“Actually this time we shouldn’t fix the roof while the sun is shining”

The point of earned settlement is that someone has to earn the settlement. That might be the parent; it might be the kid. The argument here is - as usual - that settlement should be automatic, not earned

Rents and house prices are so closely tied to “floor space” that I’ve frequently seen both quoted in £/sqft, and any quantitative modelling of prices within a locality starts with a floor space parameter

The issue with this take is that politics is degenerately chaotic - you have reasonably good faith that the person who comes top of the “Citadel total dollars generated” league table is pretty good at making money trading - the same isn’t true for the winner of a single stock max annual return prize

Betfair doesn’t currently give you the ability to bet on Ed Milliband as the next Chancellor of the Exchequer Now this is partly because with £14 total matched bets it doesn’t really give you the ability to bet on *anyone* as next Chancellor of the Exchequer, but this still feels like an omission

While this is a great question, it feels like a small torching of the commons - it provides a good view into the weaknesses of candidates who are actually going to be respectfully honest with you, while providing no information on those who … are not

This is not really the natural takeaway from a by election where Reform + Conservative candidates got a combined 55%, with a party trying to triangulate on immigration getting a further 16.8%

Couple of questions for @joshbabarinde.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... regarding this somewhat unusual story: 1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided

Concerning that this is considered serious analysis by the IMF We doubled non-British immigration and quadrupled non-EU immigration between 2018 and 2022 and saw asylum claims double We then halved non-British immigration from 2022-2024 and asylum claims were close to unchanged

Looking through the methodology on this interesting investigation one thing that stood out was the lack of detail on the list of left and right wing influencers used - @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social is this something you could provide? news.sky.com/story/how-sk...

archive.is/kg3zH this is one of the most gloriously fake stories I’ve ever read and is genuinely embarrassing for the @the-independent.com about their editorial standards

This is the kind thing you only say when you pretty much know there’s a systemic issue but it will make you really sad to think about it

If some civil servant was “canned” for every program where we had a 2.5% error rate in *giving out* benefits and the program was cancelled, we would give out almost zero benefits