@L__Macfarlane Find me a country on the continent where you can earn £50k with a 12k allowance and 20% income tax. Middle earners don’t pay enough tax 🤫
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cookiesnrap 🇪🇺
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Unpopular opinion: at a time when maintaining a functional state will definitely require more tax revenue, continually taking more people out of tax altogether is not a good idea
The reality is most people will need to pay a bit more tax, even if some should pay more than others
James Meadway@meadwaj
Burnham tax cuts: Late 2016, in McDonnell's office, we did costings for revenue neutral income tax shift - cut at the bottom, increase at the top. Quick redistribution that gives a bunch of lower paid workers more money. LOTO didn't like it, too keen on standard tax-and-spend.1/2
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@TheSnowDreamer Loving it, even when it’s only 21 feels like 18. As long as the sun shines it’s all good
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Have you noticed it’s been an unusually sunny July?
Yesterday we effectively reached monthly average in London with 12 days to add on.
One thing the 2020s have been lacking is a sunny July they’ve tended to be duller than average, that finally is breaking with 2026.
GIF
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The rest of the league plays transition football with little regard for positional structure in possession. I wish more coaches would try to play like Spain. (3)
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The amount of revisionism doing the rounds right now is incredible.
During Germany’s best time (2010-2014), Löw OPENLY tried to emulate Spain and in tandem, Bayern re-emerged as an elite side thanks to Louis van Gaal’s Ajax-Barca positional play. (1)
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@KuperSimon Isn't there a strange loneliness around Belingham? In fact, Gazza had the same strange aura around him. Of a hero, not a leader. Of a star out of a constellation.
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OH IT’S HERE & IT’S BEAUTIFUL😍😍😍
The 44 ⚽️@The_Forty_Four
SHOW ME ARGENTINIAN TEARS NOW😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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Argentina committed 25 fouls against Spain, the most in a World Cup game since ...
Argentina (26) against France in the 2022 World Cup final.
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Throwback to when Virgil Van Dijk absolutely bodied Parades 👌
Anything Liverpool@AnythingLFC_
Parades at full time 🤯
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库库雷利亚向梅西解释，库巴西的嘴角受伤，结果梅西借机向裁判举报他捂嘴，要求向他出示红牌。
证明球王也有骚操作的，只是这个操作有失球王风度。
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Me @FT on the best team in the world that won this World Cup (and almost everything else) based on a national football culture that everyone in Spain learns aged six. Any other winner would have been a travesty. Felicidades - and free link: as.ft.com/r/28e88e99-482…
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Pau Cubarsí.
I have no words. Only 19 years old.
Do you know what's most impressive about Cubarsí?
In many football systems, he would never have made it to the top. He is too short to be a centre-back, and he lacks physicality, someone might say.
But he is intelligent. Positionally outstanding. Exceptionally disciplined. Fast. Elite in build-up and line-breaking passing.
Spain's and FC Barcelona's footballing philosophies allow players like Cubarsí to thrive.
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This level of ‘sportsmanship’ was given free rein by FIFA for much of the tournament.
The referring towards Argentina against Egypt and England was atrocious.
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Disgusting behaviour by the Argentinians at the end, especially Paredes.
Just a bunch of nasty violent thugs, and a disgrace to football. Never been so happy to see a team lose.
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Look at this thug.
Leandro Paredes should be banned for a long time.
Can’t handle his team produced the worse World Cup final performance in history.
What a sore loser
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Shoutout the trio of Wayne, Joe Hart and Micah. Been absolutely class this World Cup.
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So funny to write all of this and not mention that one of the big reasons people turned on them is that the team (and its fans) recorded themselves singing racist songs about the French players.
Jacobin@jacobin
It's okay, you can root for Argentina. jacobin.com/2026/07/world-…
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@Plutowave021 @Quaresma_32 Agreed. I have a real soft spot for him.
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@Quaresma_32 The little 45 minutes given to Rashford was well used. He was expectional throughout the first half
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