No wonder our industries are in crisis. Our energy costs are higher than anywhere else. Don't need to be 🙄 Ed Miliband doesn't have a clue. #bbcnews

I don't understand how she is *so* bad at making a really simple point of 'I was middle class in Nigeria and had a typical middle class lifestyle there, I came to the UK with very little'. It's a story that is very familiar and has loads of cliches she could borrow from!

Conservative fringe meeting on immigration discussing how to persuade women to "breed for Britain" in order to "grow more" social care workers, one day after Kemi Badenoch's comments about "excessive" maternity pay.

Barbra Streisand and #KrisKristofferson#AStarIsBorn#r4today😄)

#TheArchers Had forgotten how irritating Alice is.

#TheArchers Have they met Joy in Beechwood?

Top tags commented in the last 15 minutes 🧭: 1. #TotP#fanart#digitalart#BrArt#AFazenda#Art#fursuitfriday#gamedev#TheArchers#ffxiv

#TheArchers Is this a future Mrs Archer?

The one thing that continues to grow in the UK is its productivity gap. Thorough and frank analysis of Britain’s economic predicament by Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes and @s8mb.bsky.socialbuff.ly/3TCLOPj

I love the ignoble award. This is one of the winners, Saul Justin Newman, talking about how extreme aging rallied to support the idea of "blue zones" (super-healthy places) is bogus: poor record keeping and pension fraud, mainly.

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.