The banana vendor still wants his share
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Why is it that every winter, when my toes and fingers are cold, I get the urge to play thru The Long Dark and crave ice cream?
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Ai Christmas Song gave me a grin.
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Wants to annex from the UK because she can no longer be a wealthy tax dodger claiming she doesn’t live in her castle… While living in her castle 
Glad to hear they’re getting rid of it but I cannot stop laughing at the entitlement. She’s writing a letter to the King. She better send it by Raven if she wants to live like it’s 1024 AD.
Wasn’t a torrie minister and his wife claiming non dom while actively ruining, sorry, running, the country?
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Pffft…you can’t even work across state lines in the US, not even remotely, without paying state taxes in both the state you live in (residence tax) and the one you work in (non-residence tax). Then you pay Federal taxes too.
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That would be Rishi Sunak - not just a Minister - The Prime Minister. And his wife, billionaire heiress to a pharmecuticals fortune - was claiming non-dom tax status. So nothing dodgy there…
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She’d better not hope that. The King in 1024 AD would have had… words… to say to a vassal declaring their own kingdom.
Very sharp words.
I’m not much into romanticizing ages gone by, but about the early middle ages it could at least be said that if you were rich, you kinda had to be smart or you’d be dead. Sometimes it seems to me like functioning brains just aren’t a requirement for being rich. Or has that woman wasted any thought about how exactly the economy of her newly proclaimed kingdom is going to work? No, she probably just thinks she’ll automatically still have all rights in the UK that she used to enjoy. Kinda like half the population seemed to think about brexit. 
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She just invited everyone who wants to escape taxes to come there to live. I guess she plans on supporting them by maintaining everything herself. Sounds like she would likely spend less just paying the taxes
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You may think you’re having a laugh, and I’ve no doubt that Ms. Mulholland is. The King is a constitutional Monarch, and his powers are limited to what Parliament allows him. He doesn’t have the ability to grant anyone independence.
Having said that, whilst the King can’t make any new ones, by ancient charter and common law, such places do still exist within Britain - effectively, private Kingdoms, bought and sold by billionaires - making their own laws, and setting their own taxes. Have a look at this:
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The downside of owning your own kingdom; she might want to take this into serious consideration in these troubled times.
During World War II, the island, along with the other Channel Islands, was occupied by German forces between 1940 and 1945. German military rule on Sark began on 4 July 1940, the day after the Guernsey Kommandant Major Albrecht Lanz and his interpreter and chief of staff Major Maas visited the island to inform the Dame and Seigneur (Sibyl and Robert Hathaway) of the new regime. British Commandos raided the island several times. Operation Basalt, during the night of 3–4 October 1942, captured a prisoner, and Hardtack 7 was a failed British landing in December 1943. Sark was finally liberated on 10 May 1945, a full day after Guernsey.
In late August 1990, an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes, who believed he was the rightful holder of the Seigneur’s title, attempted an invasion of Sark armed with a semi-automatic weapon. The night Gardes arrived, he put up two posters declaring his intention to take over the island the following day at noon. The following day he started a solo foot patrol in front of the manor, in battle-dress, weapon in hand. While Gardes was sitting on a bench waiting for noon to arrive, the island’s volunteer connétable approached the Frenchman and complimented him on the quality of his weapon.[25] Gardes changed the gun’s magazine to illustrate how it worked, allowing the constable to tackle and arrest him. He was given a seven-day sentence, which he served in Guernsey.[25][26][27][28] Gardes attempted this again the following year, but was recognized in Guernsey, arrested, and handed over to the French government
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… Kind of seems the opposite of “Getting a laugh out of life” 
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No wonder my generation is so messed up
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Did they ever figure out who the people that hijacked the TV transmission dressed as max headroom was? Forget D.B Cooper, this is the mystery I need solved before I die
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Apparently not.
Fun fact, I was in Chicago in 1990, so just a few years later. My friend and I were walking through a neighborhood between Chicago and Waukegan. We stopped and had a good look at a house that sat up on a hill. The roof was covered with antenna of all kinds and shapes. Every window in the house was covered in tin foil. We laughed and wondered if there was a reward, which apparently there was. We have joked ever since that we knew where the culprits were.
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Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, is named after Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Count Jaroslav Borita of Martinice, and Philip Fabricius, who were thrown out of a window in Prague in 1618.
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Yeah, I hear it’s also Putin’s favourite OS…
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In the UK, Russian expatriates don’t seem to have too much of a window problem. Here they unaccountably gain access to strange poisons like Polonium and Novichok.
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