What's frustrating is that his statesmanship is very good. It's almost everything else that he's terrible at.

Starmer again proving to be a very good head of state but a very bad prime minister.

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.

From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.

A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

What are we doing to the planet that a whole species may go extinct? (Yes, I'm sure plenty have already)

When younger you'd measure up against the penguins in the museum. Feels incredible that they might be gone in my lifetime.

Getting to the front of a queue to buy something without having made your mind up yet or being in any way unprepared to make the transaction.

UK Labour are, unbelievably, halfway there.

I tell you what would be nice (politically): if everyone could just re-establish themselves to global stability and examine a domestic economic policy that didn't favour those that already had an abundance of capital.

What are the chances?

Hahahahahahahahaha

Heartwarming to see that the guys on >£90k with 2nd jobs and also the ability to employ family members to work in their constituency offices are thinking about their long-term financial security. We should ALL take a leaf out of their book!

How come the Lords are more in touch with The Man On The Street™️ than the Commons? Why is everything upside down?

The flat-earther doc Beyond The Curve had an amazing section on how people are radicalised online.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Yeah, the drop off in quality is a sheer cliff edge innit.

Fun fact: macro-lager breweries don't bother to measure their dissolved oxygen as they factor the actual shelf-life of their sterile-filtered beer is so short that the beer wont oxidise.

Get the badge in. 💙🦐

@petefrasermusic.bsky.social ??

The women breaking into the boys’ brewing club Some of Britain’s best brewers are now women. Pete Brown salutes them — and picks their best beers

A week today it’s International Women’s Day. In @thetimes.com today, we spotlight six brilliant female brewers. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal

A great bloke and no mistake

Theresa May?

He's pro-foreign aid now?

I am not looking to start an argument. How would you rank the following old-world beer nations?

Czechia, UK, Belgium, Germany?

Abandon shipment: how an Amazon van got marooned on the UK’s ‘most dangerous path’ Driver reportedly checked with base and was told to continue when GPS directed van on to Essex mudflats

I followed the biggest story of the week: how an Amazon delivery van became marooned on the Broomway www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If you live in the UK and value the BBC, please give your thoughts on its future ahead of charter renewal

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Cant wait for the next GE!!

:(

I have started using the 👍 as an email reaction. How does that sit?

Jack is why people say "I wonder if the traitors are keeping me here"

That's us. Hope you liked it!

This blew my mind.