Thomas Elliott

Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads.

£25,000: 37%
£50,270: 51%
£100,000: 71%

What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family?

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

It’s time to deprecate Palantir’s contract with the NHS. Maximum disconnect.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

YouTube video by CTV News PM Carney delivers special address at World Economic Forum

Carney's historic speech is worth watching in full. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtF6...

What I'm hearing is that he left for school on time!

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot

Trump's "Board of Peace" isn't an international organisation; it's a personal fiefdom.

Its Charter names him personally as chair,subject only to resignation or unanimous vote of incapacity; lets him pick his successor; allows him to hire & fire the executive...
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

What the fuck

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

Fair enough. I would argue that it’s a show more interested in Carol, and what it means to be human, than the technical ‘mystery’.

replies indicate parody?

I will be chatting with them over Christmas! 😁

The benefit of a lot of talk of a bubble without a crash materialising (yet) is that it has prompted some retail investors (like my parents) to realise they are uncomfortable with the level of risk in their portfolio, and to course-correct now before it's too late.

Also, as a visual metaphor... it's like the robot is decapitating itself.

Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts

Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?

Dear Lord conference, what a sad little life.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

I never watch the trailers.

UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

You've always got to have some pocket meat on you.

Lynn, no offence, but your phone technically isn’t worth stealing.

Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.

This looks rather meaningful.

Good point! I recall a similar situation in UK season 2 with Jaz, Mollie and Harry…

That's.... exactly what's going to happen, isn't it.

I was of course also screaming at the TV. I’m just trying to find a way to forgive…

(And the edit was cruel. It was only in retrospect I realised that the hundies were a one-sided affair. Nick had never fully bought in.)

But David made it clear he never suspected Alan - had Nick voted red, he’d have been gone. (Appreciate he didn’t know this when he voted)