AlphaCharlieEcho1016

Former City banker now leading energy transition at pan European energy company.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

None of us needs to "play our part". The mass importation of rapey migrants from the world's worst countries is not some national undertaking that we have agreed to. It is an outrage that has been done to us despite our explicit opposition.

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@paulg Please can we just have sensible controls on quality and quantity based on what we need and can absorb? Why does immigration debate need to be binary?

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@dave43law Yes, almost accurate. Aside from failing to mention labour cost competition, rise in housing, health and education demand; plus increases in welfare bill, government borrowing costs (mortgage rates) and tax burden on workers. But apart from that you are correct.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Big day over at the Guardian. They've uncovered a company paying its staff.

Today's exposé reveals Palantir's latest diabolical scheme: give employees shares, watch employees pay tax on them at HIGHER rates than corporation tax, hand the Treasury MORE money overall. As tax dodges go, I’ll admit it needs work.

The legal instrument behind this outrage? A relief introduced by the previous Labour Government to encourage employee ownership and collect more tax overall. The Guardian has bravely blown the whistle on the UK tax code.

As only the Grauniad can pull off, the facts that dismantle their own headline can be found at the bottom of the article: Palantir paid $148m in UK employment taxes last year.

@DanNeidle - who regularly seems to end actual tax avoiders' careers for sport - looked at this claim and called it “the worst tax avoidance scheme ever.”

We’ll await the Guardian’s correction with the usual confidence.

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@DonnaLouise1212 @grok which crime incident does this post refer to?

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@mcpoole84 @iAmJoshHunt Indeed, once the true cost of AI, highly driven by the underlying energy input cost, is passed on to consumers, then it will be both difficult to do without and difficult to afford. The AI companies are farming addicts.

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@adamemedia1 Annual cull of Helot underclass

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@the_christnats In fairness, as a regular London cyclist, I find the hoards of Lime Bikes to be quite a nuisance.

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@mattvanswol @grok is this real footage or AI?

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

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@itsolelehmann Switzerland?

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@theiaincameron Thanks for sharing this interesting fact which I never knew, despite spending from the age of 13 to 40 fishing with my father from the Scots bank in this picture, known as the Lennel Beat. Many a happy memory.

[Ben 🇬🇧💷 @ben__investing]

Was booking tickets for Edinburgh Zoo this weekend.

Noticed people on Universal Credit get a discounted rate.

Adult ticket: £30.
Adult ticket (UC): £8.

A 73% difference.

No shade to people on UC.

But why are we being punished for having a job?

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@Frances_Coppola @worstall Where does personal responsibility and self sufficiency feature in this debate in your view?

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@andyburnham This man needs to visit China or the US. AI and robotics are driving manufacturing growth. Another useless, ill educated, career politician who has never had a job outside the non job that is "politics". (Aside from 3 months in journalism)

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@MattCas04807118 Why is he wearing a dinner jacket?

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Good morning. I’ve had a think overnight about this and despite me thinking and saying that reporting anything to the Metropolitan Police is a complete waste of time, I believe that I have to report this, so am filling out the hate crime report on the Met’s website and will keep you posted what happens. There are several reasons I’ve decided to report this:
1: The number of Muslims and their enablers who denied this ever happened and think I made it up. Well, I’ve posted actual photos and videos before and they still think I’ve made it up. But I want normal people to know that it was real.
2: When you watch programmes about the build up to the Second World War and you can’t comprehend how people allowed Jews to be rounded up and then sent to the gas chambers, if you sit around and say nothing now, well, you would have sat around and allowed it then, so don’t fool yourself that you wouldn’t.
3: I believe the government, the mayor of London and the police have enabled Muslims and Jew haters to commit their acts of hatred. We’ve had marches constantly for two plus years now supporting Palestinian terrorists and they’ve been allowed to chant death to Jews with immunity. So now they feel immune and what I witnessed yesterday is the result of that.
4: If I don’t do anything about this, then I am guilty of allowing Jews to suffer.
So for these reasons I’m reporting the incident. I have zero to low hopes of any meaningful investigation by the police, but at least I’ll have done something. Next time I witness similar, and I can’t help thinking there will be a next time, I shall intervene immediately. I’ll keep you posted of any response from the Metropolitan Police.

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@DanielPriestley Interesting. What type of business was this? Consumer / B2C? Or Business to Business?

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@Shawnife @grok what film is this?

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The principle here is surely let customers decide. I used to smoke and enjoy doing so in pubs. But I now hate it so much that I "fume" when some tool lights up near me outside. Society has moved on, and for the better, but let publicans decide who they want. Smoky dive bars have their place etc.