Jason Sinclair
@jsinclair.bsky.social
Posting for my own entertainment
£10k/year surcharge for SUVs and I'm not joking
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
£10k/year surcharge for SUVs and I'm not joking
The security bill for the excellent JW3 is over £600k per year, for some reason. All donations doubled. www.charityextra.com/jw3/williamg...
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The security bill for the excellent JW3 is over £600k per year, for some reason. All donations doubled. www.charityextra.com/jw3/williamg...
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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It's a real mystery why we're seemingly stuck in a permanent low-growth, high inflation, broken-public-services doom-loop.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It's a real mystery why we're seemingly stuck in a permanent low-growth, high inflation, broken-public-services doom-loop.
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These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
"It's not healthy now I know what the fuck is in it"
"Highly processed food for poor people"
"A piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer"
"Highly processed food for poor people"
"A piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer"
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"It's not healthy now I know what the fuck is in it"
"Highly processed food for poor people"
"A piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer"
"Highly processed food for poor people"
"A piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer"
Remember when Newsnight had twenty-minute Gabriel Gatehouse reportage packages followed by ten minutes of Steve Rosenberg in Moscow instead of Piers Morgan and a teenager from The Telegraph?
Pardon my French but they’re getting a shallow showbiz shithouse on to talk about Ukraine FOR FUCKS SAKE BBC YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOURSELF WITH THIS SORT OF THING
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Remember when Newsnight had twenty-minute Gabriel Gatehouse reportage packages followed by ten minutes of Steve Rosenberg in Moscow instead of Piers Morgan and a teenager from The Telegraph?
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Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
The most high-profile political journalist in the country, on £275k/year, cannot be "unsung" and is certainly not a "hero".
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The most high-profile political journalist in the country, on £275k/year, cannot be "unsung" and is certainly not a "hero".
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused in court complaint of facilitating payments to Hamas - @joemillerjr.ft.com and Nikou Asgari report www.ft.com/content/0aea...
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused in court complaint of facilitating payments to Hamas - @joemillerjr.ft.com and Nikou Asgari report www.ft.com/content/0aea...
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"Would you support or oppose taxing Not You, without any explanation or understanding of the inherent trade-offs involved?"
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Would you support or oppose taxing Not You, without any explanation or understanding of the inherent trade-offs involved?"
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Really excellent thread that's a good summary of why pretty much everyone I know in tech thinks the floor is eventually going to fall out from underneath Nvidia. Jensen Huang has done a fantastic job of putting his company into what appears to be a no-win situation over the long term.
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Really excellent thread that's a good summary of why pretty much everyone I know in tech thinks the floor is eventually going to fall out from underneath Nvidia. Jensen Huang has done a fantastic job of putting his company into what appears to be a no-win situation over the long term.
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These are wealthy men in their fifties cackling at the idea of outsourcing your bullying to a chatbot
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
These are wealthy men in their fifties cackling at the idea of outsourcing your bullying to a chatbot
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It's really worth watching this in full. It really does seem unlikely that there's ever been a man simultaneously THIS famous for being unfunny, and THIS desperate to be thought of as funny. bsky.app/profile/wapp...
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's really worth watching this in full. It really does seem unlikely that there's ever been a man simultaneously THIS famous for being unfunny, and THIS desperate to be thought of as funny. bsky.app/profile/wapp...
"AI meets aggressive accounting" sounds like something we shouldn't do, like cloning a gorilla with a crocodile.
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"AI meets aggressive accounting" sounds like something we shouldn't do, like cloning a gorilla with a crocodile.
Another week for Labour begins.
It’s like Brewster’s Millions but for giving away votes
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Another week for Labour begins.
Make sure Ryanair get more than £100 worth of bad publicity over this. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Make sure Ryanair get more than £100 worth of bad publicity over this. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Indeed, and you also get the large amounts of money they bring into the country to spend on rent and other living expenses, boosting the local economy around each institution.
If the government wants to raise money from international students, wouldn't it be better to have more of them rather than to raise the fees they pay? That way you get both the existing fees you charge them and you increase the income of universities and kill two birds with one stone.
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Indeed, and you also get the large amounts of money they bring into the country to spend on rent and other living expenses, boosting the local economy around each institution.
Oxbridge can just bump up the fees and still attract the same (internally capped) numbers. Bulk International students will also still come to Imperial/UCL/LSE at a premium because prestigious & London. It's precisely the "towns" that will get hit by this.
We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Oxbridge can just bump up the fees and still attract the same (internally capped) numbers. Bulk International students will also still come to Imperial/UCL/LSE at a premium because prestigious & London. It's precisely the "towns" that will get hit by this.
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Keir Starmer: We are demolishing the Thames Barrier to save money on the upkeep.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Keir Starmer: We are demolishing the Thames Barrier to save money on the upkeep.