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Cynical idealist || @UKLabour || Celtic FC

[C @MacGregorthe1]

@comrade_kumar_ The fiscal rules don’t prevent you from borrowing for capital investments and the renters rights bill has already made it illegal to discriminate against benefit recipients

[James Bloodworth @J_Bloodworth]

‘Free speech absolutism’

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan urges PKK to disarm as part of Turkey peace effort

https://t.co/YDDLUAtPs0

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

All those critiquing @elonmusk (rightly so) should begin by questioning those calling him a “genius” or even a “tech
bro”. He invented NONE of the TECH. Just bought stuff at the right time. More marketing than science. He’s benefitted by billions of government dollars that he questions when given to others. Clear regressive political agenda: underfund government (even more) hoping that deregulation and a weak state can make outer space his playground & sling mud like a child at all progressive politicians like @Keir_Starmer. I wrote about this more than a decade ago in my book The Entrepreneurial State.

[Wendy Pearlman @Wendy_Pearlman]

Wisdom from @YassinHSaleh: don't celebrate HTS's military gains & ignore its ideology OR decry its ideology & ignore its ability to resist the regime. Rather Syrians must mobilize to preserve the revolution.
I'll add: we allies can listen & support as Syrian activists judge best

[antonietta priolo @antoniettampa]

I've quoted this brilliant essay on @newlinesmag several times, but it's even more relevant today. Western left-wing intellectuals view the Syrian struggle solely through the frame of American imperialism, blind to the specificities of Syrian politics. https://t.co/gyKJrk5RUx

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

We've finally arrived at the ultimate contradiction of the US's "rules-based order": where the "rule" now is that you're forbidden to follow the rules.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Some added context:
Important context here:

● over half UK farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's compare:

● Clarkson farm 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farm 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere 4,700 acres
● Dyson farm 36,000 acres

[dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod]

"You told the Sunday Times you bought a farm to avoid paying Inheritance Tax"

Jeremy Clarkson reduced to a blubbering wreck when confronted with... his own words 😄🚜

Pay your taxes Jezza! @JeremyClarkson #farmersprotest

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.

Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest?... 1/

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Why on Earth should anyone care what he thinks about this?

[Steven Fielding @PolProfSteve]

A few days ago this journalist was using a Daily Mail story as source material and now this: the circle is complete. I’m not implying any political partisanship on her part … just sheer laziness.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

VAT on private school fees from Jan 2025, and remove business rates relief for private schools from April 2025. #Budget

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Weird narrative from some that a modest increase in employers NI will mean workers should expect lower headline pay rises.

Did corporate Britain ever hand out bumper pay rises when corporation tax was cut?

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Hurray - local authorities will retain right to buy sales money. One of the things in my "ten quick policy wins for Labour" published pre-election.

[CAMRA @CAMRA_Official]

The Chancellor has made a welcome announcement that duty on draught beer and cider served in pubs, social clubs and taprooms will be cut by 1.7%.

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Apparently ‘middle Britain’ lives off the profits of stocks and shares and landlordism. What nonsense. Most people in this country have to work and pay taxes on their wages. The privileged minority who don’t, and enjoy unearned income, should pay more tax.

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Earned and unearned income.

Such hard concepts to separate.

[𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @_DIGB]

Failed the cold Tuesday night at Hampden test

Away up the road raging

What a fuckin glorious meltdown