[soulboy]

What is the smallest sum of money that sounds like a big sum of money?

According to Halifax

The average first-time buyer in 2024 was 33 years old, two years older than ten years ago (31 years old) and the oldest in two decades. They put down an average deposit of £61,090 and typically paid £311,034 for their first home.

Nice little bonus for those who can afford, not much help for those who are too busy paying a landlord's mortgage to save the other fifty grand.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Katie Lam is a name that's cropping up a fair bit. She's already been caught lying so badly that The Sun agreed to issue a correction. Here she pretends she's unaware of bilingualism and London school results.

[Killer Whale]

There is clear research evidence that children of immigrants out-perform their peers in the education system (and underperform in gaining jobs that reflect their educational attainment, incidentally).

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Katie Lams of this world used to have an answer for the former- the exams have been dumbed down. Does she believe that, I wonder? I thought that Gove had toughened the exams up? Perhaps Gove will soon be reduced to an establishment liberal in the demonology, which would be amusing and create some editorial dilemmas at The Spectator.

In terms of the latter, job prospects of brown people are probably not helped by Katie creating the impression that they speak like characters out of Mind Your Language.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Here's Katie's previous "too dishonest for The Sun" effort.