'Industrial subsidies are poor tools for generating innovation and innovative firms, and it prompts companies to become welfare entrepreneurs and less focused at developing commercially successful technologies and products' - Fredrik Erixon 🎯
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He made this point last October twitter.com/JAHeale/status…

Can my limited company pay for my garden office ?

A #BBunker Blog by Telfords Accountants

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Absolutely horrendous

Great to see a bit of cross-party consensus 😀

1/ One of the common reactions to this was that the WTO rules compel the UK to introduce checks on EU goods.

First, well done everyone on knowing about the WTO and Most Favoured Nation. I'm proud and apologetic in equal measure.

Second, that's not entirely true (in practice).

Wholeheartedly agree with this!

Regarding the UK-Switzerland Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Financial Services, the International Agreements Committee welcomes this Agreement. We call on the Government to continue to examine other pathways to lowering regulatory barriers to trade in financial services (1/4)

Excellent piece - much more thoughtful than most of the commentary out there.

What are your percentages? How much of the UK growth shortfall is due to which factor? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…, #myguesses

BREAKING: Assad's forces and Russia bombard with heavy artillery the vicinity of the village of Kafr-Nouran in the countryside of Aleppo, Syria.

...But assuming they are correct here's what the monthly picture would show.

So certainly a rise relative to Jan-April 2023, although no great spike in the month on month profile since the turn of the year...

This 98 y.o. woman walked 10 km with a cane and a stick to reach the Ukrainian-controlled territory from her Russian-occupied Ocheretyne. Because she wanted to be free.

Her name is Lidia. She's Ukrainian.

SNP looking pretty strong in Eastbourne 😄

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🤝 Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris MP, the Lord Caine Jonathan Caine and Minister Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 welcoming Tánaiste Micheál Martin to Westminster for the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.

The response to this is interesting. People saying these kids won’t get “the talk” and are at a disadvantage because they have been adopted by a white couple.

I don’t know how useful “the talk” is, can someone tell me how indoctrinating ethnic minority kids into thinking the

A learned and readable discussion of the history and morality of globalization from the libertarian scholar Tom G Palmer cato.org/publications/m… via Cato Institute