Inevitable Brian
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Stamp Duty is a terrible tax. A tax on aspiration. This week I went to @WinkworthUK to meet a first time buyer and someone looking to downsize to hear their thoughts on the @Conservatives pledge to ABOLISH Stamp Duty when you buy your home.


The Iran War needs to bring an end to the UK’s war on carbon. Fossil fuels are the building blocks of industrial civilisation. No modern society has ever been so prosperous without them. Net Zero is a death cult, says James Woudhuysen buff.ly/ZLmEDlo




🇮🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 Iran just proved its missiles can reach far beyond the Middle East Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK military base sitting 4,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Neither hit the base, but the message landed harder than any warhead could. Tehran has always publicly claimed its missile range tops out at 2,000 km. This strike attempt doubles that number overnight. The Khorramshahr-4 that likely carried out the attack can also deliver cluster warheads, the same munitions that have been devastating Israeli cities for three weeks. Look at the map. A 4,000 km range from Tehran draws a circle that reaches Paris, London, and most of Europe. Every NATO capital that thought this war was a distant Middle Eastern problem just realized Iranian missiles could theoretically reach their doorstep. Source: @sentdefender WSJ


UK 10 yr gilt yield at 5% is really quite striking. Up from 4.3% at start of March. Perhaps more striking is 1 yr yield at 4.5%, up from 3.5% at start of March, whilst BoE rate still at 3.75%. Our finances always put us in vulnerable position to any shock, especially energy one.

Popped a card and a small gift to my neighbours for Eid-al-Fitr and look what they’ve just brought round. This is spectacular. How lovely.










