Captain Haddock

You said it was only the rich who pay less than they should - quite obviously that isn’t true

Naturally!

Who’s behind the Centre for Migration Control? This so-called “research organisation” has been cited in The Sun, The Telegraph, The Times and Express - but it appears to be run by one man with a Brexit campaign past, publishing opaque and selective data and wild claims about migrants.

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Is that why not very rich tradesmen offer to do jobs cash in hand to avoid VAT?

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What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
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Most people try to pay no more than they are legally obliged to

Thousands of company directors leave UK after Labour’s tax changes FT analysis finds jump in departures with UAE the top destination

Ooopsy.

Wealth flight is a thing, whether we like it or not.

www.ft.com/content/a3fc...

This is not a bubble. Definitely not.

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

It’s only fleet sales now

I feel like the failure to investigate how The World’s Richest Man is seemingly desperate for cash at all times is not something that people will look back on kindly

Yeh the resale values are shocking

Tesla’s UK sales plummet 60% as BYD surges US carmaker’s registrations sink in July as Chinese rival profits

Tesla sales in UK collapse 60%

LOL

www.ft.com/content/e05d...

Australia picks Mitsubishi over German rival Thyssenkrupp for $6.5bn defence deal Boost for Japan as MHI named preferred bidder to build frigate fleet

Oz picks Japanese frigate design

With these plus the Hobarts and the Hunters, the RAN will have a bigger surface fleet than the Royal Navy?

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PeTrol sMelT bEtTer beFore Blair tOok the lEaD oUt

Utterly ludicrous

Yeh Northern summer isn’t the best time - many hotels on east coast shut I think due to weather being so volatile

But i loved the place

Am sure you survived Guy!

It’s such a great island

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Yep cos the tariffs are to pay for tax cuts

It so is lol

It’s an excellent book

White house rose garden paved over

This is 100% because people laughed at the picture of him shouting at the kid mowing the grass.

And it pays nicely

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

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So British he was in fact Irish

Surely this is all just AI generated at this point