Sam Bell

Having sought the advice of Labour councillors on where he would be best placed to help their local election efforts Keir Starmer arrives in Armenia.

It's a good job the UK can lean on its strong real GDP growth and solid fiscal trajectory, because this sort of thing would look quite worrying otherwise

"Imposing VAT on private schools has cost the Scottish economy £60m & 900 jobs." "It is expected that the VAT collected will be less than the fiscal impact…giving a net loss of £16m, to rise to £181m by 2037-38." Who could have seen this coming? 🙋🏼‍♂️ thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@OddsHunter @EssexPR @PoliticalPics I've mostly used polymarket to hedge some normal investments, but couldn't resist having a double reason to celebrate Startmer going. Probably shouldn't buy any more though 😅

@_samdb @EssexPR @PoliticalPics Sam is that you trying to buy 25000 shares at 6.5 ? That markets going to explode in a minute 🫣

Hearing rumours of movement within Labour… 👀

We have today witnessed one of the most brutal demolition jobs in modern political history. It may have been couched in Whitehall jargon. It may have been done with unflappable politeness and charm. But over the course of two hours, Sir Olly Robbins successfully steamrollered Sir Keir Starmer’s version of events surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson. This is the man who just yesterday was accused by the PM of orchestrating a “deliberate” cover-up over the ex-US ambassador’s failed vetting. We were told Starmer sacked the Foreign Office chief for the “unforgivable” crime of unilaterally overruling the advice of the security services to hand Mandelson his clearance. The PM tried to pin the entire fiasco on Robbins and hoped he would, like so many others, go quietly into the night. It now seems a catastrophic miscalculation. Robbins came armed with the receipts and methodically detonated them like grenades under Starmer’s story. FULL ANALYSIS 👉thesun.co.uk/news/38884581/…

Starmer forced through Mandelson's appointment despite the fact he'd been red flagged by the security services. He then lied to the House about it. He then tried to cover up publication of the documents that would have exposed the lies. If that isn't a resigning matter, what is.

@benvargas Seeing this a lot now, and trying to split things into phases so that it can do half the job later. Got to be compute-related.

Heavy claude users, is this normal? "Want me to ..., or are you done for today on this one?" So often I see Opus trying to finish for the day/evening/night... is Anthropic prompting it to suggest stopping to save compute?

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@reb40 I unfairly wrote this one off years ago as I couldn't get past the idea of passport photo booths as a business! Clearly should have taken a deeper look.

#MEGP FY results worth waiting for with record profits Laundry business the star & continues to throw off cash Photo business looking like a legacy business Dividend +9.5% welcome FY26 inline Given the shares have been suspended they’ve been one of my best performers lately🙄

Gold put in a bounce at around 4100 and now back to 4250 but looks like a lot of people getting liquidated.

@absreturnchaser @MarkKleinmanSky Get #PHP involved to buy the properties

@absreturnchaser @MarkKleinmanSky They’ve just done similar with Frenkel Topping. And plenty of others in the past. Harwood Private Equity doesn’t have the firepower for a deal this size on their own but they would definitely want to get involved in some way.

@PETERMINIHAN @TickerOfficial Triton didn’t tag it properly so it wasn’t released under Spire ticker.app/news/rns/2026-…

@_samdb @TickerOfficial Ok I can only see a Bridgepoint RNS…I’m confused

Triton bows out of the race to buy Spire Healthcare #SPI ticker.app/news/rns/2026-…

@PETERMINIHAN @TickerOfficial Both are out

@_samdb @TickerOfficial I think ticker got this wrong and it was actually Bridgepoint

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