Tim Worstall
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Freelance classical liberal around and about. Substack at https://t.co/U6iYpigGfh
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timworstall.com | Tim Worstall
In exchange for £250,000, paid upfront, those arriving in the UK will get a tax deal not available to those already here. Farage is, then, planning a tax deal that favours migrants. Those coming to the UK will be able to hide as much of the income as they like outside the UK, and entirely avoid UK inheritance tax. In other words, Farage is planning a scheme where migrants to the UK will be deliberately allowed to avoid contributing to UK society in the way everyone already here has to do.
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Now, true, basketball isn’t one of my games. I know the general rules but never having played it don’t grasp the details - nor the flow of the game, what’s good, what’s difficult and all that. Women’s basketball is even less of an interest - and that’s with my admitting that I’ve never actually watched even a man’s game whether live or on TV. Still, I do know what the solution is here:It's all obvious or trivial except.... is a reader-supported publication.
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The Guardian’s new economics editor:Isabella Weber and her colleagues analysed transcripts of more than 100,000 “earnings calls” – the crucial meetings at which companies update their investors – from almost 5,000 US companies between 2007 and 2022, and cross-checked them against data on costs across the economy. They found that during cost shocks – when everyone knows costs are going up – companies feel emboldened to push up prices and build their profit margins.
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Thames Water’s bonds have crashed to a record low after the Environment Secretary said it was stepping up contingency plans for the struggling utility giant. The price of Thames Water’s debt fell to as low as 67p on Friday, down from 70p at the start of the month, as investors took flight amid fears the Government could nationalise the business. 3% is a crash. In something as illiquid as corporate bonds.
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timworstall.com | Tim Worstall
In the hours leading up to Dua Lipa’s first headline show at Wembley stadium the stifling heat was as striking as the colours. Fans resplendent in costumes inspired by their idol milled around the concourse, and groups of women took selfies, jigging with excitement. But among the jollity, specialist Met Officers interspersed in the crowd were on the hunt for something different: “We’re here to spot predatory men.”A grave in Drayton Bassett was reported to be suffering revolving turbulence.
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Is Rayner lying or ignorant? "We know the only time that Britain has built at that sort of level is the post-second world war era and that was with massive amounts of social housing." Private sector, unadorned, managed that in the 1930s. Before government "helped" with planning.
RT @SAshworthHayes: I mean the entire Northern Ireland 'thing' is that 400 years after a wave of migration, two groups of people who by now…
"As the Resolution Foundation notes we are now at the point that we’re a healthcare service with a state attached to it. Soon enough Britain will be a healthcare service with a population attached." https://t.co/YCJTJ8f78E
