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My suspicion is that this will cost £££ but for little political benefit as people will still see a massively high bill. Reckon you’d get much bigger bang for buck giving several billion to local government with the condition it cannot go to SEND or social care but on public realm stuff.

35bps on the 10-year in a month is not trivial - and notable that the fiscal crisis talk has been meaningfully quietened

The problem with diagnosing "the electorate have unreasonable expectations around tax and spend" is that those expectations did not develop in a vacuum. They are the product of decades of politicians and the media telling them they can have x services with y tax levels, or not contradicting it.

Amazing how many tax questions will now direct you to plausible looking websites that have clearly been AI written and contain basic (and major) errors

I know ‘North London elite’ is a cliche, but I spent some of my time at the Emirates tonight listening in to two lawyers discuss their favourite cases in international trade law.

My bias is showing here, but I find it notable that AI replacing modellers is espoused by people like the author here who proudly 'have never built a model in my life'.

I’m sure this reads better in the original Russian.

“You’re watching the election results at 3am. It’s important to remind you that elections are boring and for nerds. No, we won’t be going to any counts.”

Labour comms will end up putting out an app explaining why deporting you is ‘impractical’

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

For the love of god, just put 2p on income tax www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37047...

This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.

Confused my TLAs when discussing Kpop and the level of scorn received from the tween may be fatal

So much quibbling over the OBR and the fiscal rules feels like an attempt to find an institutional fix to a political problem: the need for tax rises on middle earners.

This would represent an existential crisis for the HR consulting industry.

Have the Labour frontbench got a secret side hustle in designing election pamphlets for Reform? on.ft.com/4n7MmZo

Shot, chaser

Fascinated to understand the thinking behind this / why the DfT thinks it’ll do a better job

Just announced a resolution that confirms I’m dating Shakira

Apropos of nothing, anybody know the flight time of a Trident D5 from the Barents to, say, Oslo?

Would be interested to see what would happen to gilt yields if this polling survives to 2028. Will it be a big meh or a Truss-like experience?

From literally the same article!

Excellent sketch. Though IME your average Aero Eng wouldn’t be surprised at this as they’d never consider software engineers to be real engineers in the first place.

Can anybody sell her £122m of faulty violins www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cheers Janan, Ed Davey’s crying now on.ft.com/46LxBF9

I regret that I am exactly the target market for this

Always nice to have every linkedin prejudice I hold *confirmed by science*

Didn’t realise Stockley Park was also taking part in the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but there we are. #NEWARS

If I were Chief People Officer for PMGOL I’d consider a recruitment policy of occasionally hiring people who don’t want to ruin football #NEWARS

NO FOUL? Fuck right off.

Very blinkered article that completely fails to consider just how much joy it’s bringing to other fans. Take that into account and United this season are the biggest happiness provider in the league. www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

Oh great, it appears that @spotify.com has done basically no vetting of its audiobook content - so (even with content filters on) is suggesting erotica to my child’s account. Is there a single non-creepy tech company left out there at this point?

People complain that Labour are Continuity Sunak but they didn’t decide to travel up to Manchester specifically to announce this, did they? www.ft.com/content/e623...

Surely an open goal for Labour? ‘Farage is so subservient to Trump he’s prepared to risk British children by amplifying his lies’ etc. I fully expect this:

‘How bad can it be?’ says I, with the misplaced confidence usually associated with players of russian roulette

Great work getting my pic taken with the US president last night. Now to take a big ol’ sip of coffee and check how Trump polls in the UK, even among my own supporters.

Re the Kimmel thing, does this mean we can finally agree the XKCD definition of free speech was always nonsense?

Ndjamena-Paris night flight. Middle row where the window guy had personal space issues and the aisle guy spent the whole flight coughing up small quantities of blood.

1) a policy of moving closer to the USA on crypto is de facto a policy of moving away from the EU on financial services in general, absolutely crazy from a growth standpoint 2) the US government's "crypto friendly approach" is based almost entirely on "deregulation through non-enforcement"...

Perfect timing as, just yesterday, the flag shaggers round my way have started adding intimidatory messages to their decorations

All the Labour tax pledge has achieved is ensuring that the inevitable tax rise is seen as the current government’s fault.

Juncker strikes again

Bit late to this but it’s a great listen on the mistakes made with QT: fair to say the BOE leadership do not come across well open.spotify.com/episode/0cem...

Donald Trump calls on US companies to ditch quarterly reporting on.ft.com/4mksGB3

Is it worrying that I think it’s genuinely 50/50 that Farage will condemn this lot before Starmer does?

Hear me out: the Great Firewall of China but for America, built by other nations to keep its bullshit in.

Oh god the weighted sloth adverts are back