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Give additional ratepayers their free childcare and PA back but the additional goes from 45p to 70 to compensate

Also like, we should remove the particular cliff edge but an actual 70% income tax rate on high earners would be good and fine

Maybe not protesting but he was a conservative in the literal sense of the word don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine him taking the same attitude to Trump he demonstrably took to the Nazis (hating them at least partly for being revolutionary)

I mean I wouldn’t cite the tuition fees pledge as evidence of that…

I think honestly the best path might be to explicitly say, now, that she’s resigning effective the day after the budget. Or Torsten or the chief sec becomes chancellor

Purely gut instinct but, 60-70% of people vote and if when you get handed a ballot paper and it says Keir Starmer or Nigel Farage I think you might actually remember that?

If they make a deal with that party that turns their website off on Sundays to obey the bible, we’ve even got the Healy-Raes

My friends who smoke a pack a day enforce a stricter no-smoking policy in their own homes than nightclubs in 2005

(Btw I think this is insane, and to anyone over 30 talk to someone over 30 about how genuinely disgusting they find the idea of smoking a cigarette indoors, including their own home, including if they smoke themselves, and anyone under 30 talk to an old person about normal they find it)

His whole theory of the case is that it’s not that anti smoking campaigners accomplished incredibly ambitious things but their opponents were genuinely wrong that bans on indoor smoking were ever unpopular.

He wrote a whole piece about how the anti-smoking movement wasn’t really expanding the possible even though no one in 1980 could dream of the restrictions we have now because actually people always hated secondhand smoke

Being charitable: the most it can to reduce poverty within the constraint that voters absolutely do not change their minds and will not accept any personal sacrifice ever.

As if Pedro Sánchez’s week wasn’t bad enough, he might lose his title as Europe’s Hottest PM

It’s in tribute to Germany losing a World Cup final

Absolutely incredible that the party called Right Answer 2021 haven’t changed their name.

Makes it feasible they could be the largest party and get the PM? And stops them being played off each other in gov formation

I mean I think that’s fine as it is (it is neutral to positive that Zack Polanski doesn’t know who Tony Crosland was! The British left has argued about Tony Crosland for 50 years, and been very unsuccessful in that time!) but yeah there’s definitely a lot of libertarian lefties now

Oddly as Wikipedia themselves note grokipedia correctly adds Wikipedia’s Creative Commons attribution note wherever they’ve just copy pasted so this Elon’s most legal new business in years

Also have people on the left thought through that this means the first thing anyone does in a really bad crisis is cut taxes for rich people?

The suggestion appears to be letting the same kind of committee which sets interest rates set tax levels which strike me as a) quite anti-democratic b) bizarre

Is the income tax basic rate going to be adjusted by 0.1-0-25% every quarter?

Although that fact is perhaps the best bit of objective evidence for orthodox Marxism you’ll get. The left really did move on from supporting capitalism over feudalism to socialism over capitalism!

Tbf in Yglesias’ case is it not that he cares about social issues/online discourse much more than economics, just in the opposite way to everyone else, so he legit would accept quite hardcore socialism as long as no one gives their pronouns or is vegan?

Yeah fair enough lol

*re*watching? With that level of patience has she considered a career as a spiritual leader?

I actually came out of MacBride’s book liking him a little bit because of how upfront he is about “yes I was a cunt but we halved child poverty in a country Rupert Murdoch still ran”. Campbell does not have this quality.

It’s also possibly the website on earth best set up to resist AI slop, people have been posting plausibly sounding bullshit on that site and getting challenged on it by well meaning pedants since 2001. Also it has a v distinctive writing style which is very un ChatGPT

Tbf the foundation posts annual surpluses so it’s not going anywhere unless it gets shut down, and Elon aside it doesn’t seem to be particularly high up the Trump hit list?

Antonio Salazar didn’t get what he deserved any more than Franco did but Portugal is much happier to talk about fascism because it ended in a day

The thing people do remember is partygate which had a beginning middle and end and I think the pandemic just tailing off might be the might psychologically difficult bit

It would definitely… change politics. Possibly for the worse? But it would be very funny