Ben

Cheltenham races. Gloucester rugby. Just a normal tall, handsome bloke really.

[Ben @Bigtallben]

👀 Still can’t believe it

[PompeyVentures @PompeyVentures]

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If Eve Johnson Houghton & Charlie Bishop win the Group 1 Dewhurst tomorrow with ZAVATERI, we will giveaway a lifetime FREE 1% share in our Ardad Colt who will be in training with Eve in 2026.

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@statusisdown Yep no horse racing

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@KP24 Have you ever tried baseball and how were you?

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

RAYNER: Verrico & Associates, conveyancing firm for purchase of £800,000 Hove flat, tells @Telegraph

“We acted for Ms Rayner when she purchased the flat in Hove. We did not and never have given tax or trust advice… We probably are being made scapegoats for all this”

[Ben @Bigtallben]

@cliff_salmon Rayner, the hike in employers national insurance, Reeves.

[Ben @Bigtallben]

We’re on the up….

[PompeyVentures @PompeyVentures]

Our first two year old with Classic winning trainer George Boughey, plus her dual winning half sister is favourite for a race today!!

Our third and final purchase of the Goffs Doncaster Premier yearling sale comes in the shape of Lot 254A, a beautiful daughter of Ten Sovereigns who we hope can follow in her half sisters footsteps…

Pre-sales we had agreed we only wanted to buy one or two from each sale, but we thought this one was worth breaking our own rules for…

She is a half sister to Novelette, who was a £28,000 yearling before then purchased for £410,000 by M.V Magnier at the Breeze Up sales.
She has ran well on all of her starts to date with form figures of: 3,2,1,1 & she is 6/4 favourite to add another win to her record this afternoon at Sandown. This could see her be possibly 90 rated next Tuesday…

We are extremely pleased to add her to our ranks along with her being trained by George Boughey. George and I have formed a great relationship over the last two years and I think it’s the perfect time to add a two year old to our team at Craven House. We both had this filly on our list as being a great model for restricted Band C races.
George was delighted we managed to get this filly and is personally keeping 25% himself.

With George, comes Billy…

Young superstar pilot Billy Loughnane has ridden multiple winners for PV and is a big asset to both us & George’s team. We look forward to sharing Billy’s feedback on her to her owners next year!

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

"Inflation rise takes the UK closer to debt-crisis cliff edge" – my latest @Telegraph column

Britain is heading for a very serious fiscal crisis – not unlike the 1976 fiasco which saw this country go "cap in hand" to the International Monetary Fund for a bail-out.

Government borrowing costs are now higher than they were in 1998 - but the national debt is some 3-times bigger as a share of GDP than it was back then.

That's why the government's debt interest bill is now so massive – twice what we spend on defence each year, more than we spend on schools.

PLUS: Over two-thirds of the money the government is borrowing each year is now being spent on interest payments on already outstanding debt.

AND: The UK's uniquely high share of "index-linked" debt – with interest payments that go up with RPI inflation – means that as inflation rises, our already crippling debt service costs rise even more.

The vast majority of our political and media class are either incapable of understanding the now brightly-flashing warning signs - signs I have outlined in the Telegraph and elsewhere many, many times – or are determined to ignore them if they do.

What I am saying isn't party political, nor about left and right or who has the right "values".

It's about trying to avert a major fiscal meltdown and related systemic crisis - which will cause huge economic and societal damage, and during which the least well off will suffer most.

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[Ben @Bigtallben]

@BurnsideWasTosh Indeed, let’s retire, oh…..

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@truemagic68 Life expectancy for uk males 78. Enjoy.

[Ben @Bigtallben]

@OwenHalyy How do I get into your Spond group 😂😂😂😂

[🦉 @OwenHalyy]

50’s into 16’s you say?…

[Gloucestershire Cricket @Gloscricket]

David 'Syd' Lawrence awarded MBE in King's Birthday Honours for services to cricket

Congratulations from everyone at Gloucestershire Cricket, Syd 👏👏

[PompeyVentures @PompeyVentures]

Oliver Show getting the star treatment as his preparation for Royal Ascot steps up a notch.

More extremely exciting times for his owner’s await!🤞🏼🎩

[Ben @Bigtallben]

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@coveraibase Properly cooking

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@coveraibase Cooking

[Ben @Bigtallben]

@StourbridgeNews What’s this got to do with Stourbridge? Just a rehash of his own newspaper column. Lazy lazy journalism.

[Ben @Bigtallben]

@spectatorindex Owners probably reeling from global tariffs