and in so many contexts. Puts me right off humans!
Look, people *know* that these technologies are trained on stolen material. They *know* about the CSAM and abusive images of women it generates. They *know* about the environmental damage. They *know* about the lack of consent. So they must also know that the ethical thing to do is to just say no.
