Navigating the Malta Permanent Residency Process: Tips and Insights

Jul 8, 2026

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Musings

Rory Sutherland on Land Tax

I have talked here about taxing property more and I think that there is some momentum in the Labour Party for looking at IHT and especially reducing IHT on your main home. It is mad that a property value has grown by 10-20x since the 80s. In addition tax on… Read More ⇢
Thoughts on the UK

I am pretty negative about the UK economy generally but do think that some of the Labour policies are more damaging in the long term. I have a few friends and colleagues that have left the UK before the beginning of this tax year or are planning to find another… Read More ⇢
Reform Property Tax

There is much talk about the challenges Rachel Reeves is having in balancing the books on a low growth economy like the UK. Having been elected on a manifesto pledge not to raise taxes on working people (I think this was broken last year!) she faces a large black hole… Read More ⇢
Cursor – AI Coding

I downloaded Cursor last weekend having been told that it was amazing to watch AI code in front of your eyes. I have done some coding in the past and spent a lot of my time wading through css and HTML over the last 30 years but I am no… Read More ⇢
Am I too young to go on a cruise

When we were in Miami last year we looked out onto the cruise port and spent many hours considering whether we should try a cruise. Cruise holidays have a bad reputation of being for older people and known for the tannoy announcements and buffet restaurants. Sort of a holiday camp… Read More ⇢
Woodstock for Capitalists

Many will have seen the news of Warren Buffett shocking the AGM of Berkshire Hathaway with the announcement that he plans to step down at the end of the year (at 94!) Berkshire Hathaway has outperformed the S&P 500 since he acquired a textile company with the idea of turning… Read More ⇢
Bring back Catalogues

I touched in the last post about the fact that marketeers are pretty much exclusively taught about digital marketing. It is results season for META, GOOG and AMZN for Q1 2025 and I wanted to pick out some numbers to allow us to think about traditional marketing versus digital marketing.… Read More ⇢
Training Marketeers

Although there are number of scale up and startup programs in the UK and specifically in Scotland, we constantly here that there is a skill shortage in marketing. This is probably due to actual experience, if you are a good marketeer then you should probably be starting your own business… Read More ⇢
Manufacturing Origins: China vs USA in A/B Testing

I saw this tweet from Ramon van Meer about an A/B test on manufactured in China v USA and consumers perception (https://x.com/ramonvanmeer/status/1915484527541280955?s=48). I love A/B tests but I also like to make sure that they are properly founded. This clean A/B test testing price point and where its made had… Read More ⇢