Making the news today....

[openspaceman]

7 hours ago, difflock said:

And one heated space provided for multiple bodies

That was the pub

[eggsarascal]

11 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

That was the pub

That's was when things were on trend...

[Puffingbilly413]

On 28/07/2022 at 18:26, trigger_andy said:

I pay over £60k in tax a year

Should have tried harder at school then.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Puffingbilly413 said:

Should have tried harder at school then.

This is a literal fact. I wasted my school years and made up for it the hard way with two apprenticeships back to back. Car Mechanic and Mechanical Engineering. 
 

Still, it just shows you that if anyone wishes to turn their life around it’s never to late, and then you can spend the rest of your life back paying tax. 

[eggsarascal]

20 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

This is a literal fact. I wasted my school years and made up for it the hard way with two apprenticeships back to back. Car Mechanic and Mechanical Engineering. 
 

Still, it just shows you that if anyone wishes to turn their life around it’s never to late, and then you can spend the rest of your life back paying tax. 

Similar, left school with nothing, made hard work of my early life, got out of prison and worked on the roads before working on the water board, then moved on to working for a private pump company, then going on to work for myself. A good mate who is sadly no more got me started, could I have done it without his help... I'm no sure.

[Commando]

On 28/07/2022 at 19:26, trigger_andy said:

I pay over £60k in tax a year. I’d say I have no option but to share my wealth. 
 

Regardless I’m not sure why you’re praising someone’s intentional decision to stop others earning a wage to line the pockets of an organisation. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You need to get a better accountant Andy! 🤔

[openspaceman]

£70 million in fines for pharma firms that overcharged NHS - GOV.UK

WWW.GOV.UK

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After reassessing part of the case, the CMA has found that Pfizer and Flynn abused their dominant positions to...

 

 

a bit earlier than today but this is the firm that provided much of the covid vaccines and all?? the boosters so those figures are yet to come

 

That's a big export of dosh no wonder the pound is reaching parity with the dollar

[Johnsond]

BP reports huge profits as energy bills soar

APPLE.NEWS

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The firm reported profits of $8.45bn in the second quarter of the year as oil and gas prices...

The huge multinational corporate beasts are absolutely flying at the moment, oil and gas, energy, commodities etc etc all doing very well, pharmaceutical companies, well they have had an absolute belter couple of years, banking is doing well having narrowly dodged a few bullets pre the covid farce. The government is pulling in huge amounts of revenues from the increased prices we see everywhere. The cynical side of me would say the current state of affairs actually isn’t that bad for a select influential few. I do wonder where our so called “ democratic society is heading at the minute”. Bearing in mind we are in the middle of summer and come October “ I think” is there not another increase in the energy price cap to £3600 !!. 

Edited August 2, 2022 by Johnsond

[Stere]

Neo feudalism?

 

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism—A Review

QUILLETTE.COM

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Review of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin, Encounter Books (May...

 

[Woodworks]

34 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

BP reports huge profits as energy bills soar

APPLE.NEWS

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The firm reported profits of $8.45bn in the second quarter of the year as oil and gas prices...

 I do wonder where our so called “ democratic society is heading at the minute”. Bearing in mind we are in the middle of summer and come October “ I think” is there not another increase in the energy price cap to £3600 !!. 

Riots in the street I would imagine.

 

Many will literally not be able to afford heating and electric. Seems almost unimaginable in one of the richest countries in the world but as the article Stere shared points out the wealth in western counties  is incredibly unevenly distributed.