Left Outside

I understand what marginal tax rates and how they work, but (with apologies for naive point) the fact that someone on a median income only pays this much tax - given the general state of the discourse on this - is surprising to me

Love that in the 80s you could be a health nut but also a heavy smoker.

Prince Andrew was there this September??

Who are you hanging around saying they don't want to make enemies to their right?

Well-known Bristol football fan died in tragic fall from lamppost City fan Paul Lumber was a published author of books about the days of football casuals in the 1980s

"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."

Might be due a christmas rewatch

Nobody hates Russians more than Russians, and quite a lot of non-Russians really fucking hate Russians.

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

The planets? In 1700? Didn't even have telescopes then did we? Baroque? Nah.

I was at Leftfield last week. Let me tell you.

Maduro aping Elon Musk won't help. No amount of salutes will save him.

The Trex Pistols

Ska Trek

You think Matt King is exploiting the gap in the market? Or something more sinister?

"I hate this but I'll do it for money"

Is anybody here actually confused by this? Be honest.

If it's a lady train why would it offend me??

" - on YouTube and touring" I bet you are mate

Some highlights from the X reaction to Sofie Jenkinson's concept of "Silly Sausage Britain":

Woke. You want woke trains.

Woo. Poor cunt.

Also, how had I not realised that the guy partnering with Liz Truss to run this new club used to own…Slug & Lettuce.

Not remember her cousin's giant balls from the COVID vaccine/std?

Sorry, the passport office got better. I shouldn't have implied everything got worse.

Leaving the EU was associated with a 34% increase in civil servant numbers and a decline in quality of output across basically every domain.

Imagine you have a governing agenda (stop laughing at the back there), do you want to do that again?

Funny coda to the "Americans want to trawl your socials for wrong think" ESTA story is that the ESTA website still calls it Twitter not X.

EU quite different now. How much time do you think would be taken up by planning a transition from the pound to the euro? Bit more complicated than joining a customs union on 9 states with some ag subsidies. If you pretend stuff is easy then it will appear easy.

I'm suuuch an AI guy and I do not cross check stuff enough, but you so have to cross check what comes out.

I said it would take over and ruin all other priorities for a parliament. Are you disagreeing?

Similarly an Employment Rights billed focused on aligning with European norms many people would like, but crucially, Britain's unions and Labour's key backers would not. Because they don't just want European labour law, they have their own priorities.

Think there's a solid case that an Ed Davey landslide focused around rejoining the EU from 2024 would have serious long-term benefits, but everybody would be very mad about the current focus on packaging regulations rather than X or Y.