Pretty good so far. Killing scuds.

New Mac mini - power uplift tick, ray tracing interesting, 16Gb min tick, more usbc/thunderbolt tick, hdmi 2.1 tick, 256GbSSD base….. nononono

#Halloween #TrickOrTreat2024 Parents Please check your child’s sweets bags carefully We have been advised that some children have found Parma Violets in theirs Be aware, be safe

The Country Land and Business Association says the new £1m cap on agricultural inheritance tax relief will "harm 70,000 farms". That's 1/3 of all farms. What does the actual data show? Less than 500 farms/year will be pay more tax as a result of this change every year. Possibly

New ads. Horrible UX. Designed by idiots.

Leadership contest for the Tories in 2 years as the leader is deemed unstable. That unstable that the “Big Dog” Johnson is put back in. It’s almost as if it’s planned.

Those of us working as journalists in Wales may not regrettably be able to make much of a dent in the Trump/Musk lying machine, but we can certainly take on the Welsh Conservative Senedd leader. And so we must ✍️Martin Shipton buff.ly/3YWoLR4

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🚨Matt Hancock explained "It was not clinically safe to have cancer treatment during the pandemic" Cancer patients are severely immunosuppressed whilst undergoing treatment. Their immune defenses are low. We ask what is different for this group today?

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland. The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration. And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA #PoliticsLive A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/

Here are some jeans that you can wear while playing chess. 🧵

Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated to about AD 70, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose

I'm shocked and saddened by Rick's passing. I'm thinking back to us all rehearsing in my bedroom in Stanley Road, Woking. To all the pubs and clubs we played at as kids, to eventually making a record. What a journey! (1/4 - P.W)

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Yesterday we heard from Dr Laura Gilbert, Head of AI for Government EIT Oxford and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change on the difficulties of attracting technical experts to Civil Service technology roles.

Got invited to a press screening of this in Soho last night, gotta say was great fun and kids are going to love it when it hits Disney+ next year.

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Rory the Irish red and white setter relaxing after a hard day chasing birds #crufts