@SharePickers#PGH Ahead of expectations and confident outlook. £17m of surplus cash (excluding the £10m approx. regulatory requirement and buffer). Share count hasn't changed in the last 10 years. 3 year view: eps will get to 30p and pe to 20 --> 600p (in a bull market).
@ThaBlackSheep_@mcDarke@CourtNewsUK Utter shite. Why are you defending a guy who was in a gang called guns and shanks. What the fuck is it that is OK about that? He is a wrong un. Look at the video. Just randomly thinks it OK to attack the police. In prison for threatening a woman.
@rls1brnl@gorbalsgoebbels "Teachers often mix phonics with other strategies like whole-word reading". The failjngs of the 60s revisited. The same crap I had, so my parents had to teach me to read. Compulsory phonics obviously required, but that wouldn't fit in with the "progressives'.
@johndotwills Giving away a home doesn't make the next household's need disappear, it removes a future re-let. The £90,700 "avoided fiscal cost" must net off the downstream cost of housing those displaced from that scarce stock. I think it needs to outline that saving.
@ProfAndyC@patricksturg@prossertj Cite the evidence that refutes his views. Explain why Chinese children do better. Cite evidence. If he is wrong, cite evidence. Yours is a depressing example of the Beria-esque denunciation of non-party views. Deeply un-scientific. But you win brownie points with the VP!
@EdwardEGibbon@t848m0 the 2008 real terms minimum wage for an apprentice is ~£140 a week vs ~£290 a week today. So 100,000 apprentices potentially have an increased total cost of ~ over £700m. All very rough, but highly off-putting to the marginal employer, even if they want them in the first place.
@toy59496@DuncanLamont2 The first is guaranteed, the second is something you can't lay off in a betting sense. The first is equivalent to a one off increase in salary of ~ £83k. It's a classic loss aversion situation. A lot of money for a big part of the population. £50 vs £1000, different result
@cremieuxrecueil RCTs show tiny physical health gains, but ‘meagre’ ignores the plunge in medical debt and depression. Short studies miss long-term mortality, and even a ‘small’ adjusted gap costs thousands of lives. Insurance is a financial safety net, no small thing if it hits your family.