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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
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I think this is a very important point in yimby discourse: people say they don’t like densification but in London at least the densification is happening anyway. It happens via house shares, kids living in parents houses forever etc. you get the densification with or without more housing!
A long time ago Ian Mulherin made this chart and this is densification. That part is already happening! Look at the line for London!
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I think this is a very important point in yimby discourse: people say they don’t like densification but in London at least the densification is happening anyway. It happens via house shares, kids living in parents houses forever etc. you get the densification with or without more housing!
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Maybe Starmer & Reeves hate their Blue Sky fanclub as much as the rest of us and so designed a tax increase lazer focused on screwing them over
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Maybe Starmer & Reeves hate their Blue Sky fanclub as much as the rest of us and so designed a tax increase lazer focused on screwing them over
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My main takeaway from two weeks on a Coroners’ Court jury 18 months ago was that Coroners’ Courts should not have juries.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My main takeaway from two weeks on a Coroners’ Court jury 18 months ago was that Coroners’ Courts should not have juries.
I was telling @michael-fox.bsky.social that I had pretty high hopes for this Labour government and boy was that a wrong shout on my part
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I was telling @michael-fox.bsky.social that I had pretty high hopes for this Labour government and boy was that a wrong shout on my part
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The left conviction that you don't need broad based taxes to support public services is a giant problem not only in Britain
My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up:
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Wealth tax and looser fiscal rules won’t save the Budget | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The narrative on the left that a wealth tax and looser fiscal rules would solve the Chancellor's 2025 Budget headaches has got out of hand.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The left conviction that you don't need broad based taxes to support public services is a giant problem not only in Britain
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These convicted violent criminals are currently in the running for top ten most proactive members of the Russian opposition
Nine Russian “volunteers” killed their escort after deciding not to go fight in Ukraine. Taken straight from prison to the front under contract, they murdered the convoy driver en route and are now on the run in Leningrad region. Russian police are actively searching the outskirts of Kudrovo.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
These convicted violent criminals are currently in the running for top ten most proactive members of the Russian opposition
At least we have the triple lock tho
UK's fiscal watchdog will downgrade growth forecasts, Sky News says reut.rs/4oUnrdf
UK's fiscal watchdog will downgrade growth forecasts, Sky News says
Britain's fiscal watchdog will downgrade its economic growth forecasts for 2026 and for the remaining years of the current parliament alongside finance minister Rachel Reeves' budget on Wednesday, Sky News reported on Monday.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
At least we have the triple lock tho
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I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
I sure do love paying even more tax as a working person mostly to fund a big rise to the state pension!
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I sure do love paying even more tax as a working person mostly to fund a big rise to the state pension!
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An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
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UK PM Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into Reform’s Russia links after the party's ex-Wales leader was jailed, Sky News reports.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
UK PM Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into Reform’s Russia links after the party's ex-Wales leader was jailed, Sky News reports.
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WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
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Yesterday russia slaughtered 25 people in a residential building and there is an ongoing photo contest of killed Ukrainian POWs in the Russian military
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yesterday russia slaughtered 25 people in a residential building and there is an ongoing photo contest of killed Ukrainian POWs in the Russian military
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If a reporter asked Mamdani about Charlie Kirk and he replied “a lot of people didn’t like him” we would have the biggest firestorm in media perhaps anyone has ever seen. Pitchforks & op eds everywhere. Non-stop.
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If a reporter asked Mamdani about Charlie Kirk and he replied “a lot of people didn’t like him” we would have the biggest firestorm in media perhaps anyone has ever seen. Pitchforks & op eds everywhere. Non-stop.
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Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Last year, the owner of a sawmill in North Carolina voted for Trump. This year, he’s closed down his mill and blames the squeeze from Trump’s tariffs. On the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics reporter Shawn Donnan visits the “Old North State” to understand the ripple effect of tariffs
They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
On today’s Big Take podcast: How Trump’s trade war led to the closure of a family-run sawmill in North Carolina.
bloom.bg
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point: