Alejandro @Shaggington

The next time Nick Clegg in invited onto BBC to pontificate as an independent tech expert…please note that here he is, named in the $27bn New Mexico judgment as one of execs engaged in a systematic cover-up of Facebook’s deceptive consumer practices.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

18 hours ago

Woah! Go New Mexico. This is a really important message to Silicon Valley tech companies: you are not above the law

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NEW Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund… As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@jamierkennedy Hanse has made that place spectacular without removing it’s slightly rustic charm

The UK's consumer watchdog has been asked to investigate drop-off fees at the country's airports after a surge in costs since last summer. @GregMilamSky | trib.al/jGrrJ7j

@jamierkennedy The new New at Sunningdale is belting fun, Hanse has done a wonderful job.

I’ve been texting Matt Fitzpatrick every time he wins. Only issue is he has no idea who I am

@ginamilan_ Thought freedom of speech was big in the US, guess not.

@jamierkennedy @NarinPortnooGC Gil Hanse has transformed that course. Shame the once inviting bar now looks like a motorway service station.

"Why do people play golf?" Sean Connery was once asked, and he gave a brilliant answer. "If you play golf, you can’t think, honestly, or do anything else while you’re playing. "I think it’s the most revealing game. I don’t know if it’s a game. It’s something other than a game. I couldn’t define it. "But it’s obsessive and revealing and a very healthy balancing act, I think. It certainly is for me, and also it’s one of the few games in the world that’s really still got dignity as a game. "It’s endless, and as Jack Nicklaus says, it’s an unfair game and you have to accept it. It’s like life in that way. "It’s also a game that you can cheat it. It’s the easiest game in the world to cheat at. The only one that suffers is you, because you know. And you can’t unknow."

@jamierkennedy An incredible links, loved it

@jamierkennedy @DPWorldTour Get the lads into their winter Woolies and playing some windy links in Kent or Liverpool.

@panmuregolf Panmure for breakfast with lunch on the terrace followed by a twilight round at Carnoustie is a wonderful day’s golf.

@SHistorians Just the £80 for a baseball cap in the Carnoustie pro shop this spring, games gone mad!

@BogeyMenPod Kick em off the tour, Doug!

In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen; • Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%. • The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000. • Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031. • Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%. • Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%. • Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million. • Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime. • Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net. • Agricultural Property Relief restricted. • Business Property Relief restricted. • Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer. • The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system. • VAT imposed on private school fees. • Business-rates relief removed from private schools. • Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties. • The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished. • Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies. • The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s. • A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs. • Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs. • The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended. • Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced. • A new Vaping Products Duty introduced. • Tobacco duties increased above inflation. • Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars. • Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system. • A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars. • Air Passenger Duty increased. • Climate Change Levy rates increased. • Plastic Packaging Tax increased. • A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced. • Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people. Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services. Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement... You keep less of what you earn. You keep less of what you invest. You leave less to your family. Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.

@Sbyrne_91 Holes 4 and 9 are mind bogglingly good.

@NUCLRGOLF @TrackingRahm More time with the family

@chambleebrandel Cutless shotgun golf was always going to be a dull spectacle

@JohnMorton215 You won’t find a better rib of beef served at a golf club anywhere else! Plus, the wine list is gloriously subsidised. What a place.