Step 1: cashless society Step 2: grant the state power to raid your bank account for taxes Step 3: keep raising taxes to fund their bloated welfare state & permawars abroad whenever they like, ad infinitum Step 4: empty your bank account via fines for political dissent when you oppose any of this Step 5: Switch your bank account off entirely, once the government designates you an ‘enemy of the state’ These Labour Party maniacs worship the state, because they worship power. They must be stopped.

Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch.

How many Eccles cakes did Paddington eat?

This statistic is very misleading. It’s like saying “The top 50 athletes can do more pushups than the bottom 34million least fittest people combined.” The fit people haven’t stolen the pushups, if anything they are the ones making fitness related infrastructure and industry available to more people. Here’s ten reasons wealth taxes don’t work: 1.Europe already ran the experiment and quit. Twelve OECD countries had wealth taxes in 1990; only four do now   — Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the rest repealed them, and not for ideological reasons. 2.Norway is the live demonstration. A tiny rate hike was meant to raise ~$146m; instead $54bn of wealth fled and revenue fell by ~$448m net.  They hit the opposite of the target. 3.You can only have one. The survivors — Norway, Spain, Switzerland  — don’t stack it on top of heavy CGT and IHT. Norway has no inheritance tax.  Layer it onto Britain’s existing taxes and you’re a unicorn no one has built. 4.Britain already wealth-taxes by stealth. Council tax, stamp duty, dividend tax, frozen thresholds, CGT, 40% IHT — we have a diffuse wealth tax wearing seven costumes. 5.Wealth is a guess, not a fact. Income hit a bank account; wealth is an opinion about future value. You end up taxing — and then litigating — an estimate, every single year. 6.Most people can’t tell wealth from income. The politics sells because the public conflates “owns £10m of illiquid business” with “earns £10m” — they’re nothing alike. 7.It punishes illiquidity. Paper-rich, cash-poor founders must strip dividends from their own companies to pay — taxing ownership by gutting the thing that makes jobs. 8.The mobile escape; the rooted pay. Norway’s most-taxed man left for Switzerland in a weekend.  The regional business owner and the homeowner can’t — so they get the bill. 9.It causes capital flight. More super-rich Norwegians left in 2022 than in the previous 13 years combined.  Capital is the most mobile thing there is. 10.It eats the seed corn. Wealth is just deferred investment — the capital funding the next hire and the next business. It raises little, invites avoidance, and drains the capital base. 

I’ve been reading the judgment in the Henry Nowak case. The judge says the police officers at the scene were misled by lies told to them. Believing Henry was the offender, they arrested and handcuffed him. Moments later they realised he had a serious chest wound and began desperately trying to save his life. As a result the judge concluded that the officers did their best in extremely difficult circumstances. Perhaps. However, Henry was bleeding; he told the officer he’d been stabbed and he was struggling to breathe. Shouldn’t that have prompted a more thorough search for injuries before the handcuffs came out and were snapped onto his wrists? The judge says the wound wasn’t obvious. It was dark and Henry was wearing a dark top. He also pointed out in his judgment that the officers had been given a convincing but false account of what had happened. All of which may be true, but what he is not doing is ruling on whether the police response was correct. That’s for the separate investigations now under way. However, if someone gasps that they’ve been stabbed is it unreasonable to expect that possibility to be investigated first? In those circumstances, should concern for a potentially life-threatening injury take precedence over treating someone as a suspect? Genuine question. It is not the natural order of things for your child to die before you and under such devastating circumstances. My thoughts are with his parents as Henry’s murderer is sentenced to life in prison.

I went to a lovely village fete today, and there was a fish ‘n’ chip van, so I had a large cod and chips. My missus ‘didn’t want any’, but then, of course, proceeded to eat around 40 per cent of my chips. Also, two random women simply walked up and helped themselves to some, as if that was perfectly acceptable. How much longer must men put up with this? How do we know how much food to buy? If you run a chips-adjacent food outlet, how do you know how much to serve to a bloke when there are obvious women present? Of course, I’m happy to share with the frail, fainting flower of womanhood, because what’s mine is hers first. We are men, and our duty is to provide and, ultimately, defend, even unto death. But this is about chips, and boundaries are important. Sisters: it’s OK to like chips. It’s OK to want some. We know you do.

Super humans in action.

Amorim out

POWER - Oh look, global corporation Arla has had a tantrum because its customers choose not to buy its products. Corporatism will always lose when consumerism shows them who really holds all the power… And it is glorious 🔥

A Labour Party which claims to be on the side of working people is damaging some of the hardest working and poorest people in our country - and they happen to be the people who care for our countryside and feed us. Today I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Britain's farmers.

New album coming very soon 👀

Rick Gervais responds to celebrities endorsing Kamala Harris 😂 🔊

If the rumours are right and the UK, almost unilaterally given current global trends, cuts R&D funding at this critical moment, we're going to drift even further behind in economic growth, soft power, education, science, research, engineering, you name it .....

Congratulations to @SUFCOfficial this evening. Superb support tonight. Our volunteers commented on how great you have been this evening. Safe journey home to you all. 🤝

What a night!! What a win!! What an atmosphere😍 buzzing to get my 4th goal of the season🙌🏻⚽️ #uti

24 years ago today, Oasis headlined Reading Festival. What a line-up 👏

Lockdowns were the greatest social and economic policy mistake in modern times. They destroyed economies, mental health, national confidence, healthcare systems, kids welfare, supply chains and triggered the cost of living crisis. They must never ever happen again.

Liam Gallagher singing ‘Half The World Away’ was not on my 2024 bingo card. That’s for sure! #oasis

This still annoys me much more than it should.

launch off a mountain near Interlaken, Switzerland 📹Wolfgang Siess