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@raysullivan.wsocial.eu
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Author of SciFi, comedy and adventure novel; writer and editor for www.newsbiscuit.com. Born and raised in north Wales, 24 years RAF veteran. Link: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Ray-Sulliva…

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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 16m
Just been reminded of this classic British turn of phrase: "He's so crooked, he could swallow nails and shit corkscrews."
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Oddr 🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 @citizenofearth.wsocial.eu · 3h
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 4h
'We're sick and not coming into work today' say Ai troll bots at last remaining Yandex data centre
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 4h
Pronunciation of 'row' changed on Death Row
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 3h
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Baker who sells giant pastries announces a massive turnover
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 3h
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Social influencer lives by babbling stream
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CherylJean @cheryljean.bsky.social · 11h
🔥🇺🇦🔥👊😎 Boom another Yandex Data Center bites the dust 🥳
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5h
The moment of the attack on Yandex's data center in Vladimir overnight. The digital detox is going according to plan.
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Heather 💀🧬⚕️🎓♿️ @variola13.bsky.social · 18h
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 5h
Gove denies he is ‘an evil Sith Lord hellbent on ruling the galaxy’ www.newsbiscuit.com/post/gove-de...
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Gove denies he is ‘an evil Sith Lord hellbent on ruling the galaxy’
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael ‘Et Tu Brute’ Gove has refuted claims that ‘the darkness inside him’ is in fact an evil superpower of galactic proportions, which if unleashed, wou...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 5h
Zack Polanski needs bodyguards 'to protect him from himself' www.newsbiscuit.com/post/zack-po...
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Zack Polanski needs bodyguards 'to protect him from himself'
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been assigned a team of bodyguards who will accompany him at all times. The passing of the motion that “Zionism equals racism” means that the Green Party is no lon...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 6h
... as usual the little people lose out www.newsbiscuit.com/post/as-usua...
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... as usual the little people lose out
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 7h
Diddums, yah whiney brat! www.newsbiscuit.com/post/diddums...
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Diddums, yah whiney brat!
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 7h
TUI or not TUI? That is the question www.newsbiscuit.com/post/tui-or-...
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TUI or not TUI? That is the question
People are accusing travel group TUI of false advertising. Holiday makers who booked a river cruise on the Danube ended up on a replacement bus trip because the cruise ships couldn't navigate the Dan...
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 18h
I otter know better.
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 18h
Last night there was an ottermobile incident. If you know anything about it, please contact the ottorities.
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 21h
Small otter blows thumpet and accidentally plays perfect rendition of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 21h
Caption Competition 16th of October www.newsbiscuit.com/post/caption...
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Caption Competition 16th of October
To enter the competition sign up to our Writer's Room - and add your entry here https://newsbiscuit.proboards.com/board/5/caption-competition The closing date will be Friday night or when our Editor ...
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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 22h
Ideally we need to start targeting the oil tankers, I would prefer having them boarded and confiscated, however, I am quite willing to have them sunk. #EU #Ukraine
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The Irish Politics Newsletter @irishpolitics.wsocial.eu · 22h
According to Cloudflare Data Explorer, Russian bot traffic dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a Yandex data centre.
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Things to do on Amazon Prime day www.newsbiscuit.com/post/things-...
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Things to do on Amazon Prime day
Take a walkPlay with the catRead a bookPlant some seeds (or talk to your plants)Bake somethingPhone a loved oneDecide to make all your Christmas presents this yearLearn to knitHave a really long bathC...
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Steve W @atmywitsend.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Who hires a firm whose boss is accused of doxxing lifesavers? The damage to his own company may be the only justice coming. #RNLI #Doxxing #ReputationMatters #RecruitmentIndustry
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Steve W @atmywitsend.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
So a recruitment boss has been accused of orchestrating a doxxing campaign against the RNLI and anti-racism activists. Let that sink in—allegedly attacking volunteer lifeboat crews. 🤬 Here's the bitter irony: his business depends on reputation and trust, and this alleged activity is toxic to both.
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Kwarteng 'gutted' to be overlooked for Nobel economics prize www.newsbiscuit.com/post/kwarten...
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Kwarteng 'gutted' to be overlooked for Nobel economics prize
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, is reportedly furious about being overlooked for the Nobel Prize for Economics.A spokesman for Kwarteng said 'Kwasi is very disappointed. What did Ben Bern...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Villains target village shop www.newsbiscuit.com/post/villain...
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Villains target village shop
A village shop has been damaged in an attempted burglary. Following a report of men acting suspiciously with a sheep, Surrey Police despatched officers to the Co-op in Rowledge. A passing shepherd wi...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
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Pyrotechnics company fires boss
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
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Drunken man who fell over in a sauna says he was steaming
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
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Future executions in USA to be live-streamed on Twitch
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
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NI secretary rains on Drumcree parade
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
WTAF USA?!! www.newsbiscuit.com/post/wtaf-usa
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WTAF USA?!!
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
The trashiest show on earth www.newsbiscuit.com/post/the-tra...
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The trashiest show on earth
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Christa Pike immortalised as Marvel superhero www.newsbiscuit.com/post/christa...
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Christa Pike immortalised as Marvel superhero
Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman the authorities seem unable to kill, is to be immortalised as a new superhero in the Marvel comic-book pantheon.Pike, who has been on death row for 30 years following...
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
😂 Had to correct a few people when I travelled round Australia with two Austrian nurses. I'm aware of the tedium you must endure, dear Anna 😅🤦
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Oddr 🇸🇪 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 @citizenofearth.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Hi, this is Oddr in the studio I wish everyone a good weekend out there Be careful folks while out and about, lots of ai and misinformation going around And this song is for @steveb.wsocial.eu, the Madeira outlaw, we love you man, keep on being awesome 😎 music.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5i...
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Slade - Far Far Away (1974) • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
This is my friend and co-writer and co-editor Ray from Newsbiscuit, who has just arrived on W today. Newsbiscuit was the first British daily satirical news provider and still has a good old-fashioned website like they used to be. Powered by hobnobs and vimto. Funny, simple, no ads.
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Entire North to be entered for Turner Prize www.newsbiscuit.com/post/entire-...
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Entire North to be entered for Turner Prize
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has confirmed that the entire North of England will be entered for this year’s Turner Prize. It is the first time a work by a living prime minister has been entered for mo...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Ted Hastings told 'sucking diesel' no longer affordable www.newsbiscuit.com/post/ted-has...
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Ted Hastings told 'sucking diesel' no longer affordable
Line Of Duty's Superintendent Ted Hastings has been ordered by senior BBC executives to stop his practice of sucking diesel, as fuel prices continue to hit record levels. The go-to practice of Hasting...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
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Marston's Brewery going for a Burton
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
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French chef says you don’t need 3 eggs to make an omelette. One egg is un oeuf
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
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Computer supplies store targeted by RAM raiders
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Everything looking bang tidy on your W account setup and both links working sweet. Excellent, funny piece choices.
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Nice human verified badge. It would be a shame if something happened to... nah, great stuff.
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
A very warm welcome to W, Ray. Haven't seen you in ages. Fantastic to see NewsBiscuit pop up here - just made me go a bit misty-eyed.
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Something I wrote for Newsbiscuit Harry 'Fingers' McClean exonerated by internal committee www.newsbiscuit.com/post/harry-f...
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Harry 'Fingers' McClean exonerated by internal committee
Harry 'Fingers' McClean, currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police for burglary, theft with menaces, carrying an offensive weapon, spitting in a latte, extortion, unnatural relations wi...
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Ray Sullivan @raysullivan.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Something I wrote for Newsbiscuit B52s needed to protect the voting booths www.newsbiscuit.com/post/b52s-ne...
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B52s needed to protect the voting booths
President Trump has denied that the US Air Force has been spooked by three Transit vans and five guys syphoning petrol. The relocation of the B52 bomber fleet is more to do with illegal voting than be...
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