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Wow! 😳
This is astounding!
Yes, the statement is accurate for the UK in 2024-25. Official HMRC data shows income tax receipts at £309.4 billion, while OBR and GOV.UK figures indicate social security benefits expenditure at around £313 billion, exceeding income tax. This means all income tax revenue covers benefits, with other taxes funding public services.
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Dear god
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Flashback to 2019: Jeremy Corbyn hated the Jewish state. He boycotted its democratically elected leaders. But he embraced the Muslim terrorists who murder Jews as human sacrifices for the sake of Allah.
He called Hamas and Hezbollah his “friends.” He invited them into Parliament. He stood with a wreath for the Black September terrorists who massacred Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
Hamas even saluted him that year.
While ordinary British people get arrested for sharing memes, allies of jihadist death cults rise inside Labour.
This is the man who almost became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This is what the left became.
The hypocrisy is grotesque. Two-tier Britain exposed.
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"EU court rejects Poland’s bid to overturn 7 major climate laws"
Remember which institution has the final say in the European Union.
It will soon have new powers over our laws too after Burnham's reset.
politico.eu/article/eu-court…
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Another massive fall in UK student visa applications - a 31% drop for October - means year-to-date totals are down by a fifth on 2025 numbers timeshighereducation.com/new…
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You know what I really want from a national gallery? Pictures. Pictures on walls. That's it.
Maybe a little plaque next to them listing the title, artist, date, and what movement it represents.
What I don't want - and would frankly pay good money to never have to suffer through again - are 'installations' or insufferable woke lectures on how the cis-normative artist used imagery of waterlilies to impose patriarchal ideas of femininity onto unsuspecting female members of his audience, or any other similar nonsense.
@NationalGallery - just let us view the pictures in peace, for God's sake.
The bell tolls for National Gallery, London. Yesterday, the NG announced plans for sweeping changes. Phrases such as "taking an audience- and customercentric approach in everything we do", "removing barriers to engagement" and "reach new, more diverse visitors" will send a chill down your spine. (1/2)
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Brother Burnham flew all the way to Cop meeting in Turkey to make a six-minute speech to an almost empty hall. No other G7 leader has bothered witt it this year.
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The United States is burning all the goodwill it had built up over decades as a reliable ally.
The US defence industry must be spitting with fury.
Reliability was their key selling point. If, in the middle of an emergency in an allied nation, an adminstration seems willing to withold any defence support, be it weapons or satellite connections, then customers will look elsewhere.
And it will be decades before that trust can be restored. Long before then, Europe will have built up its own capacity to fill that gap, and the market share will not be there to fill.
#starlink #starshield
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
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🚨🇺🇳🇮🇷 ÚLTIMA HORA: Irán fue nominada para presidir el Comité de la ONU para la protección de los derechos de las mujeres, los derechos humanos y la prevención del terrorismo.
SÍ, IRÁN. Y fue apoyado por Reino Unido, España y Francia.
Esto no es una broma. Es real.
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Thomas Sowell: “Inflation is in effect a hidden tax. The money that people have saved is robbed of part of its purchasing power, which is quietly transferred to the government that issues new money.”
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🚨JUST IN: AOC says the Democrats are looking at impeaching Supreme Court justices for "legalizing Trump's criminality."
Obviously she means Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
KBJ, Kagen and Sotomayor are safe because they rule the "right" way.
And you thought they were gonna focus on gas prices?
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Was this what you voted for? Pure Communism?
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WHY IS THE BRITISH ARMY SIGNING UP WITH THE UK'S BIGGEST HALAL MEAT SUPPLIER?
Halal slaughter is barbaric, medieval, and shouldn't belong in this country.
How is this part of British culture and traditions? Where is the British part?
This was on the eve of Armistice Day.
They're calling it a "historic deal." It's an Armed Forces Covenant, the same pledge thousands of businesses have already signed.
Is this what our British veterans fought and died for?
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“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
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Prediction. Screenshot this post, we'll talk again in five years.
They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia.
And here's what happens next.
Elon hires Jensen and puts him in charge of Terafab.
He's already said it publicly: hiring him would be an honor. And Terafab is the project made for him. A chip factory Musk wants to be the largest ever built, one terawatt of compute per year, from design to packaging under one roof. Terafab's challenge is to do in a few years what the industry took decades to build. There's only one man on Earth who knows every layer of that stack.
They execute like absolute maniacs.
Musk brings speed, capital and appetite for risk. Jensen brings thirty years of mastery of the stack: architecture, software, customers, supply chain. Musk builds factories faster than anyone alive. Jensen knows exactly what to put inside them. It's the only duo in the world capable of compressing a decade into three years.
SpaceXAI merges with Tesla.
This isn't even science fiction anymore: independent committees are already studying the merger. Rockets, satellites, AI, robots, self-driving cars, energy, and now chips. One single entity, integrated from silicon to orbit.
The group climbs to $50 trillion.
Today, SpaceX and Tesla are worth around $3.4 trillion combined. $50 trillion sounds insane. But remember: ten years ago, Nvidia was worth a few tens of billions. When you own superintelligence, the robots that do the work and the rockets that go to space, you don't capture a market. You capture the economy.
Elon buys Nvidia.
Meanwhile, Nvidia without Jensen does what every company does after losing its founder: it manages. It protects its margins. It loses ground to its own customers' in-house chips. And one day, it becomes a target. For a $50 trillion group, buying Nvidia is just one acquisition among others.
Jensen becomes the chip boss again.
He takes over the semiconductor division of the new entity. Pushed out of his own company, he gets it back from above, inside the largest industrial group in history.
Sounds crazy? Steve Jobs did exactly that. Pushed out of Apple, he came back when Apple bought NeXT. You know the rest.
Nvidia's board thinks it's getting rid of a problem.
It's creating the biggest competitor in its history.
See you in five years.
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I’m furious. Blindingly furious. In fact, blindingly furious doesn’t cover it.
On Wednesday, the Islamic Republic of Iran was elected to the United Nations’ Committee for Programme and Coordination, the 34-member body that oversees how the UN delivers its programmes, from human rights and women’s rights to counterterrorism.
Yes, really. The world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism now has a hand in reviewing the UN’s counterterrorism operations, and a regime that hangs dissidents from cranes will help to scrutinise its work on human rights.
America, Canada and Australia explicitly voted against the move. “The committee should not seat a regime that silences dissent and fuels regional instability,” said Canada’s foreign minister, Anita Anand. Australia’s Penny Wong said Iran’s conduct “undermines multilateralism”.
Ed Miliband, by contrast, had already approved Iran’s candidacy back in April. According to the Foreign Office, its hands were tied. Iran had been put forward by the UN’s Asia-Pacific group, alongside India, Japan and Pakistan, and Hamish Falconer, the Middle East minister, described the nomination as an “automaticity”. Chris Elmore, another minister, insisted that Britain could not have blocked it.
Really? Then how did the Americans, Canadians and Australians manage to stand up and be counted? Nobody was asking Britain to perform a miracle. We were being asked to do the bare minimum: to say, out loud, that a regime which has spent the past four years trying to murder people on British soil has no business sitting in judgement on anybody’s counterterrorism programme. The Foreign Office couldn’t even manage that.
Let’s consider what Tehran has been up to...
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While I and others wait to hear whether we will be called to give evidence to the Conversion Practices Bill Select Committee, I’ve seen that tomorrow they will hear from Dr Igi Moon.
Dr Moon is a “non binary” psychologist who compared the belief in two sexes to “colonialism”.
