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This week's podcast is presented by Michelle and Stephen. We hear from: · Isabelle, who has called back after a long absence with her thoughts on the future of the Lily and Harrison relationship;· Witherspoon, who has further thoughtsabout Carol, now we have her diagnosis;· Lakey Hill Liminal, who is very crossabout Carol's treatment of her favourite villager;· Amber Rage, who is relieved that Harrisonand Fallon have stopped being so nice to each other;· Nathan (na-TAAN), who isn't veryimpressed by the repair shop storyline;· Globe Trotting Richard, who has financialadvice for Esme, Fallon and Harrison. He also offers a more positive view ofthe repair storyline;· Witherspoon again, with final thoughts onCarol;· Jo and John in Scotland, who areconvinced that there is something still to come about Alan and Carol's bankaccount;· And finally Claire from Clapham, who hasbeen interested in the decisions being taken by some of the older villagers;Wedon't have any have emails this week, but we will hear a roundup of theDumteedum Facebook group from Jacquieline, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the roundup of this Week inAmbridge, from Suey.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7770 764 896 (07770 764 896 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon. Or email us at dumteedum@mail.com How to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***** The Patreon feed for Dumteedum is at www.patreon.com/DumteedumPodcast and the subscription rate is £5.00 per calendar month plus VAT. We recommend that you do not sign up to Patreon using the Patreon app, particularly on iPhones and iPads, as Apple appears to be imposing a 50% surcharge which goes to them, not us. The problem doesn't arise if you go to Patreon through a browser - even if you do this on an iPhone, and once you have signed up, you can still use the Patreon app to listen to the ad-free podcasts.***** Also Sprach Zarathustra licence Creative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit." Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/ Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Send us Fan MailSelling on Amazon Europe can help US sellers test EU demand, handle VAT, and start with Germany before expanding across European marketplaces.MAG Growth podcast guest Nick Penev of hellotax and eCom Hot Sauce talks about Amazon Europe expansion, Amazon VAT, FBA, product compliance, listing localization, and finding the right partners. Nick explains why US brands should check demand first, test a small catalog, and add European markets only when the numbers make sense.Check out Nick Penev on LinkedIn for more on EU VAT, selling in Europe, and ecommerce partnerships: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-penev-0051791a/#AmazonEurope #AmazonFBA #AmazonVATWant free resources? Dowload our Free Amazon guides here:Your $1M Roadmap is here!: https://bit.ly/3SBO7VkDownload the 2026 Amazon AI Operating Manual: https://bit.ly/3SLmusPAmazon Receiving Delay Guide: https://hubs.ly/Q04cdD4c0Amazon Catalog Spring Cleaning: https://hubs.ly/Q046BVfp0Amazon Proft Margin Defense 2026: https://hubs.ly/Q042trRH0Amazon SEO Toolkit 2026: https://bit.ly/4oC2ClTAmazon Seller Strategy Report 2026: https://bit.ly/3YN1RME2026 Ecommerce Website & SEO Readiness Checklist: https://hubs.ly/Q04btghf0Amazon 2026 PPC guide: https://bit.ly/4lF0OYXTimestamps0:00 - Selling on Amazon Europe: Market Size and Opportunity0:57 - Amazon Europe Expansion With Nick Penev2:30 - How US Sellers Should Check European Demand4:43 - Why Europe Is More Than One Marketplace5:19 - How to Start Amazon FBA Europe From Germany7:24 - Amazon Europe VAT Rules for US Sellers9:44 - Amazon Europe Product Compliance and EPR Basics11:08 - Partners Needed for Amazon Europe Expansion14:35 - How to Find Ecommerce Partners in Europe15:23 - Business Advice From Nick Penev-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow us:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28605816/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpopemag/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/myamazonguys/Twitter: https://twitter.com/myamazonguySubscribe to the My Amazon Guy podcast: https://podcast.myamazonguy.comApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-amazon-guy/id1501974229Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4A5ASHGGfr6s4wWNQIqyVwSupport the show
From a young age, Joaquín Soffredini stood out in music and singing. He was awarded with grants throughout his career in recognition of his talent by the “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” and the “Fundación Beethoven” among others.He perfected his skills as a countertenor in Buenos Aires with renowned teachers such as Ricardo Yost and Marilú Anselmi, in addition to studying chamber music with Mónica Cosachov.His talent led him to play the role of Orpheus in Gluck's opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” and a few years later, to be part of the play “Espectros” (H. Ibsen) alongside the famous actress Ingrid Pelicori and Walter Quiroz.In musical theatre, he shone in “El Ave”, a show produced by Linda Peretz, under the direction of the talented Julián Vat, in which Joaquín was acclaimed by critics.On the international stage, he made his debut in Paris in 2019 with a successful tour along France, followed by performances in England, Italy and Portugal.In 2021, he composed two songs for the French film “Down in Paris” and was awarded in London as “Best Classical Singer” at the “Stars of the Albion” festival.In 2024 Joaquin spent most of his time working on his new songs, composing, producing and recording. He also created its own music videos for some of his own compositions.In 2025, he received an award for his professional achievements. This award was presented by "Madrid Magazine" in Spain. “Premio a la trajectoria professional”https://joaquinsoffredini.com/https://www.instagram.com/joaquinsofredini/Book a free discovery call with me! We can spend an hour looking at your creative career. You deserve to thrive, and your artistry matters. https://calendly.com/jennet/thmMake sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance.I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. You can read more or hop onto a discovery call from my website. https://jennetingle.com/work-with-meI'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!
There's a rumour doing the rounds that HMRC has built a £100 million AI supercomputer that's scanning your social media to catch you out. In this episode, we separate the scaremongering from what HMRC's Connect system actually does, and why the real risk for most business owners has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with whether their own numbers add up to each other. If you've ever wondered whether HMRC is watching you, or worried that a genuine mistake could turn into an investigation, this episode will put your mind at ease and show you what actually matters. Key Topics Covered What HMRC's Connect system really does and why it's not the AI conspiracy people think The difference between a genuine mistake and tax evasion, and why that distinction matters Why your turnover, VAT, and payroll figures all need to tell the same story When HMRC can and cannot use social media or bank data to investigate you Why a good accountant should already be catching these mismatches before HMRC does What to do if you receive an HMRC letter questioning your figures ⭐ Rate, Review & Share this episode with fellow business owners, and let's grow together! ⭐ Take the Finance Fitness Scorecard https://www.profitcashgrowth.com/finance-fitness-score ⭐ Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to get Expert Advice Straight to Your Inbox: https://www.profitcashgrowth.com/subscribe ⭐ Get a Free copy of Claire's book Profit By Numbers: https://www.profitcashgrowth.com/book VALUABLE RESOURCES Website LinkedIn YouTube Facebook ABOUT THE HOST: Claire Hancott through Profit Cash Growth helps 7 & 8 figure business owners to increase their profit, improve their cashflow and grow their business using their numbers. As a finance director & chartered management accountant, Claire has nearly 20 years' experience in finance and running businesses of her own. This gives her a unique insight into the information and support business owners need to grow a financially successful business. Claire passionately believes that every business should be run by the numbers because the numbers in your business are telling you a story about what is and isn't working and where your opportunities lie. Claire's mission is to provide insightful management accounts, reports and advice to business owners and support them to make smarter decisions. *The content of this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute professional advice.
In this episode, host Josh interviews Andy Hooper, CEO of Global Ecommerce Experts, about expanding US-based e-commerce brands into the UK and EU. Andy shares a three-pillar framework—compliance, logistics, and online distribution—for successful international growth. He emphasizes starting with the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, and highlights the importance of market research, mentorship, and taking action. Andy also recommends key business books and productivity tools, and invites listeners to connect with him for guidance on global expansion. The episode offers actionable advice for brands considering international markets.Chapters:Introduction to Andy Hooper & Global Ecommerce Experts (00:00:00)Josh introduces Andy Hooper, his background, and the mission of Global Ecommerce Experts.The Overwhelm of International Expansion (00:01:12)Josh discusses the complexities and challenges of expanding into European markets as a brand owner.Guiding Brands Through Expansion: The Three-Part Framework (00:02:34)Andy introduces a simplified three-step framework: compliance, logistics, and online distribution.Deep Dive: Compliance, Logistics, and Online Distribution (00:03:13)Andy breaks down compliance (business and product), logistics, and online distribution with practical examples.Choosing the Right Countries for Expansion (00:07:04)Josh and Andy discuss how to select the best initial countries for expansion, focusing on data-driven decisions.Why UK, Germany, and the Netherlands? (00:07:35)Andy explains why most brands start with the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, and the strategic logistics advantages.Actionable Takeaways for International Expansion (00:10:17)Josh summarizes three key action items for listeners considering international expansion.The Importance of Taking Action and Having a Mentor (00:12:38)Andy emphasizes the need to take action and find a mentor or guide for successful expansion.Andy's Most Influential Business Books (00:13:47)Andy shares his favorite business books, especially Russell Brunson's series, and their impact on his approach.Favorite Productivity Tool: Trello (00:16:38)Andy discusses how Trello was instrumental in scaling his business and recommends it for project management.How to Connect with Andy Hooper (00:17:59)Andy shares how listeners can reach him on LinkedIn and learn more about his services.Episode Wrap-Up (00:18:20)Josh thanks Andy for his insights and closes the episode.Links and Mentions:Tools and Software"Trello": "00:16:38"Books"DotCom Secrets": "00:15:08""Expert Secrets": "00:15:08""Traffic Secrets": "00:15:08"Websites and Links"LinkedIn Profile of Andy Hooper": "00:18:13"Key Concepts"Three Essential Areas for Market Expansion": "00:06:25"Transcripts:Josh 00:00:00 Today I am super excited to introduce you all to Andy Hooper. Andy is the CEO of Global eCommerce Experts, and has been successfully expanding e-commerce brands into new markets for over 15 years. He's an accomplished specialist in e-commerce, and he works with companies around the world providing comprehensive gateways and solutions to new markets, especially US based organizations transitioning into Europe. Starting from the ground up, Andy has carved out a niche. Inspired by his own experience and success of growing an organization's profits through e-commerce with an infectious energy for success, Andy leads a team of professionals in all aspects of e-commerce with fulfillment centers in the UK and EU. The global e-commerce team provides hassle free, end to end solutions that have helped thousands of sellers capitalize on the multi-billion dollar UK and EU markets when not working, Andy can often be found enjoying sailing, cycling and kayaking with his friends and family on England's south coast. So with that introduction, Andy, welcome to the show.Andy 00:01:09 Welcome, Josh. Thank you very much for having us. Much appreciated.Josh 00:01:12 Yeah, I'm excited to have you, you know, dialing in across the pond, so to speak, and you have got a wealth of knowledge when it comes to global expansion. And we had a conversation prior to hitting the record button. And what you guys do is so uniquely different than I think many of the other agencies that help people kind of expand into Europe. And you've got a wealth of knowledge that I think our listeners are going to be anxious to hear. So, all right, Andy, I'm already as a brand owner, I'm already overwhelmed with the amount of complexities that you have to think through with all of this, right? Yeah. I mean, this is definitely in this conversation. I'm already understanding, like, this is not something I can go alone at. I have no idea what the French market needs, nor the the, you know, the Spain market or Germany. I might have been a tourist and had visited those countries, but creating a product, right, that actually meets the needs of those customers is a whole other animal in and of itself.Josh 00:02:15 So my question here, Andy, is how do you kind of guide a brand through this process so that it is less overwhelming and cumbersome and as easy as a process as it potentially can be to capitalize on all of the e-commerce opportunity in the UK and the EU.Andy 00:02:34 So we we've worked with over 2000 clients now, and that's between our VAT, our warehousing, our account management, all the different pieces that we, we, we deal with. And having done that, what we're able to do is identify what worked and what didn't work and where we engage with the seller in the right way, the wrong way. You know, how did that help the brand grow, etc.. So what we were able to do was come up with a success pathway. What does an expansion pathway look like and what does it mean that you need to go through now? We came up with a seven step process that you need to go through. And of that seven step process, those are 3030 things you need to do.Andy 00:03:13 But I'm going to break it down into three to make it a little bit quicker and easier for people to understand, because it doesn't matter whether you're expanding to the UK and Europe or whether you're expanding to Canada or India or Australia or Japan or UAE. Actually, if you can solve these three things, it's about working with partners that can help you to do these three things and making it as easy as possible. So the three things are compliance. You split compliance into two areas business compliance and product compliance. So business compliance to put it to put it in a nice way. Look, if you're selling products in a country, the government wants to thank you for you selling the product in that country. That's called tax. So the bottom line is you're going to need to pay some tax when you're wherever you're selling your products from. That's the bottom line. You need to go over someone who understands the tax in that region and can solve that for you. The second part is your product compliance. Product compliance comes under three pieces.Andy 00:04:10 First of all, understand what regulations your product falls under in that region. Secondly, make sure the product meets those regulations in that region. And thirdly, make sure the labeling on the product is compliant with the regulations in that region. And there are two things you need to consider. Now, off the back of it, there's another 25 things you could look at...
Alex Moss and Burton DeWitt are back with a new episode of your go-to darts podcast ahead of the World Series of Darts Finals. The boys kick off the show with a look back at last weekend's action in Antwerp, and discuss James Wade's chances of a Premier League return in 2027 after 'The Machine' won his first European Tour title in 10 years. Alex and Burton also give their thoughts on the confirmed PDC World Darts Championship international qualifiers from the ADA and PDC Asian Tour this year. Jim Long (19:37) joins the show ahead of playing in the World Series of Darts Finals this week. The Canadian reflects on the last 18 months on the oche, from winning his first PDC tour card at Q-School in early 2025, facing Luke Littler in his first Players Championship with a tour card, to his goal of qualifying for the PDC World Darts Championship via the ProTour rankings this season, and his plans for 2027 and beyond and why he expects to return full-time to the CDC circuit next year. Alex and Burton continue the show with a look ahead to the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam this week, and discuss what the main talking points are heading into the tournament. The boys wrap up the show with a look at the draw for the upcoming World Grand Prix and pick out their favourite first-round ties. *** Get your own Alex Moss replica shirt (as worn by our co-host at the Las Vegas Open 2026) from DJD here! A % of the profits will be donated to The Ethan King Fund for Ewing Sarcoma Research *** This podcast is brought to you in association with Darts Corner - the number one online darts retailer! Darts Corner offers the widest selection of darts products from over 30 different manufacturers. This podcast is sponsored by Darts Atlas - the platform for darts players, venues, and organisations. Darts Atlas is the home of the Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) with hundreds of tournaments held on the platform every week. Have you used Darts Atlas before? Share your feedback and experiences with Darts Atlas with us by sending an email to weeklydartscast@gmail.com and be in with a chance of winning some new logo Weekly Dartscast stickers! Check out Condor Darts here: UK site *** Enjoy our podcast? Make a one-off donation on our new Ko-Fi page here: ko-fi.com/weeklydartscast Support us on Patreon from just $2(+VAT): patreon.com/WeeklyDartscast Thank you to our Patreon members: Phil Moss, Gordon Skinner, Connor Ellis
Rezerwa Federalna podniosła stopy procentowe o 25 pb do przedziału 3,75–4%.Sieć drogerii Douglas skupi otwarcia nowych salonów na rynkach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, traktując Polskę jako kluczowy obszar dalszej ekspansji.MAP analizuje warianty dokapitalizowania PGZ lub sprzedaży pakietu akcji spółce państwowej.Nowe zasady wydawania decyzji o solidarnej odpowiedzialności menedżerów za długi spółek i innych podmiotów wejdą w życie od 1 stycznia 2027 r.Od umowy o naprawę urządzeń należy odliczyć składki na ZUS.UE przyjmie nowe przepisy odliczenia VAT od pojazdów wykorzystywanych do prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej.
In this episode Dan discusses when (and IF) you need accounting software for your business. He chats about how to choose the right one, whether you can switch, MTD For Income Tax, Making Tax Digital, VAT, Xero, getting paid…. all this and more on today's HeelanHub! www.heelanassociates.co.uk/podcast - the show for UK small business owners. info@heelanassociates.co.uk 02392 240040
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Thank you to Amicus: Search and Recruitment for Sponsoring this episode. To find your next Finance or Accounting Role, head to https://amicus.ie/ and tell them that we sent you!Today we're looking at the examining team's feedback from the June 2026 ATX exam sitting and, as always, there are plenty of lessons we can take from it for future exams.We'll look at where students performed well, where marks were being left behind, and why question practice is about much more than simply knowing the tax rules. There's a particular focus this time on professional marks, commercial acumen and scepticism, as well as some very familiar problem areas including relief conditions, close companies, pensions and ethics.The big message from the examiner is a simple one: know your conditions properly, read the scenario carefully, and practise past questions under exam conditions. And please, make sure you're using the ACCA-approved Advanced Tax material when you're preparing for this exam.Resources Mentioned in the Episode:IRL June 2026 Examiner's Report (ACCAGlobal.com)Ep040 on Ethics (Spotify)Thank you for listening to Study For Tax in your Coffee Break! If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to leave a rating and review on your Podcast platform and share it with others to let them know you enjoyed the podcast.To improve your study for the ACCA ATX Exams this year, head to Paula Byrne's website to purchase the Tax Conditions - the Spoken Word for audio-based revision (updated for 2026).Thank you to Matthew Bliss for editing and production of this episode. If you'd like him to edit your podcast, send an email to business@mbpod.com or head to https://www.mbpod.com/.Chapters:(00:00) Intro to June 2026 ATX Examiner Feedback(01:40) A Self-Study Success Story(03:41) Professional Marks, Scepticism & Commercial Acumen(04:45) Question 1: Liquidation, Reliefs & VAT(07:52) Balancing Charges & Liquidation Calculations(10:43) Entrepreneur Relief & Commercial Advice(11:55) Pension Drawdown & PRSA Mistakes(13:19) Ethics, Confidentiality & Revenue Refunds(14:40) Question 2: CAT, CGT & Stamp Duty(17:04) Non-Tax Issues & Scepticism Marks(19:43) Question 3: Close Companies(22:32) Final Lessons from the ExaminerMentioned in this episode:Get your Audio Revision for the 2026 ACCA Exams
On Monday 14th September 2026, Carl Munson's Good Morning Portugal! news focuses on two big stories: the Sophia solar project being scaled down by 35% after environmental feedback, and Lightsource BP cancelling a Beiras solar plant. The other main theme is fuel prices, with an economist warning against cutting VAT on fuel amid a political dispute over the tax burden at the pump. Additional headlines include Chega accusing Livre over the parliamentary office break-in, a study showing independent ministers tend to stay in post longer than party officials, and the Socialist Party criticising the education minister. Clear skies and late-summer heat continue, with highs of 32°C in Lisbon and 36°C in Évora.#GoodMorningPortugal #PortugalNews #SofiaSolar #FuelTax #VAT #LightsourceBP #Chega #Livre #Portugal2026Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-good-morning-portugal-podcast-with-carl-munson--2903992/support.Get help moving to and living in Portugal
The episode examines why fuel is so expensive in Portugal, noting that about 47 cents of every euro spent on petrol and around 42 cents on diesel goes to the state through stacked taxes. Using AI research, it breaks down the main components: ISP fuel duty, a carbon tax added on top, and 23% VAT applied to the full price (effectively “tax on tax”). A real-world example estimates that filling a 50-liter petrol tank at €2.075/L costs €103.75, with roughly €49 going to taxation, and an average driver could pay about €886 per year in fuel tax alone. The discussion compares Portugal's fuel-tax burden to other EU countries, questions policy choices, and considers alternatives like electric cars, driving less, public transport, walking, cycling, and living closer to work.00:00 Fuel Tax Shock01:29 Breaking Down Petrol Costs03:17 Diesel Taxes and Real Costs05:28 Portugal vs EU Prices06:27 EVs Not a Simple Fix08:11 Practical Alternatives to Driving09:54 15 Minute City Debate11:10 Switching to AI NewsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-good-morning-portugal-podcast-with-carl-munson--2903992/support.Get help moving to and living in Portugal
This week's podcast is presented by Stephen and Jacquieline. We hear from: · Jess, a first-time caller-innerer - hurrah - who is happy to see bad George back, and who has an idea for Esme;· Witherspoon, who has had a go at diagnosingCarol's condition after Wednesday's episode;· Katherine, who has realised the point ofCarol Tregorran, and has a plot prediction about where she goes next;· And finally Fiona, who thought that Friday'sepisode was superb;We have emails from Kosmo and Gillian, and we will hear a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Michelle, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the roundup of this Week in Ambridge, from Suey.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7770 764 896 (07770 764 896 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon. Or email us at dumteedum@mail.com How to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***** The Patreon feed for Dumteedum is at www.patreon.com/DumteedumPodcast and the subscription rate is £5.00 per calendar month plus VAT. We recommend that you do not sign up to Patreon using the Patreon app, particularly on iPhones and iPads, as Apple appears to be imposing a 50% surcharge which goes to them, not us. The problem doesn't arise if you go to Patreon through a browser - even if you do this on an iPhone, and once you have signed up, you can still use the Patreon app to listen to the ad-free podcasts.***** Also Sprach Zarathustra licence Creative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit." Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/ Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Naddniestrze obchodzi 36. rocznicę ogłoszenia tzw. niepodległości. Po ponad trzech dekadach funkcjonowania separatystycznego parapaństwa jego sytuacja wygląda jednak coraz trudniej. Wojna Rosji przeciwko Ukrainie, kryzys energetyczny i załamanie dotychczasowego modelu gospodarczego sprawiają, że region staje przed największym wyzwaniem od czasu wojny z 1992 roku.Jednocześnie Kiszyniów krok po kroku zwiększa kontrolę nad gospodarką Naddniestrza. Od 2024 roku tamtejsze firmy muszą uiszczać opłaty celne, a od września 2026 roku część importowanych towarów została objęta mołdawskim VAT-em i akcyzą. Do 2030 roku system podatkowy ma zostać w pełni ujednolicony.Czy to początek końca gospodarczego odrębności Naddniestrza? Czy można mówić o „pełzającej reintegracji” regionu z Mołdawią? Jak głęboki jest kryzys Naddniestrza i przede wszystkim- czy sam Kiszyniów jest gotowy na pełne zjednoczenie z lewym brzegiem Dniestru?O sytuacji w Naddniestrzu, polityce Mołdawii i perspektywach reintegracji rozmawiamy z Kamilem Całusem, analitykiem OSW.
HOSPITALITY TAX: FARAGE SAYS NO — WILL BURNHAM TAX PUBS & HOTELS TO DEATH? #HospitalityTax #TouristTax #NigelFarage #ReformUK #AndyBurnham #UKHospitality #JonGaunt Nigel Farage has drawn a line in the sand: Reform UK mayors will NOT impose the new tourist tax. So what will Andy Burnham and Labour mayors do? The Government is giving mayors the power to impose an overnight visitor levy on hotels, B&Bs and holiday accommodation — and there will be NO nationally imposed cap on the percentage they can charge. Supporters say the money can be pumped back into transport, high streets and local communities. But Britain's hospitality industry is already being hammered by VAT, business rates, employment costs, energy bills and customers struggling with the cost of living. So why on earth would you make a British holiday MORE expensive? And here's the real political dividing line. FARAGE SAYS NO. If Reform mayors refuse to impose the levy, will Labour mayors introduce it? And if they do, what happens when a hotel in one mayoral area effectively becomes more expensive than a hotel down the road in a Reform-controlled area? UKHospitality is warning that a 5% levy could put tens of thousands of jobs at risk. Instead, the industry wants hospitality VAT slashed to 10%. Now THAT'S the debate Britain should be having. MORE TAX — OR LOWER TAX? Which one actually creates jobs, fills hotels, saves pubs and gets our high streets moving again? Jon Gaunt wants YOUR views. Would you deliberately book your hotel or weekend away in an area WITHOUT the tourist tax? And could this become another major dividing line between Nigel Farage and Andy Burnham? JOIN THE DEBATE ON JON GAUNT TV. #HospitalityTax #TouristTax #NigelFarage #ReformUK #ReformMayors #AndyBurnham #UKHospitality #BritishPubs #SaveOurPubs #HospitalityCrisis #Hotels #BritishHotels #TourismTax #HospitalityVAT #VATCut #PubClosures #CostOfLiving #BritishTourism #UKPolitics #Pubs #Restaurants #JonGaunt #JonGaunt TV Hospitality Tax, Tourist Tax, Nigel Farage, Reform UK, Reform Mayors, Andy Burnham, UK Hospitality, British Pubs, Save Our Pubs, Hospitality Crisis, British Hotels, Hotels, Tourism Tax, Overnight Visitor Levy, Visitor Levy, Hospitality VAT, VAT Cut, Pub Closures, Cost of Living, British Tourism, UK Tourism, UK Politics, Pubs, Restaurants, Hospitality Jobs, British High Streets, Jon Gaunt, Jon Gaunt TV, podcast, podcasts,
The Government of Saint Lucia is advancing initiatives to increase the use of renewable energy and promote sustainable practices in schools. Solar energy equipment, including panels, batteries and inverters, has been zero-rated for VAT for five years, helping to reduce the cost of adopting solar technology. The government is also promoting rainwater harvesting in schools, with initiatives underway at Bishop Gatchet School and solar power efforts at the Entrepot School.
Delegacja z USA przez 48 godzin ocenia w Polsce lokalizacje pod ewentualną stałą bazę amerykańskich wojsk. Sąd może zastosować teorię salda do rozliczenia nieważnej umowy frankowej. Podatnik może odliczyć VAT naliczony dopiero od chwili otrzymania faktury. Rodzina Solorz-Żak zawarła poufną ugodę kończącą wszystkie wzajemne spory prawne. Grupa WB podtrzymała plan debiutu na GPW jako jedną z rozważanych opcji.
Alex Moss and Burton DeWitt are back with a new episode of your go-to darts podcast after the Czech Darts Open. The boys kick off the show with a look back at last weekend's action in Prague, before giving their thoughts on the confirmed allocation of the international qualifiers for this year's PDC World Darts Championship. Beau Greaves (19:11) joins the show after another history-making weekend, which saw her become the first female player to win a match on the European Tour. The three-time women's world champion reflects on the last 18 months on the oche, from winning her PDC tour card via the Development Tour and that epic semi-final win over Luke Littler in the PDC World Youth Championship, to adjusting to life full-time on the ProTour and that historic first PDC ranking title at Players Championship 11 earlier this year. Alex and Burton continue the show with a look ahead to this weekend's European Tour event in Antwerp, and focus on the race to the World Grand Prix, which concludes at the end of this week. Chris Landman (54:16) also calls in ahead of his European Tour return in Antwerp on Friday. The former Lakeside finalist talks through his darts career so far, from qualifying for the last three BDO World Championships and then making his debut at the PDC World Darts Championship as the West European Qualifier, to a memorable run to the final of the 2023 WDF World Championship, winning his first PDC tour card at European Q-School in 2024, and then regaining his tour card at the first attempt earlier this year. The boys wrap up the show with a look at the draw for next week's World Series of Darts Finals and pick out their favourite first-round ties. *** Get your own Alex Moss replica shirt (as worn by our co-host at the Las Vegas Open 2026) from DJD here! A % of the profits will be donated to The Ethan King Fund for Ewing Sarcoma Research *** This podcast is brought to you in association with Darts Corner - the number one online darts retailer! Darts Corner offers the widest selection of darts products from over 30 different manufacturers. This podcast is sponsored by Darts Atlas - the platform for darts players, venues, and organisations. Darts Atlas is the home of the Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) with hundreds of tournaments held on the platform every week. Have you used Darts Atlas before? Share your feedback and experiences with Darts Atlas with us by sending an email to weeklydartscast@gmail.com and be in with a chance of winning some new logo Weekly Dartscast stickers! Check out Condor Darts here: UK site *** Enjoy our podcast? Make a one-off donation on our new Ko-Fi page here: ko-fi.com/weeklydartscast Support us on Patreon from just $2(+VAT): patreon.com/WeeklyDartscast Thank you to our Patreon members: Phil Moss, Gordon Skinner, Connor Ellis
Just how many layers of occult truth bombs was the masterful director Stanley Kubrick able to encode into his various movies, and is there a point at which impeccable human planning stops and other forces take over?Considering these questions is returning guest Sean McCann, Kubrick obsessive and proprietor of the Wake The Dead podcast. In particular, Sean has developed a method of running many Kubrick movies simultaneously. The results are truly mindblowing. He demonstrates these in the video version of this show.Sean's Wake The Dead channel is here:https://www.youtube.com/@SeanWakeTheDead*If you have found value in my work and would like to support its continuation, please consider becoming one of my Patreon supporters which gets you access to exclusive content that I don't post elsewhere. You can join up here:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=113137448To support my output through Buy Me A Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/markdevlinTo support me via Paypal.com donation, find me at paypal.com under the e-mail address markdevlinuk@gmail.comNatural/ holistic health solutions from Clive De Carle, (purchasing through this link brings me a small share and helps support my work):https://clivedecarle.com/?sld=213Real gold bullion available from this source. (Tax-Free (CGT, VAT), Allocated and Segregated Storage (London/Zurich), Pension (SIPP) Gold, Buy Back Guarantee:https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/download-our-complimentary-guide-m-devlin/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-vibrations-podcast--2594848/support.
Are you enjoying this? Are you not? Tell us what to do more of, and what you'd like to hear less of. The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Grapevine journalist Elías Þórsson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week is;[00:02:10] Increased Sales Of The Icelandic FlagThis summer saw a major increase in sales of flagpoles and the Icelandic flag according to Brynjar Húnfjörð, the CEO of Íslandshús, a company that sells flagpoles. Brynjar cites a recent change in Icelandic law: until this summer, it was illegal to hoist the flag after darkness or specific hours of the day. The change allowed the flag to be hoisted around the clock between May 1 and August 15.[00:15:55] High Speed Ride-Sharing Car-ChaseThis Saturday, the police in Reykjavík engaged in a high-speed chase after a reportedly intoxicated man who had rented a ride-share car from local ride-sharing company Hopp, driven at speeds up to 140 km/h, and hit several vehicles along the way. At least five police cars and two police motorcycles went in pursuit, eventually catching the driver in Víðidalur, Reykjavík. He was arrested and taken into custody “until he was fit to be interrogated,” according to the police.[00:19:54] Free Media TV News In Iceland Comes To An EndThe Icelandic media market was one of the main topics of discussion this weekend, following media company SÝN's announcement that it was discontinuing its TV news, which had run since 1986. This means that Iceland only has a single TV news program left, run by the State Broadcasting Service, RÚV. Iceland also only has a single daily paper left, Morgunblaðið. Logi Einarsson, the minister responsible for the media in Iceland, was interviewed both by RÚV and Vísir on the topic, and former minister of the media Lilja Alfreðsdóttir was also interviewed, making the point that RÚV had expanded over the past few years at the expense of free media in Iceland, going on to say that parliament wasn't taking the dire situation of media in Iceland seriously enough.[00:34:16] Icelandic Car Rental Companies Face Billions In BacktaxesIcelandic car rental companies face billions of krónur in back taxes. Last week, it came to light that the Icelandic tax authorities might charge many of the biggest car rental companies VAT on their sales of insurance to customers. Between 15 and 30% of a car rental company's income stems from selling insurance on their vehicles, and if the taxation is backdated as far back as six years, companies such as Bílaleiga Akureyrar might have to pay up to 2 billion ISK. If this happens, many of the biggest car rental companies in Iceland might simply become insolvent, disrupting the car rental market in Iceland significantly.[00:43:56] More Details On Biggest Cocaine Bust In Iceland's HistoryIn late June, the police reported the largest cocaine bust in Iceland's history–106 kg, which has a street value of around 3 billion ISK. The drugs were hidden in a small compartment underneath the Bulgarian aluminum freighter Koznitza, which was arriving from Brazil. Earlier that month, a specialized van with diving equipment arrived in the country on the Norræna ferry from Denmark. Two Brazilian divers also arrived to fetch the drugs and, according to the police, were “specialized in drug diving.” However, they ran into problems immediately, as their suits were too small, so they had to start by buying more gear, and it took them two tries to fetch the cocaine, which they had to swim 1.5 km to reach. To help them cover that distance, they used what's called a ‘scooter'—a James Bond-esque propeller device. But to add insult to injury, the police had been tracking the drugs all the way from Brazil, and before the divers even reached the ship, the cocaine had been replaced with fake material. The investigation is expected to conclude this week.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SHOW SUPPORTSupport The Reykjavík Grapevine's reporting by becoming a subscriber at https://www.grapevine.is/subscribe - We are also a printed magazine. You can subscribe to that too.You can also support The Reykjavík Grapevine by shopping in our online store: https://shop.grapevine.is------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHO ARE WE?The Reykjavík Grapevine is an alternative monthly magazine published in Iceland since 2003. We bringing you the news and views on Icelandic culture and society, sprinkled with music coverage, travel content, restaurant reviews and more. More on https://www.grapevine.is------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This week's podcast is presented by Claire from Clapham and Stephen. We hear from: · Jeff, who wonders what has happened to the agricultural storyline editor;· Witherspoon, who has advice for Justin and thoughts about Alan;· And finally Jo and John, who have conflicting feelings about George's situation;We have an email from Lilian McCarthy, and we will hear a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Vicky, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the roundup of this Week in Ambridge, from Suey.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7770 764 896 (07770 764 896 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon. Or email us at dumteedum@mail.com How to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***** The Patreon feed for Dumteedum is at www.patreon.com/DumteedumPodcast and the subscription rate is £5.00 per calendar month plus VAT. We recommend that you do not sign up to Patreon using the Patreon app, particularly on iPhones and iPads, as Apple appears to be imposing a 50% surcharge which goes to them, not us. The problem doesn't arise if you go to Patreon through a browser - even if you do this on an iPhone, and once you have signed up, you can still use the Patreon app to listen to the ad-free podcasts.***** Also Sprach Zarathustra licence Creative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit." Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/ Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Morkowski, known as the Watchdog of Wall Street, discusses various pressing financial and political issues affecting Americans today. He delves into the future of taxation in the U.S., the flaws in the current tax system, and the challenges facing Social Security. Morkowski expresses his disillusionment with the political landscape, highlighting the uniparty system and the lack of effective healthcare reforms. He also addresses community concerns regarding data centers and criticizes the idea of subsidizing Hollywood with taxpayer dollars. Throughout the conversation, Morkowski emphasizes the need for financial freedom and a more equitable tax system.
Ket Takeawys From This Podcast and Post WhatsApp is the highest open rate channel a recruitment or search business can use, but it deepens relationships you already have rather than starting new ones. What that means in practice: WhatsApp has more than three billion monthly users, with open rates of 95 to 98% against roughly 20 to 25% for email. It has no discovery algorithm and no professional targeting layer, so it cannot introduce you to anyone new. It works best with candidates and clients who have already given you their number, where it speeds up screening, scheduling, briefs and updates. Clients genuinely do come through it, but only where the relationship already exists. Used to approach people cold, it risks blocking, reporting and a breach of UK consent rules under PECR and GDPR. The deciding question is not candidates versus clients; it’s warm versus cold. Of all the channels in this series, WhatsApp is the one I get asked about in the most roundabout way. Business owners rarely ask me whether it works. They ask me what it's for. That makes sense, because most of you are already using it. It's on your phone. You message your team on it. You message your family on it. You've probably messaged a candidate on it, because it was quicker than email and they replied in four minutes rather than four days. So the question isn't whether WhatsApp works. It clearly does something, or you wouldn't keep reaching for it. The question is whether it belongs in your marketing plan, and if it does, what job it's doing there. I'll give you my answer up front. WhatsApp doesn't start relationships. It deepens the ones you already have. Get it the wrong way round and use it to approach people who don't know you, and it will do you real damage. How Big Is WhatsApp? WhatsApp has more than three billion people using it every month, a figure confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's earnings call in April 2025. Trackers in early 2026 put it between 3.14 and 3.3 billion. Somewhere between 2.3 and 2.6 billion people open it every day, around 83% of the monthly base, and it's available in more than 180 countries. For context, Facebook sits at around 3.07 billion monthly users, so the two are neck and neck at the top of this series. In the UK, research cited by the communications regulator and published in December 2025 found around 90% of UK online adults used WhatsApp, roughly 44.2 million people. That's the most authoritative UK figure available. The US and Australia are messier. US estimates run from 87 million to 124 million depending on which tracker you read. Australia sits somewhere between 9 million and 13 million. I'm giving you ranges rather than a tidy number because Meta doesn't publish country by country data, and I'd rather tell you the truth than give you false precision. The number to hold on to is the UK one. Nine in ten UK adults online are on this app. Your candidates are there. So are your clients. What WhatsApp Is Not This is the part that changes how you think about it. Every other channel in this series has an algorithm. On Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok or YouTube, you create something, the platform decides who sees it, and if it's good enough it reaches people who have never heard of you. Reach is earned. WhatsApp doesn't work that way. There's no feed ranking your content and no discovery mechanism putting you in front of strangers. Your reach is limited to people who already have your number, or people who click an advert to start a chat. WhatsApp doesn't build your audience. It communicates with the audience you already have. There are two partial exceptions. WhatsApp Channels, launched in 2023, is a one way broadcast feature that had reached 500 million monthly users by June 2024. And WhatsApp Status, viewed daily by around 500 million people, takes up roughly a third of the time people spend in the app. Both are useful. Neither will introduce you to a hiring manager who has never heard of you. The second structural point matters just as much. WhatsApp has no professional layer. There are no job titles, no company data and no seniority filters. Nothing tells you whether the person on the other end is an HR director or a school leaver. LinkedIn knows who people are professionally. WhatsApp knows a phone number. Where WhatsApp Is At Its Strongest If it won't introduce you to anyone new, what will it do? It will make every conversation you're already having faster, warmer and far more likely to be read than anything else you have. Look at the numbers. WhatsApp messages are opened at somewhere between 95 and 98%. Email sits at roughly 20 to 25%. Broadcast campaigns on WhatsApp are reported to convert at 15 to 25%. And 78% of job seekers now apply on a smartphone, so your candidates are already living in this format. Here's where recruiters are genuinely getting value: Screening questions answered in minutes rather than over two days of phone tag Interview scheduling and confirmations, which cuts no shows Status updates during a process, so candidates aren't left in silence QR codes that take someone straight into a chat to start an application Sourcing internationally, particularly in markets like India, Brazil and the Middle East where WhatsApp is the default messenger Keeping a warm client contact updated, once they've given you their number Every one of those is about speed and experience with someone who already knows who you are. And Yes, It Works With Clients Too It would be easy to read the last section and conclude WhatsApp is a candidate only channel. It isn't. Once a hiring manager has given you their mobile number, WhatsApp becomes the fastest route to them you'll ever have. Briefs come through as a voice note on the way to a meeting. Questions get answered in minutes. You stop being a supplier they email and start being the recruiter they message. We've won clients through WhatsApp ourselves, and so have members of ours. But in every case the relationship came first, and the number was given rather than found. That's the distinction that matters here, and it isn't candidates versus clients. It's warm versus cold. The Line Between Warm and Cold This goes wrong at exactly one point, and that's when you use WhatsApp to approach someone who hasn't given you their number and doesn't expect to hear from you. I know the temptation. You've got mobile numbers sitting in your CRM going back years. It feels like an easy win sitting there. Leave it alone, for three reasons. One: There's No Cold Route In You need a number someone has given you, or you need them to click an advert. There's no equivalent of a LinkedIn connection request here. And if you've bought a list of mobile numbers, you've got a bigger problem than channel choice. Two: The Consent Risk Is Real Unsolicited business messaging on WhatsApp can breach UK consent rules under PECR and GDPR. This isn't a grey area you can talk your way out of, and the penalties attach to the business rather than the individual who sent the message. Three: It Breaks the Social Contract A hiring manager gave their number to their kids' school, their plumber and their friends. A pitch from someone they don't know arriving in that space doesn't read as enterprising. It feels like an intrusion, and the two buttons available to them are block and report. Note what you lose. The same message on LinkedIn would have been unremarkable. Sent on WhatsApp to someone who never gave you the number, it costs you a contact permanently. There's one more thing, and it isn't comfortable. WhatsApp has become a common vector for recruitment scams. Fake recruiters, fake roles, fake interviews, all run through this app. Candidates are increasingly wary when a recruiter they don't know appears in their messages. That doesn't mean you can't use it. It means you introduce yourself properly, identify your company immediately, and give people a way to verify you. What WhatsApp Costs Basic use is free. A WhatsApp Business profile costs nothing and takes minutes to set up. A photo, a business description, a greeting message and an away message, and you're running. Costs appear when you want to send at volume or advertise. From the first of January 2026, Meta moved to charging per message rather than per conversation. UK rates published across 2026 sources range from just over a penny to about seven pence per marketing message, depending on category and source. Messages a customer starts remain free within a 24 hour window. To send in bulk or automate anything you need a Business Solution Provider. Platform subscriptions typically start between nine and fifty pounds per channel per month, plus VAT, on top of the per message cost. Click to WhatsApp adverts run through Meta Ads Manager on Facebook and Instagram, and open a chat rather than sending someone to a landing page. US benchmarks from 2026 put a good cost per click between ten and fifty cents, and a cost per lead who goes on to start a conversation at one to three dollars. No UK or Australian benchmarks exist in the sources reviewed, so if you test this you'll be gathering your own numbers. How to Measure It Native analytics on the free Business app are basic: messages sent, delivered, read and received, visible in your settings. The Business Platform adds message level data, and third party platforms will layer on a proper funnel view for a subscription. For most recruitment business owners, four numbers tell you everything: Response rate. What proportion of people reply? Time to first response. How much faster is this than email? Message to booked conversation. How many turn into an interview or a call? For paid adverts, cost per conversation started and cost per qualified lead Best Practice, and the Mistakes to Avoid What works Set up a separate WhatsApp Business profile rather than running your desk from your personal number Brand it properly with a photo, company name and what you do, so anyone receiving a message sees straight away who you are Use it for screening, scheduling, updates and confirmations Use Status or a Channel for passive nurturing of your candidate pool rather than messaging people one by one Use simple automation for first response and interview slot booking What to avoid Cold business development messages to hiring managers who haven't opted in Failing to identify yourself in the first line, which in the current climate makes you look like a scam Over messaging. The moment WhatsApp feels like a mailing list, you've destroyed the thing that made it work Treating it as a brand building channel. Nobody is discovering you here Is WhatsApp Right For Your Business? Four Questions If you answer yes to two or more, it's worth setting up this month. One. Does your business handle high volume or time critical candidate communication, where being first to respond wins you the placement? Two. Do you source candidates internationally, particularly in markets where WhatsApp is the default way people communicate? Three. Is candidate experience somewhere you're currently losing people, through slow responses, silence during a process or no shows at interview? Four. Do you have candidates or clients who have given you their mobile number and would expect to hear from you on it? If you answered no to all four, and particularly to the last one, the problem isn't WhatsApp. It's that you don't yet have enough relationships to put on it. Build those first, on LinkedIn, on email and through your content. Then come back to this. Pulling This Together WhatsApp is one of the two largest platforms in this series and easily the most misunderstood. It won't build your brand and it won't put you in front of anyone who has never heard of you. Those jobs belong to other channels. What it will do is make every relationship you already have faster, warmer and more likely to turn into something. That includes candidates, and it includes hiring managers who have come to trust you enough to give you their number. So build the relationship first. Let people give you the number rather than digging it out. Then use this channel for what it's genuinely brilliant at. Thanks Denise How We Can Help You Knowing which channels to use is one thing. Having the content, the campaigns and the plan to run them consistently is another. That's what we do inside Superfast Circle. Our members get done for you content every month, monthly coaching calls and a clear system that takes the guesswork out of what to post, where and when. If you want to find out more get in touch. The post WhatsApp for Recruiters: Where It Wins You Clients and Candidates, and Where It Costs You Both appeared first on Superfast Recruitment.
It's ev.news Briefly for Friday 04 September 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnewsBEVS BECOME UKS LEADING POWER SOURCE DESPITE INDUSTRY PUSHBACKBattery electric vehicles took 30% of the UK car market in August, up from 23% a year earlier, making BEVs the largest single powertrain category ahead of hybrids at 29%, petrol at 22% and PHEVs at 14%, with plug-ins combined reaching 44%. The performance is comfortably ahead of the effective 24.6% target New AutoMotive calculates for this year, yet the government has opened a consultation on relaxing its EV rules under carmaker pressure — a move that could backfire, given Chinese manufacturers now hold 28% of Europe's PHEV segment, up 60% year on year, with PHEVs making up 60% of BYD's European registrations.STELLANTIS SETS NOVEMBER JEEP, MID-APRIL RAM PRODUCTIONA supplier memo reviewed by Automotive News schedules electrified Jeep Grand Wagoneer production for November, six months later than the planned May start, and Ram 1500 REV production for mid-April, a nine-month slip from mid-2026 for a pickup originally due in 2025 as the Ramcharger. Stellantis maintains both extended-range models are on track — Jeep this year, Ram in 2027 — with the Grand Wagoneer built in Warren, Michigan alongside its petrol version and the Ram at Sterling Heights, delays that two supplier executives attribute to ensuring smooth launches.PHEVS EMIT 4.6 TIMES OFFICIAL CO₂ VALUESPlug-in hybrids registered in 2023 emitted 4.6 times their official CO₂ values in real-world driving, up from 3.5 times for 2021 registrations, according to an International Council on Clean Transportation study of nearly 920,000 vehicles that found longer electric range has coincided with less actual electric driving. The ICCT blames the EU utility factor formula, which assumes an 80% electric-driving share against a real-world figure of around 21% in 2022, with author Jan Dornoff arguing the rarely-achieved official values give PHEVs an unjustified advantage over combustion cars in manufacturers' CO₂ compliance.FORD AIMS FOR 100,000 FATHOM SALESFord has set an internal target of 100,000 first-year sales for its Fathom electric truck, according to WSJ sources, a figure no non-Tesla EV model has ever reached in the United States. Production is expected to begin in Q1 2027 with a starting price just under $30,000, which would place the Fathom third among US single models if rivals' volumes hold steady.BEVS OUTSELL PETROL AND DIESEL IN AUSTRALIABattery-electric vehicles outsold both petrol and diesel in Australia in August, hitting 27,078 units and 24.9% of a new-car market that grew 4.9% to 108,760 vehicles, against 25,824 petrol and 23,608 diesel cars, with BEV sales up 171% year on year. BEVs, hybrids and PHEVs together took 51.8% of sales, leaving combustion-only cars in the minority for the first time, and all eight best-selling EVs were China-built, including Tesla's Shanghai-produced Model Y and Model 3, the BYD Sealion 7 at 2,213 units and sixth overall, and the Geely EX5, up more than 385%.BATTERY TRUCKS PROJECTED TO BEAT DIESEL COSTSBattery-electric trucks are projected to undercut diesel on total cost of ownership across 70 to 90% of kilometres travelled in German heavy-duty freight by 2030, but that falls to a medium-scenario lower bound of 21 to 25% of economically feasible activities once daily range limits and charging availability are factored in. The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research study in Nature, combining cost forecasts with real-world use profiles from four million European trucks, finds small-battery electric trucks competitive on 91% of freight activity by 2030 versus 69% for large-battery variants, with drivetrain efficiency, energy costs, battery size and usage intensity driving the outcome.MAN PARTNERS PLAN AROUND €400M FOR EUROPEAN SERVICE SITESMAN dealers, service partners and importers plan to invest around €400m (about $464m) in European service locations, on top of MAN's own €300m (about $348m) network investment by 2030, with board member Friedrich Baumann calling the combined scale unprecedented in company history despite ongoing cost cuts and job reductions. Roughly a third of the partners' spending goes to electromobility and digitalisation, including high-voltage staff training, battery repair centres and public charging at MAN branches, while a separate E.On partnership announced in 2024 targets up to 400 charging points at up to 170 European locations, up to 125 of them in Germany.WAYVE AND UBER OFFER LONDON AUTONOMOUS RIDESWayve and Uber have launched supervised autonomous rides through the Uber app across London's entire urban area excluding airports, using battery-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles running Wayve's AI Driver with cameras and environmental sensors, each carrying a TfL-licensed safety driver who can intervene. UberX, Uber Electric and Uber Comfort passengers may be offered a Wayve ride at no extra cost before their trip, with London the first of twelve planned markets and a Tokyo service using the Nissan Leaf and Nvidia Drive Hyperion due later this year, though no date has been given for removing the safety driver.BARCELONA OFFERS FOUR MILLION EUROS ELECTRIC BIKE SUBSIDIESBarcelona is launching four million euros of electric bike subsidies running from 2027 to 2030, with the first call scheduled for publication in 2027, offering up to 400 euros (about $465) for pedal-assisted city bikes and up to 800 euros (about $929) for freight bikes, capped at 40% of the pre-VAT cost. Registered city residents and companies with premises in Barcelona will be eligible, with the scheme intended to extend cycling distances and open up the city's sloped areas, though the subsidy rules still require approval.XIAOMI SIGNS EIGHT GERMAN DEALER ARRANGEMENTSXiaomi has signed agreements or letters of intent with eight German dealership groups, including Emil Frey, Penske Automotive and the Lueg Group, ahead of a planned 2027 European launch that will add another Chinese entrant to an already competitive German market. The company, which has sold roughly 700,000 SU7 sedans and YU7 SUVs in China since March 2024 according to President William Lu, is raising its profile at Berlin's IFA show from Sept. 4 to 8 with around 380 products, promoting a "Human x Car x Home" ecosystem linking more than 1,000 devices to the car, though it has not said which models Europe will get.
Alex Moss and Burton DeWitt are back with a new episode of your go-to darts podcast after the Hungarian Darts Trophy. The boys kick off the show with a look back at last weekend's action in Budapest, and discuss what's the next goal for Ross Smith after he won his second European Tour title of the season, and also look at Gary Anderson's hopes of qualifying for the European Championship following his run to the final on Sunday. The newly crowned Welsh Open champion Ryan Hogarth (20:11) joins the show to reflect on his memorable win on Sunday. The Scottish international chats about his maiden WDF ranking title success at the weekend, beating the likes of Kaya Baysal and Ross Montgomery en route to the title, as well as look back on his recent appearances at Lakeside in the WDF World Championship, throwing his darts in the lake at Lakeside, his goals for the rest of 2026 and his plans to return to Q-School next year. The boys wrap up the show with the return of the mailbag to answer your listener questions. *** Get your own Alex Moss replica shirt (as worn by our co-host at the Las Vegas Open 2026) from DJD here! A % of the profits will be donated to The Ethan King Fund for Ewing Sarcoma Research *** This podcast is brought to you in association with Darts Corner - the number one online darts retailer! Darts Corner offers the widest selection of darts products from over 30 different manufacturers. This podcast is sponsored by Darts Atlas - the platform for darts players, venues, and organisations. Darts Atlas is the home of the Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) with hundreds of tournaments held on the platform every week. Have you used Darts Atlas before? Share your feedback and experiences with Darts Atlas with us by sending an email to weeklydartscast@gmail.com and be in with a chance of winning some new logo Weekly Dartscast stickers! Check out Condor Darts here: UK site *** Enjoy our podcast? Make a one-off donation on our new Ko-Fi page here: ko-fi.com/weeklydartscast Support us on Patreon from just $2(+VAT): patreon.com/WeeklyDartscast Thank you to our Patreon members: Phil Moss, Gordon Skinner, Connor Ellis
LOSING THE WILL TO LIVE! 2 DAYS OF BURNHAM — HE'S DOING MY HEAD IN! #AndyBurnham #PMQs #Burnham #KemiBadenoch #UKPolitics #Labour #SmallBoats #LawAndOrder #JonGaunt #JonGauntTV FOR GOD'S SAKE, ANDY — IS THIS IT?! Two days of Andy Burnham in the Commons and I'm already losing the will to live! Britain needs BIG answers. We're staring at serious economic problems, immigration remains one of the biggest issues in the country, public services are creaking and we've seen shocking disorder on our streets. And what does our new political messiah appear to be offering us? CHEAPER BUS FARES! Give me strength! He talks about cutting VAT on electricity. He talks about bringing utilities back under public control. He wants more devolution. More power for councils. More money for some train drivers. Lovely! BUT WHO THE HELL IS PAYING FOR ALL OF THIS?! That's the bit I want to hear, Andy. You want utilities back under public control? Fine. HOW MUCH? WHERE'S THE MONEY? You want to give councils even more power? Have you seen the state of some of them?! Birmingham struggled to EMPTY THE BINS! Across Britain we've got roads that resemble obstacle courses because councils can't even FIX THE POTHOLES! And these are the people we're supposed to give MORE power to?! Meanwhile, what about the questions millions of people actually want answered? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT ILLEGAL MIGRATION? What are you going to do about lawlessness and serious disorder in our towns and cities? Where's the plan to get the economy moving? Where's the serious plan for growth? Where's the vision? Where's the LEADERSHIP?! I don't want another TikTok politician. I don't want another bloke telling me there's jam tomorrow while asking me to admire the label on the jar today. Britain doesn't need another PR operation. It needs somebody prepared to make difficult decisions and tell us exactly how they're going to pay for them.] Maybe I've finally worked out Andy's masterplan. BORE US TO DEATH! Break our spirit. Wear us down. Keep talking until the entire country screams: ALL RIGHT, ANDY — WE SURRENDER! Because after only TWO DAYS, mate, you're doing a bloody good job of it! And then there's the fundamental problem hanging over the whole thing: NO MANDATE. NO PLAN. NO VISION. NO CLUE. And surrounded by a Cabinet that has hardly set my pulse racing. Is THIS really the great new beginning we were promised? Because right now it looks suspiciously like the same old political circus — just with a different ringmaster. Am I being too harsh after only two days? Or are YOU already asking the same question as me: IS THIS REALLY IT?! Join me LIVE AT SIX on Jon Gaunt TV, because I've got plenty to say — and I want to hear what YOU think. GOD HELP BRITAIN! Andy Burnham, Andy Burnham PMQs, Burnham PMQs, PMQs today, PMQs 2026, Prime Ministers Questions, Prime Minister's Questions, Andy Burnham first PMQs, Kemi Badenoch PMQs, Burnham vs Badenoch, Andy Burnham Commons, House of Commons, Burnham government, Burnham policies, UK politics, British politics, Labour government, UK economy, borrowing costs, government spending, cost of living, energy bills, electricity VAT, bus fares, nationalisation, devolution, illegal immigration, small boats, law and order, Westminster, Jon Gaunt, Jon Gaunt TV, JonGauntTV, Gaunty, UK news #AndyBurnham #PMQs #PMQsToday #PrimeMinistersQuestions #Burnham #KemiBadenoch #HouseOfCommons #Westminster #UKPolitics #BritishPolitics #Labour #LabourGovernment #UKEconomy #IllegalImmigration #SmallBoats #LawAndOrder #JonGaunt #JonGauntTV #Gaunty #UKNews This is political blogging and hard-hitting social commentary from Triple Sony Gold Award-winning talk radio legend, Jon Gaunt — former host on BBC, Talk Radio, and Sky News. On Jon Gaunt TV, we cut through the noise and say what others won't. No political correctness. No censorship. Just real conversations that matter.
Recorded on location in Hammersmith at Emery Walker's House — the best-preserved Arts and Crafts interior in Britain, packed with original William Morris wallpaper and once home to William Morris's great friend and collaborator, the printer Emery Walker — this is the September edition of What's On in London. Jonathan makes the case that September might be the single best month of the year to visit London: the summer crush lifts as families return to school, everything is still open on summer hours, the weather turns crisp and golden, hotel prices drop, and the cultural calendar goes into overdrive. He covers Open House Festival (September 12–20, free, 621 listings including 10 Downing Street), Heritage Open Days across England, Totally Thames across twenty riverside boroughs, the London Design Festival in its 24th year, and the Last Night of the Proms — including the trick to getting in for eight pounds on the day. He then runs through the autumn's blockbuster exhibition openings, led by the Bayeux Tapestry's arrival at the British Museum (and the British Museum membership workaround for anyone who missed the sold-out ticket release), Nature and Us at the Natural History Museum in a gallery closed since 1943, the Burberry Trench at the V&A, and How We Lost America at Hogarth's House — curated by the very person who let him record this episode. Plus what's closing and when, live music and theater, family activities, the September weather outlook, and Jonathan's own remaining London itinerary. Not for members and listeners: Due to the timely nature of this episode, I'm releasing it to members and general listeners on the same day, so there won't be a new episode Friday. This is this week's episode. Links Where This Episode Was Recorded Emery Walker's House, Hammersmith — Book a Tour Londontopia's Hammersmith Neighborhood Guide The Londontopia Events Calendar
See what the team at The Successful Bookkeeper has on right now → Lara Manton has a gift for reframing panic as possibility. The founder of ACE-XL Ltd and a 15-year UK bookkeeping veteran, Lara delivered a talk at Accountex titled I've Watched Bookkeeping Die 3 Times — and in this episode she brings that same clear-eyed optimism to Michael Palmer. If you've been anxious about AI or wondering whether your role still matters, this conversation will shift your thinking. Chapters [00:00] Opening quote on client value [01:18] Welcome and guest introduction [03:30] The provocative LinkedIn article [06:30] Defining what bookkeeping really is [10:00] Three times bookkeeping 'died' [15:00] AI as shepherd, not replacement [18:30] Who thrived through each shift [23:00] Evaluating tech without chasing shiny objects [27:30] Rising professionalism and community [31:30] Biggest opportunity the profession must not miss Three "Deaths" That Were Actually Rebirths Lara's three moments of supposed bookkeeping extinction track neatly with major industry shifts: the cloud and OCR revolution, COVID forcing everyone to work remotely, and now the rise of AI agents. Each time, the prediction was the same — software will replace the bookkeeper. Each time, the profession adapted and came out doing more meaningful work. "Every time the software changes," Lara says, "it changes what bookkeepers do. It changes the nature of bookkeeping, maybe not what we do, but how we do it." The Core Job Has Never Changed Strip away the tools and the underlying mission is the same it has always been: get accurate data to help businesses make decisions. Lara argues that AI and automation simply speed up the data-gathering part, which frees bookkeepers to spend more time on the part that actually matters to clients. "The rewarding thing isn't entering data," she says. "The rewarding thing is understanding a business and helping a business owner. And that bit doesn't change." Humanity Is the Competitive Advantage The bookkeepers who thrived through every disruption shared one trait: they stayed curious about their clients. Lara makes the case that asking the right questions — specific to each business, not generic ones — is where the real value lives. "You can learn to ask the right questions, not the questions that everyone asks, but the right questions for that business. And then that's where you can start to add value. Because unless you actually relate those numbers back to the business itself and what they're trying to achieve, those numbers are gonna mean nothing to them." She warns that if you communicate like a robot, AI will eventually be able to replace you — but the innately human skills of listening, pattern recognition, and relationship-building are much harder to replicate. Thinking Clearly About AI Tools Lara draws a sharp line between AI accounting tools and accounting tools with AI built in. The former often lack foundational accounting knowledge; the latter layer intelligence on top of proven principles. She shared a real example: a client ran their VAT return through Claude and came back with a list of confused questions — because the AI didn't understand international reverse charge VAT. "It's about shepherding that information and reviewing the information rather than necessarily doing the data entry, but being aware of the other things that matter to a business owner." The lesson: use AI to augment your expertise, not to bypass the need for it. A Rising Tide for the Whole Profession Lara sees bookkeeping's public profile improving — driven partly by institutional efforts in the UK to bring bookkeeping into university curricula, and partly by accountants increasingly recognising bookkeepers as collaborative partners rather than a cheaper alternative. She also points to the bookkeeping community's culture of sharing as a quiet competitive strength. "Bookkeepers talk to one another. We don't gatekeep in the same way. We share information quite freely." That generosity of knowledge, she believes, is one of the things that will carry the profession forward — and attract software companies who want to build better products with practitioner input. Links Mentioned Lara Manton on LinkedIn — connect with Lara directly ACE-XL Ltd — Lara's finance process consultancy for larger businesses LJM Bookkeeping — Lara's UK bookkeeping practice PureBookkeeping.com — episode sponsor, proven system for growing your bookkeeping business thesuccessfulbookkeeper.com — free business-building resources About the Guest Lara Manton is the founder of ACE-XL Ltd and runs LJM Bookkeeping, a UK-based practice working with limited companies and service-based businesses. A two-time Xero Award winner — including Xero's first UK Bookkeeper / Small Firm of the Year — Lara sits on the ICB's Advisory Board and chairs their Tech Board. She has spoken at every major UK accounting event, including Accountex, and works with approximately 50 clients worldwide across outsourced finance and bookkeeping engagements.
A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on 1st September 2026. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio. Presenter/producer: Kris Boswell.
What happens when a writer who cracked the code at four grows up to lead a nation's authors in a rapidly changing book economy? We sit down with Mikaela, president of the Society of Swedish Authors in Finland, to explore how love of language becomes both a creative engine and a shield for cultural diversity. From her early sense of writing as a private room for thinking to the public work of advocacy, she opens up about balancing solitude with leadership and why literature functions as democratic infrastructure, not a luxury.We travel through the pressures squeezing small-language communities: declining deep reading, a tilt toward entertainment-first publishing, and the quiet erosion of literary biodiversity. Mikaela lays out a sharper toolkit for authors—time-limited contracts, firm retention of rights, and royalty transparency that turns opaque audiobook streaming into accountable income. She explains how “seconds listened” distorts value and why publishers must partner with writers to demand clear reporting from platforms.The conversation tackles AI head-on. Who decides if a text becomes training data, and who gets paid when machines learn from human craft? Mikaela's north star is straightforward: transparency, consent, and fair remuneration across borders, with practical licensing paths that scale from Finland to Europe and beyond. We round out with the fuel that keeps risk-taking alive—grants, mentorship, translation, and cross-border alliances that link Finland-Swedish literature to Nordic and European readers—plus one structural move that could lift the whole ecosystem: zero VAT on books, from print to audio.If you care about author rights, minority languages, and the future of reading, this conversation offers clarity and next steps. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves books, and leave a review to help more listeners find the show. What change would you make first: fairer contracts, AI licensing, or zero book VAT?Send us Fan MailCheck out "Protection for the Inventive Mind" – available now on Amazon in print and Kindle formats.The views and opinions expressed (by the host and guest(s)) in this podcast are strictly their own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the entities with which they may be affiliated. This podcast should in no way be construed as promoting or criticizing any particular government policy, institutional position, private interest or commercial entity. Any content provided is for informational and educational purposes only.
LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured Chris warns Washington may turn to a European-style VAT tax to tackle Social Security and America's soaring debt. The problem? Without spending reform and a balanced budget, he fears Congress will simply collect more—and spend more.
ขายดี…แต่กำไรไม่เหลือ เพราะอะไร? สำหรับหลายคน การลาออกจากงานประจำเพื่อมาทำธุรกิจ อาจเป็นภาพของอิสรภาพ ได้ทำในสิ่งที่ตัวเองรัก และมีโอกาสสร้างรายได้มากกว่าเงินเดือนเดิม แต่ในความเป็นจริง เมื่อธุรกิจเริ่มโตขึ้น ปัญหาใหม่ก็เริ่มตามมา The Money Coach Podcast ตอนนี้ ชวนมาฟังเรื่องราวของอดีตวิศวกรสาววัย 30 ปี ที่ตัดสินใจลาออกจากงานประจำ เงินเดือนหลายหมื่นบาท มาเปิดร้านหมูทอดกับแฟน แม้ร้านจะขายดีจนมียอดขายสูงสุดถึง 13,000 บาทต่อวัน แต่เมื่อรายได้ของธุรกิจเติบโตจนต้องเข้าสู่ระบบ VAT และต้องรับมือกับต้นทุน ภาษี รวมถึงค่าใช้จ่ายต่าง ๆ ที่เพิ่มขึ้น คำถามสำคัญจึงเกิดขึ้นว่า… ทำไมยิ่งขายดี กลับยิ่งเหนื่อย? และเมื่อทำทุกอย่างถูกต้องตามกฎหมายแล้ว แต่กำไรที่เหลือกลับน้อยกว่าเงินเดือนเดิม เรากำลังสร้างธุรกิจ หรือกำลังสร้างภาระให้ตัวเองกันแน่? ในตอนนี้ โค้ชหนุ่ม และ NamFinance จะชวนมาหาคำตอบและวางแผนรับมือกับ “ด่านต่อไป” ของธุรกิจ ตั้งแต่ • เมื่อรายได้เกิน 1.8 ล้านบาท และต้องเข้าสู่ระบบ VAT ควรวางแผนอย่างไร? • ทำไมการขายดี ไม่ได้แปลว่ากำไรจะเพิ่มขึ้นเสมอไป? • จะปรับโครงสร้างราคาอย่างไร โดยไม่จำเป็นต้องขึ้นราคาทุกเมนู? • ทำไมเครื่องดื่ม เครื่องเคียง หรือ Add-on อาจเป็นตัวช่วยสำคัญในการเพิ่มกำไร? • ภาษีซื้อและภาษีขายคืออะไร และการเลือกคู่ค้ามีผลต่อภาระ VAT อย่างไร? • เมื่อเจ้าของร้านต้องลงมือทำทุกอย่างเอง จะสร้างระบบให้ธุรกิจเดินต่อโดยไม่มีเราได้อย่างไร? • และทำไมในบางครั้ง การไม่รีบขยายสาขาอาจเป็นการตัดสินใจที่ดีที่สุด? เพราะการเติบโตของธุรกิจ ไม่ได้หมายถึงการขายให้ได้มากขึ้นเพียงอย่างเดียว แต่คือการสร้างระบบที่ทำให้รายได้เติบโต กำไรเหลือ และเจ้าของธุรกิจยังมีชีวิตอยู่ได้จริง สำหรับใครที่กำลังคิดลาออกจากงานประจำเพื่อมาทำธุรกิจ หรือกำลังเจอกับช่วงที่ธุรกิจขายดี แต่เหนื่อยขึ้นทุกวันจนเริ่มตั้งคำถามกับตัวเองว่า “ทำต่อไปเพื่ออะไร?” ตอนนี้อาจช่วยให้คุณมองเห็นว่า บางครั้งสิ่งที่ธุรกิจต้องการ ไม่ใช่การโตให้เร็วขึ้น แต่คือการ หยุด ตั้งหลัก และจัดระบบใหม่ให้แข็งแรงกว่าเดิม เพราะสุดท้ายแล้ว…เราไม่ได้ทำธุรกิจเพื่อให้มีงานทำมากขึ้น แต่ควรทำธุรกิจเพื่อสร้างชีวิตที่เราต้องการจริง ๆ #TheMoneyCoachPodcast #TheMoneyCoachTH
This week's podcast is presented by Stephen and Glyn. We hear from: · Witherspoon, who wasn't overly impressed by Lily on Sunday;· Katherine, who thinks that the Montystory is dragging on but also going to quickly, and she also has ambitions forGeorge and Amber;· Kate, a first-time caller-innerer(although she emailed-in a while back) who doesn't think Fallon and Elizabethhave done any sums;· Ros from South Wales who is enjoying theinteractions between Lily and Fallon, and between Kiera and Khalil;· And finally Jacquieline fromChristchurch, who particularly enjoyed the Snells this week;We havean email from Brian Holding, and we will hear a roundup of the DumteedumFacebook group from Witherspoon, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the roundup of this Week in Ambridge, from Suey.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7770 764 896 (07770 764 896 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon. Or email us at dumteedum@mail.com How to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***** The Patreon feed for Dumteedum is at www.patreon.com/DumteedumPodcast and the subscription rate is £5.00 per calendar month plus VAT. We recommend that you do not sign up to Patreon using the Patreon app, particularly on iPhones and iPads, as Apple appears to be imposing a 50% surcharge which goes to them, not us. The problem doesn't arise if you go to Patreon through a browser - even if you do this on an iPhone, and once you have signed up, you can still use the Patreon app to listen to the ad-free podcasts.***** Also Sprach Zarathustra licence Creative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit." Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/ Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Boortz previews an upcoming debate over a potential value-added tax, warning that politicians could use the massive revenue it generates for more government spending rather than paying down the national debt. Boortz contrasts the VAT with the FairTax, which would replace existing federal taxes with a national retail sales tax, allowing workers to take home their full paychecks and only pay taxes when they spend money. He argues that the FairTax would also remove incentives for politicians to use the tax code as a source of political power.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Alex Moss and Burton DeWitt are back with a new episode of your go-to darts podcast after the latest Players Championship double header. The boys kick off the show with a look back at this week's ProTour action in Leicester, and discuss whether the world number one Luke Littler will qualify for the Players Championship Finals, and also pick out the players who caught their eye over the last few days. The JDC founder and chairman Steve Brown (22:42) joins the show to talk all things JDC. Steve chats about the new JDC World Darts Series announcement and the partnership with US Junior Darts and the CDC to grow junior darts in North America, as well as reflect on the last few years and how the 'Luke Littler Effect' has 'turbo-charged' the JDC's growth. Steve also talks about the opening of Hangar 61 earlier this year, his son Ashton's emergence as a player and much more. Alex and Burton continue their recap of the latest darts action with a look back at the last two weekends of World Series events Down Under, which saw Jonny Clayton and James Wade claim the titles and Australia's own Brody Klinge enjoy a breakthrough run to the final in his home event. The newly crowned Red Dragon Champion of Champions winner Connor Hopkins (55:39) also calls in to reflect on his memorable victory in Cardiff on Saturday. Connor talks through his win at the weekend, battling through a field of 250-odd players to win the title and join a roll of honour that includes Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton and Ryan Searle. Connor also discusses his darts career so far, beating the likes of Luke Littler and Henry Coates on the JDC Advanced Tour, his goals for the rest of 2026 and much more. The boys wrap up the show by discussing the Ally Pally race on the PDC Women's Series with just one weekend of events left of the season to go, and which players could potentially join Beau Greaves, Lisa Ashton and Fallon Sherrock in qualifying for the biggest tournament in darts this December. *** Get your own Alex Moss replica shirt (as worn by our co-host at the Las Vegas Open 2026) from DJD here! A % of the profits will be donated to The Ethan King Fund for Ewing Sarcoma Research *** This podcast is brought to you in association with Darts Corner - the number one online darts retailer! Darts Corner offers the widest selection of darts products from over 30 different manufacturers. This podcast is sponsored by Darts Atlas - the platform for darts players, venues, and organisations. Darts Atlas is the home of the Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) with hundreds of tournaments held on the platform every week. Have you used Darts Atlas before? Share your feedback and experiences with Darts Atlas with us by sending an email to weeklydartscast@gmail.com and be in with a chance of winning some new logo Weekly Dartscast stickers! Check out Condor Darts here: UK site *** Enjoy our podcast? Make a one-off donation on our new Ko-Fi page here: ko-fi.com/weeklydartscast Support us on Patreon from just $2(+VAT): patreon.com/WeeklyDartscast Thank you to our Patreon members: Phil Moss, Gordon Skinner, Connor Ellis
Boortz previews an upcoming debate over a potential value-added tax, warning that politicians could use the massive revenue it generates for more government spending rather than paying down the national debt. Boortz contrasts the VAT with the FairTax, which would replace existing federal taxes with a national retail sales tax, allowing workers to take home their full paychecks and only pay taxes when they spend money. He argues that the FairTax would also remove incentives for politicians to use the tax code as a source of political power.Atlanta's ONLY All Conservative News & Talk Station.: https://www.xtra1063.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Maytham is joined by Cape Town Mayor and DA mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis, following his pledge to create at least 500,000 additional jobs in Cape Town over the next five years. Hill-Lewis says this would take the city to one million additional jobs created since the DA took office, with the target being reached by 2031. Presenter John Maytham is an actor and author-turned-talk radio veteran and seasoned journalist. His show serves a round-up of local and international news coupled with the latest in business, sport, traffic and weather. The host’s eclectic interests mean the program often surprises the audience with intriguing book reviews and inspiring interviews profiling artists. A daily highlight is Rapid Fire, just after 5:30pm. CapeTalk fans call in, to stump the presenter with their general knowledge questions. Another firm favourite is the humorous Thursday crossing with award-winning journalist Rebecca Davis, called “Plan B”. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 and 18:00 (SA Time) to Afternoon Drive with John Maytham broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/BSFy4Cn or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/n8nWt4x Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In Paul's own words:In this conversation we discuss the writing of his latest novel and the thinking behind its creation. Then we move into Mark's latest focus on this realm, this earth, god, creation, reverse karma, loosh energy and how the psychopaths running the world seem to have figured out that being evil works for them.*If you have found value in my work and would like to support its continuation, please consider becoming one of my Patreon supporters which gets you access to exclusive content that I don't post elsewhere. You can join up here:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=113137448To support my output through Buy Me A Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/markdevlinTo support me via Paypal.com donation, find me at paypal.com under the e-mail address markdevlinuk@gmail.comNatural/ holistic health solutions from Clive De Carle, (purchasing through this link brings me a small share and helps support my work):https://clivedecarle.com/?sld=213Real gold bullion available from this source. (Tax-Free (CGT, VAT), Allocated and Segregated Storage (London/Zurich), Pension (SIPP) Gold, Buy Back Guarantee:https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/download-our-complimentary-guide-m-devlin/
Is Lyon, France the Most Livable City in Europe for Gay Retirees? With Eric WayIn this episode, host Mark Goldstein sits down with Eric Way, a Tennessee-born engineer who arrived in Lyon, France, in 1989 as a university exchange student and never left. Now approaching his 38th year in the city, Eric lives downtown in a 19th-century apartment with his French architect husband and splits time between Lyon and a farmhouse they own in the French Alps. He brings a rare depth of perspective: nearly four decades as an American expat, a career in corporate diversity and inclusion, and a front-row seat to how Lyon has evolved as a livable, gay-friendly city.This episode covers what it actually looks like to build a life in Lyon: the walkability, the world-ranked healthcare, the cost of living compared to Paris, the LGBTQ+ scene, the visa path, and the honest trade-offs.What Is LyonLyon is France's third-largest city, located in southeastern France at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, a geographic feature that gives the city two riverfront parks and a distinctive linear layout. It sits roughly two hours south of Paris by high-speed train and serves as a hub for reaching the French Alps, the Beaujolais wine region, Burgundy, the Riviera, and even Barcelona. The historic center, known as the Presqu'île (the peninsula), is a UNESCO World Heritage site dating back to the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. Lyon is widely considered the gastronomic capital of France.Why Eric Chose LyonEric arrived in 1989 on a one-year university exchange program and found something he did not expect: a city whose values matched his own. Coming from a fundamentalist Christian family in Tennessee and still in the process of coming out, he discovered in Lyon a culture of live-and-let-live tolerance that felt, in his words, freer than the United States. He stayed. A few years later, he met his husband. The rest, as he says, is history.LGBTQ+ LifeLyon has a visible but modest LGBTQ+ scene concentrated around the City Hall area on the Presqu'île. At the time of recording, there are two gay bars, a gay sauna, a sex club, and a bear bar reportedly opening within months. There is a city-sponsored LGBTQ+ center and an annual Pride march, though Eric notes that Lyon Pride has become more politically divided in recent years, with some organizers now refusing corporate participation. The broader city is deeply accepting. Eric and his husband have lived part-time in a 250-person Alpine village for years and describe being fully adopted by their elderly neighbors without a moment of discomfort. Among their friend group, gay and straight friendships naturally overlap, though, like many couples without children, their closest circle has become predominantly other gay couples over time.Daily Life and WalkabilityEric's doctor is three blocks away. His pharmacy, organic grocery store, bank, bakery, butcher, and eye care are all within one to two blocks. Outdoor markets run on Wednesdays and Sundays in his neighborhood. The metro system is efficient and growing, with a tram network expanding even faster. A single ticket costs approximately 2.30 euros and covers one hour of travel. Monthly passes run around 100 euros. Seniors receive rail discounts starting at age 60, often allowing first-class travel at second-class prices.Eric drives his older car into Lyon no more than 52 times per year under a city environmental permit system, which he now finds perfectly adequate since he is no longer working. Lyon's riverfront parks, pedestrian streets, and walkable neighborhoods make car ownership largely optional for daily life.Costs and HousingLyon is typically half the price of Paris for both rent and property. Eric and his husband purchased their 800-square-foot, two-bedroom downtown apartment approximately 30 years ago for about $35,000. It is now worth roughly ten times that. Their monthly electricity bill runs approximately 70 to 80 euros every two months; gas adds about 45 euros on top of that. France applies a 20% VAT on most purchases, which is worth factoring into any cost-of-living comparison.HealthcareFrance's healthcare system consistently ranks first in the world for quality, accessibility, and cost. A standard doctor visit costs 30 euros; specialist visits range from 70 to over 100 euros. Foreign residents access coverage through PUMA, France's universal health coverage, which applies to legal residents regardless of employment status. Most residents also carry a Mutuelle, a supplementary top-up insurance policy that covers what the national system does not. Eric pays approximately 250 euros per month for a Mutuelle covering both himself and his husband.Visas and ResidencyThe standard route for American retirees is a long-stay visitor visa, applied for through the French consulate in the United States before departure. Residents typically start with one-year renewals before eventually qualifying for a ten-year card. Eric notes that a recent change to French law has removed the citizenship pathway for non-working residents. Americans retiring to France on a visitor visa are unlikely to be eligible for naturalization under the current rules.France does not officially recognize a digital nomad visa. Eric cautions anyone planning to work remotely in France to take legal advice before doing so, as working without proper authorization carries real risk.TaxesThe US-France tax treaty is highly favorable for American retirees. If your income is US-sourced, France will generally not tax it, and you will continue paying US rates. Eric recommends working with both a US tax preparer and a French one, particularly for the first few years.One specific flag: France does not recognize trusts. If you have a trust established in the United States, you need professional advice before moving to France, as it will be taxed very unfavorably and may fall outside the treaty's protections.France also has a wealth tax on real estate holdings above approximately 1.2 million euros, and forced heirship laws that entitle children to a portion of your estate regardless of your wishes. Both are worth understanding before making the move.Crime and SafetyEric has lived in Lyon's city center for nearly four decades and describes feeling consistently safe. In that entire time, he recalls one incident in which he and his husband were briefly followed downtown and had to walk away quickly. France has a higher rate of property crime relative to the United States, but a significantly lower rate of violent crime and essentially no gun violence outside of hunting contexts. Responsible gun ownership is legally required: pistols for target shooting require a course and registration.Arts, Culture, and CommunityLyon has the second-largest fine arts museum in France outside the Louvre, a national orchestra, a Jean Nouvel-designed opera house, the Maison de la Danse (an internationally renowned contemporary dance center with a biennial festival), and rotating modern art exhibitions in repurposed industrial spaces. The Festival of Lights each December transforms the city's buildings into a four-day sound-and-light spectacle. June 21 brings the Fête de la Musique, a nationwide outdoor concert event where every square in the city fills with live music from classical to rock to jazz.What to Know Before You GoFrench is essential. Eric is direct about this: people who arrive expecting to get by on a few phrases or believing fluency will come by osmosis are setting themselves up for frustration and social isolation. He recommends investing in one-on-one instruction before you arrive, not after. Jumpspeak is his suggested app for building conversational fluency.The climate has four seasons: mild winters with rare snow, pleasant springs and autumns, and summers that are warming noticeably due to climate change. Eric manages without air conditioning through insulation techniques, though newer and renovated buildings increasingly have heat pumps that provide cooling as a byproduct.Lyon rewards people who want to get out and explore. The city sits at the gateway to the Alps, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Provence, the Riviera, Switzerland, and Italy. Eric and his husband once went bungee jumping in the Alps, drove to Italy for pasta for dinner, and were home in Lyon that night. For those who prefer to stay closer to home, the outdoor markets, river walks, and restaurant scene are enough to fill a very good life.Resources MentionedPresqu'ile: Lyon's central peninsula neighborhood between the Rhone and Saone rivers Perrache: The original Lyon train station, three minutes from Eric's apartment Fourviere: The hilltop with Lyon's famous basilica and Roman ruins Beaujolais vineyards: 30 minutes from Lyon; beautiful in autumn Albertville: Near Eric's Alpine farmhouse; site of the 1992 Winter Olympics Festival of Lights (Fete des Lumieres): Annual four-day light installation festival each December Fete de la Musique: June 21, nationwide outdoor music festival Maison de la Danse: Lyon's internationally recognized contemporary dance center PUMA: France's universal health coverage for residents Mutuelle: Supplementary insurance that tops up public healthcare coverage PACS: French civil partnership; same tax treatment as marriage, with one exception: survivor pension rights do not transfer unless married Jumpspeak: Language learning app recommended by Eric for conversational FrenchListen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts, on YouTube, or at
In this episode, we reopen a 2,000-year-old early Christian cold case to examine Marcion of Sinope, the Pontic shipowner who compiled the world's very first Christian canon in 144 AD. Traditional church history has long branded him a dangerous heretic who taught Ditheism, Docetism, and Gnosticism while hacking the Gospel of Luke to pieces. However, a groundbreaking study by Professor A.W. Mitchell in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21985332) turns this ancient narrative completely on its head, revealing that the accusations were merely polemical caricatures invented by hostile heresy-hunters. We dive deep into the forensic literary evidence proving that Marcion did not "mutilate" the Gospel of Luke; rather, canonical Luke is a later, heavily edited, and Judaized expansion of Marcion's earlier, shorter Evangelion. We will dissect how the legendary 30-year "silent years" of Jesus' life are actually structural scar tissue left behind by editors attempting to graft a biological birth narrative onto a primitive, cosmic descent gospel. Finally, we reveal how the chief accuser Tertullian was too textually unstable to be trusted, and how even Jerome's Latin Vulgate project secretly raided Marcion's archives to translate the epistles of Paul. It's an eye-opening journey into the psychology of ancient theological projection, showing that the history of the New Testament actually runs backwards.Notes:The Very First Bible: The Evangelion and Apostolikon (144 AD). Marcionite Church, 2020. ISBN 978-0578641591.Tertullian. Adversus Marcionem. Ed. and trans. Ernest Evans. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972.Irenaeus. Adversus Haereses. In Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885.Epiphanius. Panarion, Book 42. Trans. Frank Williams. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I. 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2009.Lactantius. De Mortibus Persecutorum, 12.3–5.Le Bas, Philippe, and William H. Waddington. Inscriptions grecques et latines recueillies en Grèce et en Asie Mineure. Vol. 3, Inscription 2558. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1870. [Deir Ali / Lebaba inscription, 318 AD.]Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Codex Vaticanus Arch. B. S. Pietro A 3 (Vat. lat. 214664). Digital Vatican Library. https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/214664BeDuhn, Jason D. The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2013.Harnack, Adolf von. Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God. Trans. John E. Steely and Lyle D. Bierma. Durham, NC: Labyrinth Press, 1990. (Orig. German ed. 1921/1924.)Hays, Christopher M. “Marcion vs. Luke: A Response to the Plädoyer of Matthias Klinghardt.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 99 (2008): 213–232.Kelama, Darren, and A. W. Mitchell. “The 29 AD Eclipse-Seismic Theophany: Astronomical and Historical Evidence for the Primitive Christian Evangelion and the Resolution of the Phlegonian Conflation.” Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies 2/1 (2026). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18291492.Klinghardt, Matthias. The Oldest Gospel and the Formation of the Canonical Gospels. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. (Orig. German ed. 2015.)Knox, John. Marcion and the New Testament: An Essay in the Early History of the Canon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942.Lieu, Judith. Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Mitchell, A. W. “The Theophanic Replacement Protocol: A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene Christianity.” Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies 1/5 (2025). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17964659.MarcioniteChurch.org
After the death of both her parents best-selling novelist Louise Doughty made a startling discovery whilst clearing out the family home. Inside a black suitcase, she stumbled upon a treasure trove of letters that revealed the origins of her parents' love affair. She joins Nuala McGovern to discuss her first memoir On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love described as a portrait of grief and loss and family – and a love story.More information has been released about the crash that happened on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday morning - when a car travelling in the wrong direction crashed into a police vehicle, killing two officers and the 5 teenage boys in the other car. This after a similar incident last week in County Kildare in Ireland. There's a growing concern that social media trends are encouraging young people to drive dangerously and stream risk-taking videos online. We hear from Dr Paula Bradbury - who's a senior research fellow at University of East London. Paula has spent last 2 decades working in online harms, specialising in adolescent behaviour. Skin cancer rates have been rising steadily in the UK and, while men are slightly more likely to be diagnosed overall, younger women face a higher risk than men of the same age. One woman is calling on the government to scrap VAT on sunscreen after being diagnosed with skin cancer at the age of 26. Jessica Zbinden-Webster explains more while on her way to Downing street with her petition.Scotland's overcrowded prison system is facing a deepening crisis, but a different approach to custody for women is showing early signs of cutting reoffending. The Lilias community custody unit in Glasgow is designed for women who require lower levels of supervision. Paula Arnold, Governor of HMP & Youth Offenders Institute Stirling, and responsible for the unit explains what these units offer.British boxer Chantelle Cameron is Britain's first female undisputed boxing champion of the four-belt era, and the current WBO super-welterweight world champion. Next Saturday she'll meet American Mikaela Mayer for a unification fight to win three super-welterweight world titles in Birmingham. She joins Nuala to talk about why she believes women should be fighting three-minute rounds, and why this weekend could be one of the most important nights of her career. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Kirsty Starkey
This week's podcast is presented by Lakey Hill Liminal and Stephen. We hear from: · Claire from Clapham, who was impressed by Azra and Akram;· Jo and John, with thoughts on Ruth andKhalil, and on the situation at Willow Farm;· Leigh from Cookham, who was very much notimpressed by Ruth;· Witherspoon, with his perspective on Ruth;· Glyn, who also has views on Ruth, butalso has an opinion on Eddie Grundy;· Jacqueline from St Gwen, with thoughts onLynda and her reaction to the loss of Monty and to Diane, the B&B guest;· Bill from Coventry possibly a first-timecaller-innerer, who enjoyed the writing this week;· And finally Christopher, with what hethinks might be an unpopular opinion about Thursday's events;We havean email from Vicky, and we will hear a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook groupfrom Michelle, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the roundup of this Week in Ambridge, from Suey.Please call into the show using this link:www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Or send us a voicenote via WhatsApp on: +44 7770 764 896 (07770 764 896 if in the UK) – Open the WhatsApp app, key in the number and click on the microphone icon. Or email us at dumteedum@mail.com How to leave a review on Apple podcasts: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/podcasts/pod5facd9d70/mac***** The Patreon feed for Dumteedum is at www.patreon.com/DumteedumPodcast and the subscription rate is £5.00 per calendar month plus VAT. We recommend that you do not sign up to Patreon using the Patreon app, particularly on iPhones and iPads, as Apple appears to be imposing a 50% surcharge which goes to them, not us. The problem doesn't arise if you go to Patreon through a browser - even if you do this on an iPhone, and once you have signed up, you can still use the Patreon app to listen to the ad-free podcasts.***** Also Sprach Zarathustra licence Creative Commons ► Attribution 3.0 Unported ► CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..."You are free to use, remix, transform, and build upon the materialfor any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit." Conducted byPhilip Milman ► https://pmmusic.pro/ Funded ByLudwig ► / ludwigahgren Schlatt ► / jschlattlive COMPOSED BY / @officialphilman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21 Aug 2026. UAE companies claiming VAT refunds will need to verify their suppliers under new rules coming into force from 1 October. The Federal Tax Authority is asking businesses to check who they’re buying from before claiming input tax back. Tax expert Thomas Vanhee, Founding Partner at Aurifer, on what it all means. Plus, it’s back to school. We speak to the boss of the newly opened Harrow School and one university head about what the new academic year holdsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're three months into the podcast (five if you count the planning), and I wanted to do something different for this one: an unfiltered chat with my producer Stefan.In this episode, we get into: Why I chose Mollie's over a studio, and the branding lesson I took from watching Steven Bartlett build a recognisable set from his own flat The advice from Heather Elkington that changed how I thought about building "Katy" into a business (and gave me permission to spend a year just f***ing around first) What impact actually means to me when I'm choosing podcast guests, and why I want more "number twos" on the show, not just founders The realities nobody talks about when you go solo: paying your own tax, your VAT, your mortgage, and still trying to live a life while you do it Why I nearly walked back into employment, and what stopped me Business as choosing your own kind of hard, and why the "risk vs reward" conversation misses the point Why every business owner needs their cheerleaders, and what Karen Blackett taught me about the loneliness of leadership My "boost folder" method for using imposter syndrome as fuel instead of letting it flatten you This one's less about the milestones and more about the messy middle. If you've ever built something on your own and quietly wondered if it's worth it, this episode is for you.
They chased one brand for eighteen months. It's now their bestseller. Here's what finally made it say yes — and what makes a buyer quietly drop you. Alyssa Iaquinto and Lily Quenneville barely knew each other when they decided to open a shop together. Three years on, ROVE London sits at 333 Portobello Road, stocking Dôen, Simkhai, Posse, St. Agni, Tressé and a rotating cast of brands you genuinely cannot buy anywhere else in the UK. But this isn't really an episode about opening a shop. Alyssa and Lily are buyers. They are the person on the other end of the wholesale email you've been sending. And in this conversation they say out loud the things brands almost never get to hear: why they say yes, why they say no, what makes them drop a brand, and exactly what a late delivery does to a boutique's margin. What we get into: • The chicken-and-egg problem of stocking a brand-new boutique — and the one brand that said yes first and unlocked all the others • Why Dôen took eighteen months of follow-ups, and why that's actually a compliment • The real reason brands said no: no trading history, no website, not a single social post • The thing they'd genuinely go back and change, which is the same regret I hear from founders constantly • What actually happens on a buying trip — the 6am Eurostar, three days of back-to-back appointments, and why two buyers in the same showroom walk out with completely different edits • How the data/intuition split shifted from 100/0 to 50/50, and why their numbers never tell the whole story • What to do when you get a buy badly wrong and nobody wants the thing you bought fifteen of • The screenshot bit: what makes a brand a joy to work with, and what makes one a nightmare. Spoiler — it isn't the design or the price • A dress due in January that landed in July, and what that does to a selling window • Why they turned down a street full of big names to sit among independents and vintage shops instead Alyssa and Lily are also both inside Magnetic, so I get to watch them do this properly week to week. The bit I keep coming back to: they answer customer WhatsApps at midnight. One of them took a customer's call on the Tube. You can never get that on Amazon — so do what Amazon can't. FIND ROVE LONDON Shop: 333 Portobello Road, London W10 5SA Online: https://rove-london.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rove_london/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rove_london BRANDS MENTIONED Dôen · Simkhai · Tressé · Posse · St. Agni · Staud · Faithfull the Brand · Agolde · Soft Goat · Le Scarf. Also name-checked as customer requests: SIR. and DISSH. WORK WITH ELIZABETH Magnetic — my six-month marketing accelerator for fashion businesses. We build an organic marketing strategy from scratch and then put it into action together. A small handful of spaces left for September 2026 — email hi@elizabethstiles.co.uk and we'll have a chat. https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk/magnetic-open The Scaling Project — six months of 1:1 mentoring for established, VAT-registered brands https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk/level-up Free resources: https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk/freebies The Fashion Feed — my free weekly newsletter and Facebook group Fashion Marketing Live 2027 — Monday 15 March 2027. The first one sold out in 24 hours, so get on the waitlist via the menu at https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk The Shopping Forecast — my other podcast, with Catherine Erdly: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-shopping-forecast/id6787894258
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If you're a regular Rosebud listener, you'll know that we have a private members' club, called The Rosebud Family. The Rosebud Family gives anyone who loves Rosebud a range of benefits: ad-free listening to all the main Rosebud episodes, and a different, brilliant bonus episode every Sunday. We'd love you to join - it's a chance for you to enjoy even more Rosebud, and to hear some really hilarious and unguarded Gyles and Harriet chat every week. It costs £4.99 per month plus VAT to join the Rosebud Family - and we hope today's episode will showcase some of the brilliant things you'd get if you joined!And that's because, today on More Rosebud, we're giving regular listeners chance to hear the most recent special episode we released to the Rosebud Family last Sunday... The episode you're going to hear today is part of our monthly "Down Memory Lane" strand, in which we chat about a different subject each week and discuss how it has manifested itself in our pasts. The episode we're giving you today is all about dreams and nightmares, and it's a lot of fun: it takes in Gyles's most recent anxiety dreams, Harriet's erstwhile obsession with Jeremy Vine, and a romantic dream she once had about the ex-Radio 2 DJ Simon Mayo.If you'd like to join the Rosebud family, you can do so by visiting www.patreon.com/rosebud, or clicking here.Enjoy this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's ev.news Briefly for Wednesday 05 August 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnewsAUDI STRIPS BACK A2 E-TRON CAMOUFLAGEAudi has removed most camouflage from the A2 e-tron ahead of an autumn world premiere, calling it the most efficient car it has ever built, with the 140 kW efficiency-package variant quoting provisional WLTP consumption of 12.8 kWh/100 km (4.85 miles per kWh) from a 61 kWh gross/58 kWh net LFP cell-to-pack battery, aided by active cool-air intakes, air curtains, gap reducers, silicon-carbide power electronics and 89.6% wallbox charging efficiency. DC charging peaks at 105 kW with a 26-minute 10–80% charge, V2L supplies 2.3 kW and V2H is offered, and three packs of 50, 58 and 79 kWh are expected using the VW Group APP350 drive unit on the updated MEB platform rather than MEB+.EVGO GROWS IN TOWNS AND ON MOTORWAYSEVgo will add more than 500 DC fast-charging stalls at Brixmor Property Group shopping centres, covering at least 90 sites and over a quarter of Brixmor's retail portfolio, starting later this year at Barn Plaza near Philadelphia with further builds in Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, many with up to 12 high-power stalls. Its highway venture with Pilot Company and General Motors, launched in 2022, has now passed 300 locations and roughly 1,300 stalls across 40 states and about 75% of the contiguous US, more than halfway to a target of up to 2,000 stalls at 500 sites, and on 5 August 2026 EVgo said it will add Tesla V4 Superchargers to its network.RIVIAN PUTS VOICE CONTROL BEHIND PAYWALLRivian switched off Amazon's Alexa across its entire fleet on Monday 3 August 2026, retiring Alexa Built-in from 4 August and leaving voice control available only through Rivian Assistant, which runs on Google's Gemini and requires a Connect+ subscription at $14.99 a month (about £11) or $149.99 a year (about £112). Previously free voice calls and messages now sit behind that paywall, along with the loss of Alexa-linked Amazon Music, Pandora and smart-home controls, though touchscreen and Bluetooth dialling remain, and the move follows Rivian charging for hands-free driving from April via Autonomy+ at $49.99 a month or $2,500 outright, despite Amazon being Rivian's second-largest shareholder.ID. BUZZ CARGO GETS CHEAPER, GOES FURTHERVolkswagen Commercial Vehicles has replaced the ID. Buzz Cargo's entry 59kWh pack with a new 58kWh unit shared with the ID.3 Neo, lifting WLTP range from 201 miles (323km) to 218 miles (351km) through cell chemistry and efficiency rather than extra capacity, while cutting the price to £29,995 excluding VAT, £5,655 less than before, with the £5,000 Plug-in Van Grant bringing the effective entry price close to £25,000 and Contract Hire from £239 a month. Charging peaks at 105kW for a 26-minute 10-80% top-up, the 79kWh version is unchanged at 277 miles (446km) and 185kW, and vehicle-to-load arrives across the range supplying 2.0kW continuously and 3.6kW peak at 16A/240V through a three-pin loadspace socket.KONA ELECTRIC GETS FULL UK EV GRANTHyundai Motor UK has moved the Kona Electric from Band 2 to Band 1 of the Electric Car Grant, raising its discount from £1,500 ($2,010) to the full £3,750 ($5,025). With a list price of £35,000 ($46,900), the model now starts at £31,250 ($41,875) with the grant applied.TESLA JULY EUROPE DATA SPLITS SHARPLYTesla's July European registrations diverged sharply, rising 86% year on year in France and 52% in Denmark, while falling 97% in Norway, 60% in Sweden and 81% in Spain, where just 131 cars were registered. Spain illustrates the underlying weakness, with Tesla up 19.8% year to date through July against a 34.9% rise in the electrified market, and Matthias Schmidt of Schmidt Automotive attributing the pattern to Tesla steering allocation towards incentive-rich markets such as Germany and France, with German volumes potentially jumping in the second half of 2026.UK BEV SHARE HITS 27.4%UK battery-electric registrations rose 49% to 43,547 units in July, taking a 27.4% market share according to NewAutomotive, while petrol registrations fell 8.2% and diesel dropped 10.6%. Chinese brands took 16% of the UK new-car market in the month, led by MG, Omoda, Jaecoo and BYD.BRITTANY FERRIES STARTS PORTSMOUTH SHORE POWERBrittany Ferries will begin using shore power at Portsmouth International Port from Monday with two hybrid vessels, activating a system completed late last year that had sat idle due to a delayed grid connection and months of negotiation over financial terms, since plugging in costs more than burning marine fuel. Chief executive Christophe Mathieu called it a milestone that unlocks the potential of the Channel's greenest vessels and makes the company a better neighbour to Portsmouth residents, while urging government tax breaks, as Portsmouth becomes home to the UK ports industry's first multi-berth, multi-user shore power system.US ARMY PICKS HARBRINGER HYBRID UGV PLATFORMThe US Army has awarded American Rheinmetall an 18-month contract to build and deliver next-generation uncrewed ground vehicles under Project Sustainment, using California firm Harbinger's Praesidia series-hybrid powertrain, which pairs a high-torque electric motor with a compact petrol engine that charges the battery but has no mechanical link to the wheels. Praesidia can export up to 350 kW to external systems, with 48 kW continuous from the engine and 15 kW split-phase AC from an onboard inverter, and Harbinger claims over 500 miles (805 km) on a full tank and charge, including roughly 105 miles (169 km) on electricity alone, with the architecture suiting silent-watch operation where acoustic signature matters.
How can content marketing in a tight niche build the audience that launches your book? And how do you decide whether to hand your self-published bestseller to a traditional publisher. Suzanne Smith shares what she learned in four years of going from blog to book deal. In the intro, how to stand out as a writer in the age of AI [Nathan Barry Show; Interview with Nathan Barry]; thoughts on asset maintenance; Goodreads giveaway on Bones of the Deep (Aug 5-20, 2026) This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Suzanne Smith is the founder of The Independent Landlord, and the bestselling author of The Good Landlord Handbook. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes How a free blog in a tight niche built the audience for the book Rewriting the book from scratch when the law changed Why speed made self-publishing the only option Building a paid membership after one audience member asked for it Negotiating a Penguin Random House deal with no agent Using AI as a business sidekick, with a control room and an engine room You can find Suzanne at TheIndependentLandlord.com. Transcript of the interview with Suzanne Smith Jo: Suzanne Smith is the founder of The Independent Landlord, and the bestselling author of The Good Landlord Handbook. So welcome to the show, Suzanne. Suzanne: Thank you. Jo: Oh, there's so much to talk about today. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and your background, and how you got into property and writing after a legal career. Suzanne: Well, I've always loved reading books. In fact, I recently did a French literature degree as a mature student. Being an author was never in the game plan at all. It's not something that I even thought about. I was brought up in New Zealand, so shout out to all the Kiwis and those across the pond in Australia. The thing about it is, Jo, you've lived there yourself. Kiwis are independent, self-reliant and have this great sense of fair play. So that was a very formative experience for me. We moved back to England when I was 16, and I have become thoroughly anglicised since then, but a Kiwi at heart. I always wanted to become a lawyer. New Zealand in some ways on television is quite American, and there was this American programme called The Paper Chase. It was about all of these students at Harvard studying law, and the professor said, “You come here with a skull full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer.” I thought, “Oh, I like the sound of that.” I didn't really know what a lawyer was, but everyone seemed to be very happy that I wanted to become one, and then that was it. Jo: So you went into law, and then how did you get into property? Suzanne: So I worked for 25 years as a solicitor. That's like an attorney if you're American. Started off in a law firm, and then I went into pharmaceuticals and I worked for big companies like what is now GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, and small companies as well. When I started out, it was before the internet, before Google. When you're in house, you're very much a generalist. You do a bit of everything. So you help companies grow their business. You're not business prevention, but you're still bound by the code of conduct for solicitors. You've got this role of keeping the company on the right side of the law. Then I had twins, who were born about five years after I became a lawyer, and I decided to work part-time for a while and did an MBA when they were little, part-time through the Open University. I know Jonathan is doing one at the moment. Jo: Yes. He's finished, so that's exciting. Suzanne: That was transformational for me, because I had probably been thinking a bit too much as a lawyer, and it helped me to broaden my view of the world and understand all sorts of things. Sso I continued going up the greasy pole, and then for my last job, in 2015, I joined a biotech company in Cambridge, England, as general counsel and company secretary. It was a long way from home, about two, three hours' drive from home. So I decided to buy a flat, an apartment, and to stay there in the week. I thought to myself, “Well, when I leave this company, I can let it out as a buy-to-let,” but actually as a landlord. So I stayed there for five years, and then when I left, I let out the property. The reason why I decided to leave law after 25 years, I had what I call a sliding doors moment, like in the film. I was 50. I was on holiday with my husband, and we'd probably had one too many rum cocktails. And he said to me, “Well, what do you want to be doing with your life? What would you do if you could do anything?” I was thinking, “Well, I've done law. I want to do something else now.” I didn't really know what that was, and I'd always been thinking about studying French properly, and that's when I left. So I decided, 18 months later, I left to do a French degree at King's College London, full-time. I was the only old person there with lots of 18-year-olds. When I did that, I was able to cash in my share options because I was a good leaver. I retired, and so I started buying properties to let out and became a landlord, without really thinking too much about it, and I used letting agents. They were fine to begin with, but I didn't really have a game plan or anything like that. What I realised is that when I tried to research things online, I couldn't really find anything that was terribly helpful. It was either quite general or it was very legal. So after a while… I became a landlord in 2019. I had the idea, why don't I set up a blog? And this is August 2022, so just four years ago. My husband came up with the idea of the name, The Independent Landlord, because it's that Kiwi spirit, being very independent. I thought, “Right, I'm not going to charge anyone for it. It's a hobby. It's not a business. I'm going to pay it forward and help, use my legal training, practical legal approach, and practical common sense, by doing this blog.” Almost exactly four years ago, I sent my first newsletter to 13 people. Jo: Woo-hoo. Suzanne: And I sent one last week to over 18,000. So it's been quite a journey. Jo: Wow, this is so great. I love this. There's so much in there. The turning 50 and then doing a degree. My master's in death is a little different to your French literature, but I like it. So I love this, and buying properties, starting it on the side, not a business at first, and growing the audience, and obviously you've put so much work in. Then you decide to write a book. So talk about that, because an online blog, although I'm sure your articles and everything were super useful, it's very different to write a blog than a book. So talk about your challenges in writing. Why did you decide to do a book in the first place? Suzanne: Again, I was an accidental landlord, is what they call it when you let a property when you didn't intend to buy it as a buy-to-let, which I did with my Cambridge flat. And I became, in many respects, an accidental author. So I was having a conversation with my husband again and I was saying I'd done this lead magnet to get people to sign up to my newsletter, and a big new law was going through Parliament at the time, called the Renters Reform Bill, that was going to completely transform the way landlords operate. I was saying to my husband, “Oh, I need to update my lead magnet, a little ebook, to explain the new law.” He looked at me and said, “Well, why don't you do a proper book? Write a book.” This was on the 29th of September, 2023. The reason why I mention that is that I thought, “Wow, what a great idea,” and my head was bursting. I went onto Google, and guess what I downloaded on the 1st of October? Jo: My blueprint? Suzanne: Exactly. I found you immediately, the Author Blueprint, and I downloaded it. I checked: on the 1st of October, 2023. Then I listened to almost… well, I think I went back several years on your podcast, just trying to understand. I'm like that. When I try and do something, I just try and learn everything that there is to know about it. So I started writing the book, and I guess the first challenge was I write quickly, and I'm used to writing for people who aren't lawyers, being in-house. So I thought I needed to have a structure. The structure was easy in many respects because, a bit of business at the end, and then you can go through a tenancy. I thought it was important to have a narrative thread all the way through it, just to bring it together. This is the literature degree coming in here. I thought that the mission for everything I do, the reason why I started doing this, is to help landlords, but also to help the experience of renting that people have in England. It's very specific for English law. And to help improve the private rented sector. So that's why I originally set up my blog for free, and I wanted, when people went onto Google, they could find something sensible and very detailed from me. My blog posts were… Well, I've now got over 400,000 words on my blog, so it's a substantial piece of work that is out there free of charge. So what I decided to do was to bring this narrative thread, I call it the good landlord ethos, to the book. Then I wrote very quickly, and I had a pretty good draft by April 2024, because we were all thinking that the law was going to change very soon. But then there was an election, and in the end the government changed and the legislation changed completely, so I had to rewrite the book and start again. So I think that my biggest challenge was that my subject matter, the new law, changed. Because I wanted to publish this book that explained to people practically what they have to do, and make it really straightforward, keeping out of politics, because it is a very politically charged area. I wanted to write it so it's a manual, somebody could literally follow it. So I used an editor, and I did write the book twice. I had a beta reader who is another lawyer, and a landlord as well. Then I got to the get-the-damn-thing-done stage. The really tedious bit of all the typos at the end. Jo: Yes, the finishing energy to get it out there. So at that point, obviously you'd found my blueprint, so you were learning about the indie way of doing things. Did you always decide to self-publish? How did you think about publishing? What were your challenges in publishing? Suzanne: It never occurred to me not to self-publish, because the new law came into effect on the 1st of May, 2026. The law and the details that I needed for the book were finalised in January, and I published on Amazon on the 5th of March, so I had to go so quickly. Even though I'd got a lot of it written, the last bit came in January, and so I needed speed. I knew that for landlords to be able to have something that they can use straightaway to help get them ready for it, and then use as a manual afterwards, I had to be first. Jo: Sorry, just on the year. Was it '24? You said '26. You meant May— Suzanne: 2024? No, no, because I actually published it this year. What happened in 2024, I had the first draft ready, but then I had to do another draft because the law changed when the Labour government came in. Jo: Right. Suzanne: The Renters Reform Bill turned into the Renters' Rights Bill. So I had to rewrite the book. So I finished however many drafts at the end of January 2026. Then it went to an editor, et cetera, et cetera, and I managed to get the book ready for a proof, to get the proof printed, towards the end of February. So it was really quick to go from the law being sufficiently finalised for me to write a book in January, and then having it ready in just over a month. There is no way that I could have done that if I'd gone to a traditional publisher. It didn't even occur to me to go, because I didn't want to be going touting around my book and, “Please publish me,” et cetera. It's just not me. I'm the independent landlord, and that moved very easily to being the independent publisher. So I learnt how to do all the publishing. And a huge thanks: I joined your Patreon and I was a very good student. I went through everything systematically and followed your playbook, and used Vellum and BookFunnel and all the other tools. So I decided to go on Amazon as well as have my own Shopify store, which just about killed me. Jo: I was going to say, you are an excellent student. You really like learning, but you also put this into practice, which is why I also wanted to talk to you. You haven't just talked about all this. You've literally done everything. Suzanne: Sometimes it was like my head was going to burst. Luckily, Claude upped his game earlier this year when we got the Opus 4.5. I didn't use AI really until this year. I decided I need to do exercise all the time, and have that as a have-to-do, because my head was spinning all the time with all these different things. So I would go to the gym, go to a spin class, and then I would walk out with my phone on, with the Claude app, and dictate a stream of consciousness into it. “Oh, I need to do this, or what about that? Oh, I just remembered about this. Oh, I've had this idea, blah.” And then said, “Make sense of it for me, Claude.” So it was very much as a thinking partner, because when you're writing your first book, it's bad enough, but when you're learning how to publish… Even, like, when I got the first proof of the book back from BookVault, I realised that all the footnotes—I have 114 footnotes in my book, and that, again, is the recent degree there—and the formatting had gone skew-whiff. Apparently it was an issue with Vellum, and they were really lovely and they sorted it straight out for me. So it shows: always get a proof of the book. They were able to sort that out very quickly, and BookVault were very quick in getting me another proof, because you can shortcut it and just pay to get a very quick delivery. Amazon, on the other hand, was really slow. It took a week. So I actually published earlier on my Shopify store for my members, of my membership, and I gave them a discount. Then I finally got it onto Amazon on the 5th of March. There are all these different skills you're having to learn. The Shopify store I found very hard, and there was all the tax, because I'm VAT registered. So I think I'm still recovering. Jo: You're still recovering. I wouldn't normally recommend a Shopify store for someone with their first book, doing first of everything. But, as you say, you're someone who learns a lot, puts it into practice, and— I think you were pretty determined to do that because you had a community as well, right? Suzanne: Exactly, yes. The big subscriber list. I think that's why the book did so well. So in the first week, because I met you at the Indie Author Lab put on by— Jo: Yes, London Book Fair, yes. Suzanne: Yes, the Alliance of Independent Authors. I met you there, and it was just my first week, and I had 1,000 sales in the first week. That was because of my audience. I'd been going on about the fact that I'm writing this book for two and a half years, because that's how long it took me to do. So I had a wait list for it, and I had a thing on my website, a landing page on my website, saying how good the book was and why it's the best thing for the Renters' Rights Act. Then I went onto Google, and I think I sent you a screenshot of this at the time. I put into Google, “What's the best book for the Renters' Rights Act for landlords in England?” And it came up with me as a featured snippet, and I hadn't even published it at that time. It was just about there. So the blog really helped, because I'd become an authority on the Renters' Rights Act. Even though I'm not a practising solicitor any more, I spent all my time reading the damn thing, and it is a very complicated bit of legislation. Funnily enough, I have ruffled a lot of feathers. People have even said about me behind my back, “What does she know? She's only got four properties.” But I just took no notice. I thought, “I'm going to try and use my legal brain and my understanding of what it's like being a landlord, there with the rubber gloves cleaning an oven when people have moved out, and try and write something that's not trying to sell anything else, and to help people.” And then it got picked up. Jo: Yes. Wait, let's just slow down. Slow down, because we will get onto that in a minute. But let's just come back to that launch. So as we talked about, you've had a blog for five years— Suzanne: It was three and a half by then. Jo: Three and a half years you've been blogging, but hundreds of thousands of words of useful information. So you've essentially done content marketing. You've attracted people. You had a lead magnet. You got them on your email list. You told them that you were writing a book. You got a sort of pre-sales list up. So that's an email list. You've got a blog. Did you do anything else in terms of marketing? Suzanne: I had YouTube, a big YouTube channel. I'd only set it up at the end of 2024, and I'd had half a million views. And again, just very straightforward advice, and without all the scaremongering and politics. I deliberately keep out of it all. A lot of people joined my newsletter as a result of that. Also a year ago, exactly today, I was running a Facebook group, which was a lot of hard work. There were a few thousand people in it, but there are often a lot of people going in there trying to sell things: insurance, eviction specialists and things. And there was also a lot of people just being unpleasant to other people. I was getting fed up with it. It was taking me a lot of time, and I was doing a lot of speaking events and trying to explain what this new law was doing, and wearing myself out. I'm an extrovert, but even I find speaking events absolutely exhausting, because it's like everything gets sucked out of you. It's strange. Then somebody came up to me in July last year and said, “Suzanne, can you set up a membership?” I said, “Well, landlords aren't going to pay for that.” And they said, “Yes, they will. You build it and they will come.” I asked ChatGPT and thought about it. I asked ChatGPT, who I was dating at the time, now exclusively with Claude, but I know Claude has other people in his life. But I'm very much set with Claude Fable at the moment. So I asked ChatGPT, how can I go about setting up a membership? And I mentioned your one and said, “Should I do it on Patreon?” And then he came back with: go for Circle. So I set up a membership on Circle, exactly a year ago. In fact, it's the anniversary of my first member yesterday. hTe rules I had were, no selling. So I don't sell, no affiliate links, no one else can sell anything, and we have to be supportive. No negativity, no politics. So what it's become, it's like the senior common room of the private rented sector, with landlords, lawyers, letting agents. There's a fantastic forum in there. It's not me doing it, it's peer-to-peer. I have twice-monthly live streams where people can ask me questions. I wonder where I got that from. No, I very much modelled it on your Patreon, but on a different platform. I have courses in there as well. So that has really grown. I launched it in July, and by September, October, I'd gone past the VAT threshold, which has complicated everything, but it means my business now is this membership. I really enjoy doing it, and there hasn't been all the negativity that you have in a Facebook group. So I had them as… talk about your thousand fans. There are about 1,500 in the membership, and their support really helped the launch of my book, as well as the wider people who get my free newsletter. Jo: Yes. Suzanne: So it's all different types of content marketing. Jo: Y, but I do love this. And of course, if people are wondering, I joined Patreon back in 2014, I think it might have even been before that, and there weren't too many places back then to run communities. It wasn't even really a community at the time, it was a sort of, almost a “give me a bit of support for the podcast.” So things have changed a lot in terms of communities, and obviously you went with Circle, which is great. Patreon is slightly different now, and some people are using Substack for something similar. So that's just on the platform, but on the business: early on in our conversation you said, “I wasn't going to have a business. It wasn't a business. It was just putting stuff out there, helping other people,” and then your audience asked for this membership. And so now it is a business, right? Suzanne: Yes, it is. Jo: And you've got a book and all of this. So are you happy with the change to a business? Because obviously you have to treat it quite differently. Suzanne: Yes, I am, because I think to begin with, I was just doing it one or two days a week. I was actually studying a master's in French literature part-time, and I then found that I was enjoying the blog more than the master's, so I dumped the master's after the first year. But after getting 88% for one of my dissertations, which interestingly was on the translation of a Simone de Beauvoir book into English, and the publisher who's got that now is Random House, but that's another thing. Anyway, so I decided to give up my master's and double down and work full-time on the blog. People were paying to help me with all the big fees and things, the big tech stack, Buy Me a Coffee. I was doing a little bit of consulting and things. I was working six, seven days a week. I was treating it like a business in terms of quality and my effort, but it wasn't a business in terms of revenue. Then it just all came together, and this person said, “Set up a membership,” and I thought, “That's what I'm going to do. I'm now going to put it on a business setting.” I've got an MBA, I know how to do it, and people thought I planned it, but I didn't. It just happened. So now I do very much treat it as a business, but I still don't advertise. I don't allow people to advertise with me, because I want to be independent. If I recommend something, I want people to believe it's me recommending it, not just because someone's paying me, which can be a big issue in the landlord area. Jo: Oh, in any industry. I get pitched every day with loads of random things that people are like, “Oh, a dollar a click or whatever, if you send this to your list.” And it's like, seriously? Just stop it already. I did just want to add there: somebody asked you, they said, “You should have a community,” and that sparked that idea. I just wanted to acknowledge that my Patreon came from Jim Kukral. Some of you will remember, who've been around a long time. Jim Kukral came on my blog around sort of 2013. Amanda Palmer had just put out a book called The Art of Asking, and I was doing a lot of unpaid work on the podcast at the time, and I was either going to give it up or I had to fund it somehow. Jim said, “You should do a Patreon.” And I was like, “Oh, no, I hate asking for money.” So at the time I just felt, oh, weird. Then I was like, “No, I do all this work,” as you were saying. Now the Patreon has changed so much in terms of what it is, but it is the backbone of my business, too. So I love that you listened to one of your fans who said what they wanted, and I love that I've listened as well. Sometimes we just have to listen to those urges, don't we, to take things on? Suzanne: Yes, absolutely. In some ways I didn't really back myself before. I thought, “No one's going to pay for this.” Then the more you give, the more they want. Jo: Yes. Suzanne: What I've been really working on now is having boundaries, because there were two big kind of mottos that I picked up when I was working in pharmaceuticals. One was from a head of the business. He was Canadian, and he was always saying, “You've got to skate to where the puck is heading.” Jo: That's Wayne Gretzky, is it? Suzanne: Exactly. Yes. He would always say it, and so that's what I've done with my blog and my book. When I write things, I don't pay for any tools. I don't do keyword searches and all that. I just think, I do one blog post per topic, and I'm going to guess what people are going to be searching for soon, and I build up all this content around it. That's why most of my blog pages are top five. I've had no advertising. I haven't asked for any backlinks. I don't do it. People backlink to it because it's useful. So that was the first thing, is skate to where the puck is heading, and that was my approach with the book. I knew people would need this book from around May, and they'll need it forever, because it is so complicated and regulated, the rules for being a landlord in England. So that was the first one. The second thing was: when you take something on, you've got to let something go. One in, one out. I found that I was taking on so many different things, and I've just been cutting back, because I can't be doing all the speaking, I can't be answering people's emails. So I now don't do emails. If people want my advice on something, they ask me in the hub, at the twice-monthly live streams. Sometimes I answer in the forums, but I don't have time. When there are 2.4 million landlords in the UK, and even with our 18,000 on my newsletter, I could spend, and I did, I used to spend all my time replying to emails. So anyway, there are the things. Oh, and there was a third one, which is: attract, don't chase. One of my friends gave me that advice and that's exactly what my approach has been. I just don't chase for anything. I just put the stuff there and then build it and they will come. Jo: Yes, and I think another thing is the power of the niche. It's so clear that what you write about, the people you are aiming at, you have an extremely tight target market. That is both a strength and obviously a weakness, because they're the only people. But as you say, there's more than enough of those people for a community, for the book you have. From my own perspective, that's the same for me, the power of the niche. That's how I have a successful podcast, for example, because of that reason. I think you're like a poster child of what a non-fiction author should do. What I like is that you didn't go, “Oh, where's a niche where I could make money?” and then jump in. You've gone about this in a kind of slightly accidental way, but now you're leaning in and this uses all your skills. So this really is a great example of the power of the niche and then making the most of it. But let's move on to what then happened, and— What happened with the book deal? Suzanne: Wow. So you and I met each other on whatever day that was in March at the Indie Author Lab, and the following day I got an email, via my website on a contact form, from Penguin Random House saying, “We love the book. We love the mission, its values,” all this kind of thing. And I was thinking, “Oh, it's another one of those. Must be an—” Jo: AI spam bot, right? Suzanne: Yes, and I remember I sent you a screenshot of it, and then I checked her out on LinkedIn and thought, “Okay, there is somebody with that name there.” You're always saying, and Orna Ross and everyone are always saying, “Watch out for scams.” And in fact, Penguin Random House even this weekend on Instagram put out something saying, “There are lots of people impersonating us.” So I didn't take it too seriously, and it was something like, “Oh, would you be interested in us publishing your book?” And I thought, and I laughed. It was like, no, this is too good to be true. So I replied and said… Oh, I said, “Well, thank you so much. The Renters' Rights Act…” And so this is like the second week in March. “The Renters' Rights Act comes into effect on the 1st of May. If you want to publish it, you're going to need to get your skates on.” I literally did say that. Then she arranged a meeting with me the next day, on the Friday. I still was very dubious about it, and I had a think about it. What helped me, and I have the little booklet here: at the Author Lab, we did some work at the beginning, and Orna said, “Put your phones away.” And it was like, “What? Put my phone away?” Then we had to do this definition of success, and our passion, and our mission, and our purpose. I wrote down things like, I want to help landlords, and in so doing, help improve the private rented sector. I get pleasure from helping people. I want to improve standards and use my legal and practical skills, et cetera. So I thought, “Okay, what is my purpose of doing this book?” It isn't really to make money, because going with Penguin, you wouldn't do that for financial reasons, because you'd make very little money. So I thought, what is my why? My why is I want as many people to read this book as possible. And I've managed to sell a few thousand copies, but there are 2.4 million landlords, and they all need to understand this book, and the only way that I can get it out there, apart from doing ads, is to get it out in bookstores. So I thought about it, and then said, “Yes, I will do it, because I want to get the book out there.” So it's distribution. It's going to be published on the 6th of August, which is really quick, bearing in mind they contacted me in the middle of March. It's exactly the same book, it's just got different copyright wording and different blurb, different paper. Same cover, because I managed to find a fantastic cover person to do it. So they've kept everything the same. So we negotiated that book. I have no agent. They came to me. It's the attract, don't chase. I just put my lawyer hat on, and because one licence is very much like another one… I did turn down their first offer. Jo: Well done. Good negotiation. Suzanne: My daughter said to me, who's an adult daughter, she said, “But it's Penguin.” And I said, “Well, no, but it doesn't work for me.” So I had a call with them, and then they came up with something that worked for me a bit more. I did have to concede on a few things, like I can't sell it in my Shopify store. But in some ways, that was a blessing in disguise, because it means I don't get any more “Where's my book?” emails. Jo: Yes, exactly. Pros and cons of everything, basically. Suzanne: I have very clear rights to get it back. If I want it back, I can get it back and I don't have to give a reason. They're lovely. They have been really very wonderful. When I went up there a month or so ago, they gave me this book bag, and it's got on it, “I'm published by Penguin,” and I burst into tears. Jo: Aw. That's nice. Suzanne: I don't know, it just seemed like such a big deal. Because up until then I was just being all very lawyerly and task-orientated. Then I thought, “Oh my goodness,” and then it dawned on me. So I'm now in this interim period where I've taken it off Amazon and off my Shopify store, and I feel very maternalistic towards the book because, you know, it took me two and a half years, which is longer than a pregnancy. Obviously it's not a child, but it's like my book child. I've sent it off with a backpack and a drink and some snacks, and I hope that they look after him, my book. The day I took it off Amazon it was still number one. And a big shout-out to Publisher Rocket, by the way. Jo: Yes. Very, very useful for niche publishing. Suzanne: Very. It helped me choose the right niche categories. So it was number one on at least one category, often six, all the way through. I thought, “Well, it's over to them now.” They're very lovely people. They've given me some marketing assets, as they call it, some swanky graphics and things to use. We'll have to see what we do in terms of marketing. I don't mind doing marketing. I'm on LinkedIn quite a bit, and my whole blog is marketing. What I've been doing is updating my blog to include one of these graphics and to mention the book, and I got Claude to help me draft the code so it looked right. So I've been going through all of my blog posts and sending people to Amazon rather than to my Shopify store. It is mixed feelings, because I care about my book. I put a lot of effort, a lot of love, a lot of tears. No, not tears, but I put a lot of effort into it, and it's out of my control now. Jo: Yes, you said it's over to them, but obviously you will still be creating content around this topic, so you'll probably still be the biggest driver of book sales. Suzanne: Yes. Jo: Are they also suggesting, for example, a podcast tour, like pitching for podcasts? Are they going to assign you some PR? Because, also if people don't know, as we are recording this, we have a new prime minister who wants to do various things. You said no politics, but this is obviously a political thing. So you have the potential to go on a lot of different podcasts, media, talking about this, becoming almost a talking head in this kind of area. So are you angling for all that, and is that in your contract, or is it literally just going to be whatever you want to do? Suzanne: That's not in the contract. What's in the contract is very minimal. I think I've already done what I'm supposed to do. They are pitching for me to go on podcasts and things. I'll tell you a really funny coincidence. So we now have a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and when he was Mayor of Greater Manchester, he set up something called the Good Landlord Charter. I actually talk about it in the book, and I quote him in my book saying that good landlords mean people trying to do the right thing, or something like that. And I coincidentally came up with the same name, The Good Landlord Handbook. I'd already had the book title for a long time. So this idea of good and landlord coming together, the adjective good as opposed to criminal or rogue, and the cover being green. I'm wanting to change the narrative so it's the norm to have a good landlord, and to help people become good landlords. Or if they're good landlords, help them to understand the new rules, because the new rules are very complicated. So what I don't get involved in is this right or wrong. Is it right that landlords can't do this or have to do this? Because as an in-house lawyer, it doesn't really matter what I think about the law. GDPR, goodness me. Jo: Oh, dear. Let's not start on GDPR. Suzanne: No, exactly. Because we've just got to suck it up. I liken it to the grief cycle, that people have been going through so much change and you have the anger, the depression— Jo: Denial. Suzanne: Bargaining, the denial, and then you get to acceptance. For some people, the acceptance means they want to stop doing it. If you want to accept it and stay, you need to understand the rules. So I've deliberately just kept very practical and have kept out of all the politics of it. I have, funnily enough, become involved because I'm now seen as an expert on the Renters' Rights Act. I've worked behind the scenes with the government to help, and give comment on government guidance for landlords. I was even invited to a reception to mark the passing of the Renters' Rights Act at Downing Street with the previous prime minister, all whilst staying apolitical. I won't let anyone make me be a mouthpiece for their political view. It's more, we just have to do this if we want to continue doing it. I've been very clear on that. Jo: It's interesting you mention the grief cycle there, and you've also mentioned Claude and ChatGPT. I wonder if you might also just comment on use of AI for authors and for marketing and all this. Also with legal stuff, because for me now, if I'm looking at a particular legal thing, I tend to ask Claude. I'm like, “Can you just explain this?” or upload a contract or whatever. Although it is not legal advice, it can be quite useful. So give us your thoughts on using AI as a sidekick in your author business and also for wider life. Suzanne: I now struggle to think what life would be like without Claude. I don't use Claude to write, at all, because I have a very particular voice and a turn of phrase, and if ever Claude writes something for me, it doesn't sound like me. It flattens me, and it makes me sound a bit American. So I don't do that. I've used it in the back end of the business. For instance, my blog was down, and there was something called a recursive bot, which I don't even know what it was, and Claude helped me fix it for free. I went through, I did screenshots. When I did an ElevenLabs audiobook and did it all myself, I was literally, for every screenshot, showing it to Claude. Claude said, “Do this, press this, press that.” So I have all these different projects set up. One is the control room, where it's for my strategic thinking. If I have an idea, I want to think about something, I put it in there. I have the engine room, which is for everything techy. Like when I had the recursive bot, or if I'm wanting to have some code on the website to make it look a particular way. Then I have other things for different subjects, and I put all the resources in there, and I use it a lot as a thinking partner. I've noticed that Fable doesn't hallucinate as much, but the Opus used to. There's something called rental discrimination, and it was proofreading and said, “No, it's not rental discrimination, it's rental income discrimination,” and that was just a load of rubbish. So I would never let it go and change things without me looking at it. I went on one of your webinars a month or so ago about MCPs and all the connectors, which is fantastic. It can go into my community and pull out all the questions for one of my live streams and put it into a document in order, by theme, for instance. It can look at my MailerLite, because that's where my newsletter is with, and analyse the different open rates and click rates and things. It's so good for analysing everything, all the book sales. It helped me with my negotiation with Penguin, and it is pretty good on law. It has sometimes hallucinated things, but not so much now. I think with anything, you've always got to go back to the primary source, and this is what we learn in academia: you have to check the primary source yourself. I have a bit of a magpie brain. I'm very much a discovery writer, like you, and things occur to me as I'm doing it. I think that Claude, at the moment, is incredible. I've been quite open about it on social media that I have Claude as a business partner. I'm a solopreneur, or whatever the word is. I have quite a big business now, and lots of different things, and it's just me doing it, because I can ask Claude how to do this, and how to do that. Claude can go and check my emails and tell me, is there somebody I've not replied to, which helps a lot. Jo: Yes. I think it's empowering as a solopreneur as such. You talk there about the fixing the tech stuff. I have my web host come to me and say, “Look, you're getting so much traffic and bot stuff, and we need to put this thing in, and it's going to be $120 extra a month.” I was like, “Can you just give me an hour? I'll get back to you.” And then I just had Claude code up, and I was like, “Analyse this and tell me what we can do.” It was like, “No, you just need to flip this switch and do that.” And I'm like, “Okay, fair enough.” Then the guy said, “Oh, no, okay, actually you don't need it.” Just stuff like that. As a solopreneur, you're either going to pay somebody technically quite a lot of money, or you can get Claude or ChatGPT. We should say, the ChatGPT Sol is very good, like the Claude Fable, for example. So, yes, using it as a sidekick. I love your control room and your engine room projects as well. That's a great way of doing it. Suzanne: I wouldn't be without it now, and I would have published the book a lot later without Claude, because Claude was helping me with the Shopify store and all the many steps of things. It saved me real time. It is just fantastic. I think, like now when I'm updating my blog, I have a connection between Claude and my blog. Claude can go in, I can give it my Google Search Console results for the page: what should I change, are the headings right? All this kind of thing. And it will give me a view on every single page, which is incredible. Jo: And YouTube, and just everything. Just super useful for that business sidekick. That's what I want authors to think. I feel like authors get so obsessed with the creative side with AI, whereas actually, people like you and me, we're using it as that engine room for the solo business, which is what I love. So we're out of time. I did want to ask one more thing, which is, one of the biggest issues with a specific book like yours is when they change the law again. So do you have a plan in place for if, say, a new government changes the law again? Will you just be updating the book over time? Suzanne: I think that there'll need to be a new edition of the book in three years' time, and I've spoken to Penguin about it. Not all of this new law has been implemented, and there's going to be case law and things. So I expect that I will update the book every few years. I have some other ideas for books as well, but for the moment, I'm just taking a bit of a break. You always say we've got to refill our creative well. I really feel like that at the moment. Recently I've just got myself a personal mobile phone so that I can turn off my work one when I'm on holiday and actually take time off. Because for all the time that I was doing the book, basically from Christmas until May, I didn't have one day off. That is not good. So I'm just trying to be a bit more balanced. I had an idea to write another book for summer, but I've just decided not to, and I'm going to leave it until I feel the urge again. Jo: Oh, well done. Suzanne: Which will come. Jo: Yes, well done. Suzanne: I think there's nothing wrong with that. We just need to think what's right for us. I'm 58. So I want to be able to have time to enjoy things and not be working all the time. Jo: No, that's great. It's a sustainable business. So where can people find you and the book and your community online? Suzanne: The easiest way to find me is theindependentlandlord.com. Or if you put Suzanne Smith and landlord into Google, you'll find me as well, and there's a link on there to the book, The Good Landlord Handbook. In the community, there's a link to that on my website as well. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Suzanne. That was great. Suzanne: Thank you.The post From Blog To Community To Book: A Non-Fiction Author's Journey With Suzanne Smith first appeared on The Creative Penn.
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