Pensioners do not pay tax on the first £12,570 of their pension anyway. For 2026-7 the full pension is 12,548. So we never paid much or any tax on it. The more important question is why is there an upper earnings limit on National Insurance and why don't richer pensioners pay NI or tax on ISAs.

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Every new prime minister gets to celebrate their 50th day in office by restoring Liz Truss's rightful title of 'UK's shortest serving prime minister'. Congrats, Andy Burnham.

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Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)

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If we can get Americans referring to 'the fitba' then our work here is done.

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