The government has announced a two-tier benefits system. Under its plans, you can keep your benefits if you are disabled now, but not if you become disabled tomorrow. How is that fair? A reminder: The Independent Alliance stands by its own amendment, and we will not back down.

who else remembers the old days when you could smoke in libraries (and I confess I did)

Indeed, a stunning example of how wealth and connections enable people to do things that people without wealth and connections couldn't possibly do.

"If you believe that what a satirical band who play characters on stage do is more outrageous than the murdering of innocent Palestinians, then you need to give your head a fucking wobble.” We did a wee feature interview ahead of Glastonbury with the Guardian...

Chimp’s reaction to seeing a careraker, one who rescued and cared for him years ago.. 🥺

https://t.co/PEbJHeP4Zx

https://t.co/G55ikskXkT

A turtle that wants his shell polished and gets in the way of cleaning.. 😅

Be more French.

BREAKING: ICE is asking people to stop clogging their hotline by calling in and reporting an undocumented girl named “Anne Frank” hiding in the top floor of various Republican lawmakers’ houses.

Everyone arguing that the £48bn a year the UK spends on benefits for sick and disabled people is “unsustainable” should be asked how they would describe the £175bn a year (and rapidly rising) spend on pensioner benefits.

How to spot someone who didn’t do very well at school. Context: talking to a disabled person

Funny how the ones blaming immigrants for our economic woes are wealthy tax avoiders. Anyone would think they're trying to distract us

Reform UK are the party of Tax Dodgers. Pass it on.

Almost all of our problems stem from the Thatcher era when almost all our national assets were sold off to private and foreign interests.

Protesters float Jeff Bezos dummy ahead of his wedding in Venice

@AndyGJBurge Myself and my university friends would never dream of voting for Deform, and we graduated over 40 years ago! Interesting article in today's Guardian about how educational attainment level now determines the voting preferences of UK electors more than their social class.

Cost of Jeff Bezos's wedding: £34m Amazon's UK tax bill: zero

Leave voters will have cost the UK nearly £1 trillion of cumulative GDP foregone by 2030. And £400 billion of lost tax. That would have been enough to: 1) give tax CUTS 2) no winter fuel cuts 3) no welfare cuts 4) increase funding to housing, NHS, defence and education