The UK's consumer watchdog has been asked to investigate drop-off fees at the country's airports after a surge in costs since last summer.
@GregMilamSky | trib.al/jGrrJ7j
'It's a rip-off': Call to investigate airport drop-off charges
Alejandro retweeted
I’ve been texting Matt Fitzpatrick every time he wins. Only issue is he has no idea who I am
"Why do people play golf?" Sean Connery was once asked, and he gave a brilliant answer.
"If you play golf, you can’t think, honestly, or do anything else while you’re playing.
"I think it’s the most revealing game. I don’t know if it’s a game. It’s something other than a game. I couldn’t define it.
"But it’s obsessive and revealing and a very healthy balancing act, I think. It certainly is for me, and also it’s one of the few games in the world that’s really still got dignity as a game.
"It’s endless, and as Jack Nicklaus says, it’s an unfair game and you have to accept it. It’s like life in that way.
"It’s also a game that you can cheat it. It’s the easiest game in the world to cheat at. The only one that suffers is you, because you know. And you can’t unknow."
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In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.
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My wife got an offer from a well-known American startup
"Look, €6,000 per month, remote, and unlimited vacation days!" she showed me the letter
"Unlimited?" I smiled quietly
I told her to accept immediately
She started on a Monday. On Tuesday I told her to submit a vacation request until July 2056
Their HR director called within an hour
"So, that is not how unlimited works..."
We hung up and immediately filed a complaint with the labour court and then with the European Commission
The clause was found binding and the employment relationship remains active
My wife is now on a paid leave for the next 30 years
Maybe America is lawless, but in the EU contracts matter
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POST OFFICE BANKRUPTED A MAN FOR ASKING FOR HELP 91 TIMES
Lee Castleton spent 9 years in the RAF, then worked as a stockbroker in the City. In 2003 he and his wife decided they wanted a slower life for their two young kids. They sold their home and bought a small Post Office branch in Bridlington, on the seafront.
Within a year the dream job turned into a nightmare. His accounts started showing losses that made no sense. So he did the responsible thing and called the Horizon helpline. Then he called it again. And again. 91 times in 12 weeks, begging someone to explain where the money was going.
Nobody could tell him. The Post Office's answer to being told 91 times that their own system was broken was to audit him, suspend him, and demand he pay back 25,000 pounds he never touched.
Castleton had no money left for a lawyer so he represented himself in the High Court, alone, against an organisation with a government sized legal budget. He lost. The Post Office then chased him for 321,000 pounds in legal costs and bankrupted him.
That is the reward for reporting a fault 91 times. Bankruptcy.
The fallout went well beyond the shop. His kids were bullied at school. His daughter was spat at because people in town assumed her dad was a thief. His wife's health suffered under the strain. All because a computer system got the maths wrong and nobody at the top wanted to admit it.
In 2019 Castleton was one of over 550 former postmasters who won a group settlement of 58 million pounds. He personally received 20,000 pounds, a rounding error next to what the case cost him. He was even locked out of a mediation scheme the Post Office ran for people who believed they had been wrongly pursued.
Years later former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry under oath that Castleton's treatment was unforgivable. She also said she had likely signed off on the 300,000 pound bill that ruined him. Unforgivable is one word for it. There are others.
Castleton is now suing the @PostOffice and @fujitsu_uk for up to 8 million pounds, arguing the original 2007 judgment against him was obtained by fraud. In May 2026 the Court of Appeal ruled his case should be heard as one trial instead of being split into pieces designed to bury it in cost and delay. A small win. Nearly two decades late.
He wanted a quieter life running a post office by the sea. Instead he became one of the clearest examples of what happens when an institution would rather bankrupt an innocent man than admit its software was broken.
Sources @BBCNews @lawsocgazette @ComputerWeekly and others
I once trolled Mumsnet with "my 5 year old won't drink coffee unless I put 4 or 5 sugars in it, is this normal?" If you were one of the outraged mums rushing to defend my kids from caffeine - I'm not in the least sorry. It was glorious.
An incompetent colleague I manage doesn't realise I copy and paste every email email I send her into CoPilot and ask 'redraft this for a colleague who can't take any critical feedback'. Our working relationship has improved a lot since I started doing this.
Alejandro retweeted
Idea.... Put @ryanfoxgolfer and Ludvig Åberg in the first group on Thursday and then put Patrick Cantlay and Keegan Bradley behind them. If the 2nd group falls more than 1 hole behind it is a two shot penalty.
Foxy and Aberg could be like the speed rabbit 🐰 and the golf 'hounds' need to keep up.
In theory, if Foxy and Aberg get around in 3 hours 30, then the entire field would have to keep up....assuming the rules men are doing their job and whipping the slow players falling a hole behind.
Make Golf Not Slow Again.
Alejandro retweeted
🚨THIS IS CRAZY
President Donald Trump bought $MP EIGHT times from January to May 2025.
His average buy price was around $22
Then, on July 10th, his administration announced investing $400m into $MP
The stock shot up 50% that day.
Then on September 22nd he sold his entire position.
The stock was trading at around $72 that day.
3.27x in a few months.
The stock is trading at $54 now.
Alejandro retweeted
New: Gil Cisneros (D) just filed up to $1,300,000 of new stock trades
The ones that stood out are 3 pharma picks: $AGIO, $BBIO, and $RARE
The crazy part is that all 3 had major FDA decisions go their way within weeks. every stock is up 10-26%
Cisneros doesn't sit on a single health committee but 3/3 on FDA decisions is pretty good
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Breaking: The President's son is on a heater
Donald Trump Jr's fund invested in one of the only U.S. rare earth magnet startups at a $200M valuation
Three months later, the Pentagon awarded Vulcan a $620M loan and the Commerce Dept took a $50M equity stake
In February, Trump announced a $12B rare earth strategic reserve
Today, the company is now valued at $2 billion. That's a 10x for Trump Jr in under a year
Vulcan is building the largest rare earth magnet factory outside of China. The U.S. says it needs to stop relying on China, which controls 90% of global rare earth processing
The timing is either the greatest coincidence in investing history, or it isn't
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It’s kicked off at the Cheltenham Festival as a nasty brawl breaks out.
#CheltenhamFestival 🤬🤬🤬
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