Mark Cheevers

[Mark Cheevers @chicocheevers]

@chrisboettcher9 Health

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@Dempster2000 @elisjames 🤣

[Mark Cheevers @chicocheevers]

@British_Airways What about their luggage and if the next flight is tomorrow will you provide a hotel ?

[Mark Cheevers @chicocheevers]

A new low from @British_Airways as I’m due on the 1340 flight from @BELFASTCITY_AIR to @HeathrowAirport with my sister and 3 nieces who need connection to Ethiopia at 2100 and we have just been told flight delayed until 1805 panicking they will miss and no explanation #shambles

[Mark Cheevers @chicocheevers]

@ErriksonA 07793543445

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@British_Airways Thank you yes it is. They are due to fly with Ethiopian Airlines 21:00 departure to Addis ET701 from Terminal 2 she is flying with the 3 kids alone from London onwards.

[Mark Cheevers @chicocheevers]

@nestajames1 @elisjames @Isysuttie Massive congratulations to all 🥰

[Paddy Shanks @PaddyShanks]

We are TOP!
Northern Ireland are now on TOP of the 2024 Olympic medals table based on medals per POPULATION!! We have 1.9 million people and 7 medals!! This is based on medals per 10 million people!
Courtesy of Facebook "Travelling Northern Ireland Flag"

[The Magic Mod @TaylorMod]

“You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets”

[Robert Peston @Peston]

When I saw tonight’s FT headline that the chancellor is considering the abolition of the non-dom tax status in next week’s budget I thought it must be an early April fool.

But it is true. So concerned is Jeremy Hunt that he won’t have enough in the kitty for a sizeable cut in personal income taxes - a giveaway more-or-less promised by the PM - that he is considering even that capitulation.

The UK’s so-called non-dom status allows foreign nationals to live and work in the UK for 15 years free of the requirement to pay UK tax on their earnings on capital held abroad. The prime minister’s heiress wife Akshata is perhaps the UK’s most famous non dom (although she latterly volunteered to pay UK tax on her global income).

Labour has pledged to abolish the tax break for wealthy non-nationals. It originally said this would raise more than £3bn for its priorities, including reducing NHS waiting lists, but has downgraded the likely tally to nearer £2bn. That downgrade reflects the cost of some kind of replacement regime, to reduce the risk that valuable foreign workers would leave the UK.

Tory Chancellors have always resisted abolition of non-dom status. They claimed doing so would damage UK economic prospects, that it would deter highly skilled finance and tech professionals from taking employment-creating jobs here.

So it is a big moment that the Chancellor is even contemplating its abolition, even if in the end he does not do so next week.

It shows quite how boxed in he is, by recent and perhaps perverse movements in interest rates and inflation.

One counter-intuitive problem for Jeremy Hunt is that inflation is lower than the official forecaster the OBR thought it would be in the autumn, such that “fiscal drag” - the refusal to up-rate tax thresholds in line with inflation - raises less money than expected.

Per contra, the yield on ten-year gilts - another name for the interest rate paid by the government when borrowing - has risen sharply in the last month. So the OBR is forecasting that the government’s interest payments will be higher than it expected.

The net effect is that there is less “headroom” in the OBR’s five-year debt projection for tax cuts, or almost no headroom at all.

Hence the Treasury’s decision to contemplate abolishing non-dom status.

There is also raw politics here. If the government were to end the non-dom tax break, and simultaneously cut employee national insurance, Labour itself would have even less money than it fears for its spending priorities - unless it were to reverse Tory tax cuts, which it has said it does not wish to do.

What the Chancellor ultimately decides will be conditioned by the OBR’s last two forecasts of the available headroom for tax cuts and spending, which he will receive in coming days.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Meanings of “sorry, are you in the queue?”

1. This shop has a terrible layout, making it impossible to tell who’s in the queue.

2. I know you’re not in the queue but you’re standing in an odd place and causing everyone tension. I want you to realise this and move away from the queue.

3. I know you’re in the queue, it’s just that you’ve decided to not move forward enough, leaving a large gap, and I don’t like it at all.

4. I just accidentally pushed in and I want to show you that I honestly didn’t mean it. I am respectful of the queue, please believe me.

5. I’m flabbergasted that the queue is so ridiculously long and I’d like it known.

[Fitba Patter @FitbaPatter]

Scottish football is back https://t.co/XLCAWsrXqY

[Ken Sills @KenSills1]

John Stewart Speaks Volumes of Truth

[Indie Music @indierock01]

9 years ago since in my opinion the greatest place for a festival ended. Balado airfield is where I spent the best times of my life. I honestly feel sorry for any Scottish music fan that didn’t experience @Tinthepark at it’s rightfully home.

[Our Care Improvement System (Our Care IS)💡🛠📈🏆 @EmmaQI10]

One of these bara brith is on its way to work for the @SLAM_QI to enjoy celebrating #NHS75, keeping with my Welsh heritage and remembering #AneurinBevan who founded the NHS #lush #NHS75Women

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

Alex Higgins clears the table with exhibition shots!
#snooker #ilovesnooker

[Abigail Davies @swanabi]

A semicolon is used when an author could have ended a sentence but continued. The author is me, the sentence is my life. At the time I wasn't but now, I'm glad I survived. Anorexia/depression will always be part of me but good days now outweigh the bad #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

Ronnie O’Sullivan - Simply the Rocket
#snooker #ilovesnooker

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

I can watch these shots all day long
#snooker #ilovesnooker