Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty, discrimination. 25.3m Britons, inc. 14.9m working age adults and 7.7m children live below minimum income standard. Healthy life expectancy declining. Pressure on public services. Must redistribute. phys.org/news/2026-06-faster…

"Things are getting harder, and politics is getting more polarised, and the path we’re on, if we are not careful, is towards the politics of the United States, a polarised, poisonous politics where people in communities don’t work together any more."

Ffs. The widely mide claim that up to 50% of social housing is handed to foreign households while Brits wait is false disinformation. Nationally in England, around 87-89% of new social housing allocations go to UK nationals, with non-UK nationals receiving about 11-13%, roughly in line with their population share. In the existing social housing stock, UK-born or UK/Irish-headed households make up around 85-90%. The 48-50% figure often cited comes from London’s existing stock, where nearly half of household heads are foreign-born — but this simply reflects London’s overall ~49% foreign-born population. Most of those are long-term British citizens, not recent migrants, and allocations remain needs-based rather than nationality-based. Recent London lettings are still over 80% to UK nationals. There is no evidence of systematic preference for foreigners over British citizens; the housing crisis stems primarily from chronic undersupply, not allocation bias. The viral phrasing conflates foreign-born with non-citizens, new lettings with total stock, and London with the national picture. So many gullible British people...

I truly pity the brown people in public life who say stuff like this that they of course - and their families! - know is obviously untrue and ridiculous, but they say it anyways because they feel they have to in order to get ahead in racist rightwing spaces as a brown person.

RT @peterjukes: Not trying to jump on the bandwagon of the debate with Gove, Gray and those trying to dismiss @carolecadwalla’s investigati…

RT @peterjukes: Konstantin Malofeev is the oligarch backer of imperial Russian expansionist Alexander Dugin - key to the invasion of Crimea…

This is a problem when a newspaper goes populist - they campaigned on the Winter fuel allowance - they campaigned to keep the triple lock - they then demanded welfare bill is slashed (ignoring over 50% of it is pensions) - now they scream don't target pensioners

RT @peterjukes: British commentators dismissing @carolecadwalla’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica have not only failed to read the e…

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Heseltine: It’s time to reverse Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage’s ‘heinous crime’ of Brexit. Public had been “lied” to in a “heinous crime”, says former deputy UK PM. Brexit brought no economic gain. Nearly half of the UK public want a second referendum. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger. 99% of us are paying, in total, 40% to 50% tax on our incomes, billionaires are paying 25% at most. 2% levy on fortunes above £100m could begin to reverse decades of rising inequality theguardian.com/politics/202…

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ON the TV ON the radio IN the newspapers You will find comfortable people and also rich people and also very rich people saying: “we need to take TOUGH choices to find money for defence, let’s take it from poor people” They all agree with each other ...

Another country dividing idea - just like Brexit

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Even if Trump had not been so obviously deranged, why did American voters not think ahead? Why did they put the world in this position?

I asked Wilf just earlier this week if he calls out guests for lying on his show. Here’s one right here: