Stamp duty might not actually be a very good tax...

"Make me a map of the UK as it looks to a visiting American."

This is probably the most cynical attempt in a while to shake money out of reform supporting pensioners. Imagine them, sitting at home, seeing this on Facebook, signing up to Coinbase and burning their savings up on crypto junk. youtu.be/l0bmJlrhRg4?...

Top 5 Carbs, best to still awesome: 1. Roast potatoes 2. Crisps 3. Fries 4. Baked potatoes 5. Buttery mashed potato

The UK's automatic enrolment into pensions has been one of the biggest public policy triumphs in decades. Hard to fix things like productivity & incomes quickly - but this really has been a quiet triumph.

Scientists have observed that every time Reform goes above four MPs, one of them has to leave the party, a phenomenon known as the Farage Equilibrium.

Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea.

Heavens

What makes the GPS spoofed vessels appear in little circles?

Not really the route I'd take to Saudi, EK821.....middle east airports are heading for some trouble....

In 1667, the Dutch won a stunning raid over England in the Medway - England's 'Pearl Harbour'- but within years, they had lost New Netherland, paving the way for the birth of New York and New Jersey. If you are one of the 60 million or so who live there now, this is a little bit of your history.

I'd like these dots coloured by "would bomb", "wouldn't bomb". Maybe a fat dot for where Trump places it.

You have to respect the strong colonial vibe to this! Not a prosecution in the public interest.

"ChatGPT: How do I do fraud, fast?"

I'm confused. I thought the other countries were meant to eat the tariffs? Now Walmart is meant to eat the tariffs? I think we know who'll end up eating the tariffs.

It was only a matter of time

Slowly a pathway back to power starts to emerge for Liz Truss.....

"comfy beds but decor a bit too understated 6/10"

This is truly mind-blowing. At first I only looked at the crack appearing in the foreground in the pavement, then I saw the sudden and fast movement of the earth in the distance and on the right. 🤯🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

90 days later...

temu addicts hardest hit

Sometimes being disconnected helps. Gibraltar not impacted by Spain/Portugal power outage.

US is becoming uninvestable.

I hope Main Street enjoyed their 5 hours

A short story

Today's #earthquake near Mandalay, Myanmar, had magnitude Mw 7.7 to 7.9. Prelim. source models point to rupture duration & length of ~120s and at least 200km. It likely filled large part of seismic gap S of Sagaing (previous rupture in 1839) ⚒️ 🧪 Map from doi.org/10.1002/2013... (Wang et al.) 1/n

And then they’d be put in jail

Anthony Eden has joined the group...

Hobby pilots are having a bit of fun flying over Heathrow today!

Call in sick. Go to Kew Gardens, then lunch at Petersham and maybe a few pints on the beach at the Apprentice. It's your chance to do all this without jet engines every 90 seconds. There won't be another. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

ChatGPT has some ideas how to re-power Heathrow after the Hayes fire. It's not pretty.... Key Numbers Heathrow baseline power draw: ~50–60 MW. Backup generators typically cover ~15–20 MW. You need minimum 40 MW to run a limited but functional airport.

What does revoking a degree even mean? They're not licenses, memberships or titles. They're facts. You studied, passed exams, and were awarded a degree.

If you just read this at a glance, you'd think the war and ceasefire was between the US and Ukraine!

Value Tesla as a car firm... Go!

The container vessel Solong appears to have deviated significantly from standard routing when it collided with the tanker MV Stena Immaculate. Rather than navigating via established shipping lanes to Rotterdam, it followed a less frequented course directly through an oilfield area.

I always find it helpful to remember tariffs end with FFS

In the context of a negotiation you sometimes need to blow things up in ways even your closest will think is crazy. You need people to believe your position is far from theirs and they need to move. Who did that yesterday most effectively is the puzzle.

What we've all failed to anticipate is the vice president's willingness to gas light and provoke the president. He seems to have got that the old man is not what he was and he can easily play him. Will be interesting to see where that gets him.

Two Tier citizenship. One rule for for the rich, another for the rest. In this case the rich escape tax on overseas income.

EXCL: Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, says she is not a “flight-shaming eco-warrior” as she gives the strongest indication yet that a major expansion of Gatwick will be approved on Thursday www.thetimes.com/article/e0bd...

Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say

Whose fault?

Intense seismic swarm in the Aegean sea, between islands of #Santorini and #Amorgos (magnitudes up to 4.8-4.9). Focal plane solutions of #earthquakes show normal faulting in a NW-SE extensional regime. Nodal planes are parallel to large fault scarps in the bathymetry (pointed by red arrows). ⚒️ 1/4

90% of US Potash is from Canada. Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, Cotton, Alfalfa, Potatoes, Rice etc. all require it. Good luck keeping food prices down. www.croplife.com/management/l...

Wondering, is there a "Tradewar" podcast?

Perhaps they'll elect a horse.

When 4 becomes 3: textbook example of “soft first storey collapse” as the US embassy in Vanuatu loses its ground floor in yesterday’s M 7.3 earthquake. Luckily it appears staff were out for lunch (acc. to the Guardian). This is my worst fear whenever I enter an older multi-storey here in Cascadia

Only Eric Cantona can do this job.

Very early results from Namibia show more erosion in SWAPOs vote share. Only results so far are out of the Harap region. Comparison of 2024 vs 2019 so far. SWAPO - 37% (43%) LPM - 28% (29%) IPC - 13% (did not contest) Overall small decline in SWAPOs worst region. Only fraction of votes counted