Hey I've got a great get rich quick idea. Find lots of gullible CEOs Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them. Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.' Send this memo to all journalists in the world. Charge every business £20k.

If I have a second child can I sacrifice part of their salary into my pension to avoid paying tax?

Salary sacrifice pension thing going away? Very expensive for the employers of top earners.

Me trying to politely manage small businesses’ coverage and interview expectations for Budget day

On third mention it is now permissable to refer to the late Mr Epstein as ’the deceased plane-spotter.’ Yours, the subs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation  — theonion.com/no-not-larry...

As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)

This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.

Hi @easyJet I had to spend 3 hours waiting in Luton airport for staff to fulfil legal rights for cancelled flight (rerouting with another carrier/hotel). My autistic child had two meltdowns while we hung around (sensory hell for him). 2nd horrific experience with you now 😢

Keep an eye on the dollar and copper. The US currency, which investors are mostly short, has just surged. US copper prices have just registered the biggest daily decline on record and 'benchmark' London copper is falling too.

'The dollar will weaken' was investors' most popular view just two weeks ago. Its up 2.2% this week. Non-US assets that boomed because they were 'not dollars' are dropping. Always remember the words of the Wu Tang Clan. "Cash rules everything, dolla dolla bills." www.reuters.com/business/fin...

The Make Europe Great Again trade (blue line in chart) has called and says it feels poorly and probably won't be in for the rest of the week.

US stocks are not falling on the Fed resisting rate cuts because the Fed is supporting the dollar. This chart from Barclays shows that the 'rest of the world' trade was very much led by investors trying to not get clobbered by the weakening dollar. So dollar up = buy more Google.

This is the US dollar index, after last night's Fed meeting. The dollar had its worst half-year in the six months to June since 1973, because Trump. The dollar is the new 'Fed put.'

I am a middle aged, middle class, middle England woman who has covered my rattan sofa set 3 seconds before the rains came. This was of course the happiest moment of my life post-45 and the level of joy I’ll be fine not to feel again.

Anyone remember Big Daddy in WWF, that 'heroic' all-American patriot who mainly charged at his opponents and used constant motion to conceal that he didn't have many good skills or moves? That's Trump, the tariffs are the eternal feud and it is all a show. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

This is one lie of austerity. Areas of spending are slashed but need isn't. So it travels, scarily. Homeless young women are self-harming to get hospital beds. In some UK areas, A&E attendance has almost doubled in 15 years and ambulance call-outs rose 61%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Is it OK to enjoy my professional decline, given the ascent was so extremely taxing? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I am awake at midnight because I moved to a new area and woke up to a neighbourhood cat attacking my cat. Solutions welcome, however silly.

We were all just neurodiverse, I think. Sigh.

I left my iPhone in a taxi and realised my existence and identity have gone with it. Buying food, travelling and all communication with other humans needs mobile apps to send texts, scan my face and tell robots I am not a robot. My child thinks I am in Slough, because the phone is. Cogito ergo sim?

Moving house with ADHD is: Buy pretty notebooks, make lists. Colour-code the lists. Contemplate how I am both organising my move and not organising it at the same time. Sudden urge to read about the Barber Paradox and Schrödinger again, for an hour. FFS

It makes me very happy that the German compound word for queue is 'waiting snake.' And even happier that the German wikipedia entry for 'queue' includes this wonderfully serpentine image.

Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’

Ofc this only works as a juxtaposition headline if you are massively ableist. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Just had the best haircut (with bonus free head massage and Mandarin speaking practice) at the Chinese-Malay-run Cut Studio in Waterloo. Great service, v reasonable prices, highly recommend. thecutstudio.co.uk

So there's thing that happens in markets where unleashing massive recession threats on the world makes the cost of borrowed money - via bond markets - fall. Just saying. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Ah OK, I get it

It is 2027, the iPhone costs $8,000, social media has died out and here's Trump asking his 93 Instagram followers why Bitcoin is trading at $0.0028

Folk tend to sell the 30-year Treasury when they really can't fathom what's coming up next for growth, inflation, rates etc. The yield on this debt, which rises when the price falls, is about where it was in mid '07 when the financial crisis (Bear Stearns hedge funds collapse) began to unfold.

I often wonder if 'big tariffs' will ever happen or if they're an ideological tool designed - a bit stupidly because of inflation - to make people and companies in the U.S. spend money. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

"We've got all these scenarios and then it turns out a week later you might as well just chuck them into the bin" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

I suspect that because participating in the U.S. stock market ponzi scheme has become the best way to stay ahead of inflation, we'll all just keep shoveling money into it anytime doing so seems vaguely rational www.reuters.com/world/china/...

This is a question from the B2 language test the UK government says people who want to settle in the UK will have to pass. I fear deportation 😀

For now... www.reuters.com/markets/glob...

We're yet to discover if Trump and Xi have finally matured beyond the 'making up and breaking' phase of childlike conflict resolution.

My kid has autism and when he was 5 he ‘couldn’t’ spell mat, cat etc. Bit ‘behind.’ Then one day he came home and spelled these words independently. Star Wars was his special interest. Mat, cat etc was just boring. I want all teachers to be autism-aware and feel the force of special interests.

If you've read the Mar a Lago accord, which threatens to nuke US bond markets, Japan's threat here is a rubber bullet www.reuters.com/markets/asia...

Bit of a wake-up call for investors getting excited about Brexit being annulled at the UK-EU summit.

You might assume from looking at the financial media that big investors are stampeding out of U.S. stocks. They really haven't. Via our pensions, ISAs etc we're all still knee-deep in Trump's stock market. Chart from BofA:

Like Naga, I lived with adenomyosis for goodness knows how long before private doctors found it and after I’d been to NHS GPs for every symptom multiple times. So much life lost to indecipherable fatigue and pain. How many other women are suffering in the dark? www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

‘I didn’t write the headline’ has never been quite so meaningful.’ 🙈

Can anyone with a highly trained editorial eye spot the mistake on this front page ? 😂

Another way to read the US GDP decline is that as it was caused primarily by surging imports, Trump will become more convinced that global trade is a bad thing, that Vietnamese shoe factories are 'stealing' from him and that tariffs create wealth.

'It will be fine after we ban all imports'

Yes. One in every state school class. Totally normal.

Brexit feels increasingly like a small, weird parlour game in comparison to the US right now.

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

Local elections are a UK tradition where we all admit we have no idea what district councils are for, then allow them to carry on regardless because we dislike change. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/is-my-counci...