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Toby Tustin-Durant
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Toby Tustin-Durant
@TobyDurant
Ex-this, former-that History, chess, & Football Manager nerd
Oxford, England Katılım Aralık 2010
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There are ten times more billionaires in the UK than there were when I was a child, said @ZackPolanski.
We hosted the Green Party leader for a major economic speech yesterday.
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Even the Romans understood the principle of fleecing a sheep rather than skinning it. £15bn is barely a scratch in the budget, and will force productive people away from the UK
The state does not create money, it redistributes it, but it can only redistribute what it can collect
Farrukh@implausibleblog
Zack Polanski, "A wealth tax won't fix everything but it would be a very good place to start" "1% on £10 million, and 2% on £1 billion, would raise around £15 billion a year" "A clear message that those who have accumulated the most money will pay a little bit more" "For a truly progressive government a wealth tax needs to be a day one priority" "And to get our economy moving we much look at all the levers we can pull" "That must include equalising capital gains tax with income tax" "Close down tax avoidance loopholes" "And to expand National Insurance to cover income from investment as well as earned income"
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@Socket1Sophie Empathy is there for both, but it's directed and acted upon differently. Collective good vs individual good, picking up vs not constraining
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I think I've nailed what the missing element is between right wing people and left wing people.
Empathy.
Progressive / left wing ideologies start with empathy.
This also means that Christian beliefs are incompatible with right wing politics.
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@TimHDav @tes 1. It covers economic inequality among families (kids wearing latest trends vs kids in the same clothes all year) and reduces bullying
2. Putting on a uniform gets you "in a mentality" for work. It clearly delineates between regular day-to-day and school
3. Fosters collective ID
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While most secondary schools require students to wear blazers, nearly half of teachers would prefer young people to wear ‘joggers and a polo’ or no uniform, exclusive polling reveals
tes.com/magazine/news/…
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@BenGrahamUK I'd like to see what the labour & material cost is vs the lawyer & red tape costs
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Britain is spending £460 million building a 60 metre wildlife bridge over the A417 dual carriageway in Gloucestershire, for animals to cross.
That’s a £7.6 million per metre deer crossing.
It would be funny if it wasn't our tax payer money being wasted, meanwhile real problems remain unfunded.
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@realhansard Corporate consolidation leads to fewer jobs at the top, which means the conveyor belt that lifts people up in a company and opens entry-level positions stops
Graduates can also feel like they are "too good" for some jobs, while other employers see a degree on a CV and wont hire
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The same reasons graduates in the UK are struggling to find employment:
- A mismatch between what employers want and what universities are delivering, and,
- Unprecedented growth in the number of graduates- far more than the economy can absorb.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
India's young are more educated than ever. So why are so many jobless? bbc.in/3PevPHO
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@implausibleblog £15bn is a drop in the ocean. And when you're thirsty a drop is useful, but the only way UK finances get back on track is efficiency in govt spending and promoting private enterprise for growth. You can't tax money that doesn't get made.
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Zack Polanski, "A wealth tax won't fix everything but it would be a very good place to start"
"1% on £10 million, and 2% on £1 billion, would raise around £15 billion a year"
"A clear message that those who have accumulated the most money will pay a little bit more"
"For a truly progressive government a wealth tax needs to be a day one priority"
"And to get our economy moving we much look at all the levers we can pull"
"That must include equalising capital gains tax with income tax"
"Close down tax avoidance loopholes"
"And to expand National Insurance to cover income from investment as well as earned income"
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@BanGaoRen Realistically, you can't. The UK is too small and the world too interconnected for the UK to do 1 or 2 in one or even two parliaments, & 3 is impossible.
1 & 2 would take a lot of short term pain with things like QT, council evolution, utility renationalisation & NHS efficiency
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@RenaudFoucart @ConversationUK only 30% is fossil, but its price is directly set by gas. So even if generation is not dependent, price is. Hence *gestures at everything*
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@TobyDurant @ConversationUK I agree but I think quite a lot has been done, in a transpartisan way, to increase energy independence with what we have: only 30% of our electricity is fossil (but we are very slow with EV so use a lot of oil for transport).
But independence is costly, precisely because no sun
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Electricity in the UK will not be cheap in the foreseeable future.
It will also largely be intermittent.
What if we had a bit of ambition and used this situation to do what we do best: services and innovation?
Me in @ConversationUK
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@Fawltymajor1 @MarkJLittlewood @SkySportsNews Very funny, of you, GG. But I don't really like women's football, and I get frustrated when I see a headline like "Arsenal break record transfer fee" in the summer and it's £1m on the womens team
Doesn't mean I'm down for a grand conspiracy to make everyone watch it tho
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@jhendersonYT The democratisation of media was great, but it killed off the ability of institutions to pay well.
Content (I hate that word) can't really support a company anymore, it needs to be a tight, small, group to actually turn a reasonable profit.
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At a writers’ group, an older journalist mentioned that she used to write an article for $2,000 and live off of that (this was probably in the 70s-80s). She asked some freelancers what they make now, and she could not believe that the rates had stayed static or gone down.
traurigsten Muthes@mcmansionhell
I genuinely think writers over 40 don’t realize how bad things are for those younger than them. There’s a fundamental disconnect happening here in terms of not only rates but networking, practical knowledge, and things like housing costs and debt. Two ships passing in the night.
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@DancingEddie_ No, but also yes.
In your 20s you feel invincible. Like you're 100% bulletproof, hangovers barely touch you, there's endless energy, sleep is optional.
Then at some point in your mid 30s your neck hurts in the morning, DOMS actually kicks in, and you wake up with a 67% battery
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it’s a bit ominous as a younger guy that every single rich dude
> makes hundreds of millions of dollars
> immediately becomes a health fanatic
is the falloff after 35 that bad?
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong
Getting old shouldn't be viewed as inevitable, just because it happens to everyone. It's a disease that kills over 100,000 people a day, and hopefully it will be optional in the future.
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@nomorefielders US sports inability to have true hometown heroes due to the draft is a real shame. Imagine a Miami team full of South Florida & Caribbean players
Football may have more baked-in inequality, but at least we have players rise through the youth academies and become cult heroes
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This stadium has still not seen a single Marlins postseason game with fans in attendance.
Players want to play in Miami, there’s swaths of fans who would show up if ownership carried their weight. Don’t let the David Samsons of the world tell you otherwise.
Benson@Miggysbat
LoanDepot Park if Marlins’ ownership even cared:
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@jonatanpallesen Once united and without internal struggle, an island can secure itself and benefit from a bounty of peace. It is not subject to the swinging and zero-sum of continential power flow.
It also has to focus seaward for trade, opening up global rather than near options
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It's an interesting fact of human history that we have these two similar sized islands, Japan and the UK that are close to a mainland, and have had outsized influence and power throughout history compared to their size.
Having an island of a certain size or above separated from the mainland really seems like a powerful starting position.
Both held their own historically against the significantly larger continental rival (France, China).
Madagascar and the southern African mainland present a similar geographical arrangement, but it hasn't had the same historical importance.
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@ReemAmirIbrahim I'd rather see our tax money go to staff on-the-street policing than so many things it is currently spent on.
Visible deterrents prevent this sort of stuff, and with most snatchers being repeat offenders, getting them off the streets will quickly solve the problem.
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So, the British police are incapable of stopping phone theft, and the Government blames... the tech companies that make the phones?
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
MP Dawn Butler says manufacturers can invoke a "kill switch" so stolen phones are worthless, asking Keir Starmer if he will implement legislation to drive out crime "There's more to do but we must work with the tech industry to do so," PM says #PMQs bbc.in/4sPZaqn
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@Master419B @the_mclarke @lovedropx The thing that fed most of Europe & MENA throughout history, the thing that sayings use as a shorthand for "sustinance", that until the potato arrived was where most people got their calories each day.
I just always assume bread hate comes from USA cos theirs is basically cake.
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@the_mclarke @lovedropx Yall have never made bread and it shows. You could make bread with a 6x6 plot of land, a mortar and pestle, water, salt, and an oven
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"Bread is bad for you," "rice is bad for you"—sorry, I'm not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. I love you, carbs.
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@MarkJLittlewood @SkySportsNews That's not as changeable as the fixture list. I get it, the BBC can be frustrating when you need to scroll through non-league fixtures to see Serie A, but they are focused on the UK and Sky is focused on selling you a sub to watch the football.
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@TobyDurant @SkySportsNews Not really. Their permanent listing of league tables is similar - irrespective of what they are showing.
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@mindofprospect The irony is that Brookes is actually excellent in a few areas. It sends an outrageous number of people into F1 for example
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Oxford Brookes graduates kill me. You ask them where they went uni and they always leave out the “Brookes” part
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