Nick Rich

I’ve been a reader here since 2010; this year, I intend to become a writer. And update my photo now my hair is greying!

[Nick Rich @Nick__Rich]

@anilkseth Each to their own! I couldn't get past the ‘middle aged journo writes character who is middle aged journo but highly attractive to hot young women’ schtick, plus the prose was appalling ( though tbf that maybe the translator rather than the author. )

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@curiouswavefn @star_stufff Who borrowed it from An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope, 1717.

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@spyced Bill Atkinson?

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@PeoplesMomentum Every phrase and claim in your tweet is false- must be a record, even for you lot.

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@TallRomanStatue Wouldnt this be great?!

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@MaasJonathan I am loath to correct you on that one, but I will anyway :-)

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

As other economists have shown, Gabriel Zucman's tax and inequality data is wildly misleading. He turns seemingly every methodological dial to claim that inequality has soared and high-earner taxes have collapsed.

In his own data, virtually the ENTIRE drop in high-income taxes come from Zucman's highly unorthodox assumptions about the incidence of the corporate tax - which he claims cost the top 1% of earners 29% (!) of their income in 1951, and yet now costs them 6%.

And this questionable data accounts for his ENTIRE claimed "drop" in higher-earner taxes.

You see - on the income tax side - Zucman's own data shows that the average individual income tax paid by the rich has RISEN - not fallen - since the 1950s.

See https://t.co/7MV77qBWUe then click on "Table 2: Distributional series," and navigate to tab TG2b, column T for income taxes (and column U for corporate taxes)

As much as Zucman builds up 1950s income tax rates, almost no one actually paid 91% tax rates - or even touched a tax bracket over 50%. And that's why actual income tax revenues - including income tax rates paid by the rich - were *lower* in the 1950s than today.

Zucman's rhetoric is peddling a "tax the rich" utopia of the 1940s-1960s that his own data shows did not exist.

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@CraigMurrayOrg "The Earth goes round the Sun" was an extremist position once; eppuor si muove.

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@fesshole Wait, you don't pull the refrigerator out weekly to sweep and mop behind? I'm not eating at your house...

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@DrTimothyKelly Who pointed out it is never difficult to distinguish a ray of sunshine from a Scotsman with a grievance?

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@DanielJHannan Not given his treatment of Boris Johnson. Live by the slur…

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

As the @chiefrabbi said today attacks on Jews is an attack on all of us. On our society. We need to stand together and fight. It was inspiring to see many stand up at a time when it’s physically dangerous to do so. I am proud to have stood with you.

[🇮🇱 Rabbi Zvi Solomons Am Yisrael Chai💛💙🕎 @RabbiZvi]

Lord Walney spoke well. Calm to action.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Boy George shares message of solidarity with the British Jewish community.

“I don’t want to be thanked for doing what is right. I have so many beautiful Jewish friends…even if I don’t know you I send you my love.”

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

What is so chilling nowadays is not simply the resurgence of antisemitism itself but watching people who once proclaimed the loudest commitment to tolerance and human rights now unable (or unwilling) to recognise the same poison within their own ranks
https://t.co/tV1VhN9e4K

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

I don't like Farage. I think he's fundamentally untrustworthy. I think the alleged comments he made as a schoolboy are horrendous.

In the wake of the stabbing attack in Golders Green, he came to the area.
Your leader - who, as you say, is Jewish - didn't.
Why is that, exactly?

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

Metal detectors to attend a rally in central London. This is how Jews must live today. The danger is not "perceived" as the leader of the Green Party would have you believe. It is real as the victims in Golder's Green, Manchester, Boulder,and so many other places can attest.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“I don’t want to be thanked for doing what is right”

Boy George in a powerful message to Jews and allies standing together at the march against anti-Jewish hate in London today.