Axing 'cruel' two-child benefit cap would reduce cost of poverty by over £3bn bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

The gilt market exists to give 🇬🇧 government influence over the term structure of interest rates. How much influence they choose to exert is ultimately a policy choice. Gilt-free spending is another option, if you’re prepared to eliminate the income subsidy by not issuing bonds.

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This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala

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In Gaza 2 million people are suffering from severe food insecurity. Of these, 745,000 people are unable to get the minimum amount of food that they need, and almost 500,000 people are facing catastrophic food shortages, starvation & critical acute malnutrition.

Trump signaling the Proud Boys in MI rally. He always wears his brand colors blue with red tie. This is why governors are preparing the National Guard.

What to expect.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. And terrifying. This time he officially has complete legal immunity. Weep for Ukraine.

Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends. No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened. An entire society now a graveyard.

I think I'll have to stop watching the news for the next four years. This is sickening.

Now that the Chief Rabbi has come out in support of the Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans, I want the Archbishop of Canterbury to back the Millwall firm and Pope Francis to defend the Boca Juniors ultras.

"Make them forget, O Lord, what this memorial means." At The Cenotaph - Siegfried Sassoon. #RemembranceDay

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Guardian abandons X: theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

Spent most of yesterday smashing up a big lump of concrete with a pickaxe. It's hard work. Nothing seems to happen at first but eventually first crack appears & it starts to break apart. Really hoping bluesky takes off but think I'll still turn up on X. So many rocks to break.

As with George, my twitter account will go dormant on January 20. In the meantime, I'm ramping up my activity on @BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/michae…

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General: “You know, in a lot of jobs being investigated for sex trafficking underage girls would hurt your chance for advancement. But in the Trump administration, you can list it on your résumé under special skills.”

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest?... 1/