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Paul Cole
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Chartered Engineer, STEM Ambassador, Chelmsford City FC and Motorsports fan, Father, Husband, Music and Book lover, Railway Modeller. Runner. Rejoiner.

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Header photo taken at https://pendonmuseum.com
That's the model for all sorts of businesses now. The parent company locates itself in a more favourable tax regime and then makes huge loans to the companies it owns - in less favourable countries - in order to avoid paying taxes.
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The reason I left is because I *really* don't share Elon Musk's views. I wouldn't knowingly use or buy goods or services from a company owned by an individual with his world view.
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Go - it's absolutely stunning. Madder Valley is a proper piece of history, the Dartmoor and Seawall scenes are brilliant, but the main event (Pendon) is mind-blowingly good, with a really interesting audio tour.
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We have absolutely pissed away the last ten years on bloody Brexit. If Labour wants to stop Farage, there's the line of attack. It was his policy, he needs to own the abject failure.
September 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sadly many of them are real people, living in places like Thurrock and Basildon. It's truly depressing.
September 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So do you support violent direct action of the sort Palestine Action has carried out? Like I said (and you ignored) I think there's no doubt it's genocide - the government has been far too slow to call it out, and has not done anything like enough.
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You can be opposed to the genocide without supporting Palestine Action. Don't portray this as something it isn't.
September 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Security massively increased there, and at the ferry ports, plus the hauliers themselves. Very difficult to hitch a lift in an HGV like they used to, though it does still happen - but in the low hundreds per year, not thousands.
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I've a theory that they actually don't want a safe route. The unsafe and expensive boat crossings are probably perceived as limiting the numbers attempting to claim asylum. Who knows whether they really do limit numbers - I do know it's inhumane to let them continue.
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Just abolish NI altogether and reform income tax. NI is pretty meaningless anyway - it doesn't fund the state pension, benefits, or the NHS on its own. It's an unnecessary complication.
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Doesn't that figure also include "cash in hand" or other off-the-books work by businesses, as well as illegal workers?
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What we had before Blueray?
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Robinson kept interrupting even even Davey was answering the question. Part of me says that at least they gave them air time. But then, they gave uncritical air time to Reform's latest idiocy.
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The only reason I know is they were interviewing Ed Davey on R4 Today when I was in the car. They had the cheek to ask him why they do the silly stunts, to which he replied (I paraphrase) that that's the only way they get news coverage, but they also make sure to push their message at the same time.
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's the Lib Dem conference. They should be the big political stories this week. Instead, we've got Reform with a very ill thought out (is it even thought out?) policy with fictional figures dominating the news agenda. We are well and truly screwed, aren't we.
September 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Are you sure you've read it? It doesn't major on economics, and the first part of the book looking at potential is physics based, and that hasn't changed. McKay is a renewables enthusiast.
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM