Universities have business schools because they're ideally suited to the pile it high / sell it cheap strategy, except that they don't need to sell it cheap. They grow because they're revenue-generating, not because they're any good. The home undergrads & postgrads, esp overseas, flock in anyway.
Presumably confusing it with VAT? Understandable for a Leading Businessman.
I had reason to look through old P60s recently (yes, really). Started univ teaching career 50 yrs ago at the very bottom of the lecturer scale. £3,174. Doesn't sound very impressive, but uprated by RPI that's £36K, not bad at 23; relative to average earnings then & now, £50K, ludicrously generous.
Star Wars villains are just part of a story. This… person… is for real, unfortunately.
An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”.
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Very jolly for an undertaker.
Always a pleasure to meet the language police doing God’s work as usual.
I’ve mostly done this, but if you hold a Developed World ex-U.K. tracker you find that c. 70% of your fund is US equities. Actually hard to avoid a substantial residual holding even if you reduce the Dev’d World ex-U.K. to a small fraction of your portfolio.
They don’t make faces like that any more.
A nice summary.
You need not make too much of an effort to offer an undeserved apology on her behalf. A cow, & a silly cow to boot. Haven’t we had enough of those already — Patel, Braverman, Truss, etc.?
Interesting — see the article on Pembroke Dock in The Sunday Times, www.thetimes.com/article/1649.... When I was a kid staying with my grandparents, PD was our nearest Big Town, an adventure. More prosaically: widely distributed public sector jobs underpinned the local middle class & civil society.
The notion has become so deeply ingrained since 1980s that the “delivery“ of public services & functions can easily be outsourced to the wonderful private sector, leaving the central state simply as the piper calling the tune. Problem is inter al. that the Contracted State is **** at contract mgt.
And there we were, silly old men, thinking that a Labour government might show a tiny bit of enthusiasm for reviving social democracy or even just a bit of collectivism, the public goods argument, taxation-as-insurance, good ideas a century & more old, popular with members/voters, a bit of a change?
She has an annoyingly self-satisfied look even before she opens her mouth & makes it clear that her arguments are pretty **** but she doesn’t know it. Very overrated, imho. Worthy successor to Patel & Braverman, tho.
The toxic people who don't think Shabana Mahmood doesn't belong in this country are white racists, not white liberals
But white liberals - like the mixed race, Asian or black liberals - have just as much right to disagree with Shabana Mahmood as they do with Theresa May or Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf
Yes — part of the problem with the “shrivelled state” — still pumping out tons of money, but what on? Crapita. Serco. Atos. On the rails, the RoScos. In SEND, money pits for private equity. Social care for oldies, ditto. State-funded rent-seeking capitalism, sucking deeply off the HMT hind tit.
Because they are, you mean? Perhaps we expect too much of an enfeebled state that we aren’t prepared to fund?
Surely this is the problem, & also Starmer’s best insurance policy — such a weak front bench, no credible or preferable successor. Cooper & Lammy are both feeble, Streeting rebarbative + wafer-thin majority, Miliband (whom I quite like, even admire) failed once already & wd be monstered by the press
I think of this when I read all the stuff about Starmer being furious with this person or about that issue. I can’t really imagine him being more than just about peeved, or peevish. Just can’t hear him being furious.
Not as bad as this. Would have meant that, by the time the Epstein files emerged, Mandelson would have been behind him (stabbing him in the back?).
I had a student once who did a detailed study of the mid C19th census data on Shincliffe & Bank Top. The latter was teeming with people. One of the good things about Co. Durham is how much ex-industrial landscape has been so well restored.
I’ve often thought that modern intensive farming is just a way of turning petroleum products into edible form. Read about a 475 hectare “regenerative” farm (mostly cereals) the other day, used 50,000 litres of diesel a year. Did not mention its indirect consumption e.g. fertilisers & other chems
Where do the Tories plan to deport these people to? Needs cooperation at the other end (e.g. Rwanda).
Starmer will have to step down to get that treatment.
I cycle past there on my most regular biking route.
In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the
- £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends
- the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance
Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund
Or, even simpler, “Morgan told me it was a good idea, and as usual I was stupid enough to believe him.”
Impeach.
Absolutely. He corrupted the vetting process by announcing the appointment — putting No. 10’s foot on the scales — before the DV process had concluded, perhaps even before it had begun. And then complain that Olly Robins fixed it for him.