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Tesla’s new delivery centre in Manchester has “rave cave.” And a bee mural, naturally. 🐝
NEWS: Today, Tesla opened its largest delivery center in the UK, and it has a rave cave.
The 155,000 sqft location in Manchester will hold hundreds of cars as they await their new owners, as well as refurbish and sell used Tesla vehicles. Test drives will also be available at the site.
The site features a Manchester Bee inspired LED mural, 360 degree rotating car photobooth, as well as deconstructed Tesla vehicles on display throughout to help educate customers on the construction of their vehicle. The rave-cave can only be experienced by Tesla owners upon purchase of their new car.
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Echoes here across the pond: the UK's "poverty line" is as outdated as America's.
As in the US, where the official poverty threshold for a family of four sits at a laughable ~$32k (ignoring skyrocketing housing, childcare, and healthcare), the UK's measure is stuck in the relative-income dark ages.
Our line? 60% of median household disposable income after housing costs; around £28,000 for a couple with two kids.
But adjust that for today's realities (where food is ~8% of budgets vs. 30%+ in the 1960s), and you're looking at £74,000 gross annually just to meet a Minimum Income Standard for basics like decent housing, childcare, and a diet of more than beans on toast (per the Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
That's the "real" poverty trap; median UK households now scraping by on ~£35,000, leaving millions (c.4.5M kids alone) relatively broke.
Worse? "Benefit cliffs" in Universal Credit mirror US subsidy black holes. Earn an extra £5k? You could lose £10k+ in tapered support, plus childcare eligibility - net loss, folks. Families hit 82% of MIS on full-time National Living Wage, but one promotion and you're tumbling off the cliff (and back on the beans on toast).
No wonder fertility's cratered to 1.41 births per woman in 2024, echoing America's slide.
Housing eats 30%+ of income, childcare £1,200+/month pre-subsidy, NHS wait times and oversubscribed dentists mean private top-ups for the "lucky."
Inconvenient for unmotivated governments, but perhaps it’s time to measure essentials, not arbitrary medians. US & UK: same game, different accents. And who's fixing it first? Sadly, like many in Britain, I have little hope in our government at present.
(Sources: JRF, ONS, IFS)
Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better.
yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my…
I wish a political leader with energy and intelligence and wit and will, who understands macro and tech and culture, AND can orate as well as @matthewclifford (to explain concepts simply), would accept the baton he’s offering and run with it. For my children’s sake.
The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing.
Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
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The next trillion-dollar industry won't be social media, crypto or even AI. It will be longevity — the business of extending not just how we live, but how well we live. And the leaders who understand this now will own the future. entrepreneur.com/leadership/…
First Porsche and now Volvo showing Jaguar how it should be done this week
Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.
It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.
Every comment under the ad said it immediately put Volvo in their consideration set. It's fucking fantastic.
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A tale of 2 economies:
The stock market is forward looking and is a measure of how the market sees the future for a region or asset class.
It doesn’t care much about politics, but it does care how the decisions taken by government impact the economy.
- Last week, the leading indicator in the UK, the FTSE 100, fell 1.5%.
- In the same week, the leading indicator in the US, the S&P 500, rose almost 5%.
The combined wisdom of all market participants believes in free market capitalism, small government and lower taxes and it’s placing its bets where these things are likely to thrive.
Only 20 years ago, the UK stock market represented 11% of the global market.
Today it’s under 4% and going lower.
I’m a patriotic Brit, but my investment portfolio and those of our clients is positioned to capture where future growth will come from - and that’s not the UK.
Until we become a meritocracy that supports growth and free enterprise, the UK will remain a place that investors will avoid.
Surprised at the amount of people complaining/unwilling to pay a small fee to use a product. It’s a choice. But know that if you don’t pay, you are the product…
Simon Swan retweeted
This is so important. If you want to be well informed about what’s going on right now, read this - including the Telegraph article quoted. We shouldn’t forget what subordinating the economy to an arbitrary fiscal goal can do to everyone’s prosperity - and has done since 2009.
So, despite what the media are telling you, the size of the ‘black hole’ – and even whether there is one – is a matter of choice: choice of overall economic strategy, of fiscal rule, of fiscal policies, and of modelling assumptions. It’s not a ‘fact’. /8 nitter.cf/geofftily/status/15841…
Don’t beat around the bush…
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Nature 🤯
A zombie snail
It's been taken over by a parasite controlling its motor functions & eye stalks, mimicking caterpillars. The parasitic worm wants the snail to be eaten by birds, in whose intestines it will reproduce
[read more: buff.ly/2ro2Nap]
nitter.cf/minouye271/status/1160…
So much going on in this photo.
For 50 years, we've had a legal choice over who to love. For a decade, we've had a legal choice over who we can marry. I'm calling for a Parliamentary inquiry & free vote on assisted dying.
Read my piece with my constituent, David Minns, in The Express👇
express.co.uk/life-style/hea…
Nails
Primoz Roglic dislocated his shoulder and had to use a spectator's chair to find the right position to put it back in!
#TDF2022 #ITVCycling
