Mark Wilson

@spectator Only one single comment on X notices the article is satire. Did anyone actually read this or are all the commenters bots?

Reform’s Richard Tice has been the subject of what I fear is intended as a hit-piece in the Sunday Times. “The Deputy Leader of Reform UK avoided nearly £600,000 in corporation tax after obtaining a rare legal status for his company,” it reports. “Richard Tice then channeled the company’s dividends into an offshore trust and a string of dormant businesses. ✍️ Sam Leith Article | spectator.com/article/richar…

@jet2tweets I think there might be a problem with the website as it is only returning villas not the main holidays. Tried on 2 laptops and a phone.

@ZenInternetHelp if I want to port out my Voip number from Zen to another provider, what's the process?

@zeninternet @ZenInternetHelp the link to the Google Play store app at the bottom of your emails is broken. I assume pointing to an old defunct app. The actual app has a different id.

The way @metroline have treated the hero bus driver is awful. The person who did the tribunal believed the mugger was going back to apologise and shake hands?! What planet is she on? manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/h…

Well. Someone sent me a link on here now to the full signed US treaties with the Kingdom of Denmark (I’ve actually got to cover some economics at Davos at some point, so please stop…) Includes the actual $25 million gold certificate lodged in the deal by President Wilson:

Incredible… the story is actually not a parody. just had confirmed live on BBC Breakfast, from here in Davos, that yes, President Trump sent THAT note to the Norwegian PM saying that because they hadn’t given the Nobel Peace Prize, he could now justify owning Greenland.

@YorkshireWater @mrlamb11 ///public.double.richer It's coming up from the ground in lots of places

@mrlamb11 Hi I am so sorry to hear this can you please provide me with the postcode of where this is or a What 3 Words location so I can get this looked into for you. - Yorkshire Water Social Team

@YorkshireWater you have a leak on Otley Road in Harrogate #leak #harrogate

holy fucking shit

Fucking hell the Apple Music UI is awful on MacOS. Want to access a scrubbing UI? wander your mouse to the tiny special knowledge area of the track info, click to make a timeline appear then drag...FFS, Back to Spotify it is then. Clowns.

What possible justification can there be for charging graduates earning over £50k 6.2% interest, while their peers earning less are only charged 3.2% (and the BoE base rate is 4%) This feels like the kind of thing Wonga would do, not the British state

@TPEassist Network rail says the lines are re-opened though?

⚠️TransPennine Express will not be operating between Manchester Victoria and York via Leeds in both directions on 30/11/2025 . As a result, we are advising you not to travel. There are no trains or rail replacement buses running between locations.  If you have purchased a ticket and your journey has been affected by this disruption, you can use your ticket dated 30 / 11 / 25 to travel on 01 / 12 / 25 at no extra cost. Alternatively, if the train you intended to travel on is cancelled or you are unable to complete your journey then you can apply for a refund from your point of purchase.

So triple-locked pensions and benefits rise with inflation -- but not tax thresholds or student loan repayment levels? That seems weird to me, totally unequal fiscal drag on working people vs recipients of state spending.

Over the next five years, the OBR is forecasting that welfare spending will rise by £73.2bn to £406.2bn.

The difference between how Cloudflare issued updates during the outage and Microsoft did when Azure Front Door fell over is stark.

My grandfather bought an apartment from Blackrock on a 200 year mortgage. 1 bed, 1 bath, no car. My family has been paying it off for 80 years now. We're nearly half way there. We're so grateful that we're not renting. And in just 2 more generations, we'll own it outright. We've only paid $8.6 million in interest. The apartment was $500k initially. The apartment's downtown, near GloboCorp where my grandfather used to work. He died at his desk and they forgot to tell us about it. We found out a few weeks later, only because Blackrock starting chasing us for mortgage payments. Sometimes I get sad knowing that I won't see the apartment paid off in my lifetime. But I know we're building Generational Wealth, so that's OK.

If @RobertJenrick was spanked any harder in this GMB video it would be pornographic!!? 😂😂

Every second a Labour MP spends campaigning for a wealth tax is a second that could be spent campaigning for real tax reform that could make the tax system fairer, boost economic growth and (unlike the wealth tax) actually happen. A thread:

Graham Linehan says he was arrested at the airport by five armed police officers as if he's a terrorist - for 3 tweets. The video I posted yesterday is very relevant. Whatever you think of @glinner's opinions, if true, this is horrifying overreach. grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-a…

It doesn't matter what you think of Graham Linehan's views, this is an insane level of overreach and a complete waste of police time.