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[Snooky]

I love Seville, one of my favourite cities. I assume you're doing all the good stuff like the Real Alcazar?

While you're in the Cadiz area, the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art (aka the Spanish Riding School, with the Lippizaners) is just up the road in Jerez. You can go and see...

[Snooky]

Is this an above-ground or in-the-ground pool?...

[Snooky]

Portugal for 2 weeks in June - can't wait!

[Snooky]

Yes it does. This company is almost certainly a thinly capitalised special purpose vehicle for buying the loan book and trying to recover the alleged debt.

Looking in the Notes to the financial statement for 2025, the sudden £2.7m increase in Stocks is most likely the value of the loan...

[Snooky]

I'm with LM on this - life's too short to waste it endlessly chasing money. Money is a means to an end for most of us and, unless you're fortunate enough that your paid work is also your passion, it makes sense to actually live your life....

[Snooky]

Also, the best time to be looking for a new job is when you already have a job....

[Snooky]

This is a bit of a non-story. If you have sufficient access to an account on Windows to read memory in Edge, you can pretty much already do whatever you want with that user's account and data anyway.

[Snooky]

Tell me about it. I had to use watering cans for years until hoses came down to a more reasonable cost....

[Snooky]

Sounds like a healthy lifestyle balance to me ...

[Snooky]

Is that tax take per head, or total tax take? In which case it could easily make sense as we probably have way more retirees than under 30s with an income....

[Snooky]

A key problem with this is that, as I mentioned earlier, our population is rapidly becoming top-heavy in age and longevity. This is bad in both financial terms - retired citizens will generally pay far less tax than the working population but will require far more use of health and welfare services...

[Snooky]

I tried signing up but said no to other people contacting for things unrelated to this study, then it said I'm not eligible...

[Snooky]

This is the same attitude people had in the USA when they voted for Trump, and look how well that turned out. He promised to shake up the political system and "drain the swamp" but has basically screwed almost everything up while blatantly enriching himself, his family and pals.
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[Snooky]

Illegal immigrants are deported once any asylum bid is exhausted. Those granted asylum can legally work in the UK; if the asylum process takes too long, costing the UK more than it really should, that's an entirely different matter. The number of "boat people" is generally agreed to be an...