Can’t help but have massive respect at this point for Arteta just completely ignoring a technical area being a thing. Imagine living nextdoor to him? Look outside & he’s just cooking away on your BBQ, shouting at your dog to fuck off. No one does anything cause they’re so stunned
The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.
That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it.
In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel.
If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700.
Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030.
The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels.
The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.
Watching full blown wars on Twitter is the most surreal experience of modern life.
War, war, NBA post, F1, relationship advice, Epstein, war, Champions League draw, missiles.
Kids all over Wales missing out on the chance to write “George blows Lennie’s head clean off at the end” on the first page to ruin it for the next kid reading the book.