How many Afghanis were let in with the resettlement scheme and which government ministers oversaw this @grok
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The Economist's estimate of Britain's age- and sex-standardised conviction rates for sexual offences by the offender's nationality
economist.com/britain/2026/1…
Pattern recognition
Police using AI risks making discrimination worse, researchers warn bbc.in/4kg6uug
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The UK government have not released costs to the UK tax payer based on country of origin. Luckily other european nations have (Norway, Denmark, Holland). Lets apply there finding to the UK to get an estimate of cost to the UK tax payer: 🧵
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The UK taxpayer has footed the bill due to government mismanagement.
Over 10 years here are some of the worst cases: 🧵
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The UK government may not want to crime release data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily court data to get first and surnames of all people who appeared in court in the country.
This is day 26 here what i found: 🧵
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HMRC writing off £13bn in unpaid business taxes due to businesses going into liquidation. Unpaid council tax bills a £7.4 billion. Stamp duty down £500m due to higher rates. North Sea windfall taxes achieving only 25% of forecast. The Laffer curve is everywhere. The country is on its knees.
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turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung.
sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.
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In October 1986 Britain scrapped the City’s fixed dealing fees and let foreign firms in. Average share-dealing commissions fell from 0.58% to 0.26%. London grew into the world’s biggest currency-trading centre, with 43% of global trading, more than twice New York’s share.
Spending cuts followed by tax cuts
🚨NEW: Former Bank of England Chief Economist, Andy Haldane, says Andy Burnham risks a "Truss-style crisis" if he does not cut public spending in the budget
He has expressed concerns that the government is failing to grasp how "precarious" the fiscal position is
[@thetimes]
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In 2010 Labour raised the top income tax rate from 40p to 50p. Income declared by people earning over £1m fell from £38.5bn to £22.3bn. When the rate was cut to 45p in 2013, it jumped straight back to £36.6bn.
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Between 1997 and 2003 Ireland cut its company tax rate from 36% to 12.5%. Corporation tax receipts went from €2.2bn to €32.9bn a year, around 15 times as much, as global firms piled in. Ten companies now pay over half of it.
