NotMy Ding

Name your Top 3 Amiga games of all time! (if you can)

I'm by no means a Jeevun Sandher stan, but the UK's high tax is ~normal by advanced economy/aging society standards. Many of the countries with higher tax-%-GDP have a better recent record on per capita growth. There's no automatic high growth + low taxes correlation. That's because the state allocating money towards capital projects, R&D or skills/education might have better multipliers than suppressing the top rate so that the middle classes can do extra foreign holidays/home improvement projects/mid-week meals out. I don't begrudge hard working people any of these things – the state can (and does) spend money badly, OFC, & personal incentives to work & earn have to be maintained, OBVS. But taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilised, functioning society. In recent years they've risen across much of the West, roughly in proportion to the less favourable demographics (i.e. poor worker:pensioner ratios). There's a HUGE economic cost to having crap services, failing infrastructure, an exodus of doctors to Australia, 7m people on waiting lists, and dirty, unsafe, uninvestable public spaces... etc. etc. etc.

What is it about a group of people ordering an Indian that is somehow unacceptable to eat your own food that you order yourself? I can guarantee someone, probably Stacey, will have ordered the korma. Am I wrong? And in my book a korma is pointless. It's futile. I won't touch it

I am not a particularly pro-car person but it is clear that Britain needs to build more motorways.

The Parliamentary Art Collection has acquired this portrait of Rachel Reeves, preparing for the 2024 Budget

Someone earning £33,000 in 2010, if their salary had gone up by inflation, would now be a higher rate tax payer, despite being £11,000 below the threshold at the time. The minimum wage in 2010 was £5.80, if increased by inflation it would be £9.09. It will be £12.71 from April. These two factors combined with student loan thresholds and infinity low skilled migrants are the "productivity puzzle" in the UK. We have regulated ourselves into not rewarding working harder.

London’s economy has boomed under him and London is statistically a safer place. I can see why he’s getting this tbh. He looks good under metrics that satisfy the ones above