Stephen Clacy

@Fat_Jacques @HarryScoffin @PJTheEconomist Carpet bombing that all leasehold is bad has had a part to play - so a well functioning RTM or share of freehold have been causalities in this bombing raid

@PJTheEconomist It’s the problems of Grenfell, ground rent, and extractive service charges. Puts people off buying flats. Flats are now hard to sell, which puts people off buying them even more. It’s a death spiral.

What is happening to house building in London is a national disgrace and a huge economic own goal. Worse, it stymies social mobility, locking young people from poorer families and from other parts of the UK out of the London labour market.

@Rus_Khairullin Is there any history - do you feel a connection to the past -London ( for all its faults) of course has it , but does Dubai ?

Let me be honest about Dubai. No income tax. Zero. You keep everything you earn. Safest country on earth - Numbeo 2025. Crime index 16. London is 45. Paris is 50. Sun 365 days a year. The city never sleeps. Infrastructure that makes European capitals look like they’re still in 2005. You can build a company in a free zone with 100% foreign ownership and zero corporate tax on most structures. World-class hospitals. Best malls. Restaurants from every corner of the planet. You want a Michelin-starred dinner at midnight - done. Every major crypto exchange, fund, and Web3 company is setting up here. The ecosystem is real. And the people? 200 nationalities living in the same city. Nobody cares where you’re from. Only what you’re building. People ask me why I came back here after the recent situation. The question should be - why would I leave? There is no better city on earth right now for someone who wants to build, earn, and actually live well. That’s not marketing. That’s just the reality of living here. 🇦🇪

@efenes_fanesi @BrockRiddickIFB Granted Gagarin was in his youth a foundryman worker but to suggest that after a few hours training he was ready for space is absurd - the rest of your post is inaccurate:

@LordNumpty @BrockRiddickIFB But Yuri Gagarin, a simple construction worker who had only completed a few hours of flight training, was able to land on the moon as an astronaut. Do you think that's okay, or what?

@efenes_fanesi @BrockRiddickIFB Gagarin did not land on the moon - 12 other men did

@efenes_fanesi @BrockRiddickIFB You believe they didn’t go - please articulate how the moon buggy & flags have been seen by Russian, Indian and Chinese orbiting probes and confirmed by them - are all the countries supporting the hoax ?

@LordNumpty @BrockRiddickIFB So, just because Bart Sibel doesn't have a formal education, does that mean he's not allowed to investigate what's a lie and what's the truth?!?!?

@Mr_Husky1 The men who went to the moon were super fit, super bright, super level-headed—yet 12% of the Western population believe they were all liars who never went. Just… depressing

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@MbarkCherguia I would have cut a large circle around the hand and then told him he was free and it was upto him whether he went to A&E or have a go himself removing the large concrete circle - we have more important thing to do ..bye

How should society respond to climate activists gluing themselves to roads? 🤔

@AvonandsomerRob @BBCNews Like you I too have eased up a little

@BBCNews I drove at 100mph on the M5 after reading this story.

Drive more slowly and work from home to help ease energy crisis, IEA urges bbc.in/3Plc2GC

@Rainmaker1973 The face was alive in just a few seconds

Watch Pablo Picasso draw a face live during a 1956 performance in France.

@2147mill Would the question really be: Own a £300k house without a mortgage woe have £300k in dividend stock on an ISA With the question as framed we don’t know size of mortgage

Binary choice: Own a £300k house with a mortgage or own £300k of dividend stocks in an ISA? One costs you £1,200/month. One pays you £1,000/month. Both can appreciate. Only one is liquid.

@Outdoo989 @triffic_stuff_ I when I was young I worked with guy not dissimilar he was one of the technical computer people who had control ( Or so they thought ) over everything

@LordNumpty @triffic_stuff_ it's so real. I remember a time in life having to hold down a job in a place like that a while.

🚨BREAKING: Iconic Movie Star Chuck Norris Has Died At Age 86 Following An Undisclosed “Medical Emergency” In Hawaii. I’m sure people will remember him for all sorts of reasons, particularly his movies, but whenever I hear his name it always reminds me of this classic clip from ‘The Office’ 😂 @rickygervais

@freedombill3 Remind me what was the book

@LordNumpty You know it, I enjoyed that book.

Walking past a David Lloyd car park on a Saturday afternoon looks like an absolute parade of pure wealth. You see endless rows of brand new Porsche 911s and Range Rovers sitting outside the premium gym and spa. It looks like the ultimate definition of success, but the reality behind the dashboard is completely different. Let us look at the actual numbers keeping that illusion alive. To put a brand new Porsche 911 por Range Rover on your driveway, you are easily handing over £1,200 - £1,500 every single month on a PCP finance deal. Then you are paying another two hundred quid a month just for the premium gym membership so you have somewhere flash to park it. That is nearly £1,700 pounds leaving the current account every single month, to rent an aesthetic. Over a single year, that is a full £20,000 Stocks and Shares ISA allowance completely wiped out. They are literally going broke just to look rich to people they do not even know. If the monthly salary stops, the car gets repossessed and the membership gets cancelled almost instantly. Real wealth is not driving a rented supercar to a premium treadmill. Real wealth is driving a standard car that you own outright, while your cash buys slices of the S&P 500 $VUSA or Vanguard Global $VWRL in the background. Are you funding a car dealership's profit margin? Or are you building freedom? Please don't rent the illusion.

@freedombill3 We buy thing we don’t really need with money we don’t really have to impress people we don’t really like Another line I like is - 10 Gallon Hat no cattle

@LordNumpty Totally agree Stephen. 👍🏻

@Wisdom_HQ I would have done three lines at the bottom of the board and argued the border of the board made up the line I needed

Can you draw a square with 3 lines?

@freedombill3 Many later on will think what they have wasted and what they could have been done with money . Especially as a great wave of uncertainty is coming with AI

@LordNumpty True, that's income rich, not wealth.

@helen_spirit1 She went even further with this and the other one is on an area of her body known only to Mr Reeves and her gynaecologist

Of all the deeply worrying events occurring in the world at the moment, nothing can ever be as troubling as today’s report that whilst at University, Rachel Reeves had a poster of Gordon Brown on her bedroom wall.

@lucaswrtr @Mishi_2210 You assume the killer stays in the room - I say 51 as I assumed he would leave

@Mishi_2210 wait… am I missing something, or is this actually right? 👀

Everyone says 20 ,but that’s not the real answer If you solve this, you’re in the top 1%

@Mishi_2210 If the killer stays in the room 52 ( although 30 are in the room are dead )