Rishi Sunak & his wife are happy to pay more tax in the UK, but are furious with the person who leaked their previous tax arrangements and are determined to identify the culprit. They’re absolutely delighted to pay more tax in the UK though and think it’s a good idea of course.
Martin Brundle, former F1 driver, calling Max Verstappen out for his driving standards but Pete from Lincoln who went Go Karting once for a stag do, says it’s all Lewis Hamilton fault in his professional opinion.
Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent
Journalists: if National Insurance is rising from 12% to 13.25% it is NOT rising by 1.25%. It is rising by 1.25 percentage points. if you want to describe its rise in percentage terms, it is rising by just over 10%. It is a 10% tax hike.
One of the last photos that Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee shared with her family shows her amid the chaos of Kabul, carefully cradling a baby.
She was killed not long after, one of two women in uniform who died during this week's suicide bombing. https://nyti.ms/3mFnlJc
S. Korean men are demanding the Korean Archery Association to take back the gold medals from Olympic record-breaking archer An San, alleging that “she's a short-haired feminist.”
And it's only the most recent episode in a barrage of mounting anti-feminist backlash here.
Thread.
What do you call the game when you knock on someone’s door then run away? https://indy100.com/viral/name-knock-door-game-twitter-b1830531?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1618313587…
Give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day. But give him one eighth of a fish, and you can keep the rest of the fish yourself.
- Ancient Tory Proverb
Priti's technique of just acting like a completely different question has been asked and then answering it really enthusiastically is actually comms genius
Oh this is just a disgrace. Just give families a £30 voucher, and exclude booze, fags, whatever; but don’t pay somebody to insert themselves into the process and cream off a profit. That’s £5 of food, and somebody has kept £25 for themselves.
#FreeSchoolMeals bag for 10 days:
2 days jacket potato with beans
8 single cheese sandwiches
2 days carrots
3 days apples
2 days soreen
3 days frubes
Spare pasta & tomato. Will need mayo for pasta salad.
Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.