Jonathan Mills
@Muinchille
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Irish finance, economics & Brexit. RT's may be ironic, satirical or just plain astonished.🇮🇪
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Joined January 2011
Demographics has killed the market. At least the magical, self-adjusting, invisible hand of wisdom market we were all taught to believe in. The left wing should be deleriously happy, except that they depend on it as much as the rest of us do....
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@Cathal1798 If you want to keep agricultural land with a return of less than 2% on market value, your other options are kinda limited...
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@Cathal1798 A couple of lads who'd been living together (but not living together) got married so one of them could inherit the house. We haven't seen some young fellah marry his dad's second widow so that the transfer would be tax free.
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@Cathal1798 Spousal transfers are tax-free... in theory, you could pass an estate to your child tax-free through a series of marriages, particularly easy with gender free marriage criteria... Someone's already done that, haven't they?
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Free Willy...
The Victorian copy of the Bayeux Tapestry held by Reading Museum is a remarkable achievement. Created by the Leek Embroidery Society, they began work in 1885, never having seen the original. Not totally identical (they removed the penises from both humans and horses), it still represents a magnificent project #readingmuseum #bayeuxtapestry #readingbayeux
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With left and right free to go eyeballs out at each other on Twitter X, it's increasingly and embarrassingly obvious that neither have anything of either use or beauty to say...
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RT @jdmccafferty: 8 Feb 1649: With the head sewn back on, Charles I's body is buried at St. George's, Windsor #otd
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@Cathal1798 These ratings folks need to update their criteria. Either that or John really does live in an alternative universe. There's quite a lot in his tweets to suggest that he doesn't live in the same one that I do.
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RT @jdmccafferty: Two views of a woman wearing an English hood & holding a rosary in front of her. Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1532-34. (…
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RT @jdmccafferty: A Mechanical Galleon 1580x1590 from Augsburg (British Museum) An amazing automaton, it even played music. https://t.co/…
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@SohailSNAhmed And then replaced the slave labour with the forced labour of prisoners from the Presidency of Bengal, and kept that one up until 1939....
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Communism... If anyone tells you that it won't involve this, get them to tell you how many times this hasn't happened.
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RT @Toibin1: He was hung, drawn, and quartered for his beliefs. The extraordinary life of Saint Oliver Plunkett at a time when Ireland was…
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RT @ConorMcDonough4: I don’t want to exaggerate the problem but it seems clear to me that it’s far more difficult now for students - underg…
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