Mike Truman

No further posts/reposts here (except possibly by mistake…); see you where the skies are blue. #QuitX

I'm concerned that the increase in employers' NICs, together with other rising costs of employment, are likely to drive an uptick in these kinds of schemes. I've seen a couple of examples already, but looking to build up more evidence as to the scale of the problem.

@ThePhDPlace I do trust Dropbox. There’s a copy on my computer as well as in the cloud, and I can get to previous versions through the software.

Does anyone else email their drafts to themselves… or is that just me?

@geertiolanda @JayHulmePoet Yep. I had the same problem editing The Young Ones Wikipedia page for the “fifth housemate”. I knew she was there because I was in the audience and my wife was on the production team! Kept being reverted as OR until I had a source to link to. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young…

@JayHulmePoet Seeing things is original research

@legcutter54 @afneil Yes, that Afzal. Who on Radio 4 this am repeated that he had only been told about the circular by police and had not seen it. When he finally saw it he said that the police had misunderstood it. See this fact check for full details uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-hom…

@MATruman @afneil This Afzal ?

I’m sure you’re right on both points. But just to reassure the sceptics and naysayers could you produce a list of British-Pakistani Muslim community leaders and/or prominent spokesmen (I assume they will be all men) who have been robust in condemning the rape gangs?

Marriage Allowance is an amount of up to £252 which couples can claim if one is a basic rate taxpayer and the other has income below £12570. However, please do not respond to emails like this one: 1/3

Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?

@Sandford_Police I do think the proposal to make ketamine a Class A drug, that seems to have come out this morning, is an under-appreciated bit of government Musk trolling.

Officers will be investigating this as an offence under Malicious Communications When Musk arrives in an area owned, operated or controlled by the UK he will be arrested

@cheapaccounting @santhiegoundar And to you! Bluesky, which uses a butterfly as its logo. Seems to be developing as the most “Twitter before Elon ruined it” platform - not surprising as it was originally a Jack Dorsey/Twitter project. Anyway, a lot of UK tax people over there now.

@MATruman @santhiegoundar No - what is the “butterfly farm”? Excuse my ignorance HNY to you Mike

Oh good grief What with the owner of the platform formally known as Twitter and this I declare that the world has finally and officially gone mad

@cheapaccounting @santhiegoundar Elaine, you missed that we’re all reassembling over on the “butterfly farm”, for precisely the reasons you give… Have you joined there yet?

@santhiegoundar Thank you 🙏 all good here and great to be back. Absence makes the heart grow fonder 🤓 It was a nice break from socials. Gave me time to work on my new passion soleprac.co.uk How are things with you? What did I miss?

Very excited to be playing the magnificent @bathabbey later this month, with An Evening of (Very) Old Radio on Friday 24th January, 7:30-9:15pm. Tickets £12, get them while they're hot. Forget your troubles, come on get Abbey... bathabbey.org/whats-on/an-ev…

There are a lot of problems with tax thresholds in our system but the marginal rates faced by benefits claimants trying to work are even worse at times and a big issue for work incentives.

If you wondered why Netanyahu's government refuses to end the war, one of the main reasons is that under its cover, the messianic nationalist right-wing ministers, led by Smotrich, are establishing illegal outposts throughout the West Bank. Since the war began, while hundreds of soldiers are falling in Gaza and Lebanon, government ministers are funding the establishment of illegal outposts and their infrastructure with many billions. 65!!! outposts have been built since the start of the war. The vast majority are in the pattern of "agricultural farms," which have minimal demographic and spatial impact, but their residents are the instigators of Jewish terror, displacing Palestinians, and more. According to Peace Now and Kerem Navot data, these farms are displacing Palestinians from 12% of the West Bank's territory. The Israeli Police is non-existent and the IDF turns a blind eye - this is not a mistake - this is the method.

@HumanistQuaker I’m pleased to say I know none of them but Calvin, and don’t know his organisation or its logo.

For those curious (from top left, roughly clockwise): James White Joel Webbon Brian Sauvé Keith Foskey Eric Conn Calvin Robinson (Eschatology Matters logo) Stephen Wolfe Douglas Wilson

Somehow I, an atheist, was able to name all of these people, and see a fair amount of their current interactions in my timeline. I appreciate I am probably in a very niche category in that regard.

@StarofBethel1 Does Penny roll her eyes when he complains about “dumbing down” his sermons?

Pastor Tim is struggling with his epiphany talk. It's an all age service which he hates as he has to dumb everything down. Then there's the problem of a bunch of foreigners worshiping Jesus. Why couldn't they have come from England? Or France even? It makes it so tricky.

@Shayan86 Part of the problem is that the US has so little protection against prejudicial comment in a live case, because 1st Amendment. As a result, high-profile cases become media circuses, with lawyers spinning the story on the court steps every day. We, rightly, lock ‘em up for it.

The owner of this app seems unaware that Tommy Robinson is in prison because he admitted to contempt of court after repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee who had been physically attacked at school despite being instructed by a court not to do so. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ProfTimBale TBF, when you read the piece a) it’s obviously tongue in cheek and b) he makes it clear that he’s talking about the bright young things in the fashion industry that is his beat.

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Free Tony Robinson