John Ward

@modernheroestv Fake nostalgia, the kind that people who never used them before will have. Cassettes back in the day could be very high quality, if you had a decent deck with Dolby C NR and used Sony Metal XR cassettes. However all that is long gone and won't be coming back.

People can’t possibly be nostalgic for cassettes, right? Right?

Yes, it would be more like £20+ with today's diesel prices. When I had a diesel van it did about 8 miles per litre, and that was 5 years ago when diesel was about 135p per litre. Just under 17p per mile or £17 per 100 miles. Or if you prefer it was about 350 miles per week and buying around £60 of diesel once a week. Peugeot Partner van for 5 years 2016-2021, and a Citroen Dispatch for the 3 years before that. Both similar size vans with 2 litre HDI engine. Both did similar mileage and both had the same fuel economy.

@JordanEVGuy '100 miles of diesel is £16-£18' Dont talk shite.

What a van this would be for a small local delivery business, butchers, shop etc. 100 miles range give or take? 100 miles charged at home on the new tariff is £1-£2. 100 miles of diesel is £16-£18. That’s roughly £850 saved a year in fuel alone, and over £500 a year saved when including the VED. Now account for time spent refuelling, fuel wasted, servicing and maintenance of a diesel van, and that £334 VED suddenly starts to look worthwhile in the right scenario for the right driver. We need more education on total overall cost, efficiency and convenience rather than throw away comments.

@MelJStride @Conservatives So it's oil companies first, everyone else get stuffed.

A future @Conservatives government will drill the North Sea. Put Britain first 🇬🇧

@BigdaddyMosy @MaxellCorp It will be. A cheapo knock-off copy of what was the cheapest junk mechanism when such things were still relevant. There will be no noise reduction either as Dolby stopped licencing that long ago.

@MaxellCorp Is this mechanism the same one that’s been coming out of China the last few years?

Dusting off the box of cassettes I’ve been hiding under my bed… because it’s FINALLY their time to shine 🥲✨ Maxell made a new cassette player, and it’s the “reel” deal 😎 You won’t want to miss out on this new player in the game 🛒 a.co/d/0ai57svF

There are no freehold sites. Asset strippers moved in long ago, sold everything off, shovelled the money into their pockets and left the company to pay leases it couldn't afford. The kind of dubious corporate behaviour that always ends in a big bust, should be illegal, but isn't.

National Car Parks has gone into administration. How did they manage that feat? I would imagine the sites are freehold. Finding a member of staff in one of them is like finding a live GP. What other costs? Has private equity or some other shareholder ripped the arse out of it?

Rich people (or those with rich parents) got the C64 and disk drive. In the UK the 1541 drive was a similar price to the C64, plus it was expected to get the matching Commodore monitor as well for even more. A very expensive and high end affair in a market where most people didn't even know what a home computer was, never mind actually considering buying one. Slightly less well off types got the C64 and Commodore cassette deal, maybe used it with a small TV instead of a monitor. Everyone else got a Spectrum for half the price of the C64, used it with any old random cassette player they already had, and plugged it into the TV in the living room.

Bit of C64 truth… 🇬🇧 UK = tapes 📼 ⏳ Long loads, rewinds, praying it didn’t crash 😅 🇺🇸 US = disk drives 💾 ⚡ Loading in seconds Same machine… totally different experience 🕹️ (And yeah… some had cartridges 😏🎮) #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroGaming

@BenGrahamUK Regardless of what it is intended to represent, how in tarnation does a few litres of road paint cost nearly 50 grand?

This rainbow junction in Hounslow cost £48,174 of public money. Some will say it promotes inclusion. Others will question the cost. Where do you stand?

One of the other versions with cropped images: msn.com/en-gb/news/oth…

This misinformation has been repeated widely. Claims that a battery powered toothbrush 'exploded' and tripped the electrics in the house, even though this is a battery powered item which wasn't being charged at the time. Some reports claim that 'flames travelled up the wall' and then somehow totally destroyed the extractor in the ceiling. Some include more photos than others, and some include the same photos with the ceiling damage conveniently cropped out. Given that the toothbrush is largely intact with only superficial damage there is no evidence of any explosion. The glass mirror isn't cracked either, which if something really had 'exploded' it surely would have been. Nothing in the images supports flames travelling up the wall either. The most likely explanation is that the extractor fan located in the ceiling failed causing a fire there, this tripped the electrics, and burning molten plastic dripped down onto the shelf below where the toothbrush is located. Most of the fire damage is on the ceiling.

@SandyofSuffolk All soups are a ripoff. Mostly made with the leftovers from the previous day. Or what fell on the floor. Or worse.

Heinz soups are a rip off. Their oxtail soup is very orange. Because it contains mostly carrot. Their chicken soup has no pieces of chicken in. It's just watery slush. Aldi's oxtail soup is a third of the price and is brown and their chicken soup has small bits of chicken in. Ditch the big names people.

@Ayrhead2 @ToTheOctocopter @nick_advice @g__j @OctopusEnergy How long does your gas boiler take to pay for itself?

@ToTheOctocopter @nick_advice @g__j @OctopusEnergy Average gas bill in the UK with typical usage is around £1000 Does the 'savings' get close to paying for a new unit after 10 years? They average £3-7000 The savings over gas are 30-40% over a gas boiler? Really?

Not a study, not a survey - but the actual live data from every @OctopusEnergy Cosy heat pump installed in real homes is now online. And it shows that over 80% of Cosy heat pumps were cheaper to run than a gas boiler over the last year and delivered a COP of 3.7 over the whole year (about 4.3x more efficient than a gas boiler) There’s so much disinformation from fossil fuel lobbyists on heat pumps - and anecdote based on bad installs or out of date tech - but we hear time and time again how much Octopus customer la love their heat pumps. Cosy heat pumps can run as hot as a boiler (70C+), can often be installed with no radiator changes and no new insulation, work with microbore piping, can often retain your old hot water tank if you have one. But so much more - comfort sensors in up to ten rooms, optional remote support and servicing, software updates to literally make your heating better without a visit. Effortlessly working with smart tariffs to save money. British designed, British manufactured and thousands of great British jobs. Helping insulate Brits from the last gas crisis, this gas crisis and more to come. See the data for yourself: octopus.energy/cosy-heat-pump…

@AvonandsomerRob Some American lot bought them up, then shoved palm oil and other sludge into it to save on production costs and make loads-a-money.

Normally, Cadbury's chocolate is full-price just before Easter. Every shop I've been in, it has been discounted by 20 to 50% for the Mini Eggs range. I tried a small bar, and the taste has completely changed. It's tasteless & oily. What happened to Cadbury?

End results of abolishing stamp duty: People that already own properties can trade them amongst themselves without paying tax. Property prices go up. Those that don't have a property now have even less chance of ever owning one. Or - wealthy boomer types get a big tax cut and everyone else gets the finger.

Stamp Duty punishes ambition, traps families in the wrong homes, and destroys growth. We @conservatives will scrap it altogether for primary residences. My words in today’s @TheTimes 👇🏻

@mdf200 Probably sold it all years ago for short term gains and leased it back, now they can't afford the leases.

Oooooo.... The real-estate of this firm must be worth a FORTUNE! How many car parks in city centres? The cost of parking... how the hell are they losing money?!?!? Why didn't they sell some land?

@Timoldland Receipt claims they still accept Switch cards, even though they were discontinued a couple of decades ago. Same for Delta.

FFS, like London isn’t expensive enough 😂

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

No, they do not check. Says so on their website #compInfo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">resources.companieshouse.gov.uk/serviceInforma… 'do not have the statutory power or capability to verify the accuracy of the information that companies send to us' Therefore any and all info they may have is likely to be a load of old tosh. Clearly not fit for purpose.

Multiple companies selling vapes are registered with Companies House as forestry businesses. Do you ever check anything @CompaniesHouse ?

No you didn't. The only reduction in SDLT was in the first half of 2021 where nothing was payable on the first £500k. That was cancelled by two subsequent increases in the second half of 2021. That reduction was more than a year before Truss was PM in Sept/Oct 2022, and while there were changes from 22 Sep 2022 when she was PM that was a removal of the 2% band £125k-£250k, not an increase. No changes to SDLT occurred while Sunak was PM, and if you bought during that period and paid £20k in SDLT, your 'first home' was £650k.

@PolitlcsUK Rubbish! They kicked out Liz Truss for fishy Rishi who reimposed it. I had to pay £20k in stamp duty for my first home as a result. Liars!

🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch launches “Kemi & Co” estate agents to promote her pledge to scrap stamp duty

Here is a video which although new to this location was published elsewhere last April. Only 6 minutes long, but then how much can be said about a socket with or without switches?

@CutMyTaxUK Which services will be massively cut or removed?

@jwflame None. Spending cuts

Spend £50 on petrol & £27.16 (54.3%) is taken by Rachel Reeves & the remaining £22.84 is the underlying fuel/retail cost before tax After Labour's 8p per litre tax increase by next April, £28.39 (56.8%) will go to tax & £21.61 to the underlying fuel/retail cost. Fuel in Britain is mainly a tax payment. If Labour is serious about reducing the cost of fuel, they need to cut tax on fuel. A lot.