‘Customer compliance manager’ There’s no way this is real. 1) taxpayers aren’t customers of HMRC 2) there’s no way they’d call themselves ‘compliance managers’ if it’s actually genuine

Fewer than 5% of deaths result in an inheritance tax charge. With Britain’s population ageing and the cost of pensions and healthcare rising, should more people contribute to funding public services? And could that allow us to tax working people less? fuelyourambition.substack.co…

“There’s no wastage”

You put £80 worth of petrol in your car. Almost £40 goes to the government in tax

If Manchester City’s titles are tainted because of Abu Dhabi money. Is Andy Burnham’s rise also tainted because Manchester’s growth was funded by it too?

Very pleased to have contributed to this The Times article over the weekend. I’ve been pretty vocal about the risk of the UK’s tax policies pushing wealth creators out of the country. Rather than one big tax increase, we’ve experienced death by a thousand cuts. British billionaire Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, is the latest to raise the alarm. “This country is never, ever coming back. It’s finished.” While many will agree with him, I’m actually a bit more optimistic about the future of Britain. The current approach towards taxation and growth clearly isn’t working, and I think politicians are starting to recognise that. But we do need a seriously grown-up conversation about tax and incentives if we’re going to turn things around. So it was encouraging to hear John Healey’s speech today about jobs and growth being the answer. For me, that means reducing the tax burden on employment and on the people creating those jobs, while encouraging more investment in British businesses and industries.

Oh come on. MONZO now?! 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m genuinely lost for words. 345 UK companies were acquired by foreign buyers in the first half of 2026 alone. Now one of Britain’s biggest fintech success stories is in talks to be sold to Nubank. A Brazilian bank!? This follows Schroders. Tate & Lyle. Intertek. Huge British businesses being bought by overseas investors. Wise has moved its primary listing to New York. Nscale has chosen New York for its IPO. Revolut says it prefers the US for its eventual IPO, while its founder has already moved his residence to the UAE. And now Monzo!?!? “Great” Britain is fantastic at creating companies, technologies and innovation. But we are evidently even better at losing them. We have a HUGE problem turning great companies into enormous, globally dominant British companies that stay British. We create the value, then let others take over from there. And to rub salt in the wound, Monzo is EXACTLY the type of company Britain should be moving heaven and earth to keep and scale here. It should be held up as a British success story. The kind of company that shows we can still build globally important businesses. And yet it may end up as another British business owned overseas. This time by a company from Brazil… That really puts it into perspective 😔

Is Andy Burnham running the club?

This is how he looked before turning into a gorilla?

My mate got a £10k bonus. But after 60% tax, 2% NI and 9% Student Loan, he only had £2,900 left. I told him to put it all on Spurs to best Coventry. He said “don’t be silly I don’t want to lose it all”

Britain should be one of the easiest countries in the world to convince successful people to move to. Instead, we’re giving them reasons to leave. Chris Rokos, one of Britain’s highest individual taxpayers, is the latest to leave the UK. This time for Greece. Last year, he paid around £330 million in UK tax. For context, it would take roughly 62,000 median full-time workers to generate the same amount of income tax. And multiple European countries are actively (and successfully) trying to attract more people like him with lower taxes. Meanwhile, Britain is basically showing them the door. Which is mad… because we already have all the ingredients to attract the world’s best talent. Now just imagine if we incentivised people to come here too!! We should be an absolute magnet for entrepreneurs, investors and ambitious people! Instead, other countries are competing to attract them while we keep asking how much more they can pay to stay here. Britain’s message should be loud and clear: Come here. Build here. Invest here. Employ people here. Spend here. Stay here. We already have almost every natural advantage imaginable. We just need to stop sending the message that Britain is closed for business. This really isn’t difficult

Lots of talk about higher mortgage rates and falling property prices. Then I saw this advert on a London commuter train. A £5k house deposit for first-time buyers. “Last seen in 1996.” (Yes, when house prices were around 4x earnings. Today, they’re around 8x.) The average property bought by a first-time buyer in England costs around £245k. So a £5k deposit would mean a 98% mortgage. Is this a good idea?

That’s impressive, but was it more than Gary Stevenson?

I have two clients who went to med school in Bulgaria because the equipment in their university hospitals was far superior to what we have in the NHS. There’s also a cap on the number of medical school places in Britain. I searched to see whether there was any data supporting a broader point, and 70% of doctors joining the UK workforce with Bulgarian medical degrees in 2023 were actually British nationals.

There are some alarming statistics about homicide rates among babies in England and Wales. Under-1s have the highest homicide rate of any single year of age. In the latest figures, around 32 in every 1 million were victims of homicide. To put that into context, the homicide rate for men is around 12 in every 1 million and 5 in every 1 million for women.

I’m fortunate to have a job I love. I found it at 25. Before that, I worked in Argos, a butcher’s, as a tyre fitter, for my friend’s dad’s electrical business, at a law firm photocopying documents, and eventually at an investment firm doing admin. Maybe it was my upbringing, but not working was never really an option. I did whatever I could to earn some money. Looking back, though, all of those jobs were useful. They taught me what I didn’t enjoy, which made me more determined to figure out what I did. I now do a job I love, that gives me a sense of purpose, and that affords me a pretty good lifestyle. I enjoy what I do so much that I can’t even imagine retiring.