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Pontypool (2008) dir. Bruce McDonald 3/5
October Spookfest 27 of 31
Like many on this spookfest list I've seen this before.
It's a cracker of a low budget horror comedy. All filmed in one location, mostly a single room of a radio studio, small cast, and a very clever idea.
I think the Labour Party has entered its slightly senile Nan stage.
It's like a parody of Blair era messaging.
I'm sure Lewis means well, but the entire schtick of the moneysaving site is that some pure schmuck on average wage can use arbitrage on a percentage point here and a percentage point there to be better off like they're skimming the difference on billion dollar deals rather than their £2k credit card debt.
And absolutely, the banks, insurance, telecoms and energy companies play along with the silly game, but the house always wins.
Forget marginal interest rates and moving pots of money around, the message this week is clearly don't save, buy loo roll and baked beans instead.
NEW. Additional tax on savings interest (outside of your personal savings allowance and cash ISAs) from April 2027
Basic rate taxpayer: 24% on savings interest and property income
Higher rate taxpayer: 44%
Top rate taxpayer: 49%
So the fact the cash ISA is staying at £20,000 per year is even more important. #Budget2026
I was taking home more money when I was in a Band A property than I am in my Band F.
The bands are a joke, 35 years out of date, and while this will obviously help a lot of people who need it, it will go to millions who don't.
NEWS ENERGY PAYMENT: £100 payment to all households in Council Tax bands A to D for England (and funding for same in other nations). That's 20m homes.
Translation: This is the support for the huge rise due in January price cap. Its expected to be 27% up. Which equates to roughly £100 from Jan to March alone.
So the Mayor of Britain is giving more money to the Mayors? Meanwhile, councils are going bust across the country.
Unbelievable.
Because the entire tax system is being rigged to bring the median closer and closer to the minimum.
Minimum wage goes up, tax rates on higher incomes going up, the thresholds not changing.
Everybody ends up being paid almost the same regardless of the job.
It's communism.
Can we maybe get some judges who aren’t wet liberals and recognise that the main purpose of prison is to protect the public from further harm?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
What kind of self employed person (even one riding a bike delivering food) will be remotely enthused by 15 hours minimum wage payment for two weeks?
Ahahahahaha
Your former leader just wasted two years then?
All so that you could try to get 'breathing space' to catch on?
Fetch isn't going to happen.
The focus group....
Re-upping this Makerfield focus group from last week in light of headlines around PM re-opening convo on EU. I thought he’d get a Brexit backlash. But my big surprise in group was that nearly all these leave voters had regret & open to PM’s look again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdmZQ…
Their first two years they managed to deliver toast.
Now it's marmalade's turn.
Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes' bbc.in/4zTnQ4K
Is it too strong to suggest our institutions need purging?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Hey @JohnHealey_MP if you want a really easy fix in your budget, do this:
Pension = tax allowance = 1000 hours minimum wage.
Currently they're not far off this.
£12,547.60: £12,570: £12,710
Equalise them. Fix them all to some measure to rise each year.
It will be popular.