Me: I earn £100k
HMRC: That’s nice, we’ll take £45k
Me: I bought a car
HMRC: VAT applied
Me: I want to gift my kid £5k
HMRC: Taxed
Me: I made money from crypto
HMRC: You mean we made money
Me: I made £50 profit on Vinted
HMRC: That’s income. Tax it
Me: I bought a house
HMRC: Stamp duty please
Me: I want to retire
HMRC: Pay tax on your pension
The brand value and engagement experienced by Vogue because of a Black British woman writer hired as a freelancer and not a staffer is yet another example of how Black creatives are worth more than these media institutions pay them.
The uk spent £13 million trying to find Madeleine McCann but can only muster up £2.5 million in aid for a category five hurricane in one of its own commonwealth countries. An actual embarrassment.