Everything about this viral tweet is wrong. No: the government hasn’t raided the National Insurance Fund. No: the surplus can’t be used for anything you like, without loading our children with debt/taxes. Here’s why. 🧵

Really good piece by Martin F. Robbins on the generational income/wealth gap - tldr is that young people today earn so much more, but are then hammered by the apocalyptic scale of the housing crisis martinrobbins.substack.com/p/waspinomics-…

Ties in with my theory that because most of the wealth in our society is houses and pensions, older people don't really realise they have it, so feel much poorer than they actually are... thetimes.com/business-money…

This should be a picture of me #accurate 😂

Day at the beach ⛱️ #LythamStAnnes

HMRC Update on mini umbrella company fraud. Turns out, not *that* kind of mini umbrella #disappointing ☂️

Baslow looking as pretty as ever 🌄

Gorgeous skies today around Chatsworth 🌤 if there's an open top bus tour, guaranteed I'll be on it #waitforme ☀️

I'm 100% a tourist wherever I go and I make no apologies 😂 Open top bus tour? Count me in. Tractor tour around the gardens? Obviously (worth doing to see what you missed while walking around). Gorgeous sunny day at Chatsworth Country Fair today 🎡🎪

That emergency alert wasn't very loud! If I hadn't been watching Thunderbolts and looking at my phone waiting, I'd definitely have missed it.

Bought some Hotel Chocolat selection boxes to put in with Christmas presents. I actually did quite well - they were in the present hamper for two whole days before I caved and opened one 🎁

Delighted to announce that the #WorldCup of will be based entirely on CARBOHYDRATES. Including both specific items (toast) and entire dishes (mac & cheese) and other unexpected rules based on no concrete or consistent approach. LAUNCH IS TONIGHT!

Little nephew's Halloween pumpkin competition entries 🎃 the creative gene is strong in my family (it skipped me) 😯

State pensioners are benefit claimants. All of them, without exception. Time they learned this.

Ah, the 'boomer" mindset strikes again - take more from young people with less while *they* reap the benefits of DB pensions, triple locked state pension, booming property values and investments, and convince themselves it was entirely earned by "hard work'.

Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 and a Freddo was 10p. Meaning that one hour of work got you 50 Freddos. Fast forward to 2025, minimum wage is £12.21 and a Freddo is 35p. Now one hour of work will only get you 34 of them. That's a 142% rise in pay but a 250% rise in frog shaped

One of the worst thought-out policy decisions *ever*. Any attempt to remove/reform the state pension triple lock is seen as an attack on pensioners which is nonsense, of course. Get rid of it & increase Pension Credit - younger people need a buffer more than many pensioners do.