The EU is responsible for 30% of world imports according to World Bank data. There's a lot of countries wanting to lobby for special deals. The UK is just one of many... which is why you need to work particularly hard to be heard. And bring something tangible to the table.

Without the grifters, liars and racists who decided their bigotries were more important than a working economy, those firms might've had a chance. But the Brexit mob made their decision, and they made it for the rest of us. Now we're living in the world they made. 16/18

We both tried to use Twitter to sound the alarm, and quickly became very familiar with the standard Brexiter responses: 'You're scaremongering'. 'You're lying.' 'If your business can't survive Brexit, you must be shit at business.' 5/18

One story among many. For it is a simple fact that businesses in the UK face higher barriers to trade than their counterparts in all of our neighbours. This is a political decision to favour independence over integration made and denied by successive governments including this one.

'With several other European nations reeling from the fresh surge in oil and gas costs, ​the UK's wind-heavy power system may act as a blueprint for other countries seeking to reduce fossil fuel exposure. UK wind accounted for 42% of total power supplied Jan to Mar.' archive.is/2026.03.31-0...

"These things all happen in the ether...."

In this part, we will delve deeper into Teesworks' untrue claim of a 4,500 acre estate. We’ll compare this claim to the 1,273 acres that are actually available, and we’ll examine how much of the land has actually been put to use. | Ray Casey

HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away

Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were like…. “Why?” It’s our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?

Join us on Thursday 16th April to see some of the best Devon-based talent battle it out to represent Exeter on the global stage at Slamovision, the UNESCO Cities of Literature's worldwide slam competition! 🌎 🎟️: www.exetercityofliterature.com/current-proj...

How a US President is supposed to act, making peace . . .

It's weird how ordinary Joes can find info on this matter, yet BBC interviewers appear unable to do so. Never mind, no doubt BBC will broadcast a correction, later. ‹/sarcasm›

Reform: The party of tax dodgers #NeverVoteReform

HMRC ‘unlikely to be lenient’ with tax exiles fleeing Dubai, advisers warn ft.trib.al/ViTFfwh

The Telegraph removed this story because instead of sympathy, people were laughing at their ridiculous greed. Don't spread it The Telegraph wouldn't like that. 🤣

Leavitt: "If you heard it from the president, obviously it's true"

“any violence beyond this point will be because the Iranian regime refused to understand they have already been defeated” We just want to declare victory and go home. The enemy isn’t allowed to have a vote.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

Privatisation scandal. Royal Mail staff told to hide post to look like delivery targets met. No extra employees, overtime slashed, and pressure to deliver parcels, results in neglect of letters. RM hasn't met any letter delivery targets, prices hiked. Privatisation of essentials failed.

He's not going to be removed by the Republicans. Even if he were reduced to a gibbering monkey and flung lumps of his shit around the oval office, they would continue to claim that he is the greatest president ever. "Even if" - what am I saying?

Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...

Planning your business’s future is all well and good until…

Oh I’m being killed by nostalgia and shame in same moment: Sorry love the idea of new town being named #Trumpton, - giving my age away - but would need Chigley and Camberwick Green too!

Patel BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing Andrew over Epstein. She prevented the FBI from questioning Andrew about his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, despite officers having 'documentary evidence suggesting he knew about sex trafficking' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

1/2 After HMRC needlessly destroyed my business and others by allowing businesses to dodge VAT simply by sending goods to their customers via the Channel Islands (a practice they said to the EU Commission wasn't happening) I decided to take HMRC to court podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/12-t...

Could this conflict be a bigger threat to food, than oil/gas? Scary. 'Nearly half of the worlds traded urea, the most widely used fertiliser, and large volumes of other fertilisers are exported from Gulf countries via the Strait of Hormuz, making global agriculture highly exposed.' aje.news/9i6vhe

On the plus side, he was able to provide a full description.

This is very much worth reading and sharing. 80% of Labour's support came from people who said they would vote to rejoin the EU - only a little below the equivalent figure of 86% in 2019. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wonder whether gentlemen have glanced at “Apostolicae Curae”

How on earth did we get here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good idea

3/4 Then in a bizarre twist the legal team acting for HMRC asked me to help them defeat the exact same arguments that they had used against me previously, which were now being used by The Channel Islands. So what happened next ? You can hear in Episode 11 podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/11-i...

One of the great under-discussed crimes of Osbourne was his refusal to capital spend despite historically low interest rates. His austere day-to-day spending was awful, but his refusal to borrow for capital purposes was in some ways worse. Good to see this get a mention. Well done, Rachel Reeves.

Is the dam about to burst? 'In a letter, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed that the Trump administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel" and its powerful American lobby.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Similarly in the UK, where the large fall in immigration currently underway will *increase* the deficit, in both the short and long term.

Chaney's "Son of Dracula" calling himself "Alucard" is a metaphor for Phoenix Bankrupticies - "Yes, I've sucked you dry and 'died' and now I'm going to suck someone else dry under an insultingly blatant name and nobody will stop me."

yeah i bet those videos will cause reputational damage being as how they’re videos of a stupid fuck talking idiot bullshit

HMRC👀 Wealthy British nationals fleeing Gulf conflict bypass UK to avoid tax bills. High-net-worth residents of UAE heading to Ireland and France to wait out missile attacks before tax year ends. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, in which I ask: is there a future for London-brewed beer? Featuring the brewery that sacked staff before Xmas, the brewery that went back to contract-brewing and - shock! - the brewery opening this year. Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

"We look terrible and the public completely disagrees with us. We should stick to this"

How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.

A lovely morning here #DevonandCornwall

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist. He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

The days when beer duty paid for the whole of the Royal Navy...

MAGAts also managed to do a DEI cleanse of quarters. Original themes: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Abolition, Suffrage, & Civil Rights. Final designs: Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, & Gettysburg Address.

And here it is. 2 glasses of Sauvignon blanc. 2 bottles of claret. For two people. At lunchtime. And I’ll bet Farage had the lion’s share. bsky.app/profile/henr...

@henrymance.ft.com on Farage “It’s time for his exit. “Are we leaving you with the bill? Oh good.” It’s like Brexit all over again.…He still surprises. He still arrives quicker than you expect and stays longer. This time the bill may be bigger. Be prepared.” Henry should know. He paid the bill

Scrumconnect will support HMRC to deliver testing and other services from its city centre base

This card was only issued between 1984 and 2011. Persons born outside of this 27 year window had to use the analogue hardware issued by their mother to memorise their National Insurance number.

What other tax has to be paid by innocent people - executors of an estate (many family members, normally children, end up being an executor on a will because the donor thought it was an honour not a risk). Sure, executors can reclaim these costs but often not for months or years.