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@CF_Farrow Public Schools have benefited from a tax exemption for decades. Whilst HMG Ed budget was cut relentlessly. 500k v 10m school age kids. This type of measure is called “leveling up.”

Cranleigh, a Surrey independent school will *only* pass on a 12% VAT raise to parents. They managed to save on the 8% by abolishing all bursaries & free places & stopping free use of facilities to local youth groups, in order to recoup costs of maintenance. Nice one Labour.

FFS Ticketmaster … don’t do “unprecedented demand..” you are charging enough for this… amateurs

Seems as good a day as any to point out that, according to official estimates, UK public sector productivity is lower now than it was when Oasis released Be Here Now (the data doesn't go as far back as Definitely Maybe).

@georgiebingham Really interesting, thank you (Genuine). Lots of questions to ask 1. ego/anxiety 2. fight or flight, 3. neuropathways, 4. dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine My 1st Q do you regret (?) the experience of drinking or do you feel that you’re better for your choices afterwards?

We threw a small pre Christmas soirée Sunday. Over half the people weren’t drinking; either tee total or driving. There’s been a huge shift in the number of my friends stopping drinking for good - mostly health reasons, but I’ve thought a few things since… 🧵

let’s all just have Etonians who read PPE run the country. It works so well. Regardless of politics (this is not pro/anti Cleverly/Tory) Talent & hard-work exist everywhere opportunity does not. So all credit to those to make it in a system design for privately educated elites

I can’t explain this

Love this …

Clocks… youtu.be/d020hcWA_Wg?si…

@Petrivz 4 Red cards here and a yellow for the number 6 playing the ball on the ground.

This is 2 red cards today

scrum halves.. why is it always scrum halves..

How is this not a straight red…

The data is now official: 3 years’ worth of rain fell within two days. Scientists on Greek TV discussing the possibility of the formation of new, permanent lakes in the area. It is a new planet. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climatecatastrophe

If you didn’t get the a levels you wanted - don’t worry - really don’t life will seem rubbish for a few days and then you get to show your resilience years of reflection I’ve concluded .. it’s 1 measure for one system..find another system ..

Good old "Tories flirt with leaving ECHR" story around today...this is great on how often we've been round this track. And for some reason haven't joined Russia on the outside politico.eu/article/tories…

My consistent run of rejections for the London Marathon continues I last gained a place in 2008. Applied each year since. Arsenal has a better record than I..

A final point. The UK and Europe experienced a warm winter. But there has been little evidence of increasing UK energy storage facilities as a result. If 23/24 winter is cold. Then households cd also experience increased energy bills as well.

As a result institutions and HMG are deploying pre Brexit measures are to deal with a post Brexit issues. The impact of this lesson will be on an increasing number of UK households.

0.5% increase after Two sets of inflation data that suggest that wages increases are becoming imbedded in the UK economy. The BoE is strategy is now to place the economy into a recession because that is the only lever it has to combat rising prices. A thread/..