Sunak’s wine legacy. The highest rates of duty on wine in Europe, with 64 bands of duty (to replace just 2!) from 1 Feb 2025. Will the next government do the right thing - it’s a simple move - and help businesses and consumers? My monthly newsletter… newsletter.bauduc.com/t/y-e-mjyduyd-…

Requiring solar panels on new homes should be a no-brainer. Labour should not cede to pressure from developers who want to reduce costs New homes must be fit for the future. That means super high insulation, energy-efficient heating, and solar as standard theguardian.com/environment/20…

Over the next two weekends. We will be supporting the The FSA #StopExploitingLoyalty campaign We strongly encourage all football fans to join us in supporting this campaign to prevent fans across the country from being priced out of following the club that they love.

BREAKING: Make sure every American sees this New York Times headline.

Employer Ni plus national wage means it’s probably going up tbh

Ava-Santina, "If you agree with the OBR forecast, do you agree that Brexit knocked 4% off our GDP?" Far Right Institute of Economic Affairs shill Reem Ibrahim, "On Brexit particularly.. If you want to talk about Brexit very specifically, I think the whole entire conversation

It’s hard to post anything negative about this budget without being told to give up profits, pay your taxes & stop exploiting working people but if you want to understand how the wine trade has been kicked in the balls to no tax benefit whatsoever Hal explains it perfectly here👇

This is the key point. Badenoch keeps saying she is net zero sceptic not climate sceptic and she wants to see a proper plan for meeting the target. But if she doesn’t like the current plan it is now her responsibility to develop a credible alternative.

I don’t think they’ll ever understand the deep ocean of real anger people who lost loved ones while they partied feel over this. It’s like a parking ticket to them. To thousands of bereaved people it’s the worst time of their life. The arrogance is staggering.

Coming soon to the Home Assistant iOS App, sensors widget, thanks to Penait1 🤘🏻 awesome contribution 🥳

Stunning omission from The Times. The top most recommended comments under the article from readers:

Interesting piece in Farmer’s Weekly eight years ago asking why billionaire James Dyson we buying up thousands of acres, some of which had probably been worked by local food producers who’d been there for generations. fwi.co.uk/business/prime….

NESO has released its "advice to government" report detailing what needs to be done to achieve the "clean power by 2030" target –headline: it's doable –the projects, the plans needed exist –it would be safe, secure, and affordable Some highlights 🧵 neso.energy/publications/c…

Quick project completed getting Home Assistant to work with the todo list (Todoist) to create notifications on the HA dashboard - pretty happy with the result community.home-assistant.io/t/modding-the-…

Oh dear. There is no way I want to see this new shit show in power.

Feeling similar disappointment to Brexit and the 2016 results in the morning. Must keep going. Believe in the greater good and hopefully time won't run out. What else is there to do? Time to recalibrate and fix what is in my hands not the lives of others.

Seriously, this is something else. It will soon be possible to be a graduate on minimum wage in the UK and face a 37% marginal tax rate (20% income tax, 8% NI, plus 9% uni fees repayment). Throw in auto-enrolment at 5% and 6% loan repay for postgrads and it's 48%

this is a test, please give this a retweet if you see it on your timeline, I'm testing for reach without a blue tick, ta me lovelies.❤️ #C64 #Commodore

After Brixham’s experience earlier this year this is of real concern. We warned about this - project fear they said. I will be raising this with the Minister this week. #brexit ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down theguardian.com/business/2024/…