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I hope so! For now, I want something passive that I don’t need to manage or check every day. I’ve gone for that standard S&P 500, but will look to invest a bit in the FTSE 100 and emerging markets down the line.

Looks like a decent development signing, I imagine we’ll sign an older LWB in the summer if we cannot keep McCallum still.

As a new, and young investor, I’ve just stuck my money into index funds and I add to it every month. I wish I started earlier tbh.

Just out of curiosity, how do you envision we’d maintain ‘fairly frictionless trade’ with the EU?

Don’t quote me on “only 43%” because I never said that. Again, to reiterate the point that we do most of our trade outside the EU. Business will learn what things they need to do to trade with the EU - the deal doesn’t stop trade. No, I work in logistics and can read trade statistics. If...

7 of our top 15 trading partners are outside the EU and the EU makes up 43% of our exports. That’s dropped about 17% from 1999. That’s without accounting for EU enlargement in the same period. By your logic, that number couldn’t possibly go down. I didn’t vote for Brexit. But, in the 21st...

It’s good we have a neutral on this forum because when people are emotionally invested, as we all are on here (with the exception of yourself), we panic when we lose.

I applaud the other 2 people who, alongside me, voted for 1st to 6th place. In all seriousness, we’ll survive. Robins has done a great job and this is acknowledged by just about every neutral in coverage of our games.

In the specific example I replied to was based on B2C movements. Yes, there is a risk of double taxation. But, that isn’t the clearance agent’s fault. Sellers on either side of the channel need to make sure they’re providing the correct incoterms or zero-VAT their goods at sale. Postponed VAT...

Yes you did, as it’s built into the sale of the goods. Again, both the EU and UK are building schemes to account for VAT at the point of sale to streamline the customs processes. It’s mutually beneficial, but not something achievable overnight. Now, EU sellers do not need to build that cost at...

You assume wrong. Every purchase we make, there’s VAT. Being in the EU doesn’t change that. Before, you could buy from Germany, pay German VAT and goods would be delivered as if it was bought from a domestic market (with UK VAT). Post-Brexit, EU sellers should sell goods without VAT now...

The industry is adapting to the requirement ‘statement of origin’. In practice, lots of goods should be zero tariff, but without proof of the goods origin, you cannot claim 0-rated tariffs. When buying abroad, you don’t pay that country’s VAT on the goods. So that should be expected as a...

You do know this guy does this as a joke? It’s funny because we do actually have a bit of a strange accent and idioms.

Wouldn’t mistake viewership with participation. If super league can get a TV deal, so can the Premiership. It’s that they’re asking for too much money. Rugby Union needs to accept it’s a niche sport.

With hindsight, perhaps. But, his stock would have undoubtedly have risen had he performed well in L1. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some regret that he left us, given our respective trajectories.

I don’t begrudge anyone for looking to earn more. In the short term, he absolutely made the right choice assuming money is everything. But, money isn’t everything and a 4 year contract isn’t a long period of time, and it’s pretty clear his stock will never be as high as it was when we sold him...

Funnily enough, it was British studies that partly influenced the successful Swiss and Portuguese approaches to drugs. In fairness to politicians, the public demand is treat criminals harshly and to treat drug users as criminals. For Tories, their approach should be market based - at least you...

The War on Drugs has been a failure and societal disaster in the USA. The successes countries like Portugal have had with decriminalisation compared to the USA demonstrates the need to change course. Looking at the success of legalisation of marijuana in the US, it wouldn’t surprise me if other...

No denying Speed laid the groundwork, but Coleman came in and changed system to 5-3-2. They had a solid setup, and had the likes of Bale, Williams, Allen and Ramsey who were all playing well. I had the pleasure of watching their 3-0 over Russia. They got to the semi-finals of the Euros...

In fairness to Coleman, he did a great job at Wales. However, his career before and after his career highlight has been pretty mediocre - at best. By all means, I think Coleman would be a great appointment for Sheffield Wednesday. For us.