Someone just sent me an email telling me that December will be "peak mocktail season". It's okay, I've deleted it. Idiots.

14 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms. Yet now the government is blowing £22 Billion on carbon capture. What were the 14 million trees doing then? Sheer net zero lunacy. heraldscotland.com/news/18270734.…

REGAL ENVOY recorded his 3rd win of the year in the 6f Handicap under Brandon Wilkie Chelmsford City Racecourse this evening. Congratulations to his owners in the Oakman Racing Club! Sponsored by imp & CHESTNUT

This is what Rachel Reeves said in 2022 when Sunak increased employers’ NICs: “When the Chancellor announced his NICs [National Insurance contributions] rise in September, he and the prime minister argued it was fairer because half would be paid for by employers. “But this

REGAL ENVOY clocked up his 4th win of the year in the 5f Handicap Chelmsford City Racecourse this evening. Congratulations to jockey Brandon Wilkie and owners Oakman Racing Club Sponsored by CHESTNUT & imp

Rachel Reeves after winning a gold medal in swimming at the Summer Olympics.

We’ve lost 20,000 pubs in the last 40 years. That sends a chill down my spine | Adrian Chiles theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Now is not the time imposed more costly administrative burdens on tourism & hospitality businesses or further deter the most valuable overnight visitors. We are already 139th least price competitive when it comes to tourism taxes in the world - out of 141 countries

Britain’s economy shrank 0.1% in October, official figures show. This follows a 0.1% decline in September as well. UK firms and households are being heavily over-taxed and the state is borrowing far, far too much - funding lots of wasteful public spending. This is a recipe not

Reagan’s opening remarks are a perfect explanation as to why the recent UK Budget will prove to be a disaster for our country. Amazing that our politicians can’t work it out for themselves.

This…..

If the UK is going to really leverage AI, it will need many more datacentres and much cheaper power.

We need the same in the UK.

The UK could lose up to 9000 pubs. From April, pubs with a rateable value of £100,000, will see business rates jump by £19,000 per year. They will need to sell an additional: 60,000 pints a year. Thats 1200 pints a week. Thats 170 extra pints a day. Thats before rising energy

Absolutely devastating news to hear Michael O’Sullivan has passed away. My thoughts are with his family, friends. When you go that door to race you all want to come back in it together, his peg now sits empty for all the wrong reasons, thinking of all the Irish weighing room. ❤️

The Prime Minister has come out in the aftermath of this weeks disaster for his party to say that he is determined to deliver for UK people. The thing is that fiscal policy has to fit the rhetoric. He says economic growth is his priority but the last budget delivered anything

Thought for the morning… The chaotic scenes in today’s politics spring from a multi-decade collapse in government/industrial competence, rampant high-time preference behaviour and an incapacity to think/invest for the long-term. Governance by weak, unserious people = disaster.

🗣️ "It feels like a real fitting place to finish" William Knight’s stable stalwart Sir Busker is set to make his final appearance on Saturday week at York