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Err, yes?

Homeowners aged 60 and over are sitting on a record £2.95 trillion worth of property, with 98 per cent of this mortgage-free, according to an analysis that lays bare the extent of the UK’s generational housing divide.

The calculations, by the estate agency Savills, showed £2.89 trillion of mortgage-free property being held by over-60s who were residential homeowners and only £60 billion worth of mortgages, 2 per cent of the total value of their homes.

The under-45s had £1.56 trillion in property of which 47 per cent, or £734 billion, was held in mortgages.

The indebtedness increased sharply the younger the homeowner became: the under-35s had £600 billion worth of property, with a total of £300 billion of mortgages outstanding.

Younger folk have mortgages, older folk don’t.

And?

Typical Trots

Anyone who ever did any student politics grasps this playbook:

A teaching union has backtracked on its appointment of Matt Wrack, former head of the Fire Brigades Union, as its new general secretary after a legal challenge.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) had announced Wrack in the role on Tuesday but on Sunday it said that nominations would be reopened.

He would have been the NASUWT’s first leader not to have a professional background in education.

Branches were informed that the union’s national executive had received “further legal advice” over flaws in the nomination process that had excluded other candidates and allowed Wrack to be appointed unopposed as the executive’s “preferred candidate”, The Guardian reported.

Yes, yes, yes, of course it’s all wholly and entirely democratic. Look, see, we voted on it!

But the actually important vote isn’t all the peeps, oh no. It’s always the revolutionary vanguard who sit on the rules committee, which has the rules nomination committee behind it, which is in turn advised by the nomination rules committee which meets at 3 am in the basement of the Trot Party HQ and behind the door market beware of the face eating leopard….

The point of revolutionary democracy being that the peeps must do what they’re damn well told to by the revolutionary vanguard – democracy, see?

Well, it is Andy Beckett

Centrists won’t beat Reform UK by echoing its messages. They should emphasise the true unworkability of policies like Brexit

Yes, yes. All the things that Nige emphasises would be solved if we were just run by Ursula instead.

It’s a fairly extreme political poisition that, no?

The headline and the story…..

Scale of Britain’s junk food crisis laid bare

And:

Researchers from Brazil’s scientific institution, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, analysed the impact of UPFs on the rates of premature deaths in eight separate countries.

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, found UPFs made up 53 per cent of people’s food energy consumption in the UK.

The peeps whoi invented the concept of UPFs are sure that UPFs are very bad. Yes, yes, they are.

She said while this study was observational and could not prove a link between the two,

Quite, quite….

This works, does it?

Ms Ballard met Kern in Miami in 1994 while he was posing as Jonathan Palmer, a former Williams F1 driver, on a business trip.She was dining alone at an outdoor café in South Beach when Kern arrived in a forest green Jaguar and introduced himself.

He wooed her with a British accent

I’ve already seen the claim

The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph.

Every child referred to a gender clinic will be “screened for neurodevelopmental conditions” such as autism and ADHD under new guidance, to be introduced in the wake of the Cass review.

The review, by paediatrician Baroness Cass, found that the mental health conditions were disproportionately common among children and young people with gender dysphoria.

See, see, the establishment is claiming that trans peeps are mad, see!

Which isn’t the case at all. From observation there’s a case – not a proof, a case to be made – that trans is, in at least some people, a social infection that affects autists more than others. Therefore, before slicing and dicing it should be sensible to actually check this.

No?

The implication is…..

“Masculine” investors do worse than women who take a “feminine” approach, researchers have found.

A study from Mannheim Business School in Germany found that both male and female investors have a tendency to back companies that match their shopping habits.

It leads to differences in typical investment baskets for men and women, with male money managers more likely to invest in car companies and women favouring healthcare, among others.

The returns from buying masculine product producers are – slightly – below those from feminine.

OK, that means that masculine products are produced in more competitive markets than feminine.

In turn that means men are better at shopping than women.

Oppression, oppression

After being sacked from GB News in what he branded “one of the biggest MSM [mainstream media] beat-ups in history”, Dan Wootton soon found a new home for his tirades: YouTube.

“We are increasingly becoming an authoritarian state where dissident voices are taken down by wholesale abuses of the political and legal system,” he declared in the first episode of his Outspoken show last year.

Wootton, who claims his daily broadcast provides news and opinion with “no spin, no bias and no censorship”, is not alone in moving to the platform. He has been joined by a number of other former GB News presenters – as well as a wider group of alt-Right figures – attempting to wield power over Britain’s Right through their own media ventures.

I feel for them, really, I do. Imagine being forced to share a platform with Spud.

Oh, really?

Electric ‘superhighway’ delayed in blow to Miliband’s net zero plans
Global shortage of high-voltage cables and converters risks Eastern Green Link 1’s delivery date

It’s the global price of cables that make renewables so expensive. Ergo, we must use more of them to free ourselves from foreign price tyranny.

Not expecting to solve this problem quickly now, are they?

The Home Office has launched a drive for landlords to house asylum seekers following a surge in Channel migrant crossings.

Serco, one of three private contractors working for the Home Office, is offering landlords five-year guaranteed full rent deals to house asylum seekers at the taxpayer’s expense.

Could be a deal actually:

They are promised rent paid “on time every month with no arrears”, full repair and maintenance, free property management and utilities and council tax bills paid by Serco.

How much does some 2 up 2 down in Darlington cost anyway?

Err, yes?

Topless trans protesters claim climate change hits them hardest

Really?

A dozen female, intersex, non-binary and trans activists held a topless blockade outside the US air force base at Lakenheath, in Suffolk, on Friday.

Organisers said war and climate change were both strongly linked to gender-based violence around the world.

“Women, trans, non-binary, and intersex people are hardest hit by climate change, war and rising fascism,” according to Lucy Porter, who took part in the protest.

“They often struggle to access food, water and healthcare, and face a higher risk of violence and displacement during crises. These groups are rarely included in decision-making, and emergency aid often overlooks their needs.”

Well, there we are then, that’s us told. And don’t forget it.

Snigger

So, a big Guardian piece about how lower taxes for the rich are just neoliberalism, Maaan.

A young journalist named Jude Wanniski had an epiphany when at a lunch meeting, he watched the economist Arthur Laffer draw a curve on a napkin to argue to the Ford staffers Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld that cutting taxes could raise companies’ revenues.

No, the curve shows that lower rates could – note could – increase tax revenues.

It’s entirely agnostic about corporate revenues. And if they’re going to get that wrong then the rest of their analysis is going to be, well….

Which it always was going to be. It’s from David Sirota. He who thought Chavez did a good economic job:

No, Chavez became the bugaboo of American politics because his full-throated advocacy of socialism and redistributionism at once represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics, and also delivered some indisputably positive results. Indeed, as shown by some of the most significant indicators, Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving.

Vile, vile, eh?

A handful of “small but dirty” public affairs and law firms in Europe are enabling pollution by lobbying extensively for big oil, an analysis has found, with most major companies in the industry working for at least one fossil fuel client.

Several of the top spenders on activities to influence EU policymaking are on the payroll of oil and gas companies, according to an analysis of the EU Transparency Register by the Good Lobby nonprofit, but fossil fuel clients represent just 1% of the industry’s revenue.

The researchers said it showed that public affairs companies could cut ties with the big polluters who pay them to influence policy without hurting their bottom lines – but warned there was little public or regulatory pressure on lobbyists to go green.

Those bad people over there shouldn’t have free speech. Because we’re perfect, we are…..

Are they really

Trans people are seeking asylum abroad amid fears for their safety after last week’s Supreme Court judgment, a Labour peer has claimed.

Lord Cashman said friends were looking to leave Britain after the country’s highest court ruled that transgender women are not legally women.

Don’t believe you for a moment.

Especially as that’s not what the court ruled anyway. Rather, that in the Equalities Act the sex based meaning of women was used, not gender. If, in other laws, some other definition is used – as, say it is about GRCs – then that’s fine too.

Won’t work, will it?

This is clearly anti-Farage.

It set out its detailed thinking on how the rules could be tightened on MPs’ outside interests in evidence to the House of Commons standards committee.

The policy statement said it supported asking MPs to sign up to certain principles, as suggested by the parliamentary standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg.

In particular it favours a draft principle saying: “Members are expected not to accept offers of paid outside interests that are made, or that a reasonable observer might think are being made, primarily because of their membership of the house.”

The government also said it had concerns about some instances in which MPs were paid by the media. Its submission said: “We are concerned with specific cases in which members might hold paid contracts of employment with media organisations that give rise to conflicts of interest and attention, both in the sense that the house is responsible for the laws governing our media and that such members would be monetising their offices for private gain. Such a practice can harm the reputation of the house, further eroding public confidence in our institutions.”

Analysis by the Guardian recently found six MPs had spent on average one working day a week on second jobs since the start of the 2024 parliament, with the Reform MPs Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson taking on lucrative jobs as presenters for GB News, as well as other work.

Now given how little I know about so many things I could be wrong here. But is MP actually an office? A Minister deffo is – and they can’t accpet any money at all. Write a newspaper column and the newspaper doesn’t pay a Minister, can or might an MP.

But the other thing. Clearly this is an act of attainder aimed at Nige. On the other hand he was a TV presenter before he was an MP therefore he’s not a TV presented because of his status as an MP. So, like so much p9oliticas, this doesn’t actually acheved ther intended aim, does it?

Is this Guardian column copied from Jezebel?

Pronatalist activist Simone Collins, whose spectacled face you may have seen online, said she and her husband, Malcolm, have sent the White House multiple draft executive orders to encourage childbearing, including one that would give a “National Medal of Motherhood” to mothers with six or more children. Tying procreation to nationalism is disturbing on several levels, with the biggest being that Nazi Germany handed out similar medals.

According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Nazi leaders introduced a medal called the Honor Cross of the German Mother in 1938 to celebrate reproduction and increase the population of the Third Reich. Only so-called “Aryan” and “genetically healthy” couples could receive these medals and women were awarded a bronze for four children, a silver for six children, and a gold for eight children.

And:

One proposal by activists would limit a large proportion of the prestigious Fulbright grants to scholars with children – a criterion that would exclude many early career female researchers, who often find, as ambitious women in most fields do, that raising young children is incompatible with doing the kind of rigorous and demanding work that can earn them a fancy award. For their part, the Collinses proposed that the federal government should award a “National Medal of Motherhood” to women who birth six or more children. The award reminds one of the “Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter,” or the Cross of Honor of the German Mother, a Nazi prize given to mothers of four or more children. That medal took the form of a blue cross with a swastika in the center.

Oh My.

And, of course, the same Motherhood medals were also handed out by the Soviets. But no self-respecting American leftie is going to mention that, are they?

If we have a plan of course it will work!

We just tell everyone, pass a law, and therefore everyone will do what we tell them.

Right?

Children could face social media curfews under plans being considered by the Government.

Peter Kyle, the Digital Secretary, told The Telegraph that he was examining the online equivalent of a TV watershed for children after concerns that the “addictive nature” of social media was disrupting their sleep, their families and other aspects of their lives.

Governing’s just so easy!

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