Sean Wilson 🍴☕🍰🍺

Scottish boy living in Wiltshire. Independent Financial Adviser on Sabbatical.

#ME/CFS patient.

Councillor for Lydiard & Freshbrook ward in Swindon.

[Sean Wilson 🍴☕🍰🍺 @HelloSeanWilson]

A mindful day ie staring into space daydreaming

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Ex-Channel 4 News host Jon Snow reveals he has Alzheimer's https://t.co/PdEyLxyoYH

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

Veteran news anchor Jon Snow has shared that he’s living with dementia, speaking publicly for the first time to raise awareness of a condition affecting around 1 million people across the UK.

Jon and his wife, neurologist Dr Precious Lunga, are supporting Alzheimer’s Society @alzheimerssoc and shared the story of Jon’s diagnosis in @DailyMail as part of our Defeating Dementia campaign with the newspaper.

https://t.co/Sy08OWXmms

We’ve partnered with Jon, in association with @Channel4, on a powerful new documentary airing on 20 June. Jon Snow: A Last Big Story looks at how he’s navigating life with dementia, and how, when we all come together, we can change the story.

Thank you to Jon and Precious for their courage and openness to bring much-needed attention to dementia 💙

@jonsnowC4

Photo credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze

[FootballRetroPlus @robertmdaws]

Platini & Maradona

[Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @GraceOnFootball]

anyway...

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

Why Iraola's football is so suited to the Premier League, and why he could be the perfect fit at Liverpool ⤵️

https://t.co/97yhZG34wp

[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

I don't really need to do the tweet, do I?
(Do the tweet! Do the tweet! Do the tweet!)
So, erm, are we about to get Liverpool, Chelsea AND Arsenal all coached by three kids who played in the same local boys' team together?!

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

One of my favourite interviews with a coach.

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

My interview with Iraola last year - where he explains the thinking behind the aggressive football Liverpool now want

https://t.co/2hV6wNM25k

[miss white @cinecitta2030]

Italo Disco is the soundtrack of the summer

[Ant Breach @AntBreach]

Our new briefing on urban deprivation and affluence has four key findings:

1) Deprivation is an urban problem

2) It's concentrated outside Greater South East England

3) Inner city areas are most deprived

4) Inner city areas are becoming less deprived

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani secures 1,000 World Cup tickets at $50 to be balloted for New Yorkers (the cheapest at the WC)

Inside the meeting with Infantino (& Wenger on FaceTime) & how Mamdani negotiated a rare FIFA concession.

https://t.co/5gC3wiFxbl

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

in 1974, World Cup results were seemingly so tough to find in the US that the New York Times had to beg readers not to phone them up to ask, and directed them to a dedicated hotline run by @lufthansa

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

image source:eia

[Ste Hoare @stehoare]

This man has somehow managed to look like Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Ronan Keating all at once

[Whitehall Sources @whitehallsource]

"No, we're not going to lock the doors to Number 10!"

@Guto_Harri compares the last hours of Boris Johnson's time in office - when one adviser suggested locking out angry cabinet ministers - to Keir Starmer's experience this weekend.

"You are entering another circle of hell."

@CalumAM | @StraightTie

[Tom Chidwick @TomChidwick]

It looks like Streeting's meeting with the PM went as well as Margaret Thatcher's visit to Ted Heath's house after the Tory leadership contest in 1975.

After 5 minutes, in which Heath refused to give her any advice or join the Shadow Cabinet, Thatcher spent 10 minutes ... (1/2)

[Sean Wilson 🍴☕🍰🍺 @HelloSeanWilson]

.@TimSwinyard Congratulations on being elected to West Swindon Parish Council again.

[Sean Wilson 🍴☕🍰🍺 @HelloSeanWilson]

@patrickwintour Enjoying your pithy analyses. :)

[Football Memories @footballmemorys]

ITV's Football coverage team back in 1974

#ITVFootball #Presenters #Commentators #Pundits

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

It’s 33 years since the City Ground said farewell to the Boss, after Brian Clough’s last home game as Forest gaffer.

Reflecting on the end of his incredible football journey, the interviews afterwards are about as emotional as it gets… 💔