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Wonderfully French creative vibrant opening ceremony. Enjoyed that.

I’m also a bit lost on why spending your money into the economy is a bad thing for the public purse? Typically governments want us to save so that we can still spend when the economy struggles. The most stable economies ride out economic dips because people still have money to spend. Also why...

I wonder how many Kennedy Assassination searches Google registers per day?

Do you have a pint of bitter with your chips?

Not too late for all future transactions of this nature. Unless you think the Blairs are the only people who exploited this loophole?

Rules need to change - in that transaction there was no mechanism to pay the stamp duty even if they wanted to. Has to be the motivation from law makers to change the laws accordingly. Hopefully that will start to happen now.

Both probably had viral infections, one likely impacting on field performance, the other’s off field performance.

Difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? ‘The thickness of a cell wall.’

He’s not dead. He’s in a serious but stable condition.

It’s a desperate comparison.

It's why we need a Moon base and a Mars colony.

Managing a business of that size. The PM manages the country at £160k pa.

In other news on pay... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/24/head-of-kings-property-portfolio-given-pay-rise on the back of... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/24/king-to-receive-extra-45m-of-public-money-as-crown-estate-income-soars

Perhaps shorten the gap between those able to afford £20m 2nd or 3rd homes in Park Lane and those with nothing?

Or it doesn't erupt again at all, or for another 500,000 years. Yellowstone is unusual in that other volcanic systems forming a super-volcano don't or haven't erupted multiple times. Compared to all the other stuff we do that's dangerous, like getting in your car for a drive, I'd say taking a...

Our unemployment rate is relatively low at 4.4%, although the gig economy and zero hour contracts do obscure those figures. There will always be those unsuited to particular types of work, and gaps in the labour market are not always able to be filled by those out of work. Immigration is an...

The same one who when on the F1 thread had a mate who worked on the pit lane, or on an Albion thread had a mate on the coaching staff, or if posting on a wine thread had a mate who owned a vineyard. That one?

Of course the elephant in the room is the economy. Western capitalist economies generally need population growth for economic growth. The reason immigration hasn't fallen is the economy is desperate for workers through various sectors; healthcare, farming, construction. Immigration growth isn't...

One of the biggest disappointments in my lifetime is the loss of sporting events from free-to-air broadcasting. It feels like the 'choice to pay' has enriched the sports themselves, but at great expense to the watching public. It's all very well footballers earning 5 or 10m per year but it is...

Maybe take the demand out of it. Better processing, more collaboration, even organised controlled crossings - deal with the root cause not the symptom. At the end of the day people are desperate enough to climb into an over crowded inflatable to cross the channel - what’s the deterant if you’re...