UK-based investment analyst (ex-macro, now global equities), interested in econ & markets, defence, infra, etc. https://xitter.cf/t.co/rF30HPOD4H
London, England
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Windrush was not some grand historical event - the only reason we should teach it in schools is as an example of how elites can twist past events into new hagiographic narratives to suit modern mores.
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Visiting Hagia Sophia is now a miserable experience. You are restricted to the balcony, they have roped off the balustrades, they have covered up the icons in the centre, they hector you to keep moving. No longer is it a place to roam and muse within.
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I understand that the Bishop of Rome has privately accepted the 39 Articles of Religion and embraced the light of the Reformation as refracted through the English Church.
NEW from Buckingham Palace @RoyalFamily
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex accepts honorary title at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
With the gracious approval of His Majesty The King, The Dean and Canons of Windsor are delighted to announce that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has become Papal Confrater of the College of St George at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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It is time to admit that the Commonwealth does not only not serve its purpose, but works against its premise of post-imperial comity.
This is because it has become a little more than a poorly attended biannual summit whose only purpose seems to be to for Caribbean countries to lobby Britain for reparations. This does nothing but worsen these relationships.
My view was Botchwey was the last chance to try and pull the organisation back from this dead end but this had clearly failed. CHOGM is going ahead without any major reforms to its structure or meaningful agenda, resented by those in government involved in it as a result.
It is now only a matter of time before Prime Ministers stop attending our next King cuts the cord and eventually a new CANZUK-type summit or body is pursued.
You just created a million Angela Rayners
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Maybe building our entire economy around services wasn’t a good idea. But at least we can pivot to physical AI in manufacturing & data centre buildout with our cheap energy and permissive planning system
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If you think about the cost of immigrant workers in the care system in terms of wages plus long term welfare/benefits for them and family with ILR....it might be significantly more financially efficient for the state to top up care worker wages to the extent that our unemployed fancied it. No one's that into it for 20k. What about 50k? 75k?
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Polygamy is illegal in the UK. Yet our welfare system pays out benefits to multiple spouses.
Conservatives @RicHolden helped introduce legislation to stop this today.
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You must either want to “make the case for communities like Peckham” or you’re engaging in “divisive rhetoric”. There is no third option according to these people
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Saying “you’ll only be charged 10% of your income for the next thirty years of your working life” isn’t the flex you think is is
Young people on Plan 2 student loans are NOT being fleeced by the government because of the interest on them. Please do not accept this argument.
Interest charged is not interest paid.
The majority of Plan 2 graduates do not earn enough to pay their loan in full, so do not pay the interest they have accrued.
You are charged 9% above £29,385 per year for a maximum of 30 years. The interest only applies if you pay the full capital before this.
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So the reason why it’s not good to support anarchic violence is because it typically doesn’t stop precisely where you like it. You can’t wink at people burning a city down or think it’s based and then cry foul if other people do violence to the rioters
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Theoretically, stuff like this is *such* an easy fix in the UK. The Labour Party holds >400 seats in the Commons. They could pass it virtually without effort.
But there's just no interest in a serious, pragmatic rewrite of the tax code.
A key advantage of domestic production is reliability - you can buy it months in advance, which smooths out the huge price spikes from geopolitical disruption to LNG, which we tend to have to buy in the Spot market.
So it should, indirectly, reduce costs.
So true, Zack. The amount of energy produced by jackdaw could instead be achieved by 85 million people cycling 8 hours a day in shifts. That's over 3,148x as many jobs for the same output.
Why do these morons think job creation is the goal, rather than productivity and costs?
Sophy Ridge: "@ZackPolanski's also said [going ahead with Jackdaw], its only going to create 27 jobs. Is that right?"
The energy secretary confirms that is correct
This gas field, which is so pathetically small it won't even move gas prices, is a climate disaster that will tip the world into environmental disaster. Much better we import LNG at spot prices instead.
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Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4
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Massive excitement - the Merneptah Stele! A massive inscription of Egyptian victories in Canaan and, among the people defeated, is “Israel”. Not only is this the first use of Israel BUT… the hieroglyph for Israel is for a nomadic people…
