Some estimate that Jim Ratcliffe saves £4 billion a year in tax by being resident in Monaco for tax purposes. If he really wants to see money spent to boost manufacturing and skills in the UK, perhaps he would be better served by paying UK tax rather than call for welfare to be cut.

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

I'm hearing Liz Truss has defected to Benidorm by accident

Amazing isn’t it? All these Tories jumping ship and yelling how bad the Tories were when they were at the heart of government decision making for 14 years. Now they want us to believe that their decision making will improve now they wear a Reform rosette.

It seems strange that a Labour chancellor continues to focus on trying to wring more cash out of the areas of the economy where the cash isn't and ignore looking at where the cash really is.

Nigel Farage is in the news again about his school days again. I don't understand why the media are reacting with such surprise and not pushing back harder against his excuses, especially the BBC. This isn't a new story. See this report from Channel 4 in 2013. www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...

Utah Governor Spencer Cox addresses young people and says: "You are inheriting a country where politics feels like rage is the only option." Golly, no shit Sherlock? Do you want to address why?

It cannot be underestimated how important the Donbas region of Ukraine would be to the European defence industry. The Donbas has many of the minerals that the European defence industry currently sources from China.

To be fair, all they caught was a 6oz turd, half a dozen wet wipes and a couple of used condoms.

The announcement will be accompanied by the CCHQ string quartet and entertainment will be provided by the award winning Tory Formation Deckchair Rearrangement Team. There will be a raffle for places in the rowboat scenic Thames tour that will follow the announcement.

Well, BBCMedia City in Salford is going to soon be an empty white elephant unless the BBC ca find staff who have never lost their temper, become frustrated, never swore, fornicated, touched strong drink or eaten the last Malteeser.

So, the Tories are happy to sign up, sight unseen to a plan? An open ended war? Without knowing the goals, without knowing the peace plan. Has all sanity and morality deserted them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An interesting post, even if it does omit the Mazda RX-7 with it wankel engine **childish giggles**.

Am I the only wondering if her friends call her ‘Modesty Blaise’? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.

If you woke up this morning in a good mood and started to think about planning your next holiday... www.popsci.com/science/when...

Golly, I wonder why Russians were so keen on Brexit is it was such a benefit for Britain? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Altruism is dead. Right and wrong no longer matter. Profit and loss shall drive society faster to the cliff edge. America, what have you done?

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

Next year, the USA will celebrate 250 years of declaring independence, when they stated the need to free themselves from a tyrant who had repeatedly violated their rights and sought to establish an absolute tyranny. Am I alone in seeing the irony?

How long before we see the EU and other countries seek to price commodities in currencies other than the dollar in retaliation for the trade tariffs?

I can't help but wonder what imaginary enemy Trump will conjure up to blame when his tariff policy proves to be a disaster. Then there is the thought of what his revenge will be for the stupidity of his own actions.

I wonder what all these tariffs will do with the UK's Freeport strategy?

This is very interesting from @danneidle.bsky.social "It wasn't mentioned in the Chancellor's speech, but the Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted it will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry."

The current US administration has managed to annoy me to such a degree that I decided to reduce my buying of US products and through US companies. What has shocked me is how difficult that is. Amazon for example has no real equivalent in the UK and US companies seems to own so many European brands.

And yet, Next expect their profits to rise to over a £Billion this year, nearly a £100m more than last year. Methinks that someone is trying to paint themselves as victim when actually they are taking advantage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

May I ask all Canadians to avoid watching UK news channels? The images of an inch and a half of snow accompanied by a hysterical reporter providing commentary of chaos and a breakdown of our transport system is frankly a national embarrassment.

Typical French, just because we had Johnson, Truss and Sunak in a year, they just have to go one better.

It is now over a week since our last post delivery from Royal Mail. Is this just a local anomaly is the Royal Mail imploding?

I don’t know if I am a rogue outlier here, but we haven’t had any mail delivery since last Wednesday. At this time of year that is decidedly odd. Is the Royal Mail gently imploding? Should we stop trusting the “mighty Royal Mail” and shift our thinking towards the Royal Mail might”?

Here is something that will make you smile. Bohemian Rhapsody as you have never seen it before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rbb...

To all those lovely Merkins out there, have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Remember, there isn’t a family gathering that can’t be improved by taking and extra dried frog pill, a strong drink and a game of naked Twister.

🔴Russell Jones's Week Moment: All Aboard With Jeremy and Nigel on the Inheritance Tax-Avoiding Tractor Wagon! The bestselling author of 'The Decade in Tory' @russincheshire.bsky.social on the festival of hypocrisy and self interest that was this week's debate about tax and farmers

Can anyone explain how, in this exciting digital age, I can somehow pick up a paper cut on my pinkie? The world has gone mad, I tell you. Mad!

To paraphrase the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett, “The trouble with going on a social media site with an open mind is that somebody will try and fill it.”

Looks like Bluesky has another notch in its virtual bedpost. The Poke now does a summary of the funniest posts. I wonder if the publicise it in ‘the other place’?

I see a number of starter pack posts cross my timeline. My morning has bee spent going “Who knew that was a thing?”

Oh, it's snowing here in Northamptonshire. If only I could channel the excitement I felt as a child when the fluffy, white stuff fell instead of searching out an extra fleece and starting to feel grumpy about how it could disrupt my plans for the day.

A Sunday morning read that certainly exercised my eyebrows this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A quote for these times from #GNU Sir Terry Pratchett #discworld #Jingo

The mayor of the genteel city of Bath is beginning to doubt the wisdom of appointing Ian Dunt to promote tourism in the city.

Hello, all. *taps mic* Is this thing on?

Right, that’s enough. Sorry Twitter, but you’ve regressed back to being a quarrelsome toddler. Time to try somewhere new.