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@NewForestRamble Pre-local election pothole filling - it's got to be a tactic?

I noticed today that Forestry England are stockpiling gravel on the old hangar space at the former RAF Beaulieu. I have my own theory on why this is happening 😆

@scribblemaps How does this compare to BatchGeo?

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@afneil If Trump counts deals like he counts wars then he is surely the greatest deal maker of them all.

After telling Davos that he wouldn't use force to acquire Greenland, President Trump says he won’t impose tariffs on several European nations because he’s reached the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland and the Arctic region with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. That ‘deal’ will most assuredly NOT involve Greenland becoming part of America. It will an agreement to improve NATO defences/military resources in the High North that NATO has long been anxious to do, including a ramping up of the US presence in Greenland. God he sure knows how to waste everybody’s time!!! What a palaver and all for nothing.

@martypartymusic Sorry to be that annoying person, it's 'narrative'. Keep up the good work!

Price makes narritive

@Meliden @Steven_Swinford Yes, it aligns perfectly with Net Zero. No brainer really.

@Steven_Swinford Every petrol or diesel owner in the land will see this as a huge incentive to switch to EV.

The pay-per-mile tax on electric cars sounds pretty complicated, to put it mildly Whereas fuel duty is paid at the pump, the electric car tax requires you to estimate your mileage for the year ahead then pay an upfront charge Here's the helpful consultation document from DfT: 'Alongside paying their VED each, under eVED motorists will be able to estimate their mileage for the year ahead, pay an upfront charge based on their estimate and spread their payment across the year, and then submit their actual mileage at the end of the year to trigger a reconciliation 'Motorists will have their mileage checked annually, typically during their MOT as is already the case, or for new cars, around their first and second registration anniversary'

@jackbringshope @PolitlcsUK Train drivers will still get pay rises?

@PolitlcsUK Sounds good on paper, what’s the catch?

🚨 BREAKING: Rachel Reeves will freeze rail fares for the first time in 30 years in the Budget It will apply to all regulated fares, including seasons, peak returns and off-peak returns

@HanSoloNo @PolitlcsUK @LBC Her reputation.

@PolitlcsUK @LBC Is there anything she isn't considering?

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering increasing alcohol duty by 3.6% in the Budget [@LBC]

@deGourlay We can't afford net zero either, perhaps that will be next for the chop once the horror story of the next budget comes out.

@EdH_B That has always been the case, but something has changed.

I'm delighted the government have pulled the Chagos bill in the Lords tonight. There are several possible reasons. 1) They thought they would lose 2) They think they are going to lose the Chagossian court case 3) Mauritius is backpedalling on Chagossian resettlement. 4) The US has objected. Of course, the government won't tell us plebs the reason. Keir Starmer's belief in transparency was a sham, like everything about him.

@WillPinner @PolitlcsUK @thetimes Politicians

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Added to the Reeves 💩 list Doctors Lawyers Accountants Farmers Pensioners Uni students Private school parents Small busnsss owners Retail Hospitality Did I miss anyone?

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is planning a £2bn tax raid on lawyers, doctors and accountants This will target limited liability partnerships (LLPs), used by around 190,000 professionals to avoid paying employers' National Insurance as they are treated as self-employed [@thetimes]

@strawheart69 @FCathey13527 @Bitcoin But what's it worth when no one else (or very few) can buy it?

If a blockchain is still running while AWS is down then it has passed the “decentralization” test?

@martypartymusic So unrelated to the S&P 500 correction?

People - if you think todays event was caused by Trump you are an idiot. This was a collution to remove the leverage in the crypto industry using the Trump/China macro catalyst as a narritive. This is just ongoing evidence of the damage caused by the lack of regulation in our asset class which is technically decoupled from dollar pricing through unregulated entities with the power to manipulate at will at the cost of retail.

@GrantSlatton Value interference.

need a term for when an expensive, luxury experience is messed up by anomalous penny-pinching decisions like putting single-ply toilet paper in a $1000/night hotel bathroom "MBA brain" or "private equity smell" probably fit

@_LamNam_ @LyndyMountain @afneil She's having a Laffer.

@LyndyMountain @afneil Sorry but increasing capital gains tax and as a result taking less capital gains receipts is classic economic illiteracy. Going for growth and then stifling business with nat insurance rises is economically illiterate. Reeves is a BOE stooge and needs jettisoned to the moon.

It just gets worse for Starmer/Reeves and the Labour government. Now the prestigious, left-leaning National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says the Chancellor will have a £50 billion fiscal black hole to fill come the October Budget — and this time she won’t be able to blame the Tories.

@teaforpterosaur Bit like wine at a party. Bring your own.

@aleyda It sounds like a rather dull future.

The End of Publishing as We Know It: “Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also asked about writer compensation at the DealBook Summit. He suggested that a market solution would emerge, possibly one that wouldn’t involve publishers in the long run…. Pichai seemed to envision a future that may have a similar consequence for journalists. ‘There’ll be a marketplace in the future, I think—there’ll be creators who will create for AI,” he said. “People will figure it out’.” People will figure it out. What a responsible answer. LOL. 🫠 🤦🏻‍♀️ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

@afneil What is the risk here? A bunch of prats saying unpleasant stuff they will ultimately regret, or will a legion of digi delinquents upset the balance of power in the Middle East? In the old days they would just fade into insignificance, these days the commentariat thrive on them.

Some nonentity rapper shouts ‘death, death to the IDF’ from a Glastonbury stage. The audience of idiots repeat the refrain, again and again. It’s effectively a call for a second Holocaust because the IDF is all that stands between Israel and a second Holocaust. And the BBC broadcast it live. Which at least let us see with our own eyes how Glastonbury can morph from music concert to Nazi-style rally, more Nuremberg than Glasto.

@JohnSimpsonNews Too young to remember it?

As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?

@martypartymusic @kmagnum250521 Crypto/Blockchain is supposed to be the future of finance, market manipulation by unregulated CEX's is one of the strongest reasons for old money not to invest.

The exchanges sell leverage longs and then wash trade the asset to liquidate the positions they sold, up and down, total control of the market price because its their market and their casino, and there are no laws to prevent it until they pass Market Structure Bill and regulate it.

MM Update: We not idiots. #endcexwashtrading

@BriceTheBuilder A solid low risk strategy.

My whole portfolio is: 1. Magic internet money. 2. A dotcom bust company that issues shares to get the magic internet money. 3. A Japanese hotel company who only owns one hotel and only cares about accumulating magic internet money.