Dave Calderwood

Journalist, writing mostly about aviation and motorcycles

[Guy Gratton @GuyG_Boffin]

@hania_6d Thank you for the compliment.

Right now I think that the important things to think about are how the investigation will be conducted, and deep sympathies for those directly affected by this horrible tragedy.

I am very hostile towards early conjecture on this.

[John_D_Ryan @John_D_Ryan]

@jeremycorbyn Corbyn has been a knob all his life.

[Sam Evans @aSamEvans]

Next little small business additional cost - no document invoices on email from 2029.

All have to be digital through software that speaks to other software.

https://t.co/ts1rfPGny5

[Iona McKay💙 @IonaMcKay]

OMG!!! I actually checked the date to see if this was from the 1st April…. The comments!! 😂😂 🐑

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, points out some inconvenient truths to BBC journalist Stephen Sackur on oil and CO2 emissions in Guyana:

“Let me stop you right there. Are you aware that Guyana is home to a forest the size of England and Scotland combined? A forest that stores 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon? A forest that we have preserved?”

Sackur then asks, “Does that give you the right to release all this carbon?”

Dr. Irfaan Ali:
“Does it give you the right to lecture us on climate change? I am going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don’t pay us for, that you don’t value, that you don’t see a value in, that people of Guyana has kept alive.”

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more sensible than plastering them over prime farmland. Shade the cars and generate power without sacrificing the soil that feeds us.

[MaxC | Flight Risk Capital @ColeFusionHQ]

From 2029 the self-employed pay last year's tax and this year's in the same twelve months. The OBR puts the overlap at £17bn of extra cash from this cohort in one year. Same tax, just all at once.

[Virginie Sigonney ✈️ @GinieSigonney]

Would you like to attempt a landing ? 😉
.
.
.
🎥©️credit reserved to the author

[de Havilland Aircraft Museum @deHavMuseum]

Mosquito TE881 has successfully completed its first engine runs, marking an exciting step forward in the restoration and bringing the aircraft closer to its anticipated first flight in the coming weeks.
https://t.co/UAIpdS3KEF

[Ryan Sabey @ryansabey]

6am: Healey tells BBC he will bring down benefits bill before election
8:20: Treasury dispute the story
1pm: No10 disown it saying they have never set a target
2pm: PM says cuts as soon as possible
4pm: Healey says Labour won't bring bill down this Parliament

[David Reed MP @DavidReedMP]

After forcing councils in Devon to waste over £1 million on local government reorganisation that people do not want, the government has now withdrawn its plans for the region.

Labour’s Local Government Disorganisation continues.

[Captain Dave @DaveWallsworth]

Absolutely gutted.
I was fortunate to fly Sir Patrick several times and always enjoyed talking with him. What a wonderful and lovely man. RIP Captain Picard. https://t.co/UJtjhu6Vb6

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

The changes to self-assessment taxation exemplify a system that's run for the convenience of the Treasury/HMRC, not the self-employed, sole traders and small businesses. That has to change.

[Dr Anton Howes @antonhowes]

Being self-employed, this and Making Tax Digital make me want to emigrate. Ever more bureaucratic inconvenience for such a paltry, negligible gain to the public purse!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Yet more tax punishment against the self employed. This Labour government measure has the potential for HMRC to demand tax payments before the self employed have been paid by clients or customers for their work.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A footnote to The Budget:

Labour government March 2026 forecast: “You’ll be richer.”

Labour government October forecast: “You’ll be poorer.”

The October 2026 disposable income forecast takes one look at energy prices, fuel prices, food prices, mortgage rates and the record tax burden and says that our disposable income is shafted.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The answer: keep it simple. Don’t add special allowances and exceptions. Resist the urge to be clever.

No more complexification.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Have a guess who this is a photograph of? It’s Vincent Van Gogh. I’m blown away that there is an actual photograph of him. How did I not know? He was 19 years old when this was taken. I can’t tell you who the photographer was as it’s not recorded.

[Dave Calderwood @DConflying]

@John_D_Ryan @TheWesternWatch Spot on John!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Harry Kane is great role model. As well as being a world class footballer, England captain and all time record goalscorer for England, he’s also a decent bloke. Here he is showing his appreciation to his wife, Kate Goodland after receiving the Ballon D’or.