Can we talk about the business rate value reassessment. Our pub: £18,500 to £73,500. Please explain Rachel Reeves I’m numb. #hospitality

Norway drills the North Sea & gets richer. Britain bans drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the same oil & gas from Norway. Same seabed. Same reservoirs. It’s the dumbest act of economic self-harm imaginable. archive.is/olBvb

Happy new year all. Portfolio ended 2025 +9.8%.📈 In my first retirement year I have moved quite a lot into cash and will deploy in any dips. Maybe when in a few few years I might be more adventurous but at the moment I am being very cautious. CAGR 6.6% over the last 14 years.

The Times: 'Ministers are preparing a “major” bill, expected to be presented to parliament as soon as next month that will allow the EU to effectively alter British law in areas such as food standards, animal welfare and pesticide use.' 😱 If Labour MPs are finding running the

Labour is destroying our pubs and restaurants vm.tiktok.com/ZNRrJACeA/

A bombshell new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs has blown the lid off the green lobby's attempt to cover up of the true cost of Net Zero. Talk about 'climate misinformation'! The truth that it will bankrupt the country is finally emerging, says Paul Homewood.

Two decades of climate policy: near-zero impact —just 0.15% reduction Study shows: just 4% of climate policies worked (63 of 1500 had substantial impact) Total reduction 2000-20 in 41 countries (incl China, US, India etc) was .6-1.8Gt CO₂, total emissions were 778Gt CO₂e, or

An energy minister who has no idea what he’s talking about. His price comparison is so ridiculous it’s hard to know where to start. But we can begin with this: the price he quotes for gas is a massive exaggeration to suit his renewables narrative.

Why are our democratic processes unable to stop this lunatic? He’s paying twice the market rate for unreliable power. It makes no sense and yet no one seems able to stop him.

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves’s cash ISA reforms are “doomed to fail”, the chief executive of retail investing platform AJ Bell has warned the chancellor, as he accused the Treasury of “a failure to conduct even the most basic due diligence" on the proposals. news.sky.com/story/reeves-s…

Annual ski trip. Plenty of snow in Morzine/Avoriaz

It’s time we talked about local government pensions. Almost no one in the private sector benefits from these gold plated schemes – which are mostly funded by the taxpayer.

There’s always a tweet.

“Let’s ban new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea but pay Norway £40 billion to import oil and gas from the North Sea. Let’s plaster solar panels on thousands of acres of farmland but have sun dimming experiments in a country that has the fifth least sun hours on the planet.”

Browder: Putin needs a foreign enemy so people don’t get mad at him inside Russia. He needs war. If he succeeded in Ukraine, he would move on to Poland or the Baltics. He has to have war, regardless of the destruction. 4/

Kier Stamer since becoming PM has got 26 community notes for lying or being deliberately misleading.

With Iran's IRGC closing the Strait of Hormuz, it's a good thing that here in the UK we can rely on our North Sea oil. Thank God we didn't elect a bunch of idiots who mothballed the offshore platforms for no good reason.... Oh wait. #LabourUK

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, govt is quietly changing the National Rail Conditions of Travel. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.

These MPs & MSPs are deluded. They favour foreign imports over UK production… Support jobs abroad rather than jobs at home… Want investment to go overseas, not to the North Sea… Are happy to use imports with higher carbon emissions, rather than cleaner home supplies. Mad.

Reminder, the defence budget is £62bn.