Really great to be back on #wakeuptomoney talking with @felicityhannah.bsky.social (and her Uncertainty Klaxon) about some of the economic implications of the war in the Middle East.
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March 2020 Budget vibes.
There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
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This is unacceptable. Anything post 1990 counts as “very recent past” and needs no nostalgia.
Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money
Basically another version of DiCaprio's "GIVE ME THE OSCAR" stare to camera at the end of The Revenant.
Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.
There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
Watching Reeves being interviewed on Laura Kuenssberg and they’ve spent 10 minutes on (i) whether Reeves lied, and (ii) whether she broke the manifesto commitments.
Utterly futile.
It’s good. A little too kind maybe but good.
We'll do anything to increase tax revenues but we won't Do That (broadbased tax rises that might actually plug the gap)
Good Budget Eve reading from @jomichell.bsky.social
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Continue to be confused by this strand of Labour MPs that appear not to want to raise any taxes at all.
Had my first "hey, where did the sound go?" moment on live tv today. Thankfully, I think I styled it out and definitely didn't end up looking like a giant head in a tank babbling silently to themselves.
Anyway the basic gist is that this government have decided businesses, universities and immigrants should pay the taxes that the median voter doesn’t want to pay. I’m sure that will have no worrying incidence effects or counteract ‘the singleminded focus on growth’.
Very good adaptation of Train Dreams on Netflix. Captures the mood of the book perfectly. Pretty much perfectly cast including having Will Patton narrate. His audiobook reading is one of the all time greats.
And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
The current webpage for the ONS which reports "Sorry, there's a problem with the service". I think the phrase is "Lol"
lol every other year since 2019, a prominent male economist has been revealed as the absolute worst person ever. Like clockwork.
Very senior economist speaks out against Summers and against the discipline continuing to bestow privileges and honors on him; calls out sexism in economics.
You'd think this site should be flooded with similar threads...
Scumbag
Pretty hard not to despair most days.
Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
To be honest I think “I’m going to give a press conference to tell the whole nation over their breakfasts about the absolute need for something big on tax, then just drop the idea 10 days later” may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.
