Flora Coleman

Here's the real reason the government keeps freezing the student loan threshold

The part of the loan that's repaid is classed as an asset on Treasury spreadsheets. But when plan 2 student loans started to be repaid, the percentage received back was less than expected...

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Ruth Davidson, Andy Street and their bold new project to save the Tories The former Scottish Conservative leader and ex-West Midlands mayor are starting a movement to attract 7 million ‘politically homeless’ voters

This is a very exciting initiative. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is it, isn't it? A show about lying and treachery turned out to be about friendship and staying true to a promise.

WHAT a show #TheTraitors

To the TRAITORS

Beyond parody

Omg I don’t understand why Harriet didn’t play it stupid?

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Sometimes you read something so gloriously absurd you can't quite believe your eyes:

Virtually anything you can think of qualify as “commodity futures contracts,” with three important exceptions:

Securities
Futures on “motion picture box office receipts”
Onion

HT @matt-levine.bsky.social

Marty supreme - while a pretty compelling movie - I just couldn’t bear to finish it. TBH it started badly with the visual representation of conception. Not my cup of tea.

I used to love painting them as a child! Such a great universe.

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Watching the PM’s speech with Startup Coalition

From a thread well worth reading. One might add that when Labour voters were drawn mostly from the manual working class, Labour… lost most of the time. Labour’s electoral coalition couldn’t win in 1955 and would be absolutely crushed in an electorate with the demographics of 2025.

Final full day at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.

Watching Mrs America (which is UNMISSABLE btw) I’m reminded the US is only 250 years old - next year.

‘Too Much’ locations are outrageously stressful. Hoxton flat - Peckham rye pub - outside scene London Bridge
Gah

SXSW London: Here we go

PSA nemaslug finally back in stock in the UK

This is why I never fly the Irish budget airline, delayed flight yet they rack up about 10x £75 hand luggage check fees at the gate by squeezing the measurements 1cm. Priority though mandatory for overhead cabin luggage is pointless.

Thank you again @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com for the recco. 🙏🏼

Rewatching Hacks from the beginning so @guyopperman.bsky.social can catch up, so so so good.

interesting to see if that is enough of a drag…

I’m not sure as food, hospitality, and entertainment are so expensive that I’ve heard lots of reports of discretionary family/service spending being heavily squeezed.

DoorDash to buy UK's Deliveroo for $3.86B | TechCrunch DoorDash said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy its U.K. rival Deliveroo for about £2.9 billion (around $3.85 billion).

DoorDash to buy UK’s Deliveroo for $3.86B

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A picture of me in the kitchen kissing my baby daughter, we are both wearing bunny ears and I am holding an Easter egg hunt bag. She is chewing a sequined egg.

Gosh this has been a lovely one! Happy Easter. X

What is the point of the Oyster card readers when changing from the overground (windrush!) at either Whitechapel or Canada Water? Does it make a difference where you are coming from/going to?

I know I’m late to the party, but by golly do I love Severance. It’s even held me up from starting the latest season of Hacks

Why is the message for teens always "don't send nudes" and never "don't ask for nudes" ?