This should make us as angry as we were when Isis destroyed Palmyra www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Dutch late night TV has its take

Something a little different in @thetimes.com this weekend. How Ostin Technology Group in 2 months went from an obscure microcap, to one of the most traded stocks on Hargreaves Lansdown, to losing 94% of its value in a day in an alleged “pump and dump” scam. www.thetimes.com/article/db5f...

Few things in life would make me happier than Josh Allen and the Bills winning a Super Bowl

Lovely comment below the line in The Times today on the seeming artifice of Dubai. Very glad that when we polled readers on whether they'd rather live in the UK or Dubai, they picked the former...

Total bullshit, this. The U.K. government should (it won't) step in.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

Corker of an investigation by @melyorktt.bsky.social into the hundreds of millions of pounds collected by local councils, that they then proceed to do nothing with www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Actually thought Caleb played pretty well yesterday (apart from the pick) but when your defence gives up 50, and your line can't stop false starting and holding, it doesn't matter.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

ya buy the dip on Caleb Williams. truly excellent sack avoidance on top of a large chunk of plays where he made the right read and decision. Couple of times he turned down an open player, but his scrambling and checkdowns made sense seeing how the backend was playing out.

Great thread here showing how increased taxes on landlords after 2016 helped homeownership to grow again.

New report: Taxing landlords more is good, actually. Since 2016, tax reforms helped slash the growth of the private rented sector and boosted first-time buyers—without hurting existing tenants. A big housing story hiding in plain sight? ⬇️

So many parallels with 2018 there, except this time you threw the lead to a QB making his first NFL start (who’d already thrown a pick six), not Aaron Rodgers. Eurgh.

Troy Aikman absolutely roasting some of these referee decisions

Drive killer of a penalty that turned out to be complete nonsense. What a joke 😂

Why do announcers keep defending the Parsons trade lol. Cmon.

I mean this seems like a legitimate question from @annaturley.bsky.social

A reminder that the majority of Brits don't consider Lucy Connolly a political prisoner by any stretch of the imagination.

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

In case you missed it I pubbed the first JAMBOROO of the season yesterday. It’s about my ma. defector.com/there-is-alw...

I recognise that Stephen is correct on the politics of the matter, but this is so stupid - Rayner has done nothing wrong, legally or morally, and someone in her position in literally any other position (including High Court Judge, CEO, surgeon) would face no consequences other than back-paying.

Why didn't you just try to win, Arne?

FT: Really disappointing to lose that way. Think Arsenal played well in the first half but lost their grip on things, and we weren't efficient enough in the final third when we had chances. Liverpool created nothing but someone whacked the ball top bins from 30 yards. That's how it goes.

I’m not even a Fulham fan and this half has made me livid

"Fulham 9 commits a careless challenge" - WTF What a crock of shit

I actually feel a bit sorry for Matt Eberflus. He became the Bears’ head coach and straightaway they traded Khalil Mack, now he’s gone to Dallas and they’ve traded Parsons!

Maybe Angela Rayner had simply been reading the advice in the telegraph’s money section about how to pay less stamp duty www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Prague, Bruges, Milan and Bilbao. What a dream of away trips 😍

This is a @natetice.bsky.social appreciation post

Once 11 players have taken a penalty, it should be drawn by ballot from the fans.

Well that’s a low blow

Interesting chart here - suggesting the UK currently raises more money on property (stamp duty, council tax and capital gains tax) than many other countries. Is there room to go further on this to tax housing wealth more? Or is it more about shifting from transaction taxes to annual ones?

On something entirely separate, I had a lot of fun writing about we as the public have had an unlikely windfall thanks to inheritance tax - in the form of an unusual tax relief scheme that's put thousands of cultural objects on public display since 1910. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

I've written approximately 14,000 pieces about property taxation this week (Sure feels like it anyway) so capping it off for The Sunday Times with a bit of a think piece on how we could, or should, tax property instead. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

I agree with @caseynewton.bsky.social who writes the Platformer newsletter. "The best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job." For 30 years as a college teacher I told my students: If you can't wait to get to work because you're so into what you are doing then you did it right.

Eh? Where the hell did this come from?!

For food? I think there’s various global supply issues going on plus yeah, employer costs. Last time I looked the supermarkets operated on 2-4% margins and staff costs were about 15% of total costs. So big wage floor rises + NICS = price rises.

Tonight in @thetimes.com courtesy mainly of @stevenswinford.bsky.social: The Treasury is considering removing private residence relief from capital gains tax on high value homes as it looks to raise money in the upcoming Budget www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I think the ideas here for property tax reform are really interesting. Essentially it's a cap stamp duty at around £15k (what you currently pay on a £500k home) but people purchasing homes >£500k then pay an annual charge of around 0.5% each year. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Top tips on how to do budgets right

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

A bit of a weird one this afternoon. The Guardian reports the Treasury is considering something that sounds like an annual proportional property tax, mentions Tim Leunig’s work, which advocates that, but also sounds a bit like stamp duty, but paid by sellers? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Well this is pretty grim isn’t it www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh bluesky never change

The 70 day 2012 torch relay lasted rather longer than the 2022 Truss premiership, 50 days in all, announcimg her resignation after 44. It played an important role in extending ownership of the games beyond the capital. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Su...