Remember a bunch of consultants during my EduInvestor days laughing at the people wasting their time on humanities degrees when they could do IT or business administration, and I don't *think* it's just self-interest that means I think timeless critical skills turned out to be a better bet
Happy St George's Day everyone - and remember that England isn't what the radical right claim it is.
Its beautiful, diverse and, most importantly, ours
We reported in January that an unanticipated effect of the Renters' Rights Act was to create a stamp duty liability for about 150,000 tenants.
The good news is that the Government just announced it will legislate retrospectively to fix this:
QUICK! While the Hungarian guy is out, but before the Bulgarian guy comes in!
"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
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Ya think?
If you mean what I think you mean, then it wasn't part of my childhood at all. Forty years later, my teenager definitely knows about it.
PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.
On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
This company is out of control and its CEO appears in nearly every public appearance to be disturbed in some way.
There are companies our government should have nothing to do with anymore—e.g., those associated with Elon Musk—and Palantir is on that list.
Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.
We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.
It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson
If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend
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It was years before I realised that 'elegy' and 'eulogy' are not, in fact, the same word.
This.
This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.
National Parliament Election in Bulgaria today 🇧🇬 🇪🇺
As of 7% of votes counted, Progressive Bulgaria is leading in all regions (oblasts) reporting data, with the exception of two regions with significant Turkish and Roma populations.
Live results:
europeelects.eu/2026/04/14/e...
ZELENSKYY: Most important about Hungarian election is that you can't build your politics, election, or victory on passport. Orbán tried to address not only hatred towards me, but also hatred of one people towards another. You can't build anything on that. That was a big mistake.
preparing to give another Trans People & "Biological Sex" talk, so I though I'd re-up this – it's an in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
I can fully endorse that.
(We’re an ETTA/LTTA couple. Or, at least, we were. After a very, very, very close shave that involved some actual begging, we’re now an ETTA/grudgingly-OTTTA couple.)
This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money
Read the article to restore your faith in everything. This is why I love the UK, specifically London, specifically Finchley.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...
Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.
Posting this on the Finchley synagogue (very near us)
Important to share, I think.
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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
Thank you. I had assumed the ~£100k and the ~£92k were the same thing.
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
Reveal something about yourself you believe to be true but those around you aren't convinced
I'm messy because I have OCD. When things are arranged neatly, if one thing is out of place, I can't relax.
When I deep clean, if there's a streak visible, I can't relax.
So I keep everything untidy
Ha yes!
I'm lazy but nobody ever believes it. Because I get everything that I have to do done, as soon and as well as I can, so I can stop and do nothing.
I guess I'm lazy but conscientious!
Kash busying himself with drunkenness is about the best use of Kash Patel. You don't want him functional.
