Adrian Hucks

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

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[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

#aurora #cambridgeshire #solarstorm

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@thetimes Nothing to do with a cost of living crisis eh?

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@ChrisHopsonNHS You cannot talk about all the problems and wanting to support primary care whilst imposing contracts and cutting funding for GP practices in real terms!

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@Object_Zero_ @JamesDAustin Maybe we should rejoin the EU so we can use their planning rules? 😂🎣

[Geoff @kwoade]

Labradors - double coated, waterproofed & insulated - were bred from St John’s Water Dogs, carefully selected to retrieve fish from the semi-arctic waters of Newfoundland and Labrador for their fishermen owners.

Here are 3 of them, begging to get inside to escape light drizzle.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵

1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

[Fr Paul @revpaulwhite]

First they put ticks on hot cross buns, and I said nothing because it seemed like a complete irrelevance.

Then they changed the colours of the flag for a logo, and I said nothing because it seemed like a complete irrelevance.

Then I realised that most of the stuff we squabble about here is completely irrelevant…

[Liam Thorp @LiamThorpECHO]

There was some big news this week which should have been top of the news agenda - the fact that it wasn’t and the story that dominated the public space instead tells a worrying story about the priorities of many in this country 🧵

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I was interested to see some on here asking "why should a rich person pay more for the same services than a poorer person?" on the back of council tax/poll tax discussions. Now of course no one likes tax, but we need to understand it, so I wanted to bash out my quick, unpolished thoughts on tax in general.

Of course tax should be minimised, spent wisely, efficiently and productively. I'm opposed to punitive taxation ie just for the sake of punishing those with more - even though it doesn't help or raise more revenue.

Yet for me, tax is the cost of living in a legitimate civil society. It should pay for society's law and order, defence, hospitals, education, rubbish collection, legal aid, social care for our elderly, state pensions, special ed needs, disability protection, medical care and help for those who can't help themselves and more.

So it's the cost of being part of both broad national and narrow local communities - hopefully for the collective betterment of all.

If you were simply to say "you only pay for what you use" that isn't tax, that's service provision. Never mind the tricky questions of how you assign the cost of things like defence or policing (some may say that view'd mean if your house burnt down the fire brigade should bill you after).

As for why a rich person pays a more. Well because if you take £500/mth poll tax off someone who earns £1,000/mth it's crippling, off someone who earns £100,000/mth it's hardly noticed, and they still have far more disposable income.

And so if you tax everyone an equal amount, when it has a disproportionate and more damaging effect on those with less, then you start to move people into desperate situations, which risks higher crime, less safe streets, social unrest and eventually societal breakdown.

So I am generally in favour of progressive taxation, which means those say with more income , pay a reasonable higher proportion of tax, because they can afford to.

After all those who are more affluent, have broader shoulders, and have likely made money from society as a whole - and a well functioning society is needed for wealth creation.

PS I've been deliberately unspecific here, this isn't about supporting one structure of tax, just being about tax as a concept.

And equally I think tax planning is fine (ie working within the rules to minimise tax - often because you're doing something the state is trying to encourage you to do - like save in an ISA or invest or put money aside for your future)

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@dexteristwisted @LVMelL0 I’d always open it the wrong way up and not find the ziplock!

[LiLi🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @thommoteach]

Morning! Can’t wait for summer 😂

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@harryclax @LinkedInUK Normally linked in up use is a sign you’re leaving your current job 😉🫣

[Sandford Police Commentary @Sandford_Police]

We prefer the term “documentary”

#HotFuzz

[Graham Love @glove931]

LET’S DO THIS

#SCOvENG

[Adrian Hucks @AdrianHucks]

@PaulOnBooks So not entirely true. Only new post boxes will bear the kings crown.
One would also assume that the police uniforms would change in time, the same way the military ones will?

https://t.co/36vUg0GkH3