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If Trump and Biden are the best of the USA then the western world is definitely doomed. RFK is also not good.

I watched the debate. It was hard to watch. Biden was at moment incomprehensible. Biden looked ill. I can't see him doing his big job for another 4 1/2 years. Dems will have to start again and find another candidate double quick.

He m If you have as much money as they have , paying 1% tax is not a big deal, especially if it counts as advance on inheritance tax and their fortune grows much more than 1% a year.

the top 1% richest people here (685,500 people) own about £2.8 trillions in the UK. If they were to pay 1% of their wealth a year in tax, that would be £288 billions a year. That amount would help solve a lot of public service issues like pot holes on our roads. I would suggest that amount would...

No. The proceed is part of the estate and already taxed if going over the tax free allowances. What you get is tax paid. You need to talk to your solicitor though.

You can deduct a lot from your gain before tax is paid. The deductions exceed usually the original cost and inflation. Ther rate of CGT is also incredibly favourable: 10% for up to about £50k, 20% above that threshold. If you were to go to work and earn £50k, your tax is about 30% and you have...

to me, Labour will take more from the ultra rich, especially the non-doms. They are not saying it out loud but there are plenty of places where this could be done: stamp duty on houses selling for millions, capital gain tax, pension contribution levy. The budget in March next year will be...

the progress is on multiple fronts. Vertical transistors, backside of silicon used for power and signal distribution, uv lithography, software. Nvidia current chips delivers a million times more flops than 10 years ago but the price only gone up much less than e a thousand times. So performance...

Would you still be pleased if starmer won?

I asked Tongsheng precisely this question, they say don't. They say the torque will remain the same at 42NM for this motor, only the speed is increased. They would have to modify the firmware for running at 48V. I guess they are worried because of the diminutive size of this motor.

the 85SX has 42NM torque, 1.8kgs, is perfect for my weight (75kgs + bike). https://www.aikema-e.com/product/59.html The integrated pedal, torque and speed sensors inside the motor give a very clear feedback. It's difficult to explain but you can feel everything you expect through your chain. The...

We didn't use the house much in the last 25 years, so electric heating was fine. I don't have town gas where I am, so it's out of the equation. If gas was available, natural gaz costs about half per kwH (9p/kwH), the cost would be similar to heat pump except heat would be instantaneous.

Electricity in France is mostly from renewables, so heatpumps are heavily promoted with state's renovation 'primes'.

I have heat pump at my house in France for the first time last winter. There are quite a few issues with getting more heat out of the pump. On very cold days, ice forms around the pump. The extra noise is not too bad but I am still looking for ways of reducing it. The house was heated with...

Heat pumps make sense only if your electricity is from renewables.

the USA didn't send in troops to persuade Ukranians. Putin threatens his neighbours including NATO countries and props up dictators. He is a clear and present danger.

it's wrong to put economic migrants and asylum seekers in the same group. Just look at our own statistics, asylum seekers constitute less than 10% of total immigration. Surely they cannot be the source of all the things that have gone wrong in our society. I am quite happy to leave this subject...

I like to see the UN charter, international borders and the right to asylum of all human beings are properly respected. I am convinced that Putin, Trump, Orban and quite a few other populists are bad. I would like to see them leave and we'll never agree on populism. Time will tell.

You know that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. We have to stall Putin's war, ramp up our capabilities and slowly push him back. Hopefully, the Russian people will see that NATO is for self defense and force Putin out.

At least a dozen NATO countries are involved. But you know that already. We have to stop Putin. There is no way around it.