Clive Woodbridge
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Blending in on the Bakerloop Bus with Dancer Andreya!
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Blending in on the Bakerloop Bus with Dancer Andreya!
I think it's a shit deal but alternatives could be so so much worse.
Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I think it's a shit deal but alternatives could be so so much worse.
This makes all the media hand wringing even more bizarre than it is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
OBR warns Reeves’s budget still leaves public finances in ‘vulnerable’ position
Damaging events could knock finances off course, says Treasury’s independent forecaster as it downgrades growth outlook
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This makes all the media hand wringing even more bizarre than it is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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gathering together my favourite and top audiobook recommendations. I don’t know why audiobooks are specially wintery to me, they just are (many more recs to come as I couldn’t fit them all in one post)
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
at the ebbing of the year: 27 genuinely excellent audiobooks
my recs to friends for: long car journeys, kitchen cooking sessions, present-wrapping, crafts, staring at falling snow, leaves or rain, drowsing off to sleep to
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
gathering together my favourite and top audiobook recommendations. I don’t know why audiobooks are specially wintery to me, they just are (many more recs to come as I couldn’t fit them all in one post)
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Erm so the fact that most consumers realise this event is largely a scam and you'd be better waiting for the proper bargains to appear is not a factor.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK refrains from hitting high street on Black Friday as fears grow over economy
Data comes as KPMG highlights soft consumer spending as one factor likely to hold back growth in 2026
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Erm so the fact that most consumers realise this event is largely a scam and you'd be better waiting for the proper bargains to appear is not a factor.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
She tries so hard to be as detestable as Farage - and sometimes makes a really good fist of it.
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
She tries so hard to be as detestable as Farage - and sometimes makes a really good fist of it.
Say Nothing is on Channel 4 tonight. As compelling a drama on Northern Ireland as you will see (apart from The Derry Girls).
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say Nothing is on Channel 4 tonight. As compelling a drama on Northern Ireland as you will see (apart from The Derry Girls).
And this is sort of the point, whatever we think of the detail and speed of change.
Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget is progressive.
Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
And this is sort of the point, whatever we think of the detail and speed of change.
Yes because there is a recruitment crisis.
Teachers start on £30k, not too bad for a 22 yr old?
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Yes because there is a recruitment crisis.
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Far Right Reform Supporters Advocating Murder Online. When Will They Be Proscribed As A Hate Group?
Far Right Reform Supporters Advocating Murder Online. When Will They Be Proscribed As A Hate Group? - Dorset Eye
A far-right group chat has surfaced where people, who openly espouse Reform UK, joke about asylum accommodation being burned down, talk casually about the mass slaughter of Muslims, swap Islamophobic…
dorseteye.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Far Right Reform Supporters Advocating Murder Online. When Will They Be Proscribed As A Hate Group?
Reform Ltd at local level is showing it to consist of incoherence and people full of spite and hatred incapable of supporting their country.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Reform civil war as council leader quits over £190m re-opening of Red Wall airport
Guy Aston, Reform UK’s leader on Doncaster Council, stepped down following “unpleasant, vitriolic texts that border on abuse” from his own side
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reform Ltd at local level is showing it to consist of incoherence and people full of spite and hatred incapable of supporting their country.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Yeah well they voted for Brexit too.
Here’s the definitive Budget feedback from the British public: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.
Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
How have Britons reacted to the 2025 Budget? | YouGov
While the government may have protected themselves by dropping their income tax plans, the public reaction to the Budget has still been negative
yougov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Yeah well they voted for Brexit too.
Must admit The I is coming up with enough ludicrous budget stories to match the Telegraph and Mail.
How many can afford to put 18% of their salary into a pension pot?
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/404...
How many can afford to put 18% of their salary into a pension pot?
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/404...
I put 18% of my pay in a pension. Capping salary sacrifice hits hard workers
Samson Dada puts 18 per cent of his salary into his pension using salary sacrifice. He says it is a mistake to change something which rewards future planning
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Must admit The I is coming up with enough ludicrous budget stories to match the Telegraph and Mail.
How many can afford to put 18% of their salary into a pension pot?
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/404...
How many can afford to put 18% of their salary into a pension pot?
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/404...
Presumably by not saving you'll be spending and doing your bit to stimulate growrh
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/406...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/406...
At 20 I have less motivation to save after cash ISA cuts. Not everyone likes investing
Josh Hall, 20, is ‘worried’ about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Presumably by not saving you'll be spending and doing your bit to stimulate growrh
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/406...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/406...
Please just give it up - want a more radical left party go Green.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Corbyn and Sultana at odds over Your Party leadership as conference opens
Delegates to choose between electing a single leader or a collective of lay members to run the leftwing movement
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Please just give it up - want a more radical left party go Green.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
People should not go near these schemes with a bargepole. Robbery in plain sight.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/405...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/405...
‘Not a happy place’: Retirement complex landlord cuts services and hikes fees
The i Paper visited a retirement development in Greater Manchester where residents say services have been taken away and they feel intimidated into silence
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
People should not go near these schemes with a bargepole. Robbery in plain sight.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/405...
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/405...
You have to wonder why all employees don't negotiate this with their employers.....
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Premier League clubs face prospect of higher wage bills after budget tax change hits players
Premier League clubs are facing the prospect of higher wage bills after the government’s announcement in the budget that image rights payments will be treated as income from April 2027
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You have to wonder why all employees don't negotiate this with their employers.....
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Right now I understand there's Zarah's Your Party and then there's Corbyn's Your Party but there's no Our Party
This is our chance to build a mass, socialist party in Britain that stands up for economic justice, democracy and peace.
My piece for Tribune ahead of Your Party’s founding conference.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/jere...
My piece for Tribune ahead of Your Party’s founding conference.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/jere...
Jeremy Corbyn: Our Chance to do Something Special
Ahead of Your Party’s democratic founding conference this weekend, we need to put redistribution, sustainability, and peace at the heart of a mass socialist movement that belongs to the grassroots.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Right now I understand there's Zarah's Your Party and then there's Corbyn's Your Party but there's no Our Party
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The Tories and Farage howl about ‘benefit cheats’ losing pennies - meanwhile their billionaire mates dodge mountains of tax. DWP estimates £9.5 bn lost to benefit fraud/error in 2024-25. HMRC estimates £46.8 bn slipped through the cracks in 2023-24. #ukpolitics
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Tories and Farage howl about ‘benefit cheats’ losing pennies - meanwhile their billionaire mates dodge mountains of tax. DWP estimates £9.5 bn lost to benefit fraud/error in 2024-25. HMRC estimates £46.8 bn slipped through the cracks in 2023-24. #ukpolitics
