Governments get into a mess when pragmatic decisions that go wrong become tests of authority and principle. This is the tragi-comic fate of Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer following their decision to abolish universal pensioner entitlement to the winter fuel payment. The

Rachel Reeves claims that she worked as an "economist" at the Bank of Scotland before entering politics. But a new investigation has discovered she was in fact an administrative support worker, not an economist at all. dailysceptic.org/2024/10/24/rac…

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Woman of the Day chemical engineer Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born OTD in 1910 in Houston, Texas, the first American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering, the first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the woman who made the mass production

BREAKING - Chancellor Rachel Reeves wasn’t telling the truth when she told the BBC farmers’ Inheritance Tax allowance could be transferred to spouses. The published Treasury policy paper says ‘any unused allowance will not be transferrable between spouses.’ Yet another Labour lie

Bollocks. You know how you make the curriculum interesting? You do NOT rap Shakespeare or decolonise! You break it down, explain, drill, retrieve, until it becomes second nature to them. Black boys CAN learn Shakespeare! To suggest otherwise is just racist.🙄

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Today, in our hearts and minds, we are all in #Liverpool or #Southport with the families of Alice, Elsie Dot and Bebe. 💔💔💔

@katieleeming3 Joe Nutt Anthony Boutall Isabel Paterson VAT on private school fees "felt like throwing a bone to the Left." But it hasn’t won over Left-wing MPs and "makes Starmer look vindictive to middle-class voters who gave him a chance." Vindictive? Yes. Also: Malicious. Punitive. Spiteful. Short-sighted. Mean-spirited.

Rachel Reeves has been repeating for 24 hours that no full length runways have been built and opened since the 1940s. Both humans and AI chatbots say she is mistaken. In fact, says Mr Smith and Ms DeepSeek “The last full-length runway built and opened in the UK was at

It is true that I interrupted her a number of times.😊 When she fobbed me off with a politician’s non-answer, I changed questions. ⁦Bridget Phillipson⁩ did say at one point she wanted to cool things down. It wasn’t hot. We just weren’t deferential as ministers are used to

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Trying to read the The Telegraph but the App isn’t co-operating!

Morning Martin Lewis - a question about #IHT. We are told only a small % of estates pay IHT but that figure is distorted by the spouse exemption. What % of estates pay it on 2nd death? That is a much more important statistic surely?

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Help needed! Family with a disabled child, no heating for 10 weeks since hw tank burst no sign of help from British Gas apart from a temporary hot water tank. They need a new hot water tank but no sign of that yet! #Liverpool #emergency #Plumber

‘We are a Government whose central purpose is to stand up for the powerless and not the powerful,’ says Red Ed Miliband, as he stuffs the pockets of rich and powerful providers of wind farms with yet more public gold. The hypocrisy is astounding.