Not being high finance-savvy, I thought one could give £3,000 pa to each person, just read that's the total between all. It has to come from earned income and not from savings - though I don't know how they could know the difference? Maybe I am misreading but worth a read if anyone is as unaware as I am.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/hmrc-considering-rule-change-for-uk-households-who-gift-family-members-money/ar-AA1Lja6A?ocid=socialshare

Came back with 15,000 extra miles on the clock and a parking fine

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/26/my-car-was-towed-away-by-the-aa-then-it-went-on-a-15000-mile-journey

https://www.postalley.org/2025/08/26/could-seattle-be-trumps-next-takeover/

A very interesting read...

Tongue firmly in cheek

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd4ND2Qo/

Skibidi, delulu, tradwife, mouse jiggler:

The new words being added to the Cambridge Dictionary

Over 6,000 terms will join the lexicon.

I've been considering a short break at one of these hotels but I've seen some very poor one star reviews today. I get the impression they've gone downhill quite a bit in 2025. Has anyone stayed in one recently and how was it? Thanks.

This is clearly a case of the police arresting someone on behalf of muslims who might be offended. Even though there are no muslims visible. I think most muslims, and Jews, when hearing someone say "we love bacon" would just smile, say "ok, good for you" and get on with their day. Definitely would'nt be offended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFsgPbG3FM

I really have no words except, if you're not the dad, who is?

https://www.facebook.com/wakefieldnewspage/posts/jk-rowling-has-slammed-non-binary-dad-of-twins-after-he-took-to-social-media-to-/1365369715598019/

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Tongue in cheek

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdXtBWu3/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15028265/Angela-Rayner-home-Labour-seaside-pad.html?ito=email_share_article-top

I used to crease with laughter at Freddie Starr, his outrageous pranks were phenomenal. RIP Freddie, you will never be replaced.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/freddie-starr-died-penniless-with-no-family-contact-as-comedian-s-children-kept-distance/ar-AA1L5osE

Someone talking common sense

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdXq5eLL/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7j512ln7o

Personally I hadn’t heard of that site but it’s certainly a problem that’s multiplying

We have a few on here that have a similar approach. It’s nasty

I've always understood that potatoes should be kept in a cool dark place, but not in the fridge. I only buy the small bags of baby/salad potatoes and always put them in a brown paper bag in the cupboard. Latest bag from the Co-op states ' Store in the fridge at 2-5c. to keep fresh for weeks longer'. I'm confused.

For the last few weekends a group of anti migrant protesters have been shouting their slogans at a hotel in St Mary Cray near Orpington, formerly The Mary Rose but now TLK apartments. Migrant hatred has been stirred up on Facebook and Nextdoor with claims the men from there were harrassing people in the nearby shopping area. There was even a claim that a 14 year old girl had been assaulted by one of the migrants, and police were investigating.
It's all lies.
Now the truth.
Bromley Council and TLK have issued a joint statement. They say that TLK apartments is not a migrant hotel with all single men. It is being used as a temporary accomodation for women with children, and some families who are homeless.
They also said the claim that police were investigating a sexual assault by one of the residents was totally untrue.
The statement was posted on Nextdoor.

Please no racist comments if you don’t like it please scroll past and follow peterandrews

I appreciate the man in this footage talks a lot but his posts recently seem very informative

https://youtu.be/2q8mG23tIxQ?si=EAeS0PcwCY9xZ3H2

Going downhill, I wonder why 😉

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy08y5zxe0ltM

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/world-s-oldest-woman-turns-116-as-british-supercentenarian-s-birthday-plans-revealed/ar-AA1KX1Sm

https://news.sky.com/story/chris-brain-jury-discharged-in-trial-of-ex-priest-who-ran-rave-inspired-cult-group-13415796

US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed to be the world’s leading expert on grass.

“I’m pretty good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place,” he said.

“I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world.”

Trump was speaking in Washington, DC, where he has called in troops to fight crime in a move critics have decried as a political stunt.

While there, he also vowed to plant new grass to improve the parks.

“Y’know, like everything else, grass has a life.

Do you know that?

Grass has a life,” he said.

“We have a life, and grass has a life, and the grass here died about 40 years ago.”

With new grass and new sprinkler systems, the parks will look like a golf resort, he said.

“It’ll look like Augusta,” he said, referring to the host of the Masters Tournament.

“It’ll look like more importantly Trump National Golf Club, that’s even better.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/the-debt-holders-who-america-owes-its-trillions-to/ss-AA1BddPC

I'd like to make him afraid to leave the house himself, or indeed make any more revolting posts online. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdXYoUAR/

A fascinating study from MIT in 1972 predicted societal collapse by 2040, and new analysis shows we are still on track. In our current system design, which is self-terminating, this totally makes sense.
MIT researchers published 'The Limits to Growth' utilizing the World3 computer model. The model predicted that ongoing unchecked economic and extraction driven markets would likely lead to a collapse of industrial civilization in this century.
Recent validation of that original model by Gaya Herrington, a director at KPMG, whose 2020 study found that modern real-world data closely align with the book’s “business-as-usual” trajectory. According to her findings, if current trends continue without major systemic change, global economic decline could begin within this decade and possibly result in societal collapse around 2040.
A more recent recalibrations of the World3 model reaffirm this trajectory, reinforcing the urgency of reconsidering our growth-oriented systems. Since 2009, we have been calling for a focus on total system re-design with our work. For years, this was ridiculed. But here we are 16 years later, and more and more people are realizing what truly needs to be done. To us, that is changing the conversation from making change entirely through our existing systems, to thinking in greater complexity about what is truly driving the results we currently have. It's not one political party or another, it's not Trump or Biden/Harris, it's the system design itself.

After all Farage always deals with his constituents online

https://youtu.be/OXTDlDghGkY?si=FlAxct3TIZn6RRMc

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/25383827.volunteer-officers-alleged-rape-victim-young-liked-teddies-court-told/?dicbo=v2-nw6raJ7

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36354664/grandad-killed-drug-dealer-e-bike/

Our lads can embarrass themselves anywhere in the world. This one didn’t even make it to his destination . I hate to think how he’d act once he got there.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36357657/rowdy-passenger-arrested-flight-diverted-jet2/

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In a town in Sweden they have just completed moving a church across town, literally.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4g0e1nj2pqo

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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1NMHdVY8Pa/?mibextid=wwXIfr

As more lies are spread to cause further hatred

https://youtu.be/PomJ3irQ-Yc?si=UKT38m5PcgdAoLnV

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Draw a giraffe

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😁

https://youtu.be/wx1aeDA5Cto?si=z5a51-Fc0d9bXXsw

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This whole racial shit is getting on my nerves!
Just seen this on a friends wall, think it’s spot on...👌👍❤️
I have been wondering about why whites are racists, and no other race is?
There are British Africans, British Chinese, British Asian, British Turks, etc, etc, etc.
And then there are just British. You know what I mean, plain ole English people that were born here. You can include the Welsh, the Scottish and the people who live off our shores of Great Britain.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you. So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have Muslim only areas.
You have the Muslim Council of Great Britain.
You have Black History Month.
You have swimming pools for Asian women.
You have Islamic banks for Muslims only.
You have year of the dragon day for Chinese people.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.
If we had any organisation for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black Britain or Miss Asia, but any colour can be in the Miss UK, can you imagine the uproar if someone even tried to put on a Miss White Britian!
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be called racists, and yet there are scholarships for Black children only.
There are over 200 openly proclaimed Muslim only schools in England. Yet if there were 'White schools only', that would be racist!
In the Bradford riots and Toxteth riots, you believed that you were standing-up for your race and rights. If we stood-up for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow, and you're not afraid to announce it and that’s fine. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
We fly our flag, we are racists, if we celebrate St George's day we are racists.
You can fly your flag and it’s called diversity. You celebrate your cultures and it’s called multiculturalism.
But if I am proud of my history....you’d call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists??
There is nothing improper about this and I’m not declaring any hatred for any race, I agree that all races should be proud of their culture and history......so why are whites not allowed to be proud? And I’m just annoyed by the lack of equal representation and selected media coverage.
Let’s see which of you are proud enough to agree.
I sadly don't think many will. That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won't stand up for ourselves!
BEING PROUD TO BE WHITE! It's not a crime, YET... but its getting very close.
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Women left in asylum

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80dg700dego

https://news.sky.com/story/homes-evacuated-as-firefighters-tackle-huge-blaze-in-essex-seaside-town-13413960

"If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd close the curtains".

Bill Shankly.

But it’s worth noting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0j0qyq1n0o.amp

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/prince-william-interrupts-family-break-with-major-announcement-and-diana-would-ve-been-so-proud/ar-AA1JJ9ZH?cvid=1d9462edfaa549d984a6ef1b753c280c&ei=19

Trump is trying, once again, to bully Zelensky into wearing a suit for the meeting in the Oval Office. Probably in a vain attempt to justify the previous attack on the Ukrainian when the dogs of war bit hard for no reason.

Does it matter what he wears, if anything? Vance, when visiting Modi in India, didn't have the courtesy to wear the same attire as Modi. Instead he wore a suit, (undoubtedly the same he will wear today in an attempt to get his money's worth). What either man wore wasn't important, it's what they were discussing which was.

The same will apply to the meeting in Washington today. To my mind it is subtle bullying and I hope Zelensky ignores the request.

Below is the news item from the Independent which triggered me to write this post.

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Volodymyr Zelensky will wear a “suit-style” jacket during his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office — months after the Ukrainian President’s last visit to the White House descended into a shouting match.

The White House reportedly asked Ukrainian officials if Zelensky would wear a suit ahead of Monday’s meeting in D.C. with top European leaders and Trump, two sources told Axios.

The high-stakes meeting comes months after Trump welcomed Zelensky into the West Wing and made jabs about his customary military-style attire, jokingly telling the press, “he’s all dressed up today.”

Zelensky is set to wear the same black jacket he wore to a June NATO summit in the Netherlands, which sources described as being “suit-style” but not a full suit.

That summit marked the first time Zelensky had donned a business-style jacket since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in Ukraine in 2022 — and the fashion choice impressed Trump, according to the report.

One Trump advisor jokingly told Axios that “it would be a good sign for peace” if Zelensky dressed up on Monday, but added, “We don’t expect him to do it.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-zelensky-oval-office-meeting-suit-b2809575.html