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Es ist völlig irrelevant ob *ein Land* Netto Importeur oder Exporteur ist, außer wenn man sich im nationalistischen politischen Spektrum bewegt
My experience is, the world is way past peak MS Office, my dear
I have Microsoft Office installed on my Mac.
A perpetual license. Bought outright.
So last week, Microsoft pushed an update which essentially bricked it. Couldn't create new documents, only read existing ones, with a banner saying "upgrade" to 365.
Well, no.
There was a way around it. Delete it all, reinstall, then rip out all of the code enabling updates. Working fine.
But this criminal stupidit probably upset someone a bit more vindictive than me. Today we see the result.
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Those UK Solar panel install schemes are a green paper pusher's dream, just like Drax, nicht wahr?
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“And in Jamaica, ….hotels are once again welcoming travelers and inviting them to be part of the island’s recovery—a reminder of how powerful a mere vacation can be.” #Jamaica 🇯🇲 #TreasureBeach
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Is he insinuating Trump picked Burnham over Starmer?
NATO expansion is a myth. It is a Russian lie. Here is the map.
After World War II the Russians militarily occupied half the European continent. The Russians picked their leaders. They wrote their laws. They brutalized their people and took whatever they wanted.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, all of these peoples who had suffered immensely under the Russians were desperate to get real security and protection from the Russians.
Russia is the ONLY cause of NATO enlargement because the people of Eastern Europe always knew they were going to be invaded again as soon as the Russians succeeded at some form of economic capitalism.
Russian imperialism is the only cause of this war.
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So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi?
All we wanted was a planning permission.
It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site.
My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were.
We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files.
We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home.
So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden.
It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built.
We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what?
My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why?
So we carried on asking questions.
Then they blocked my emails.
We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging.
We still are.
#ProjectCleanCity
@SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @JoshHalliday @rbrooks45 @DeclanGCarey @jackdulhanty
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It's awkward, but agglomeration benefits seem to be real. Countries like Britain focusing on growth may need to make some hard choices.
Can we expect small places like Oxford and Cambridge, under 500k people, to compete long-term with Blackburn and Middlesbrough with double that?
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The Chinese-Arab cat fight in Mancland over who runs the town continues. Who knew?
Andy Burnham's GMCA gave a Chinese developer £34.1m. Manchester City Council promised to promote its interests in developing Victoria North. And the Council is still hiding the deal.
The developer is Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium (FEC). Today Manchester City Council upheld its refusal of my request for the full joint venture agreement as "manifestly unreasonable" (EIR 12(4)(b)).
What it has released:-
• 54 pages, 43 of them redacted
• 13 pages released as entirely black sheets
• 37.4% of the text hidden
• Clauses 13 to 16 hidden in full
• The "Site" is defined as "the Northern Gateway", and the rest is blacked out (see for yourself below)
Yet in the agreement FEC consented to the Council publishing it "in its entirety". The Council now calls that "commonplace".
Nearly £97m of public money has gone in already, including £34.1m from Burnham's GMCA, which has also given a grant whose details it has never published. And new money is going in:- up to £28m more agreed in September, taking it past £120m, before a £60m new tram stop there.
Why hide it?
#ProjectCleanCity @SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @MENnewsdesk @DeclanGCarey @JoshHalliday @jackdulhanty
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Wales is the poorest nation in Northern Europe. It was a global manufacturing and industrial leader. It had abundant natural resources and smart people.
Then look at the story of Iceland and Finland over the last century.
There is - clearly - something wrong with our model.
The Chinese-Arab cat fight in Mancland over who runs the town continues. Who knew?
Andy Burnham's GMCA gave a Chinese developer £34.1m. Manchester City Council promised to promote its interests in developing Victoria North. And the Council is still hiding the deal.
The developer is Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium (FEC). Today Manchester City Council upheld its refusal of my request for the full joint venture agreement as "manifestly unreasonable" (EIR 12(4)(b)).
What it has released:-
• 54 pages, 43 of them redacted
• 13 pages released as entirely black sheets
• 37.4% of the text hidden
• Clauses 13 to 16 hidden in full
• The "Site" is defined as "the Northern Gateway", and the rest is blacked out (see for yourself below)
Yet in the agreement FEC consented to the Council publishing it "in its entirety". The Council now calls that "commonplace".
Nearly £97m of public money has gone in already, including £34.1m from Burnham's GMCA, which has also given a grant whose details it has never published. And new money is going in:- up to £28m more agreed in September, taking it past £120m, before a £60m new tram stop there.
Why hide it?
#ProjectCleanCity @SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @MENnewsdesk @DeclanGCarey @JoshHalliday @jackdulhanty
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It doesn't work. The glare is enormous, overheating in the Summer months unbearable. Next.
