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Wheellixx
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Can’t we all just get along for the good of all of us? I do IT stuff, amongst other things.
You can also find me on Mastodon @[email protected]
Not on that (ex) bird site.
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Yes, I can speak for his Swiss residency-tax implications in the UK, he will only pay tax on UK earnings. So his business dealings, profits, simply money earned inside British territory are taxed by the UK. Switzerland actually has a wealth tax which is increased by an individual's holdings.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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So, so sad.
RIP Mani.
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63
The Stone Roses pay tribute to "the greatest bass player and friend we could ever have wished for".
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Great series, plenty of documentaries about WW2 but very few about how Hitler came to power

Lots of parallels with the current state of the US

"Rise of the Nazis" - still available on BBC iPlayer
Rise of the Nazis
How Hitler seized, kept and fell from power - from the origins of Nazism to the manhunt for the Holocaust's war criminals. Inside the minds of monsters - and those who fought them.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Tesco have BANNED Christmas trees
(No they haven’t)
Great thread from Emma highlighting the idiocy of the “they’ve banned Christmas” brigade
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

🧵1/26
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Today I have mostly been announcing some new bollocks to replace the last lot of bollocks that we were forced to admit was total bollocks.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
These new Swizzel’s Squashies Tropical sweets are too firm to be given the Squashies brand, in my opinion. They’re significantly firmer than standard Squashies, and alas I am disappointed.
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🇪🇺 "Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK has become no more open to trade"

⬇️ "Goods trade is now lower, as a share of GDP, than it was in 2019."

✈️ Trade barriers in goods are particularly harmful to regional equality and development .

https://getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here.

1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.

Cheers, T.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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There seems to be this weird belief that we are oppressed by human rights and ECHR.
How do you even begin to explain the flaw in logic?
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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We spent our honeymoon there 10 years ago.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Stares in Hindu.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Always remember that Tories/Reform wanted Brexit so that they could ignore rules that everyone else followed. A race to the bottom. Deregulation. A bonfire of *our* rights and protections. Exploitation and consumer risk so that the wealthy and the powerful could grab more wealth and more power.
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The highest paid MP in the country has suggested that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers 🤷
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:

"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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📉 "Then came Brexit — sold as renewal for “the people.” Instead, it raised costs, shrank international investment and weakened the nation’s global standing."

❌ "No mayor could shield the public from that scale of national, self-inflicted damage."

https://wapo.st/4ot8nmA
Opinion | Who is really behind London’s decline?
Readers respond to Post articles and commentary.
wapo.st
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I donate a modest amount regularly to Wikipedia. Why? Because I use it regularly, get value from it, and believe in its mission. It’s important that knowledge isn’t restricted to a privileged few. So, a polite little request from me. If you use it and / or agree, please consider donating.
November 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM