It's remarkable how much of the whole slide in to autocracy thing could have been avoided if lying to the courts or to congressional hearings were sentenced as "this will destroy your entire life".
It's the prime example of a crime where tough sentencing WOULD actually act as a deterrent.

I try to keep my positions on criminal justice on the progressive side, but some stuff is just inexcusable and unforgivable, and it could actually be deterred with tougher sentencing. A "you've not opened instagram in 7 minutes" ping is one of those crimes.
See also wage theft and slum landlords.

They should move the additional rate threshold down from £125140 to £100k but abolish both the childcare cliff edge and the tapered personal allowance withdrawal. People earning £100k-£135k throwing money at their pensions right now would spend some/all of that money instead.

I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who believe that if they earn £1 over the higher rate threshold that they'll pay 40% income tax on all of their income. The Child Benefit clawback was definitely motivation for savvy folk, but there will be a lot of people doing the same thing in error.

It's a parody account, right? Like, it must be edgy satire trying to draw attention to how utterly unhinged the overt racists are, yes? Right? Please, please say it's that...

I assume that's the cliff edge reduction in the personal savings allowance from £1k to £500 if you pay £1 over the higher rate income tax threshold, and the graph is assuming some income of over £500 from savings interest

I want a marine strike team in a Raptor in 5 minutes, prepare to launch the alert vipers...
* string and percussion sections go nuts to Bear McCreary's genius *

After hearing "brace for turbulence" I distinctly remember saying to myself "WTF is he talking about"

That.

That is what he was talking about.

It's much less effort for them to hold a metaphorical gun to the heads of the good people of the country and say "re-elect us or it'll be your fault when Farage becomes PM" in 2028/29.
Basically Starmer and McSweeney looked at how things went for Biden and said "yup, that's how we'll do this".

Because they're arrogant and complacent.
They don't have the skill nor energy to campaign with a positive vision for Britain, and they don't want to be constrained by the fixes which are necessary to protect against future abuses of "the good chap theory of government".

We should abolish Council Tax, SDLT, and Business Rates. Replace them all with an annual land value tax levied against the freeholder.

I’ll be very interested to see if they’re going to run London services to/from P13/14 via Warrington and Earlestown or just bus people to Stockport…

Oh hey, just dropped you an email 😀

Taking "every accusation is a confession" to levels that none of us had thought possible

Live
Laugh
Launch unconstitutional disappearances of US citizens who oppose your agenda

When it comes to the bad-faith right wing: every accusation is a confession

He would make economic policy promises based on how many votes it would get him and then implement decisions which had nothing to do with those promises but were instead akin to what Liz Truss did.

Abolish them.
Keep the majority of the power with the PM, but we should have an elected president whose role is mostly ceremonial but also has an anti corruption and standards in public life remit too.