6. So the overall story is that high skilled/high paid workers are strongly fiscally positive, while medium/lower paid workers are (very broadly) fiscally neutral in the long run (although positive in the short run). This is no great surprise to those of us who've looked at the data..

Fancy that ...

Even as a Tory I must admit Reform MPs are devoted to serving their constituencies. For example Lee Anderson selling his ‘funny’ 30p football shirts in Ashdown & Nigel Farage’s outstanding work in Clacton. Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness. 📃

2.Angela Rayner was hounded out of office for one offence by a united media effort, led by the BBC. Yet multiple allegations against Reform and Farage are quickly forgotten.

If just one of the mounting allegations against Farage and Reform had been levelled at a Labour politician, we would never hear the end of it from our media. Instead, virtual silence. 1/2

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

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So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Farage seems to have dropped the swan issue. Not mentioned it lately I thought it was important to him?

It’s funny how the Daily Mail don’t seem at all interested in anti-semitism in Reform. They were greatly exercised about the issue in Labour. Day after day of it. Now? Zilch. Wonder why?

You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not. This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.

Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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A 23-year-old bin man with terminal cancer was escorted to his wedding by a procession of rubbish trucks.

Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Laura Kuenssberg has just managed to host an hour long political programme, without a single mention of one of the main parties being implicated in a Russian bribery scandal How is that even fucking possible? #bbclaurak #bbcbreakfast

Not a word in the Mail on Sunday on Nathan Gill of Reform being convicted of taking Russian bribes. Covid inquiry findings relegated to one page - page 17.

Surely a purchase of the Telegraph by the Mail should be blocked on media plurality grounds?

Relief for rail passengers as fare freeze in England announced for 2026

I wonder if anyone in our national press will ever write that Reform have had a nightmare week?

Seems pretty evident that there should be prosecutions now. Misconduct in public office. #CovidEnquiry.

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I don’t actually care that much about immigration. But people keep telling me I do.

I mean, I know a lot of people have to make a living out of instantly commenting on life, but there is a case for the old ‘wait and see’ tactic, isn’t there?

These days, I am a big fan of a bit of peace and quiet.

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It’s funny how you never see a story in the papers saying that Reform have had a really bad week.

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I believe he could be doing a lot better and has made some basic errors. But ‘close to untenable’ suggests he is being measured by vastly different criteria than every single Tory PM since Cameron.

It’s turning into a legitimacy crisis, that much is certain. But how much of this is stirred by the media? After all, they set the agenda. When the inevitable Reform gov’t lands, will the voices of reason - with their podcasts, substacks, blogs, radio shows etc - still be free to air their views?

When is a pm given any time? Under what measures is his position untenable? Because media folks say so promoted by gbeebies and even yourself? Labour need to grow a pair and plough the fuck onwards and get results. The left always shred themselves. The right are trying to force an early GE ffs

Why should Starmer’s position be untenable? There is a cacophony of sound, but the majority is large. I can only think that rule by opinion poll is the guiding light and that way populism lies. Do we want to mirror the US?

"I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But," ....what the hell, I'll join in.

The BBC really doesn’t help itself, does it? Constantly platform Reform- who have now turned on them. And relentless attacks on a government whose support they may well need in the coming days.

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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

Quisling

It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling. Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻

Nigel Farage is already observing a boycott of the BBC that began in Aug 2013. And another from May 2019. And another from May 2024. And June 2024. And July 2024. Busy year for boycotts! And one from July 2025. But this time, I'm sure he's telling the truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board

That is a massive stretch considering the the recent leaders we have had Starmer is a calming voice in an increasingly difficult world. I would respect you more if you came up with better alternatives but am sure you can’t.

What about his significant parliamentary majority or the damage the Tories did by swapping PMs at will during the last administration? Are they relevant measures? This is just hyperbole and poor by your standards James.

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.