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It’s Legal 500 launch day, but very few people are talking about it - far fewer than in other years.
Why?
I think it’s because it’s too London centric. Chambers has taken a lead by having categories that better reflect local markets.
I’m grateful for the namecheck though…
The row between Aubrey Weis and Greater Manchester Combined Authority about the funding of Renaker developments continues - and could become the first case under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 to be heard in the Supreme Court.
My views on this case: lnkd.in/p/et3kGQ9H
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Madjo is a 20 goals a season striker starting now
I swear I wrote that before he grabs his 1st on a official game 😂
What a player! The movement, the pace, the link up play
He is a Haaland in the making! (I'll shoot the next person that compares him to Lukaku!)
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This Villa performance is not perfect by any stretch, but it has been absolutely sensational to watch. Thrilling. #avfc
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Graduate premium has grown in most other countries as numbers going to uni have increased. UK declining graduate premium is unique, and likely linked to poor economic performance rather than "too many kids going to university". Critical piece of info as we think about HE policy, and says to me we need to focus on economic growth to provide valuable opportunities for grads, not knock the value of uni.
Brilliant report from @jburnmurdoch in the @FT last week.
@suttontrust
Sooner or later there’s going to be a debate about whether Subsidy Control rules have been too lax - allowing expensive subsidies through with too little scrutiny.
This FT article might start the debate - inspired by news government subsidies more than doubled in value last year
UK state subsidies soar as post-Brexit grants boost energy projects ft.trib.al/Lr7AGfy
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Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
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This is a very interesting idea from Nick Boles:
"Under the proposal, Britain would push for the creation of a “European Confederation”, linking the EU’s free-trade zone with Nato’s defence commitments.
Countries such as Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway and the Western Balkan states would also be invited to join...
Ukraine would join the confederation with a promise to maintain a large army to serve as a main bulwark against any future Russian invasion as well as share its drone technologies with the rest of Europe."
Britain could rejoin the EU’s single market, under a new post-Brexit deal presented to Andy Burnham.
In exchange for access to the bloc’s free-trade zone, the Prime Minister would be expected to promise to extend the protection of Britain’s Armed Forces and nuclear deterrent across the Continent ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Uefa paid off an alleged mistress of Gianni Infantino while he was its general secretary, The Telegraph can disclose.
The woman received a six-figure sum after the alleged relationship with Mr Infantino while he was a top official at European football’s governing body.
Read our full investigation 👇
telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/0…
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New from me:
Young people in Britain are some of the most well-educated in the rich world, but economic stagnation means that breeds not growth but frustration.
In fact, US workers who are functionally illiterate now earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker.
The government is right to want to leverage more from social value commitments in public procurements.
Focusing on jobs and skills is a good first step - but it’s only a first step.
Hopefully legislators will now focus on “how”.
xitter.cf/paulmasonnews/status/2…
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We don't know the exact way in which early years were recalculated but I think it is safe to say a full counterfactual analysis was never performed because it was a sanction agreement and the parties were happy. A full appraisal would have considered the Hazard profit of £100m and discounted it for probability that he goes elsewhere. Similar other assumptions would have been made. All very complicated but far too simple to assert PSR was never breached. Moreover, it is besides the point. These breaches were so serious as to stand alone as worthy of serious sanction regardless of PSR.
Could the lenient punishment given by the FA to Chelsea, for 74 breaches, lead to Europe’s football clubs making a Foreign Subsidy Regulation complaint to the European Commission?
It’s happened before in football, but is there the appetite to complain?
brusselssignal.eu/2023/10/fo…
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For anyone wondering, the fine and any other costs related to the latest FA sanction will come out of the £150m (not £100m) that was "held back" from the initial purchase price when RA sold the club.
That means less money will ultimately go to the victims of the war in Ukraine.
