It's also 6% of asylum seekers.

Who are 4% of all immigration.

The criticisms completely lack any sense of numeracy

I think we're on a patch of agreement then! Happy days.

I think the tax reform package we need isn't limited to LVT if that helps!

Disagree. The best wealth tax would be a Land Value Tax, and would only tax pensioners if they are landowners.

I'd favour a Land Value Tax, but call it a Land Ownership Tax.

It deals with the problem of wealth inequality without creating new ones, and is even favour by tax policy wonks like @danneidle.bsky.social

I don't see how we can begin to have an answer without having a serious conversation about how to tax wealth sustainably.

We're the 6th largest economy in the world - I just don't buy that we lack the means.

Mehdi, is there a point at which you might want to leave the US if this continues?

The stories of journalists getting fired from Washington Post has me worried for people like you.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social reported that Reform had spent £40k on Facebook ads pushing this - more than Labour and Tories combined.

Journalists would do more for public debate if they asked where that money is coming from, rather than singling Labour out.

I admire your optimism, but I sense you might not understand the implications of an animal reservoir.

For example, birds are the animal reservoir for flu - to eradicate it you would need to vaccinate every bird on the planet. It's just not feasible with current technology.

That's alarming. But not surprising.

Surely some marketing whizz knows what you have to do to get people to put something extraordinarily helpful into your body.

If they can make folks rub smelly chemicals into their face in creams or make-up I refuse to believe they can't do it with this.