As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Hamas are a death cult. They are pure evil.
Israel is, and should be measured by United Nations adjudicated metrics. Ben G'vir, Smotrich and Netanyahu are running Israel as a rogue state.
What I’d like to know is if as Bibi says Gazans are gagging to be freed from Hamas, why is he slaughtering so many of them?
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
IDF want the Palestinians dead too. They is just as bad as Hamas.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
IDF want the Palestinians dead too. They is just as bad as Hamas.
Do you think that Israel has run out of bombs?
Israel could kill all Gazans over a weekend
Why are they only killing one hundred a day at completely hidden food queues?
They must be really fucking stupid, as well as insanely evil
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 1h Can someone explain why no Labour Minister is prepared to go to Epping, and other areas impacted by this policy, to at least hear local resident’s concerns.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 1h Can someone explain why no Labour Minister is prepared to go to Epping, and other areas impacted by this policy, to at least hear local resident’s concerns.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
It must have been before Mohacs in 1526, possibly before Lechfeld in 955.
This is the actual quote. One of the dumbest presidents in history.
President Trump:
"I asked a question to a very smart man that some people like and some people don't like - Victor Orbán, the head of Hungary. He knows the two countries very well. I said, 'So, can Russia be beaten by Ukraine?' He looked at me like, 'What a stupid question.'
He said, 'Russia is a massive country and they win their country and they win their life through wars. They fight wars. That's what they do. China beats you with trade, Russia beats you with war.'
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
A propos very little, I was out and about on Saturday morning primarily to get the Racing Post (yes, I know I can read it online but I'm a bluff old traditionalist) and saw my local neighbourhood Police Officer with another officer taking a shoplifter into custody.
While there are no doubt many who shoplift simply because they think they can get away with it, it's also clear a number of shoplifters have mental health and/or addiction issues.
It's easy to tar all who transgress with the same brush and regrettably it seems attitudes to mental health problems and addictions have hardened in recent times.
As a further aside, the closure and subsequent sale of East Ham Police Station by the London Mayor at the time, Boris Johnson, has been catastrophic for law enforcement in this part of London. From the other side of the capital, I read Wimbledon MP Paul Kohler is leading the fight to prevent the closure of Wimbledon Police Station.
This act of blatant stupidity by the Met is for me unforgivable and indeed I'd support a London Mayoral candidate committed to restporing a Police presence in High Streets.
The closure of police stations and the replacement by panda cars is a wonderful example of the fallacy of “data rules ok”.
The data didn’t capture the deterrent effect / community benefits of a visible presence
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 1h Can someone explain why no Labour Minister is prepared to go to Epping, and other areas impacted by this policy, to at least hear local resident’s concerns.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business. It isn't that uncommon approach these days.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
IDF want the Palestinians dead too. They is just as bad as Hamas.
Do you think that Israel has run out of bombs?
Israel could kill all Gazans over a weekend
Why are they only killing one hundred a day at completely hidden food queues?
They must be really fucking stupid, as well as insanely evil
The Bosnian Serbs killed "only" 7,000 at Srebrenica in 1995, yet the Bosnian Muslims numbered 1.5 million at that time.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
There is special tax conditions if you sell / give your company to an employee owned vehicle. If you wanted to really maximise, you take some in as in form of a cash purchase plus share of profit as dividends for say 5-10 years into the future.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
Julian Richer (of Richer Sounds) did much the same.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
Well, they did control southern Slovakia and Transcarpathia for a few years. They subsequently even gained Northern Transylvania and parts of Yugoslavia, though they were abetted by the Nazis in those adventures!
Once you go to a Hundred match you realise what a good idea they are in terms of getting new fans interested in the game.
Rugby is different from soccer; baseball is different from rounders; netball is different from basketball. Why can't The Hundred accept that it's a different sport and move on? It's the parasitic attachment to cricket that sticks in the craw.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
I would personally rename "Liverpool Street" to its original name of Bishopsgate to avoid confusion with Liverpool Lime Street.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
There is special tax conditions if you sell / give your company to an employee owned vehicle. If you wanted to really maximise, you take some in as in form of a cash purchase plus share of profit as dividends for say 5-10 years into the future.
True but I suspect (because it's about 10 years since I last spoke to Gary) that the sales approach is very much designed to ensure the chain doesn't open on a Sunday and continues to refuse to sell Harry Potter related items..
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
There is special tax conditions if you sell / give your company to an employee owned vehicle. If you wanted to really maximise, you take some in as in form of a cash purchase plus share of profit as dividends for say 5-10 years into the future.
True but I suspect (because it's about 10 years since I last spoke to Gary) that the sales approach is very much designed to ensure the chain doesn't open on a Sunday and continues to refuse to sell Harry Potter related items..
They is why I don't think its totally cynical maximising cash out. It isn't squeezing every possible advantage. But it certainly a way of doing so in a fairly tax efficient manner and retain some control / influence.
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
100%
Israel under its current government isn't giving up the West Bank, or Gaza, or the territory it has recently seized in Syria, or the Golan Heights. While Trump supports Israel, Israel is going to slowly annex them all. Maybe Bibi will go back into southern Lebanon next.
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
IDF want the Palestinians dead too. They is just as bad as Hamas.
I would note that the IDF have, to a limited degree, been pushing back against Netanyahu's orders.
We are deeply saddened to learn the news of the passing of Academy Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley. A pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and icon for gender equality, she will continue to be an inspiration to many.
Once you go to a Hundred match you realise what a good idea they are in terms of getting new fans interested in the game.
Rugby is different from soccer; baseball is different from rounders; netball is different from basketball. Why can't The Hundred accept that it's a different sport and move on? It's the parasitic attachment to cricket that sticks in the craw.
The hundred is demonstrably cricket. Cricket had always had various formats. Much of the history of country cricket took place with three day games, albeit with many more overs per day than now. Overs haven't always been six balls either. If you watch the play in a hundred game then flick over to a T20 I think you would struggle to differentiate without the ghastly graphics. Suggesting it's different in the way that rugby and football are is nonsense. (Although my late uncle, a navy man insisted on calling rugby, football when ever we met...
Once you go to a Hundred match you realise what a good idea they are in terms of getting new fans interested in the game.
Rugby is different from soccer; baseball is different from rounders; netball is different from basketball. Why can't The Hundred accept that it's a different sport and move on? It's the parasitic attachment to cricket that sticks in the craw.
The hundred is demonstrably cricket. Cricket had always had various formats. Much of the history of country cricket took place with three day games, albeit with many more overs per day than now. Overs haven't always been six balls either. If you watch the play in a hundred game then flick over to a T20 I think you would struggle to differentiate without the ghastly graphics. Suggesting it's different in the way that rugby and football are is nonsense. (Although my late uncle, a navy man insisted on calling rugby, football when ever we met...
They should rename T20 to "One Hundred and Eighty Twenty".
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
There is special tax conditions if you sell / give your company to an employee owned vehicle. If you wanted to really maximise, you take some in as in form of a cash purchase plus share of profit as dividends for say 5-10 years into the future.
Good. Modern capitalism too often sucks money out of communities and caches it in Ireland or an offshore account. We need to return to the capitalism of the 20th century and before, one that is rooted in its local communities. That requires tax incentives and other legislation.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
A propos very little, I was out and about on Saturday morning primarily to get the Racing Post (yes, I know I can read it online but I'm a bluff old traditionalist) and saw my local neighbourhood Police Officer with another officer taking a shoplifter into custody.
While there are no doubt many who shoplift simply because they think they can get away with it, it's also clear a number of shoplifters have mental health and/or addiction issues.
It's easy to tar all who transgress with the same brush and regrettably it seems attitudes to mental health problems and addictions have hardened in recent times.
As a further aside, the closure and subsequent sale of East Ham Police Station by the London Mayor at the time, Boris Johnson, has been catastrophic for law enforcement in this part of London. From the other side of the capital, I read Wimbledon MP Paul Kohler is leading the fight to prevent the closure of Wimbledon Police Station.
This act of blatant stupidity by the Met is for me unforgivable and indeed I'd support a London Mayoral candidate committed to restporing a Police presence in High Streets.
The closure of police stations and the replacement by panda cars is a wonderful example of the fallacy of “data rules ok”.
The data didn’t capture the deterrent effect / community benefits of a visible presence
The flip side of having lots of police stations is floors full of officers whom the rank and file call “Eternal Flames”.
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
I think that makes sense too.
Hostile artillery on the ridge above the Jordan would dominate the entire of the coastal plain of Israel
As a Zionist, I support Israel’s right to exist within its originally approved 1947 borders. I understand and sympathise with its territorial expansion in 1948 and 1967, though I do not endorse those changes. Like many, I was horrified by the events of October 2023 and understood the strong reaction that followed. However, this has now gone too far. Israel has lost almost all of its friends, and frankly, I doubt it will exist in thirty years’ time. I believe this outcome is exactly what Hamas intended. They wanted Israel to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. They cared nothing for the suffering or deaths — their aim was to provoke an overreaction that would isolate Israel completely. And, by Jove, they have succeeded. Israel has walked straight into the trap.
How did Hamas know that so much of the rest of the world would believe and propagate their propaganda?
Past form?
I don't remember them having such success before from a mass rape and killing spree, from the river to the sea
IDF doing the mass killing and starving now...
The stupidest genocide of all time - one hundred a day in food queues; all somehow killed off camera and about ten starving each day
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
IDF want the Palestinians dead too. They is just as bad as Hamas.
I would note that the IDF have, to a limited degree, been pushing back against Netanyahu's orders.
There seems to be an active Leave Gaza movement in Israel itself too
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
Short of killing every Palestinian abroad as well as in Gaza and the West Bank Israel is just creating a diaspora wanting to return to their ancestral lands. Surely Jews should understand that? After all their own diaspora kept that desire for 20 centuries. Why should the Palestinians feel differently?
The Jewish diaspora longing for a homeland was partly political in the twentieth century (it wasn’t really mainstream before that) but also because of their exclusion from western society. I suspect Palestinians would be assimilated over time - at least into a broader Arab/Islamic group in the West
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
Someone has flagged this, presumably out of annoyance at me not naming the culprit. It's ex-PBer, @SeanT - he invented the phrase "wetter than an otter's pocket". This is from a recent column in the Spectator Magazine
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
Short of killing every Palestinian abroad as well as in Gaza and the West Bank Israel is just creating a diaspora wanting to return to their ancestral lands. Surely Jews should understand that? After all their own diaspora kept that desire for 20 centuries. Why should the Palestinians feel differently?
The Jewish diaspora longing for a homeland was partly political in the twentieth century (it wasn’t really mainstream before that) but also because of their exclusion from western society. I suspect Palestinians would be assimilated over time - at least into a broader Arab/Islamic group in the West
Palestinian nationalism has been going for a century, I don't think it is fading any time soon.
I imagine a lot of toasts of "next year in Jerusalem" around the diaspora.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
I think that makes sense too.
Hostile artillery on the ridge above the Jordan would dominate the entire of the coastal plain of Israel
... is the sort of argument Russia uses for annexing chunks of Ukraine.
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
I think that makes sense too.
Hostile artillery on the ridge above the Jordan would dominate the entire of the coastal plain of Israel
Israel still won in 1967 *despite* the Jordanian artillery.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
I think that makes sense too.
Hostile artillery on the ridge above the Jordan would dominate the entire of the coastal plain of Israel
... is the sort of argument Russia uses for annexing chunks of Ukraine.
Yes, there is a lot in common between Netanyahu and Putin. Both are very much might is right, conquest makes facts on the ground, the existing people in the lands are not real people, with a proper culture etc.
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
Short of killing every Palestinian abroad as well as in Gaza and the West Bank Israel is just creating a diaspora wanting to return to their ancestral lands. Surely Jews should understand that? After all their own diaspora kept that desire for 20 centuries. Why should the Palestinians feel differently?
The Jewish diaspora longing for a homeland was partly political in the twentieth century (it wasn’t really mainstream before that) but also because of their exclusion from western society. I suspect Palestinians would be assimilated over time - at least into a broader Arab/Islamic group in the West
Yes, ethnic cleansing sometimes achieves its goals. The Armenians and the Circassians, the Cherokee and the Muscogee, aren't getting their land back. But you do get, don't you, that it's still wrong, a crime against humanity?
What a ghastly racist country Israel has become. The news footage on Ch4 is heart breaking. The five murdered journalists look as genuine as any you are likely to see. His viewing figures are huge. There are 140 million Arab speakers world wide who watch him.
But who would believe Netanyahu and his rabid racist country anyway.
The IDF knew exactly where they were based and murdered them for publicising the deliberate famine and associated ""Hunger Games" killings.
Yet our government can't understand why so many support Palestine Action.
Is there anything Hamas could say that you wouldn't believe?
Why have Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza? What have they got to hide?
They don't want to have to rescue more hostages
There's only one thing to be done.
Recognise the West Bank as a sovereign Palestinian State, withdraw all support for Israel to settle it, get the settlers out, evacuate the Gazans there, and just give Gaza to Israel.
I think that makes sense too.
Hostile artillery on the ridge above the Jordan would dominate the entire of the coastal plain of Israel
... is the sort of argument Russia uses for annexing chunks of Ukraine.
Yes, there is a lot in common between Netanyahu and Putin. Both are very much might is right, conquest makes facts on the ground, the existing people in the lands are not real people, with a proper culture etc.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
Julian Richer (of Richer Sounds) did much the same.
He also is motivated in part by Christian faith. He was ordained a vicar in 2006.
That's really interesting - but I think he was baptised then confirmed, not ordained. He seems firmly in the commercial and philanthropic mould - with much work with eg Trussell Trust.
Reading his bio, he is associated with St Michael-le-Belfrey in York, which is a church with a very creative recent history (since 197x). They are just doing a big refurbishment project with the most accessible full immersion baptistry in the country, which has an up and down hydraulic floor so people in wheelchairs or unable to do steps can be baptised.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
CLANG! The Slovak-Hungarian war was 23rd to 31st March 1939, almost 6 months BEFORE Hitler invaded Poland.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
The Slovak-Hungarian war was over months before the usual start date for WWII. OK, that's not as long as Britain held Burma, but I think you need to respect #pbpedantry
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
Which issue of FHM? Was it before or after The Record article?
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
Which issue of FHM? Was it before or after The Record article?
Before, you prat
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges"
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard"
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
Julian Richer (of Richer Sounds) did much the same.
He also is motivated in part by Christian faith. He was ordained a vicar in 2006.
That's really interesting - but I think he was baptised then confirmed, not ordained. He seems firmly in the commercial and philanthropic mould - with much work with eg Trussell Trust.
Reading his bio, he is associated with St Michael-le-Belfrey in York, which is a church with a very creative recent history (since 197x). They are just doing a big refurbishment project with the most accessible full immersion baptistry in the country, which has an up and down hydraulic floor so people in wheelchairs or unable to do steps can be baptised.
His business book is well worth a read: "The Ethical Capitalist". He doesn't see a conflict between being a Capitalist and being ethical.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
The Slovak-Hungarian war was over months before the usual start date for WWII. OK, that's not as long as Britain held Burma, but I think you need to respect #pbpedantry
Not if you chose 1937 and the Japanese attack on China as the start of the Second World War.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
Which issue of FHM? Was it before or after The Record article?
Before, you prat
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges"
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard"
Which issue, dick-head? "Late 1990s" is a bit vague!
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
Which issue of FHM? Was it before or after The Record article?
Before, you prat
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges"
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard"
Which issue, dick-head? "Late 1990s" is a bit vague!
1995, I just told you (tho I do wonder at Wiki's complete accuracy here - "250 judges" - lol)
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
The Slovak-Hungarian war was over months before the usual start date for WWII. OK, that's not as long as Britain held Burma, but I think you need to respect #pbpedantry
Not if you chose 1937 and the Japanese attack on China as the start of the Second World War.
I see Morris Dancer has been giving Trump history lessons.
Trump said that during their conversation, Hungarian PM Orbán ruled out a Ukrainian victory over Russia, claiming that Russia “doesn’t surrender in wars” and historically emerges victorious.
Crimean war 1856 Russo-Japanese War 1905 WW1 1918 Polish-Soviet war 1921 The Cold fucking War 1989 The Afghan war 1989
Given that Hungary controls none of that land then no.
So, we didn't win the Third Anglo-Burmese War given we control none of that land now?
Well you could say that the British Empire won that given that it gained the territory - I assume it did and cannot be bothered to look.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
The Slovak-Hungarian war was over months before the usual start date for WWII. OK, that's not as long as Britain held Burma, but I think you need to respect #pbpedantry
Not if you chose 1937 and the Japanese attack on China as the start of the Second World War.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
Julian Richer (of Richer Sounds) did much the same.
He also is motivated in part by Christian faith. He was ordained a vicar in 2006.
That's really interesting - but I think he was baptised then confirmed, not ordained. He seems firmly in the commercial and philanthropic mould - with much work with eg Trussell Trust.
Reading his bio, he is associated with St Michael-le-Belfrey in York, which is a church with a very creative recent history (since 197x). They are just doing a big refurbishment project with the most accessible full immersion baptistry in the country, which has an up and down hydraulic floor so people in wheelchairs or unable to do steps can be baptised.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
The Otter's Pocket? You do know who invented this phrase?
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
"Parkhead was wetter than an otter’s pocket."
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
Sounds about right. FHM was huge in Scotland with football fans
Which issue of FHM? Was it before or after The Record article?
Before, you prat
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges"
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard"
Which issue, dick-head? "Late 1990s" is a bit vague!
1995, I just told you (tho I do wonder at Wiki's complete accuracy here - "250 judges" - lol)
Actually, invoking PB Pedantry (see other topics tonight!) "otter's pockets" were invented millions of years ago!
"Millions of years ago?", I hear you cry! "What have you been smoking, Sunil?"
Sea Otters have a pouch, a pocket if you like - a loose pouch of skin that extends from the forelegs across the chest - and they must have evolved some 5 million years ago.
An interesting story that we may not have mentioned.
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
Not to be totally cynical, but doing this is a super tax efficient way of cashing out from your business. He isn't just giving away his business.
Quite possibly - I have not seen any detailed figures; I guess the taxefficiency would depend on the level of dividend. But I applaud transferring the ownership to employees - and presumably he us making less than compared to a straight sell off done tax efficiently.
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
Julian Richer (of Richer Sounds) did much the same.
He also is motivated in part by Christian faith. He was ordained a vicar in 2006.
That's really interesting - but I think he was baptised then confirmed, not ordained. He seems firmly in the commercial and philanthropic mould - with much work with eg Trussell Trust.
Reading his bio, he is associated with St Michael-le-Belfrey in York, which is a church with a very creative recent history (since 197x). They are just doing a big refurbishment project with the most accessible full immersion baptistry in the country, which has an up and down hydraulic floor so people in wheelchairs or unable to do steps can be baptised.
His business book is well worth a read: "The Ethical Capitalist". He doesn't see a conflict between being a Capitalist and being ethical.
It's interesting and amusing that his organisation Acts435 is based on the same verse that is sometimes an inspiration for Christian Communism.
What shall we call the teams? Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
I'd name them the way I'd name London terminals.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
Id go for cultured names The Otters Pockets The Wizards Sleeves etc
At a previous company, we had a fairly massive computing set up to run 3-D seismic.
The drive was offically called the Wizard's Sleeve.
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For work related reasons I have to attend a Hundred match.
A corporate event, I will be raising a grievance with HR in the morning.
Hamas are the genocidists
They want all the Jews dead and they will accept any number of dead Palestinians to facilitate that
It must have been before Mohacs in 1526, possibly before Lechfeld in 955.
Israel could kill all Gazans over a weekend
Why are they only killing one hundred a day at completely hidden food queues?
They must be really fucking stupid, as well as insanely evil
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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Can someone explain why no Labour Minister is prepared to go to Epping, and other areas impacted by this policy, to at least hear local resident’s concerns.
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/1954979351654531072
The founder of The Entertainer toyshop chain is transferring the business with 1900 employees to 100% employee ownership. He founded it in one shop in 1981. His family will get some dividends back later.
It's interesting to me because he is motivated in his philosophy by his born-again evangelical faith, but he seems to have kept an appropriate distance. It's not the kind of direct "God told me to" management of the business, more taking principles and values, concern for employees and so on - quite Quaker style. I'm far more comfortable with that than with the approach we see far too often in the USA.
This is the first one of these known to me since Scott-Bader Ltd decades ago, which is now the Scott-Bader Commonwealth. There they consciously took inspiration from the Quaker tradition. I'm sure thee are others.
Gary Grant opened his first shop with his wife Catherine in 1981 when he was 23. He's now 66, and his multi-million pound empire spans 160 shops across the UK.
He is transferring 100% ownership of the family-owned business to an employee trust which means staff will get a share of the profits and a say in how the firm is run.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm2jjwmw9jo
An older interview about his ethos, which shows he has had to work at his practices, and sometimes not got the balance quite right (in my opinion). They tithe their profits to charity.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/dec/17/gary-grant-entertainer-toyshop
One of the dumbest presidents in history.
President Trump:
"I asked a question to a very smart man that some people like and some people don't like - Victor Orbán, the head of Hungary. He knows the two countries very well. I said, 'So, can Russia be beaten by Ukraine?' He looked at me like, 'What a stupid question.'
He said, 'Russia is a massive country and they win their country and they win their life through wars. They fight wars. That's what they do. China beats you with trade, Russia beats you with war.'
It was a very interesting statement."
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1954938228936454513
The data didn’t capture the deterrent effect / community benefits of a visible presence
Does anyone know how the two routes compare financially?
*actually Budapest surrendered to the 3rd Ukranian Front.
** actually ordered by Kruschev, a Ukrainian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak–Hungarian_War
"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now, watch this drive!"
Name some of them after cities, some after regions and some after cricket grounds. Name one of them after a river AND the ground. Oh, and one after the people of a nation. With snazzy adjuncts that represent nothing.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/18/richer-sounds-boss-julian-richer-has-no-regrets?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
He also is motivated in part by Christian faith. He was ordained a vicar in 2006.
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir, etc.
The Otters Pockets
The Wizards Sleeves etc
@RAEngNews
We are deeply saddened to learn the news of the passing of Academy Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley. A pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and icon for gender equality, she will continue to be an inspiration to many.
https://x.com/RAEngNews/status/1954936060770668764
I got it!
Hungary's last territorial gain that it still holds today was the city of Sopron in 1921, gained from what we today call Austria.
Because they never go out.
https://bsky.app/profile/eladn.bsky.social/post/3lvzoxxyayk2g
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women.
Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying ‘she’s hot’ without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done.
Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of ‘come hither’ and ‘I’m ready’. Falteringly, I typed: ‘You can tell she’s wetter than…’ And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December?
Then came the lightning bolt: ‘Wetter than an otter’s pocket.’ There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out.
Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children’s book (er, guys).
Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz’s Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language’s smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? ‘We can find no earlier usage,’ they graciously replied. ‘Looks like it’s yours.’
It’s not much of a literary legacy, I’ll admit."
I imagine a lot of toasts of "next year in Jerusalem" around the diaspora.
- 6 November 1999, Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), “Football: Is Berkovic an Israeli word for Kanchelskis?” by Tam Cowan, pg. 60.
And that the Burmese (and all the other colonials) won from the dissolving of the British Empire after 1945.
Whereas Hungary didn't win the Second World War, of which the Hungarian-Slovak conflict was a minor part, as it gained no territory, was used as a battlefield, had very heavy casualties and had its government overthrown.
Reading his bio, he is associated with St Michael-le-Belfrey in York, which is a church with a very creative recent history (since 197x). They are just doing a big refurbishment project with the most accessible full immersion baptistry in the country, which has an up and down hydraulic floor so people in wheelchairs or unable to do steps can be baptised.
Hungary no more gained Sopron than Britain gained Belfast.
"FHM's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHM's_100_Sexiest_Women_(UK)
"It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard"
#evenmorepbpedantry
Tomorrow: was the Free Territory of Trieste a mistake?
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/5-june/features/features/for-julian-richer-poorer-is-better
(Don't tell the PB city boys and lawyers that he set up Taxwatch.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-03-07/Gdansk_or_Danzig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edit_wars_on_Wikipedia
"Millions of years ago?", I hear you cry! "What have you been smoking, Sunil?"
Sea Otters have a pouch, a pocket if you like - a loose pouch of skin that extends from the forelegs across the chest - and they must have evolved some 5 million years ago.
The Prosecution rests!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Schleswig_plebiscites
Interesting to see how low MPs regard government debt - showing how unwilling they are to cut spending and/or raise taxes to deal with it.
Also how bothered the public is about the value of sterling - foreign holiday experiences perhaps ?
The drive was offically called the Wizard's Sleeve.
Bloody uncouth Aussies.