The poorest 20% of UK population pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes compared to the richest 20%. Dividends and capital gains, mainly accruing to the well-off, are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Progressive taxation wasn't part of the King's Speech.

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

😱 Toe curling stuff. The dangers of getting high on your own supply. There needed to be a banner below Coates's non-apology: Sky Journalist Sam Coates Says He Will Not Resign bsky.app/profile/stur...

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

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Phew! No mention of the fact that it was a Reform supporter. That's the sort of journalism we need.

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OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

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Grossly incompetent or dishonest from the BBC here

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I'll make a few points. Where else are you forced to pay for parking where you work. The hospital could make as much parking as it needs. And finally and most importantly, the vast majority of the money goes to Private Parking companies who charge whatever the hell they like.

Canada is also saying that Lebanon has to be included in any peace framework This is huge Because when Canada says it, it really means 100 other countries are saying it, but they don’t have the clout to say it and they need Canada to say it for them

Also insulting to people with dementia frankly.

USA needs a regime change NOW!!

He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

You don't have to imagine the response if anybody else had proposed destroying a whole civilisation. You just have to remember World War 2.

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

"constructive conversations witch will continue throughout the week"

Follow Emma if you haven’t already. Absolutely brilliant work.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Starmer to announce support for households hit by energy price spike

So thankful Laurence Fox's acting career was cancelled for doing things exactly like this. Keep digging.

That NF fella gets multiples more airtime than he deserves, but with a fraction of the scrutiny. He's so used to getting away with spouting bollocks that when Beth Rigby politely challenged him on the war and broken council tax promises, he totally lost his sh*t and threatened to end the interview.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Where the hell are we??? In a god damn 5 year old’s bathtub???

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This is not Franklin D. Roosevelt that we’re dealing with.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement. I think this is Israel.

In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.

Another important read from #monkdebunks

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts! Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣 Right, let's get started... 🧵 1/

Claiming he "won the Gorton and Denton by-election among British-born voters" because he knows he won't get away with "white people have been cheated out of victory by black and brown people". Every senior politician should be in and on the media today calling out this blatantly racist agitation.

Having considered for 48 hours the best way to protect the autonomy, the equal voice and the equal right to cast a secret ballot of south Asian women at the polling station, Nigel Farage has concluded it is important to "go further" and to disenfranchise as many Asian women [+ men] as possible

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Sky News don't seem as excited as the rest of us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvw...

This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

One thing you might hope would happen after the Gorton and Denton result is that the Green Party are invited onto the BBC's current affairs programmes as frequently as Reform UK are. #GortonAndDenton

He knows it used to be a lot easier to find one in a timely manner before all those horrible, horrible Eastern Europeans taking good British jobs were forced to leave after the Brexit he supported happened, and he has no idea why that would be.