@DanNeidle Not many would agree that 6% is a crap average return though?
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My money is on: a bit of 2 and a lot of 3.
This should worry Mr Burgon, because if the increase is caused by people arriving, then he can't assume they'll happily stay and be taxed.
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No, it's a terrible return: ~6% annually (before inflation).
S&P 500 annual return was 13%.
So either:
1. these billionaires are crap at investing
2. the data is wrong/incomplete
3. the composition changed - 2026 billionaires not the same people as 2010 billionaires
Richard Burgon MP@RichardBurgon
New figures show British billionaire wealth is UP again. It’s more than DOUBLED since 2010. ▪️2010: £250bn ▪️2026: £670bn While millions struggle to get by, the billionaire class keeps taking more and more. Tax extreme wealth now!
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I would say this is probably the greatest joke ever written for the sheer fact of how many times your Dad or Granddad has said this line when an ambulance or Police car goes by with its sirens on
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The final ep of Moonlighting aired OTD in 1989, and went full meta. Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd race to save their own characters, David & Maddy, from cancellation, because when the show ends they'll literally cease to exist. It even admits why Moonlighting ultimately failed
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@owenjonesjourno @DanNeidle @paulpowlesland Your double standards are truly a wonder to behold. Magnificently without shame or self awareness.
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@DanNeidle @paulpowlesland If you honestly think it's a good, worthwhile use of your time to overturn a precedent which clearly existed of people living in small boats not paying council tax then we are going to have to disagree!
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Across the country, thousands of boaters, mooring owners, public sector organisations like Canal & River Trust, & council valuation departments look on in despair as the mutually agreed upon fiction whereby residential moorings are treated as leisure moorings crumbles in the face of the media obsession to destroy Zack Polanski.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.
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The most misguided thing ppl say is ‘social media isnt real life’. Yes it is. Ppl are on their phone 24/7. Theyre cancelling plans so they can look at their phone. Everyone in yr train carriage is scrolling their phone.Nobody knows whats real anymore and everybody is angry.
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Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
Anon Opin.@anon_opin
I don't understand the point of using the term "dozen". It means 12, so just say 12? It's even worse when people say or type "half a dozen". Just say 6 or six.
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I was a firearms officer too Andy (for over 20 years), and I'm glad to say I never had to disarm an active terrorist who had just stabbed members of the public.
My training was simple (and probably very similar to yours): if a suspect was not complying with commands to disarm and drop a knife, and I had formed an honest held belief that there was an imminent threat to life, the suspect would be shot until the imminent threat to life was no more. Not Tasered. Not kicked in the head. Shot. Aiming at the centre body mass. In all probability, lethal force being used.
These officers were exceeding brave. If that suspect could have got back up off the floor, still armed with the knife, he could have killed and / or seriously injured many more people in a frenzied attack - including the officers - in a very short space of time.
These unarmed officers could not take that risk. Using the NDM, it is clear to all sensible and knowledgeable people that the use of force utilised in these circumstances - including the kicks to the head - was fully justified.
These officers are heroes, and deserve our full admiration and praise.
Andy George@andygeorgeni
@sarahknapton @JackJDees I have been a police officer for nearly 27 years, was on OFC in ARVs for 10 years and worked on the national taser course in 2022. I don't ever remember being trained to kick someone in the head, although any use of force can be justified in certain circumstances
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“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.”
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
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@Planning_Prof @sheebadigeebies This goes back to the football tailgating topic. Tailgating is still a "private" party despite being in a public place that isn't a comparable experience to drinking in a bar before the game, because Americans behave very differently when they in a "private" setting.
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Rather the opposite is true. I’ve travelled extensively for work and the thing that always strikes me when I land in the US is “Where is all the money?”
You land at Heathrow, Berlin, Sydney, Tokyo and EVEN Paris in 2026 and you can instantly tell you’re in a wealthy country but
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
This is another example of why walking across an entire city, or a region passing through cities, gives you a better understanding of a place. When you walk across Milan, or from Dusseldorf to Bonn, you see that Europe isn't nearly as economically wealthy as the US. If you stick to tourist centers -- London, Paris, Milan -- you only see the wealthiest, and not the often dreary suburban apartment block bleah where most people live
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@sheebadigeebies This is my experience also. Wealth in US overwhelmingly exists in the private realm whilst the public is dilapidated, car based and dislocated, and often very ugly, even in major cities. Also the decline in food outside wealthy areas is dramatic.
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If you were an alien with no context clues about language or security uniforms and you were asked which Earthlings you thought had the most resources then you’d probably put Dubai at the top, places like Madrid sort of middling, and the US would be in the bottom third.
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@StephenFPI @ObserverSWJ @rustyrockets @piersmorgan More likely when he sent cars round to pick her up from school and called her his ‘baby’. All in her evidence.
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@ObserverSWJ @rustyrockets @piersmorgan He probably found out when she accused him of sexual assault.
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Wait! @piersmorgan I’ve found that verse!!
The really important thing is that we, you, me all of us are loved.
And not because of anything we have accomplished or ever could achieve.
But because of who loves us.
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The amazing thing about the Abbey Road photo is that there were only six shots taken and they were all awful apart from the one that absolutely nailed it.
The Extreme Music Enthusiast@TheExtremeMusi1
Is this the most iconic picture in music history???
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The thought of some American booking a holiday to Benidorm off the back of this, then potentially seeing one pissed up Brit dressed as a nun and another dressed as a cheerleader punching fuck out of each other as soon as they land warms my heart
Beauty of Nature 🥀@NaturalEye78321
Benidorm, Spain 🇪🇸
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Imagine being one of those astronauts looking down at Earth, and discovering that you don't feel anything.
You'd have to pretend.
I wonder if any of them are like that.
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An absolute marmalade-dropper of an interview with Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. This is magnificent.
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