Tom VVardle

Add to this that the threshold- 6% of your salary above £21,000- hasn't changed in 10 years and hasn't risen with inflation and the average salary.

Can we also include the postgraduate loan in this, which has been frozen at £21k repayment threshold at 6% since it was introduced

Now, the Postgraduate Loan that is hitting my pay packet hard and the interest is still rising.

I know I chose to take on the loan and probably had the information BUT... Why are we penalising people even more for doing further study? Couldn't the interest at least be frozen while still studying?

Just another thought on student loans...

I took a £10k Postgraduate Loan to do my Master's degree, with 6% compound interest in 2016.

I then did a PhD (didn't finish, RIP) so was out of the workforce for a few years, meaning I wasn't repaying anything while the interest was increasing.

Sun's come out for the first time in forever. Straight to the corner shop to buy a crisp can of Diet Coke on my lunchtime walk. Unrivalled.

Una camiseta de fútbol para recordar la acogida de los niños vascos en Gales tras el bombardeo de Gernika
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Really struggling to see a way out of this #NFFC

This feels like England vs Slovakia at the Euros #NFFC

Carta desde el más allá: la despedida de Carlos Hernández El periodista Carlos Hernández, que ha fallecido este martes a los 56 años, dejó este texto escrito para que fuera publicado en elDiario.es tras su muerte

Mi despedida escrita antes de irme para el otro barrio. Hasta siempre.

Carta desde el más allá www.eldiario.es/129_c5c033?u...

Re-publishing my @outsidewrite.bsky.social article about Billy Barnes, the 3 time Copa del Rey winning manager with Athletic Club, who gave rise to the term 'Míster' still used in Spanish football today 🔴⚪️

More similar articles in the pipeline so please follow! 📝

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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’ The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked for the party. But I ended up quitting politics in disappointment. What happened?

Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

I was recently thinking it could be really fun to do a Southampton edition of 'A House Through Time'

Misremembering Franco Spain's new 'memory law' attempts to grapple with Franco-era crimes – but without acknowledging the continuity between the dictatorship and the current system, there can be no real justice.

On the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, re-sharing this article @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social and I wrote about Francoism and justice.

Sadly, Manuel passed away without ever seeing justice for his brother. Fausto, fortunately, was able to recover his father's body tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/misr...

¡Vamos! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Lionesses

Wardle jinx but Lauren James should not be playing #Lionesses

Big of a long shot but do you fancy swapping for the 2nd of August? Will get you there sooner 😅

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Lucy Bronze 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Lionesses #WEuro2025

OASIS

Fullsized tiled mosaic of Picasso's "Guernica" in Gernika. Made in 1997 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the massacre. The Basque suffix “ra” ( Gernikara) means “to” Gernika., i.e. calling for the painting to be brought [from Madrid] to the Basque Country
📷Wiki, Papamanila

Does anyone know if there is a safe way to SWAP Oasis tickets?

What a day for Legal Action FC 📨 #NFFC

Nico Williams renueva con el Athletic Club hasta 2035 | Athletic Club Website Oficial El extremo rojiblanco se vincula al club de su corazón durante las próximas diez temporadas y su cláusula aumenta más de un 50% la que tenía

All of the speculation in the world that Nico Williams is going to Barça and he signs a 10 YEAR CONTRACT with Athletic Club. Honestly can't believe it. There really is no club like it in the world ❤️🤍 #UniqueInTheWorld www.athletic-club.eus/noticias/202...

Screenshot of Vicky's letter to the Prime Minister (page 1)

Screenshot of Vicky's letter to the Prime Minister (page 2)

(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip.

Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.

I honestly don't think I've ever seen Lautaro Martinez have a good game

Yeah, hopefully someone buys it and sorts it out. Would be such a shame if years of making connections went down the drain.

Another problem is that it's often broken. My DMs weren't working the other day but then when they were, it's full of porn spam bots

I have the original deeds to our new house and I think I can drive cattle onto nearby roads if I want...

I uninstalled Twitter from my phone but still lurk on computer.

After a bit of a flurry, there doesn't seem to be too many people joining here and lots seem to have gone back to Twitter.

That play-off scares me

#NFFC 0-1 Chelsea

A pretty meagre way to end the season but we're all going on a European tour #NFFC

Basque Children refugees peering out of the window of a ship

On this day in 1937, 4000 Basque Children arrive in Southampton and are given sanctuary from the Spanish Civil War by the British public

Tal día como hoy en 1937, 4 mil niños vascos llegan en Southampton, Inglaterra. Refugiados por la guerra civil, el pueblo británico les da santuario