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True. But soared can be true too. Landlords were, like everyone else, getting very low interest rates of say 2% which overnight jumped to say 6%. You’ll commonly hear a tenant saying ‘the landlord has just whacked my rent up’ but if the landlords are now paying triple interest AND get no...

Fire safety costs, rental contracts/renewals now falling on the landlord (previously shared), interest rates higher (can't easily be passed on), phasing out of higher rate tax relief such that even if you make a loss that can now be converted into a taxable profit. That lemon has been well and...

The grey area is when you compare tax avoidance to tax planning. There are many clever, legal ways to avoid tax in many situations which those with the time, expertise, intent, resources etc can exploit extremely successfully. One person’s clever ‘tax planning’ can easily be seen by others as...

Pharmaceutical companies are notoriously volatile, used to be a safe bet to buy when other stocks were falling but nowadays it’s all about the pipeline and what impact Trump will have on them - many factors at play including tariffs, pricing reimbursement, country of manufacture, vaccines etc...

Something similar to this Real Sociedad shirt by Macron would be nice for us, with just blue on the V instead of the design that’s on this one. Reminiscent of the Mullery era Bukta kit.

I’d be happy with something based on these shirts but I suspect there’s no room for the name on the back, the sponsor, the manufacturer, the sleeve patches etc etc so I won’t hold my breath. Would like the new shirt to have proper stripes on the back and to be available in long sleeves too, but...

Dorking have 3 kits? Well, if the demand is there …..

Dreadful

There’s a balance though. Landlord taxes/costs have soared in recent years -> landlords don’t make the profit they can get elsewhere (you can actually be taxed on a loss!) -> landlords sell up -> rental supply falls -> rents go up and round and round it goes unless, like you say, the supply of...

China was very much sanitised on this programme, based on a few trips there from the early 90s onwards. At the very least, they needed to show someone spitting on the pavement and someone smiling at you with teeth that could eat an apple through a tennis racquet! No doubt the country has many...

Pat Saward for me. I could almost claim Freddie Goodwin as I saw him bring his newly promoted Birmingham City team to the Goldstone in May 1972 for Geoff Sidebottom’s testimonial, featuring a young Trevor Francis and Bob Latchford.

Isn’t it another Brexit dividend?

Had the thread included home games, then going from Hove on the A27 and parking at the Bridge would be right up there!

I thought that - he seemed surprisingly eloquent and likeable 😳

I thought it was their dick of a goalkeeper charging out and getting sent off, and their failing to turn up again in a massive game (like they did against Palace) that cost them today?

I recall on a trip to Mumbai in the 90s being caught going against the flow of a sheer mass of humanity leaving a religious event on the beach and coming the other way as we were trying to get past them and get back to our hotel. One false move or a panic in the crowd and it would have been...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cz630l53j34o Sounds like a good trip! I went to Victoria Falls in 1994 and bizarrely bumped into, and had a picture with, Timothy Spall who was filming there! Also went on the scariest small plane ride of my life over (and ‘into’) the Falls...

If we were totally against these one-sided tests, then we probably shouldn't tour Australia!

I went to India 3 times in the 90s. First trip was backpacking, got really ill, upset stomach didn’t do it justice! Then I went back on 2 separate work trips and was there about 8-9 weeks in total, got better advice on where to eat etc and I didn’t even get a hint of an upset stomach even once...

Surely Africa has to be one of the next series, though there may well be a few political and other insurrections to dodge here and there so might not be ideal from that perspective!