The ‘Oh yes, I visit Brussels every year’ Starter Pack

The right could have focused on attacking employer NICs as a tax on jobs. Instead, they're focusing on billionaires upset about paying IHT on their farms and private schools fees. Labour will be fine with that.

Lovely afternoon Windsor & Eton Brewery giving Paddy Johnson CAMRA London John Young Memorial Award 2024- presented by John's nephew, Torquil. Paddy was joined by some past winners!

Don’t focus on tuition fees, focus on the 37% marginal rate paid by graduates earning £27k and the 57% rate paid by those earning £50k (plus interest).

B&Q have somehow contrived an even less flattering configuration for the self-checkout camera screen than the average supermarket

Awesome. Can't wait to try the Indie Rabble Brewing Company BIPA

People don’t focus on the design of UK fees system because it isn’t a political problem yet. But that will change over time as more graduates enter the job market and face the burden of facing insane marginal tax rates for 40 yrs. A big political problem in the waiting.

Gee, thanks for the memories Google Photos!

Gemini AI: smart enough to recognise an electricity meter; dumb enough to think humans enjoy looking at electricity meters

Well hello! BFI is releasing two of Akira Kurosawa's classic crime films. #FilmNoir Stray Dog (1949): 83q6k.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK… High and Low (1963): 83q6k.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/sh/SMK…

Rob banks. Ride waves.

Road rage in Slough..

John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Satyajit Ray at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival

If Liz truss lives to 96 she will have spent more days at the cenotaph than in Downing Street

Alex Cox's hallucinatory biopic WALKER tells the story of American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. See it on 35mm on 17th February. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/mr7yak76

"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that." Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, on the flag debate. #Newsnight