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This seems a spectacularly poor system, where what is quite clearly fraud has been somehow protected as a matter of course. To call the outcome a viable legal system is nonsensical.

Isn't this what contracts are all about? The system at the moment generally appears to be appalling, write contracts, get building done, if what was promised was not delivered sue and take the money directly from the developer. If councils can't control contractors, who can?

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And yet, when it comes to IHT so many people believe they are manor-owning folk who will be removed from the ancestral land.

The way to win is to be last out before the burst. Everyone wants to be that guy, but lots will end up being the guy who waited to long.

I'm not sure the author does suggest that. The first 90% of the articles is just a series of arguments that the author presents in a way that is supposed to lead you to the conclusion he supports Argentinian sovereignty, simply so he can knock them down in the last, but one paragraph. It's bait.

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Conversely more dogs in shops would make the experience miserable for people with allergies, or just uncomfortable around dogs.

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Yes and the article does in fact end with this point. The headline and framing of the post is just ragebait.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Political investigations are too slow to achieve anything. Fundamentally democracies need to be thinking really hard about this. The original Russia investigation took 2 years. The Farage £5m still hasn't reported back. Even if successful it takes too long to be effective.

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It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think I understand the difference in the numbers. Although I'm not sure that realistically it means anything different. The vast majority of people, estates or deaths lead to zero IHT, with either number.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But it's still only taxed once. Is the 4% figure counting spouse Vs t+2years to children as a distinct estate?

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't understand this point, if there's no tax when the first spouse dies, then there's no IHT. How do we go from tax free transfer to a spouse to a doubling of the proportion of estates paying IHT?

Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just don't see how we can justify a huge tax break to wealthy pensioners by removing stamp duty, or how you prevent those same pensioners (and everyone else) figuring out how much the person buying their home would save and whacking it onto the asking price. Stamp duty change just puts prices up.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Except it would just be the monorail episode everytime.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Nothing. What was wrong (or at least weird) was that you could have a single parent family where the parent earned 60k (take home 45k) and revived no child benefit. And then you can have a couple on 50k each (household take home 80k) who receive full child benefit. So it's not a great setup.

And they mostly don't have off switches on the devices either. And who wants all their wall sockets and associated cable out in the open? All these things are hidden behind cupboards, cabinets, the device itself...

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Similarly the toxic nature of Schengen and the Euro in the UK can be traced back to a lack of understanding in many cases, which is why they need to be put up front of a rejoin effort. Not as single words on polling questions that rely on everyone's priors, but at the centre of positive change.

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EU to limit Ukraine’s access to farming subsidies if it joins bloc

In some ways I think the rebate is more achievable. The recent stories about Ukraine entry, but then being held outside of agricultural subsidies shows an increasing awareness that CAP is not fit for purpose and was the root of the UK rebate. www.ft.com/content/8463...

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Fear by member states of massive food exports by Kyiv leads to curbs on access to agricultural markets

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd say we can only realistically get b) by ditching a). A full and frank conversation up front that the UK will sign up to these two is required because it helps with b) and the Sovereignty crowd will say we are getting them anyway. Even a commitment from the EU that we aren't willing be ignored.

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That's because the farm only exist to avoid IHT. Gotta get those changes rolled back asap.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a shame that 2) wasn't considered the last time around.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You don't know anyone who could lend you a month's rent on your property that has no mortgage? Anyway, still go vote.

Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think it is a wedge. It feels more like the opposite a chance to say 'you had some change we are not talking about this again'. That's why so many rejected AV in 2009. The downside is that 2009 proved that rejecting a bad change can also lead to the 'not talking about it again' outcome.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And a Cluedo, and a Risk and even now persistent rumours of MTG crossover especially after the Star Trek one.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We should assume they are requirements and start talking up their benefits. Most people probably have no idea what Schengen means on a practical basis. Or what might actually be easier/better for them with the Euro.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hands up who is surprised by this as a strategy? I notice the same day we have Trumps legal team saying "we won" when they've actually very clearly lost. Post truth world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case

The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump

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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The right wing media are worried. At last a leader who is more appealing than anything these media moguls can achieve.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Take back control is one of those phrases that makes me shudder nowadays.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That doesn't seem to be the case according to statista. Both upper and lower middle voted for remain. And if that cohort was substantially bigger than working class (so that at a lower percentage = more people) then remain would have won? www.statista.com/statistics/5...

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Brexit votes by social class 2016| Statista

In the Brexit referendum that took place on June 23, 206, approximately 57 percent of people in upper middle-class professions voted to Remain compared with 43 percent who voted to Leave.

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Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not getting cost of living as the top concern from this one...

Andrew Riley @jontia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interesting, I'd assumed that hospitality boxes were already exempt for this. Aren't some of the privately owned? Do they ban you from sticking a fridge in there with your own supply?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

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Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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The since 2015 change feels much more significant given how much Covid messed with everyone's mental health.

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Would be interesting to see a more comprehensive study that also looked at Grammar schools, which tend to share term time, but have much larger catchment areas. But this is already very interesting data.

Turn them off and turn them on again?

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I'm liking the additional details compared to the last iteration of the bot, but it isn't making voters any more comprehensible.

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Paradise Papers: F1 champion Lewis Hamilton 'dodged' VAT on £16.5m private jet

Again, I'd focus on exemptions. It simplifies the tax code and by definition hits only the mega wealthy who can afford to find the holes and set up weird structures to use them. Maybe it doesn't raise £20bn, but it cuts the tax code and makes it fairer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4188...

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F1 champion received a £3.3m refund after importing the red Challenger 605 into the Isle of Man.

Nick Candy, Suneil Setiya, and £18.5m stamp duty avoided

We ought to be just looking at the exemptions and getting rid of tax breaks that only go to huge companies already making loads of cash or purely jokes for rich people. Just this week we've seen a £265m house sale avoid £18m of stamp duty for example. Why? taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/09/22/n...

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Nick Candy’s £265m mansion was the UK’s biggest-ever house sale. We reveal how adding five small flats appears to have avoided £18.5m of stamp duty.

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My 11-year old's new secondary school asked them to send a postcard to the geography department over the summer holidays presumably for use in lessons at some point.