Retired business and IT strategy consultant. Enthusiastic yacht sailor and racer. Active jazz musician. ‘Systems thinker … ‘ Probably Daoist at heart … ☯️

Richmond, London
Joined October 2012
Here is a picture of a rich, greedy, capitalist enjoying his ill-gotten gains largely made by exploiting poor, vulnerable workers and ‘stock price pumping’ whenever he gets a chance. "Tax the bastard until the pips squeak!” I say and give all his money to people on benefits ……
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Here is a picture of a rich, greedy, capitalist enjoying his ill-gotten gains largely made by exploiting poor, vulnerable workers and ‘stock price pumping’ whenever he gets a chance. "Tax the bastard until the pips squeak!” I say and give all his money to people on benefits ……
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Can I use the Apple charger and cable from my Ipad to charge my DELL XPS13
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Safari Rally Kenya: Preview TGR-WRT aims to extend winning run in rallying’s African epic toyotagazooracing.com/wrc/re…
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I just saw this ‘prototype’ of the new WAYMO Mark II Robotaxi! Looks like TESLA is finished … 🤔
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I just love Rupert Lowe when he is being castigated by Woke Lefty Snowflakes about how hard life is for ‘illegal migrants’ … I am adopting his ‘catch phrase’ and propose this meme as part of the RESTORE BRITAIN brand! Spread the word …
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I just love Rupert Lowe when he is being castigated by Woke Lefty Snowflakes about how hard life is for ‘illegal migrants’ … I am adopting his ‘catch phrase’ and propose this meme as part of the RESTORE BRITAIN brand! Spread the word …
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🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for protecting Free Speech. Simple poll. Please be honest! As of today, how much do you still trust this man? A. 100 % B. 75% C. 50% D. 25% E. 0% MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏
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#Microsoft365 #office I have been a fairly heavyweight user of Microsoft office products for the last 15 years. Are you synchronised across my two iPads my laptop and my iPhone? It all worked pretty well. Some of the user interface stuff was just a little bit clunky but on the whole perfectly useable. Over the last few months all my ‘office products’ seem to have been replaced by a suite of new products, integrated with Copilot 365 and Edge and, to my non-technic eye, seems to only want to open files from OneDrive. I have now struggled with it for about three weeks and find myself utterly bamboozled and confused on how to make it all work. It keeps refusing to connect and suggesting that I do things that I don’t want to do and the security access interface with OneDrive seems to have a law all of his own. I did not want this nonsense! However, there seems no way turning it off or reversing it. I cannot be alone in this. Can somebody advise me what to do?
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Replying to @Deepweb_A9
Removing poacher's heads also works.
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My money is on Elon!
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#trade #Brexit #INDIA The Government and press are currently making a huge show of securing a ‘trade deal’ with India valued at £5 billion per annum! (This figure is presumably ‘trade activity’ … ie: exports + imports?) Last year our ‘trade activity’ with the EU … despite Brexit … was nearly £800 billion. (£360 billion exports & £460 billion imports). Am I missing something??
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#BritishSteel #Steel Out of interest, why is ‘steel’ so strategic? It is claimed we need it for ‘DEFENCE’ …. The ‘steel’ is about 4% of the cost of a warship ... and … with all the steel in the world, warships are pretty useless without electronics, engines and weapon systems! Why aren’t some of these ‘strategic’? Just asking?
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#Tesla #TeslaStockCrash #shares I am a long-term Tesla shareholder. Over the last couple of months I find myself time and time again thinking of Warren Buffett’s famous definition of the stock market … “The SM is an incredibly efficient means of transferring money from the impatient to the patient’”
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#TrumpTariffs #tariffs FFS … Trade deficits with INDIVIDUAL countries simply DON’T matter a jot! For example, I may well buy fascinating fabrics from specialist weavers in some foreign land … who have acquired centuries of traditional skills. I then use these fantastic fabrics in the manufacture of furniture that I sell all over the world earning money … but strangely enough NOT to the country that made the fabrics! What matters is a nation’s TOTAL Balance of Payments (BoP) … ie: how much it pays out to acquire ALL ‘foreign’ goods and services COMPARED to how much it earns in total from ALL its exports.🥰 If these balance … then the country is in good fettle! If this overall BoP shows a deficit … then either work, over time, to decrease the difference OR do nothing … in which case the country’s currency will devalue in the international finance markets until balance returns. All the drivel that Trump spouts is … er? .. DRIVEL! The current overall BoP for the USA is about 3% of GDP. Here’s a rough ranking of advanced economies by trade balance as a percentage of GDP: 1. Netherlands: +10.0% 2. Germany: +7.5% 3. South Korea: +4.0% 4. Italy: +3.0% 5. Australia: +2.5% 6. Japan: +1.5% 7. Canada: +0.5% 8. France: -1.5% 9. United Kingdom: -2.0% 10. United States: -3.2%
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As the disconnect between politicians and the population grows wider, Question Time continues to trivialise legitimate public anger through a system of controlled criticism, preventing real accountability. Read my full opinion piece here: open.substack.com/pub/sadrab…
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#Brexit #EU #singlemarket This cartoon was published in 2020 during the BREXIT campaign … Someone got it spot on!
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I notice on the BBC news tonight that a man completely paralysed for years is now working a computer guide happily … using Elon’s NEUROLINK😎 He was so happy with his new life …. Not bad for a Nazi!!!
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#ElonMusk I think the thing that REALLY hacks me off is that Elon is being crucified for two political positions … right wing support of Trump and MAGA and support for AFD in Germany. Now you may well disagree with his viewpoint … BUT … 70 million American citizens and 30% of the German electorate voted legally and democratically for the same things. He is no fanatic outlier ….. I doubt if my cry for sanity will affect the situation but it should be said loudly and clearly at every opportunity!
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