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Catherine Miles retweeted
The hidden tax measure in the Budget is huge for people paying tax under self-assessment - sole traders, partners, landlords, retired investors.
For 6th April 2028-29, you currently pay 50% of your income tax late in the tax year in question (in January 2029), 50% just after the year end (in July 2029) with any make-up payment in January 2030.
Under the new proposals you will pay your tax perhaps monthly or quarterly (TBC) from April 2029 onwards. A rough analysis suggests the impact is to draw about 50% of your tax bill forward, a huge cashflow boost to HMRC and a significant funding issue for the self-employed.
The Treasury recognises this, and expects to raise £1.3bn of additional tax in 29/30 as a result of this change.
The cashflow impact of the accelerated charge will send some businesses to the wall.
Catherine Miles retweeted
#BBCNews abandoned Burnham's Downing Street speech on rough sleeping to cover the sentencing of an American singer, Chris Brown.
BBC's priorities and news judgments are shot to pieces. @BBCNews @newswatchbbc
Catherine Miles retweeted
In 2010 the BBC Trust threatened to resign if Osborne ended funding for free over-75s licences. It worked - until new Trustees buckled 5 years later
Now the Board is stacked with patsies & seat-warmers, who put padding their CVs above licence fee payers’ interests
Catherine Miles retweeted
I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc.
Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.
Catherine Miles retweeted
Bloody immigrants eh?
World-leading cardiac surgeon Asif Hasan was surrounded by the children who received the gift of life thanks to his unerring skills at the emotional climax of another memorable Pride of Britain ceremony. 🥹
Now 70 years old, Mr Hasan has just retired after 35 years of service at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, but just after receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award, he had an extra special surprise: a cast of patients who would not be alive without him. ❤️
Catherine Miles retweeted
BBC: We will speak with our BBC mechanic regarding car engines.
The BBC mechanic: I didn't know cars had engines until yesterday morning.
Catherine Miles retweeted
#CelebrityTraitors Why does no one ever realise that the remaining ones that come back in last at the end in the morning have been the other “potentials to be murdered cliffhangers” and thus cannot be traitors?
Catherine Miles retweeted
If you need to see how far the left has fallen into a sewer of antisemitism, just look how they react towards a report written on the antisemitism Jewish schoolchildren experience in British schools.
An appalling disgrace that no other community would be expected to tolerate.
Catherine Miles retweeted
The BBC's "strength in depth" means that its "Cyber Correspondent" has never heard of a language that runs half the websites on the Internet.
Catherine Miles retweeted
The BBC has no correspondent in South America. Who decided that, and on what basis?
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger on BBC governance, why journalists need someone in their corner, and what the Guardian’s digital transformation can teach the BBC.
🎧 Full ep podfollow.com/beebwatch
Catherine Miles retweeted
Genuinely baffles me that people are allowed to go on television and be billed as impartial political commentators while no mention is made of the fact they’ve been desperately trying to become a Conservative MP for years.
🔵CHELSEA & FULHAM: shortlisted: Sebastian Payne, 37, Times writer since 2024. Prev at D Tel, Spectator, Wash Post; FT. Dir, Onward think tank, 2023-24. Author: Broken Heartlands; Fall of Boris Johnson. Applied for 5+ seats, 2024. Ed: Thomas More RC Sch, Blaydon; Durham Un; City Un (MA investig jrsm).
Catherine Miles retweeted
60 years ago today 144 people died in the Welsh village of Aberfan when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto them. 109 of those were children attending the village school. A tragedy that broke hearts, which remain broken now. The strength and courage shown by that community is an example to us all.
Catherine Miles retweeted
“It's entirely possible to write UK news in Blue Street, North Sydney, but, over-time, there will be stuff that's clumsy, out-of-tune, misguided - and strong stories left alone, because the local context is not obvious to someone on the other side of the world.” 7/
Catherine Miles retweeted
tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/20… “What's the 'value' of a continuous 24 hour radio [@bbcworldservice] news production operation in #London, compared with the cost of a move of one of three shifts to #Sydney ?” 1/
Catherine Miles retweeted
There is a lot of Russian propaganda in Europe. They have invested as much money in it as in weapons during this war. This is a massive financial program spanning decades. Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Europe, including Italy, France, Britain, and Germany, for a long time. It just isn't waging a full-scale war against them as it is against us. Because we had the same thing – a hybrid war. Russian narratives across absolutely all television and media platforms, on the internet, and on social media.
People should not be pierced through and brainwashed by waves of narratives from the Russian Federation. Because it is up to France, Ukraine, Italy, and Spain to decide how to live and whom to elect. Russia cannot influence Italy's choices and freedom. Italy is a free country, just like Ukraine.
The Russians will seek to exploit far-right movements, religious movements, faith, migration, and gender. Russia doesn't care what issue can divide society: from religion to language, Russia will always find it and strike there. We are seeing this now not only in Europe – they also have influence in the United States of America. They have a very significant wave going on there, and their network is operating.
From an interview with Corriere della Sera. (3/3)
Catherine Miles retweeted
BBC Sounds is killing BBC Radio. The app is terrible. No one wants to use it.
Rather than fix it, the BBC withhold their best programmes – The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, Desert Island Disks etc. – from other platforms for 7-28 days so they're out of date once most people listen.
Catherine Miles retweeted
Starlink has absolutely no role in the one military campaign Trump claims he wants Ukraine to end: hitting Russian oil refineries. It only works in Ukraine and it helps with air defense — homegrown air defense, to be specific, which was born of necessity because we aren’t providing enough missile interceptors. A Russian Shahed today killed a one-year baby in a park. The U.S. is actively making it easier for Russia to commit these atrocities by throttling satellite internet. All while Trump makes excuses for Putin.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.