*Sigh* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Case in point:

ChatGPT says it depends how far you go back, but reckons Charles I was still worse:

Soooo many unforced errors.

OMG, flashbacks to childhood.

This on the 'viability crunch' from the Home Builders' Federation is interesting. The tax impact looks low but I suspect that it's indirectly a decent component of the first labour and materials category too...

Any idea why your handle is showing up like this? I can't seem to post to you directly. Not sure if it's a your account issue or mine...

Big "you're not coming to my birthday party" vibes here.

The OBR's commentary on the salary sacrifice changes is interesting:

Labour doesn't have a huge coalition in the over 65 age bracket; argubaly, protecting working age people and hitting pensioners would play to their 2024 electoral coalition... Is your argument here that younger voters would also punish the Gov for such a tax move on their elders behalf?

Current view:

Some straight guys are going to do very well out of it...

Nice. Hopefully an easy one from me! I need to buy a(n off-the-shelf) suit soon and have been looking for a link where you summarise the main things to look out for. Have you got one, or is the advice all in threads? Thanks for this and what you do.

I thought that this part was particularly damning:

Did someone call?

Where do you get that 11-12% from? According to the IFS Income Tax accounts for about 25% of Government Revenue with NICs adding a further 16%. ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxla...

The arrogance of Trump's 'might is right' policy. It's all going to come down crashing on their heads. www.ft.com/content/8a71...

@twoev.bsky.social and @wildecard.bsky.social made a pun that Trump is creating a reverse Suez crisis; a 'Zeus' if you will. I thought it rather fitting when you consider some of Zeus' less appealing character traits:

Nar, can't be a Zeus crisis. Trump demonstrates none of the following, obvs:

Jeez. People are so hostile to trans people that they're willing usurp American democracy. Insanity. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Feels like there's a sliver of concern re lost influence in there:

Interesting commentary from Trump-critic John Bolton in the WSJ. Criticising European weakness AND it's efforts to forge its own path seems a bit cakeist though.

@ndrummond.bsky.social doesn't appear active on here but his post on X caught my eye. Worth a watch.