The UK government spends around 11% of GDP on cash welfare payments - that’s benefits paid to individuals for universal credits, sickness benefit and pensions. That’s huge. But is it? Because this compares to France 20%, Finland 19%, Germany 14%, Italy 17%, Sweden 13%, Austria 17% OECD avg 11.5% 3/

Something to ponder this week.

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer!

Here's how many summers topped 32°C

70s 4
80s 2
90s 8
2000s 6
2010s all of them
2020s all of them

And here's how many summers topped 35°C

70s 1
80s 0
90s 2
2000s 2
2010s 3
2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

The Brexit vote was ten years ago, was it? Well, the results of that have been shit. No redeeming features at all. Just shit. Shame on everyone involved.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning.

Two tier journalism

I know we shouldn't respond to the trolling, but Vance implying that Sikhs are part of a "mass invasion of migrants", when they fought in tens of thousands for the British in two world wars and even THE INDIAN MUTINY is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Reform has done well nationally but flopped in London. They only won Havering (which is basically Essex) and lost all their other targets heavily.

Diane Morgan will return as Philomena Cunk for a brand new series titled ‘CUNK ON CINEMA’.

Coming soon to BBC and Netflix.

#CunkOnCinema #PhilomenaCunk

🔗 variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings? I'm not convinced...
www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

1/21

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in.

They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

The NAO is disclaiming the Whole of Government Accounts for the first time ever. This is due to the severe backlogs in English local authority audits
www.nao.org.uk/press-releas...