Today seems like a good day to rewatch this Michael Saylor video from 2012 about Apple stock. 🍎 He also briefly talks about Dell computers. 👀 #Bitcoin

Another way to put that is: every country in the world which has higher public spending than the UK (as a % of GDP) also taxes the average worker more than the UK:

New from me: Google's emissions shot up *almost 50%* since 2019 due to its massive focus on AI. This makes it the second huge tech company (see Microsoft in May) that has said AI is threatening its ability to meet key environmental goals. Who'll be next? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Are the Dems so goosed by Trump they don’t want to burn assets in competing 2024? His win in 2016 for judicial nominations alone will be long term game changing to the American system

Phillips openly spoke about knifing the former labour leader in the front a few years ago, chicken and egg. MP’s need to be better

“In the years to come the number of footballers worth watching will be less and less and football will become less enjoyable” Fascinating comments as always from Marcelo Bielsa. Can’t deny thinking similar once or twice watching games at #EURO2024

Ali is the menace 🤣

The England fans have found a German copper who looks like Southgate 😂👌

Pretty damning admission in DWP's latest annual report... "DWP no longer expects Universal Credit fraud and error to return to the levels seen before the significant increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, which it says is due to an increasing propensity for fraud in society. "

Aaron Bastani This reply, in the comments below, is also classic Britain, but in a good way... 😀

How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book

Tories really got this high skill immigration idea nailed on post brexit

These 2 Plymouth rioters have been convicted of 209 previous offences + they told the police they were rioting because immigrants cost the taxpayer too much money. Judge Linford made them work out how much their offending had cost Britain's taxpayers over the last 38 years.👇🏻

Read about a 16-year-old Sudanese kid in Australia who ran 100m in 10.2 seconds this year. Found the footage— freakin ridiculous.

Probably unavoidable due to demographic weights and past decisions, but the generation(s) that came of age during unprecedented wage stagnation and house price increases are also going to have to pay higher taxes through their (our) best earning years.

This example from The Economist's latest article on crypto mining in Texas is crazy.

I detest smoking. It's an awful habit, terrible for your health and I urge anyone to quit. But. At some stage, we have to trust people to make their own decisions. If we banned any harmful habit, we'd be living very boring lives. Where do we draw the line? Alcohol? Unhealthy

Sad to read this, Matt Goodwin was at a Nottingham open day, and he spent time with myself and 3 other prospective students after the event which meant the world to me at the time.

Britain's productivity "puzzle"

Terrific analysis of the UK's stagnation, with many parts relevant to Ireland: ukfoundations.co.