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"Keir, I'm sorry I've written your name down, I hope I'm wrong"
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"Keir, I'm sorry I've written your name down, I hope I'm wrong"
Stamp duty might not actually be a very good tax...
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
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![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
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September 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Stamp duty might not actually be a very good tax...
"Make me a map of the UK as it looks to a visiting American."
Version 2 is loads better. We have two Norfolks (who knew?), a West Ridingo, Tuhdley Molip and the intriguing Sesex...
August 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Make me a map of the UK as it looks to a visiting American."
This is probably the most cynical attempt in a while to shake money out of reform supporting pensioners. Imagine them, sitting at home, seeing this on Facebook, signing up to Coinbase and burning their savings up on crypto junk. youtu.be/l0bmJlrhRg4?...
Everything Is Fine
YouTube video by Coinbase
youtu.be
August 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is probably the most cynical attempt in a while to shake money out of reform supporting pensioners. Imagine them, sitting at home, seeing this on Facebook, signing up to Coinbase and burning their savings up on crypto junk. youtu.be/l0bmJlrhRg4?...
Top 5 Carbs, best to still awesome:
1. Roast potatoes
2. Crisps
3. Fries
4. Baked potatoes
5. Buttery mashed potato
1. Roast potatoes
2. Crisps
3. Fries
4. Baked potatoes
5. Buttery mashed potato
5. Top five Carbohydrates, ranked best to still awesome:
1. Pasta
2. Bread.
3. Potatoes
4. Legumes.
5. Rice
1. Pasta
2. Bread.
3. Potatoes
4. Legumes.
5. Rice
July 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Top 5 Carbs, best to still awesome:
1. Roast potatoes
2. Crisps
3. Fries
4. Baked potatoes
5. Buttery mashed potato
1. Roast potatoes
2. Crisps
3. Fries
4. Baked potatoes
5. Buttery mashed potato
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The UK's automatic enrolment into pensions has been one of the biggest public policy triumphs in decades.
Hard to fix things like productivity & incomes quickly - but this really has been a quiet triumph.
Hard to fix things like productivity & incomes quickly - but this really has been a quiet triumph.
July 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The UK's automatic enrolment into pensions has been one of the biggest public policy triumphs in decades.
Hard to fix things like productivity & incomes quickly - but this really has been a quiet triumph.
Hard to fix things like productivity & incomes quickly - but this really has been a quiet triumph.
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Scientists have observed that every time Reform goes above four MPs, one of them has to leave the party, a phenomenon known as the Farage Equilibrium.
Reform MP James McMurdock has removed the party whip from himself over an investigation into alleged business impropriety during the pandemic
July 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Scientists have observed that every time Reform goes above four MPs, one of them has to leave the party, a phenomenon known as the Farage Equilibrium.
Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea.
This was a week people in Rongjiang certainly will not forget anytime soon, as record-breaking rainfall hit Guizou Province and caused havoc. You might have seen this video of a truck becoming stuck on 6/24 after a highway collapse - the driver was successfully rescued.
June 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea.
Heavens
There are CVs that really make my head spin.
For example, I just came across a Professor of Theology who also has a PhD in Astrophysics.
(I feel slightly inadequate now.)
For example, I just came across a Professor of Theology who also has a PhD in Astrophysics.
(I feel slightly inadequate now.)
June 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Heavens
What makes the GPS spoofed vessels appear in little circles?
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What makes the GPS spoofed vessels appear in little circles?
Not really the route I'd take to Saudi, EK821.....middle east airports are heading for some trouble....
June 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Not really the route I'd take to Saudi, EK821.....middle east airports are heading for some trouble....
In 1667, the Dutch won a stunning raid over England in the Medway - England's 'Pearl Harbour'- but within years, they had lost New Netherland, paving the way for the birth of New York and New Jersey. If you are one of the 60 million or so who live there now, this is a little bit of your history.
21 juni 1667 - Twee Hollandse jachten varen de Medway op om de positie van de Engelse schepen te bepalen en keren terug met goed nieuws. De Engelsen laten een aantal schepen zinken als versperring. Hollandse schepen creëren die nacht echter een doorvaart. Het hoogtepunt nadert
June 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
In 1667, the Dutch won a stunning raid over England in the Medway - England's 'Pearl Harbour'- but within years, they had lost New Netherland, paving the way for the birth of New York and New Jersey. If you are one of the 60 million or so who live there now, this is a little bit of your history.
I'd like these dots coloured by "would bomb", "wouldn't bomb". Maybe a fat dot for where Trump places it.
Critical support to the American who thought Iran was in Norwich.
June 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'd like these dots coloured by "would bomb", "wouldn't bomb". Maybe a fat dot for where Trump places it.
You have to respect the strong colonial vibe to this!
Not a prosecution in the public interest.
Not a prosecution in the public interest.
May 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You have to respect the strong colonial vibe to this!
Not a prosecution in the public interest.
Not a prosecution in the public interest.
"ChatGPT: How do I do fraud, fast?"
lmfao wow
*STARTUP BUILDER.AI OVERESTIMATED SALES BY 300% TO KEY CREDITORS
*STARTUP BUILDER.AI OVERESTIMATED SALES BY 300% TO KEY CREDITORS
*UK'S BUILDER.AI WILL ENTER INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS ON TUESDAY
Back on 3/31 they announced that 2H '24 sales were overstated by 25% and they planned to review the past two years of accounts.
Backers include MSFT and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.
Back on 3/31 they announced that 2H '24 sales were overstated by 25% and they planned to review the past two years of accounts.
Backers include MSFT and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.
May 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"ChatGPT: How do I do fraud, fast?"
I'm confused. I thought the other countries were meant to eat the tariffs? Now Walmart is meant to eat the tariffs? I think we know who'll end up eating the tariffs.
May 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm confused. I thought the other countries were meant to eat the tariffs? Now Walmart is meant to eat the tariffs? I think we know who'll end up eating the tariffs.
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It was only a matter of time
May 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It was only a matter of time
Slowly a pathway back to power starts to emerge for Liz Truss.....
I suppose that all depends on your view of how good a Foreign Secretary Lee Anderson would be
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Slowly a pathway back to power starts to emerge for Liz Truss.....
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"comfy beds but decor a bit too understated 6/10"
May 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"comfy beds but decor a bit too understated 6/10"
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This is truly mind-blowing. At first I only looked at the crack appearing in the foreground in the pavement, then I saw the sudden and fast movement of the earth in the distance and on the right. 🤯🧪⚒️
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...
First fault rupture ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
youtu.be
May 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is truly mind-blowing. At first I only looked at the crack appearing in the foreground in the pavement, then I saw the sudden and fast movement of the earth in the distance and on the right. 🤯🧪⚒️
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...
90 days later...
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Nineteen Weeks
Nineteen Weeks
May 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
90 days later...
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temu addicts hardest hit
April 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
temu addicts hardest hit
Sometimes being disconnected helps. Gibraltar not impacted by Spain/Portugal power outage.
April 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sometimes being disconnected helps. Gibraltar not impacted by Spain/Portugal power outage.
US is becoming uninvestable.
US INTERIOR DEPARTMENT DIRECTING HALT ON CONSTRUCTION OF EMPIRE WIND OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT, SECRETARY DOUG BURGUM SAYS ON X
April 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
US is becoming uninvestable.
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I hope Main Street enjoyed their 5 hours
US Treasury Secretary Bessent: It's main street's turn now, not wall street.
April 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I hope Main Street enjoyed their 5 hours