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I think she made a simple, innocent mistake. When asked if she owned another property she appears to have said no. This appears a perfectly reasonable answer when the other property is owned by a trust. This debacle merely highlights how complex tax is even for simple transactions

Uncertainty index spikes amid on/off confusion over Trump tariffs The US president's second tenure was expected to be a boon for business but American companies are instead reeling from the "Trump Slump".

Are you tired of all the winning yet? news.sky.com/story/uncert...

It’s insane to think the US have sent in a bunch of wet behind the ears, unqualified representatives to negotiate with Russia’s seasoned actors.

USA and Russia agree a deal. Ukraine rejects it. US troops turn up to enforce the deal resulting in both Russian and US troops active in Ukraine against their wishes. In this game of risk, what happens next?

We need to fix our trading relationship with Europe to grow our economy and protect Britain from Trump’s trade war.

It's time to turbocharge our economy by forming a Customs Union with the EU, tearing down the trade barriers and red tape holding us back.

The funny bit is solar farms are not wastelands. Search agrivoltics for the numerous studies showing it increases land yield for farmers, biodiversity and doesn't limit the ability to use low grade farm land for livestock.

Wales massively outgunned in the national anthem singing stakes. #6nations

If this government was really serious about growth, it would start negotiating a new UK-EU trade deal with a bespoke customs union at its heart.

This is the single biggest lever ministers could pull to turbocharge our economy. The refusal of the Chancellor to even consider is worrying.

I think the challenge the UK has with its relationship with Europe is its innate feeling of superiority to any other nation, as a result of its empire mindset. It fails to spot the benefits of being collaborative and working as a collective so has been exploited by people with their own agenda.

I think its only a matter of time before we see @torstenbell.bsky.social as Chancellor.

Before I saw the pod cast bit I thought this was a Countdown reference......

However there is still a huge discrepancy in cost between those who can charge at home and those who cannot.

The difference in just 3 years for charging infrastructure

One in five cars were EV in 2024

Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80 per cent of new cars to be EVs. These are the changes needed to accelerate the transition

Great story in the FT about EV adoption in the UK (paywalled unfortunately) ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

Something about Boris saying he would lie in front of the bulldozers…..

Am I being naive in thinking this was decided years ago? I vaguely remember seeing the designs and a decision being made before covid. Demand fell through the floor due to covid and it was delayed but a decision had been made. Creating a new tunnel on the m25 iirc.

Week two is going to get wilder. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

I think this is the play.

Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Instagram Alternative Called Flashes Instagram users not enthused about Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to MAGA have a new refuge.

In fact we are starting to see European developers do just that. gizmodo.com/bluesky-is-g...

Bluesky is open source and really a protocol which Bluesky is an example implementation of. In other words there is nothing stopping a European implementation……. In fact if you have your own namespace, your identity is portable.

He has no other play other than to threaten tariffs. Russia is unlikely to be spooked by this considering they sell next to nothing to the US.

It’s interesting that he has given a pardon to the person creating a market place to sell drugs, amongst other things, but has an issue with the suppliers of those goods.

They’ve just said the same on Newsnight. “Plausible deniability to send the libs crazy” to quote the guest.

I don’t see TikTok or the Chinese gov agreeing to a hostile takeover bid and the sharing of their algorithms

At first I wondered what Poland had to do with this

Can I put forward an amendment to include everyone of working age?

Interest on ballooning debt.

This is all groundwork for 2028 where I bet they try to hand the presidency to one of his family.