Finally found my way home after a long ten year absence

Another tour of the amazing Lloyd’s of London. I love doing them, people always leave visibly delighted. Almost as delighted as me!

The minimum wage is already 2/3rds of the median wage in the UK; and now Labour want to increase it yet further. The problem is people won’t move up the career ladder. Why take a promotion and more work for ever decreasing rates of incremental pay?

The carer’s allowance exists to compensate people for reliving the state of the cost. Why does that not apply to private education?

The man makes a good point.

"Rob, it's raining, we're all here, are you seriously going to make us all traipse to Lloyd's to have this meeting?". Honestly, I don't know why I get asked such obvious questions sometimes. 😉

If you go out and earn more than £12,570, you get taxed. But if you receive £12,570 in benefits, they'll lift the tax free allowance so you don't have to pay tax. It just makes zero sense. Either that's the minimum you need to live, hence it's not taxed, or it isn't.

The budget for HS2 has trebled to over £100billion. It's also halved in length, so effectively it's £200billion km for km. If only the private sector could match this phenomenal growth rate.

Professor of Economics. While this news should be treated as good news, the FBPE brigade will lament it- they would rather the country suffered than have to admit they were wrong. Imagine how fragile your self worth must be to prefer that outcome.

This week's Sunday Nonsense to my team is about a cow named blossom, Chris Witty's clicker, and possibly something to do with how insurance helped end the pandemic. underwrittenweekly.com/2026/…

His reason for not calling a general election (which he criticised Sunak for not doing) when he took over was that he was going to follow the Labour 2024 manifesto, which ruled out a return of free movement, single market membership or a customs union. Now he says he wants a discussion. Either he's about to break his commitment and be shown to be a liar or he's going to discuss something he's ruled out. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…

To be clear I haven't validated this - but if true - it's very, very scary. The Gov't can now enter your home without permission from an independent auditor (the courts). Orwellian.

It’s an afterthought to them because none of them have ever worked in the private sector- let alone actually started a business to understand how impossibly difficult the gov make it.

The clocks go forward tonight, and infact every night. That’s how they work.

If you were in a meeting and you asked somebody if they wanted to discuss something that had clearly already been decided, and they replied “there are no mountains in Holland”, how would you interpret that?? Trying to work out if I was being too subtle or they missed the obvious

So if you earn just £17 a day more than the average earner (after tax), you're paying the higher rate of tax. Goodness grief this country doesn't reward work does it. Maths for the illiterate twitterarti who will say I'm wrong without presenting any evidence as to why. £811.20 a week: £42,182 Higher rate is £50,000 - shortfall of £7,818. If you earn £7,181 you'll keep £6,254 Divide £6,254/365 = £17.13/day Or £120 a week.

Burnham: "Don’t stockpile booze". Is the one phrase guaranteed to make people stockpile booze.