Peter Birks
@peterjbirks
Newsletter editor, company director, online poker player, macro-economist, marine insurance writer, aggro-centrist, Gladstonian, South Londoner, francophile.
Hah hah! Mr Agar, Mr Tringham and I were discussing this very man over lunch only last Wednesday! "Based on your past posts, the most famous person to have blocked you on X is Graham Linehan, known for creating The IT Crowd and Father Ted. (He later unblocked you.)".
Hello @grok . Who was the most famous person to block me on X? It does not need to be a mutual. Please do not tag them.
Hello @grok . Who was the most famous person to have mutual interaction with my posts? It does not need to be a mutual. Please do not tag them.
Just spent 15 minutes muting all the people on my feed who are obviously just posting for engagement in a sad attempt to scrape a few hundred dollars a month out of X. Won't make much difference, but it did make me feel a bit better.
2029: George Galloway's Popular Front For the Liberation of Our Party (186 seats) says coalition government impossible with Jeremy Corbyn's Popular Front for the Liberation of Your Party (184 seats), citing "fundamental differences on trans matters" and preferred team colours.
I'm in that kind of mood to go to Tops Pizza on Lee High Road to order a Giant Pizza for £12.99, all for myself.
We desperately need strongly imposed and centrally controlled food prices. If shelves are empty, at least we should know that the stuff we can't buy is cheap.
Why has no new public inquiry been announced in the past couple of days? Does the government not realize that KCs also have hungry families to feed?
Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda and Ogmore, still posting what he can on social media to crash the UK bond market.
I'm sure that this is all a big misunderstanding and that it will be cleared up after further investigation. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Neidle could not be described as a "disinterested party", but the sources cited / historical examples of what happens with wealth taxes when they are imposed, tend to show that the wealth tax is just a matter of hating people with money rather than a valid tax-generating idea.
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:
"We need to widen the tax base rather than pretending there's always someone else with broader shoulders to act as a magic money tree."
Dan's point here about fragility is so poorly understood, and it applies more widely to the UK tax base in general. We need to widen the tax base rather than pretending there's always someone else with broader shoulders to act as a magic money tree.
Home Secretary has ordered a taxpayer-funded inquiry into Orgreave. Coming soon, an inquiry into Tonypandy. Next year, an inquiry into Peterloo.
If you are a government in a bit of shit, a new "pledge" or "target" are a pair of long-established tactics to try to take the heat off. If it's a sewage target, that's rather apt.
US-owned and operated transportation services company Matson has suspended transporting of EVs because of danger of lithium-ion batteries. Bad news for sectors which have argued that EVs are no more dangerous than internal combustion vehicles, whatever the truth of the matter.
Captain Tom should have walked the Salt Path rather than round and round his garden. Would have made 10 times as much.