Daniel
@deargodwhatnow.bsky.social
I'm just this guy yknow. All opinions entirely my own, and probably wrong
Hang on, the betting industry keeps saying that they play a vital role in contributing tax to the exchequer
Our new report on Sky Bet's relocation to Malta. Full details of what we think they did, whether it was legal, and how HMRC and the Government could stop it: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/18/s...
Betting on tax avoidance - is Sky Bet avoiding £55m tax per year?
ITV News has just published an investigation: gambling company Sky Bet has migrated its business to Malta to avoid around £55m of tax each year. We provided technical support for the investigation…
taxpolicy.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hang on, the betting industry keeps saying that they play a vital role in contributing tax to the exchequer
But I was told it was essential for Men's Mental Health??
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
But I was told it was essential for Men's Mental Health??
I've discovered M&S cafe has closed three times and every time I'm upset
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I've discovered M&S cafe has closed three times and every time I'm upset
Every day I come on here and see people advocating lynching again
And tell me how the government putting a rapist away for 2 years is justice but the victim stabbing him isn't lol
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Every day I come on here and see people advocating lynching again
Thought: there could be a lib dem > reform flip at the next election
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thought: there could be a lib dem > reform flip at the next election
Absolutely classic. It doesn't fulfil its stated aims of economic growth, but it makes people feel good! Yeah duh, it's free money
Why Ireland is giving its artists money with no strings attached to create - column by @judewebber.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/15a6...
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Absolutely classic. It doesn't fulfil its stated aims of economic growth, but it makes people feel good! Yeah duh, it's free money
This feels deeply stupid and counterproductive to the policies on its own grounds- you want 'we are firm and professional and not let Britain be taken advantage of ' not 'cartoon villain'
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This feels deeply stupid and counterproductive to the policies on its own grounds- you want 'we are firm and professional and not let Britain be taken advantage of ' not 'cartoon villain'
Really underrated how iirc there was a distinct swing against Biden in 2020 in Vietnamese-American and Venezuelan-American districts, where some thought he was a 'socialist'
Like, it doesn't really matter what Harris said during the campaign because you had four years of a saturated information environment defining the Dems as the 2020 social wars party.
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Really underrated how iirc there was a distinct swing against Biden in 2020 in Vietnamese-American and Venezuelan-American districts, where some thought he was a 'socialist'
'The jury in the Thorpe case were right to acquit him' is perhaps one of my more niche opinions
Interestingly, while the judge was a disgrace it was also fairly reasonable for that jury to acquit, the two key witnesses were a man with an erratic life, and a monumental crook.
Thorpe was as guilty as sin, but it was a weak prosecution
Thorpe was as guilty as sin, but it was a weak prosecution
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'The jury in the Thorpe case were right to acquit him' is perhaps one of my more niche opinions
Its a pity York station is in the wrong place, but it's lovely
York is a funny old station… when I’m not here I always think of it as over rated. But when I’m here I always think it’s rather special!
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Its a pity York station is in the wrong place, but it's lovely
Stigma is good actually sometimes
It would likely be helpful for anybody who cares about norms to identify friends of Epstein who dropped him like a stone when he was convicted because they weren't willing make excuses for kiddy-fiddlers.
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Stigma is good actually sometimes
Not sure this is any way to run an economy
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Not sure this is any way to run an economy
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'Actually you can't oppose migration because one of your ancestors was a migrant, you hypocrite', is quite frankly racist, with a smug liberal veneer
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
'Actually you can't oppose migration because one of your ancestors was a migrant, you hypocrite', is quite frankly racist, with a smug liberal veneer
Luv to have pogroms, sorry I mean 'community justice'
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Luv to have pogroms, sorry I mean 'community justice'
Thinking again how Lyons tea houses invented one of the first commercial uses for computing .. to track their cake inventory
Also it was owned by Nigella Lawson's grandparents
Also it was owned by Nigella Lawson's grandparents
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thinking again how Lyons tea houses invented one of the first commercial uses for computing .. to track their cake inventory
Also it was owned by Nigella Lawson's grandparents
Also it was owned by Nigella Lawson's grandparents
There's an unacknowledged line between Osborne and the 'left behind', in that Osborne and pals genuinely thought The State was 'crowding out' private iniative in poorer places and thet by slashing the state you'd make it richer.
Instead they voted for brexit
Instead they voted for brexit
They had a genuine ideological belief that the state should be smaller and that doing so would unlock greater economic dynamism and that civic society would step in and fill the gaps.
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There's an unacknowledged line between Osborne and the 'left behind', in that Osborne and pals genuinely thought The State was 'crowding out' private iniative in poorer places and thet by slashing the state you'd make it richer.
Instead they voted for brexit
Instead they voted for brexit
I adore this. Saw a sainsbury worker wearing an old 'respect social distancing' hi vis the other day. When will we see the last of the paraphernalia
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I adore this. Saw a sainsbury worker wearing an old 'respect social distancing' hi vis the other day. When will we see the last of the paraphernalia
It is mental that civil servants can't accept a fruit basket but MPs can receive gifts of under £300 and not declare them
Following up last RT, it is stunning how much Parliament's rules are out of step with not just the private sector, but the civil service and local councils research.mysociety.org/html/beyond-...
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It is mental that civil servants can't accept a fruit basket but MPs can receive gifts of under £300 and not declare them
Comfortable prediction that turnout in the next election is going to be *through the roof*
This last part in particular is so poorly understood. Part of winning an election is “appealing to your lot”, part is “not upsetting or terrifying the other lot”.
Starmer is disliked by ~75% of the electorate. Newsflash: that includes quite a lot of Labour voters- and, crucially, those who may have voted for other parties or stayed at home but were comfortable with Labour winning.
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Comfortable prediction that turnout in the next election is going to be *through the roof*
This is good! It's disgusting and worthy of social censure
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is good! It's disgusting and worthy of social censure
> Be a very unpopular Labour Prime Minister
> Have no focus nor a plan for government
> Fight off plots from your own party every week
> Be Gordon Brown
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> Have no focus nor a plan for government
> Fight off plots from your own party every week
> Be Gordon Brown
Pic unrelated
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
> Be a very unpopular Labour Prime Minister
> Have no focus nor a plan for government
> Fight off plots from your own party every week
> Be Gordon Brown
Pic unrelated
> Have no focus nor a plan for government
> Fight off plots from your own party every week
> Be Gordon Brown
Pic unrelated
- Larry Summers to Jeffrey Epstein
Realizing you’re not as important in someone’s life as you once thought you were is such a depressingly humbling experience
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
- Larry Summers to Jeffrey Epstein
In their defence*, it is hilarious that Labour MPs appear to have a position of 'no tax, only more spend!'
*not a defence
*not a defence
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In their defence*, it is hilarious that Labour MPs appear to have a position of 'no tax, only more spend!'
*not a defence
*not a defence
Weird to think, but is the last successful Prime Minister on their own terms .. Tony Blair?
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Weird to think, but is the last successful Prime Minister on their own terms .. Tony Blair?
Side note: there's this tendency to Other pedophiles as inherent to particular unpopular castes like priests or billionaires, whereas really any opaque culture of empowered men and powerless kids, can produce it
This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Side note: there's this tendency to Other pedophiles as inherent to particular unpopular castes like priests or billionaires, whereas really any opaque culture of empowered men and powerless kids, can produce it