Fiscal drag affects all taxpayers, not just pensioners. There's no good reason to treat working-age taxpayers like we're second class.

Renault CEO François Provost told Reuters the company is currently facing demand for electric cars that exceeds its production capacity.

I am grateful to the UK for taking this important step against Russia’s oil fleet – a shadow fleet tanker has been detained off the UK's southern coast. It was Russia’s hubris, fueled by high oil and gas revenues, that paved the way for this war, and every decision by partners that deprives Russia of money also limits the war itself. I thank @Keir_Starmer and all Britons for such principled resolve. And Europe urgently needs to take legislative steps to enable not only the detention of tankers and restrictions on oil shipments, but also the confiscation of the oil they carry. This will certainly help bring peace closer.

💥🤩🔥 Moment of strike in Yaroslavl region!

Russia's defense industry depends on aluminum. Aluminum depends on alumina. Estonia has proposed an EU ban on alumina exports to Russia. If we are serious about raising the cost of aggression, we must close this loophole. My op-ed @ERRNews. news.err.ee/1610053456/margu…

Behold the new HS2 - a project that an entire ministry is devoted to managing yet still somehow collapses into a flaming mess. I'm sure that we will soon hear how improved oversight and greater involvement from HMT-based experts will turn this around. Again.

My Fable 5 access is back!

#JeremyBamber of White House Farm Newly-revealed evidence could it see him cleared of murder after 41 years in jail Evidence points to police contaminating & rearranging the crime scene, suppressing evidence & a cover up to protect police reputations cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/…

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

#Krim „Sprit ⛽️ Hunger Games“ Update: Dieses aktuelle Video ist von der Südküste. — es sind keine einzelnen langen Schlange mehr vor den Tankstellen, man steht jetzt 2-spurig, die eine Richtung der ist Straße komplett blockiert. Die Situation spitzt sich von Tag zu weiter zu,

I find this “defence as an engine for growth” stuff v tiresome. THERE ARE FEW THINGS LESS EFFECTIVE TO SPEND MONEY ON IF YOU WANT ECONOMIC MULTIPLIERS/LONG-TERM PRODUCTIVITY GAINS ETC. Capital expenditure on: transport infrastructure energy grid/generation housebuilding digital infrastructure/connectivity investment in skills training are absolutely foundational for future growth. We’re talking about depriving these areas of £££ so that we can give more contracts to Raytheon & BAE for shitty equipment that doesn’t work/is unsuited to modern warfare. We’re fretting over our ability to protect bases in Bahrain, defend the UAE from attack (for some reason) & send frigates to Cyprus, when we can’t build infrastructure outside of London, can’t stop daily dinghies arriving on the Kent coastline, we’ve effectively legalised petty criminality, & we’ve seen 0 real wage/productivity growth in ~20yrs. I’m all for targeted defence-industrial investment that’s GENUINELY leveraged to NATIONAL production/regional manufacturing jobs/NATIONAL resilience etc.: 👉Shift £££ from maintaining foreign bases/overseas deployments to domestic supply chains in post-industrial areas, making drone equipment, conventional weapons etc. 👉Supporting R&D in advanced materials, AI systems, microchips, satellite/space technologies etc with dual military/civilian uses 👉Boost cyber defences, national cyber resilience & attack capabilities 👉Drive to energy independence via nuclear, O&G, AND renewable investment; drive to food security I’m not, however, prepared to forgo much-needed investment in civilian infrastructure & the public realm in order to placate the Sensible Realists™️who insist the most pressing issue facing the country is the fact that we can’t punctually deploy the Royal Navy to the Gulf, or that we’re “losing our influence” on the “world stage”, or that we, a rich island NATO member in the Eastern Atlantic, apparently can’t defend ourselves from a country 1500 miles away that’s unable to hold territory in a poor, corrupt, Russian-speaking, Russian Orthodox region of a non-NATO neighbour, full of people who used to vote for pro-Kremlin oligarchs. It’s insane, frankly.

“Have you tried conscript all the youth?”

Social media ban unenforceable, online safety charity warns bbc.in/4onO7Ui

The Baaaaackrooms

🚊It's time for trams. Since the announcement, I've been lobbying Government to accelerate the delivery of trams in West Yorkshire. I won't stop until that happens.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

World Cup vibes in Mexico City are immaculate….check out the goose 🤣

Los mexicanos invitando al reportero brasileño a tomar tequila, hacen el ritual del shot, le pegan un bigote falso y después le dice a su mamá que está bien JAJAJAJAJA. México es el mejor anfitrión del mundo.

Honestly, any UK politician who hasn’t watched Mad Max: Fury Road at this point, unless they have the excuse of personal trauma, doesn’t give a fuck about our society.

Almost a third of cigarettes consumed in the UK are now bought on the black market ✍️@maxwell_marlow Read more: capx.co/fake-fags-are-killin…