Story of many many Americans lives.. the medical stuff shouldn’t be political But somehow that has become Toxic too????

Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman

Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman

If Andy Burnham wants to make the system fairer he will need to upset the professional classes with a land value tax

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Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.

Across all taxes, small businesses fail to pay between £30 billion and £48 billion of tax. These figures are massive. Enough to fund significant tax cuts or additional expenditure

Under 16s social media ban commands significant support from the public. From all of our conversations it’s seen as an area where people think individual parents can’t act alone and an area where they need government to help them take back control.

Before "agentic AI," we had the idea that software was your agent on the internet. That's why the technical term for a browser is a "user agent." Your browser acts on your behalf to retrieve and show it you information, in the format you choose. It's your agent: pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/t... 1/

Home ownership in England has fallen from 71% to 62.5% in just two decades. The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published its report on how the government can help first-time buyers get on the property ladder. Read our report: committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

The problem is not that stamp duty increases “backfire”. It is worse than that: they work fiscally, while doing real economic and human damage. Our full report is here. More detail and methodology with all code open sourced. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/06/09/w...

The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Today's post explores two fun facts: 1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!) 2. Even so, stocks rose on the news. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...

How to Price A Liar

For the 50th time this year, we're on the cusp of peace. Apparently.

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UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...

The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country

In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.

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The private rented sector has more than doubled in size over the past 25 years - that's 8 million more people living in the private rented sector today than in the early 2000s. 🏠 Read more in our latest Housing Outlook ➡️ buff.ly/SNjZ77G

Trump is stealing your money with his policies by making everything more expensive but he doesn’t care because his priorities are wars, ballrooms, reflecting pools, and self-enrichment.

The media come at Polanski and miss big time! This is a scary example of media bias to the Greens. They took a badly researched story from a Labour supporting tax guy ran it without doing any of their own checking. Now they're all exposed as idiots. And that was their best attack against Zack😂

One of the things Starmer's defenders on here get so wrong is to insist it's all about media froth. In fact, as that Jess Philips letter demonstrates, the most damning criticism of Starmer comes from those concerned about the policy and delivery process.

I'm record saying that every economic bubble is terrible, but some bubbles *do* leave behind a salvageable productive residue while others leave behind nothing but ashes; indeed, this is the thesis of my next book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI* us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

In other words, Trump and Hegseth have been lying to the American people.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

An energy and petrol inflation shock will unwind what was expected to be a decent year for living standards. Median household are now expected to be £480 worse off from inflation shock, seeing 0.6 per cent fall in living standards this year

It is stunning that the US apparently did not take Iran’s threats to close the Strait seriously, nor does the campaign seem to have recognized the specific military importance of mines as a tool for asymmetric Iranian leverage. Quick thread 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

How would we know? The Conservatives in 2019 and Labour in 2024 both ran on impossible promises and most of their partisans have spent the time since complaining that the voters are unreasonable. When was the last chance you gave them to *be* reasonable?

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‘We live in a world in which populism is economically impossible but those who disavow populism are electorally doomed’. Discuss without laughing or crying.

We’ve seen a *massive* swing away from homeownership into expensive private renting. Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).

Council Tax has become increasingly regressive. It now takes nearly 5% of income from the poorest families but barely 1% from the richest. For many, it's become a grinding monthly obligation to rival the Poll Tax.

Great piece on pressures on European state pension schemes including this chart showing comparative cost now and projection to 2070. UK costs relatively low in comparison to most others www.ft.com/content/9c3c...

"According to archive records seen by DeSmog, the IEA accepted more than £357,000 from fossil fuel giants – including BP, Shell, and Esso (owned by ExxonMobil) – between 1990 & 2005, adding to the £122,000 received between 1967 and 1989" And over £164k from Murdoch's News International in the 90s

Revealed: The IEA’s oil and Murdoch money

New “groundbreaking investigation” into Tufton Street’s funding...

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This is from Computerworld in August of 1999, people were definitely worried that dot com stocks were overvalued and they were being told not to worry.

"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t." open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

Labour at the Margin...

...of survival

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