Sam George Hall

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The interactive chart is here:

https://t.co/MlnZ7eI47w

Click around to see the big beasts, the tiny oddities, the zero-yield zombies, and the reason serious tax reform is so hard.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Britain has a tax on instruments that don’t exist any more.

It raises no revenue. It never applies. It was meant to be abolished this year, but wasn't.

It still exists.

Anyway, I made a chart of all 85 UK taxes.

[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

@LatimerEduin @TheIFS How much if this is "I'm too embarrassed to go to the job centre" In terms of is that a barrier for people taking up UC. Since 2016 I've been out of work for 3 weeks but I still made my UC claim once to get the money.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Statistics from the Government's youth unemployment report:

- Mid- and lower-skilled jobs have fallen by around 1.6 million over the past 20 years

- Hospitality vacancies have nearly halved in the last 4 years

- Apprenticeships for 16-24-year-olds have fallen by 35% since the Apprenticeship Levy was introduced in 2017

- The proportion of 16-17-year-olds in paid work has nearly halved from 35% in 2006 to 19% today

- If every current inactive 18-24-year-old was in full-time work, this would contribute an additional £38 billion to UK GDP

- 58% of inactive young people (6 in 10) have never had a job

- Nearly half of all PIP claims among young people are now for autism and ADHD, compared to less than 1 in 10 among all PIP claimants

- 7 in 10 young people claiming a health and disability benefit are still claiming 10 years later

- Of those who first claim aged 16-24, 53% are still not in work after 5 years - dropping to just 48% after 15 years

- The number of 16-24-year-olds receiving DLA or PIP has risen from around 200,000 in 2012 to over 400,000 today, and is projected to reach 700,000 by 2031/32

[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

@AnthonyTeasdale @eamonncanniffe Yes it's a real treat!

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@kitforbrains Instantly took me to this

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@OfficialM3HHY
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[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

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Belgium again! - https://t.co/u525OSIDb8

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"I've bought my dog collar to hold my self accountable for sleep and movement " https://t.co/vykEI6hl8S

[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

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[The Rest Is Classified @triclassified]

Outside the now-empty Russian Embassy in Estonia, @gordoncorera reports from Tallinn…

More to come on The Rest Is Classified.

[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

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[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

The closest thing I'll ever get to the dark arts is deploying a Houndoom with sunny Day and solar beam and dark glasses post game in Pokémon emerald 20 years, 6 months, 21 days after it's release date

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

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[Sam George Hall @SamGeorgeHall]

@davidgraeber I hope David knows that his words

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

Is the only thing I've needed to remind myself constantly