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@almurray @thetimes I think ferment is correct. As a noun it means agitation or turmoil, so a party is “in a state of ferment”. “Foment” a verb meaning to stir up, and it takes an object: one foments rebellion or discontent. The plotters foment unrest, and the party is in ferment as a result.

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@almurray Perhaps he wants to convey the suggestion that something is brewing?

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glad this magnificent piece by @Dannythefink somehow found its way back onto my timeline

https://t.co/n8re71LWms

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@Zara_588 Squeezy mustard wasn’t invented until the Nineties.

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@MazzucatoM I used to take you seriously, Mariana, but this is AI slop, down to the emdash. Have you even been to Carnival? Have you ever boarded up your house for Carnival?

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@MacroDoomScroll @RayDalio My guess is that the US is trying to secure its own supplies of heavy crude, given that it can’t refine the light stuff it produces, it can hardly buy Russian oil right now, and it has just picked a stupid fight with its main heavy crude supplier 🇨🇦.

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@HectorMarimo @martynziegler Not sure your thoughtful, incisive analysis will stand the test of time … starting with the first 24 hours.

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@SJones87369 @afneil Anyway, thank you - I appreciate the interaction and hope that you will see the point.

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@SJones87369 @afneil So even the assumptions most favourable to the policy barely get it to zero: i.e. the honest range runs from 'lost £30m' to 'raised roughly nothing', which means, on the best case, the policy has failed on its own terms.

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@SJones87369 @afneil rather than ordinary employees. On his central estimate, the 48p rate cost Scotland about £22m in its first year, with a range of £15m to £30m. That is a direct cost to Scotland. The overall message is of course even worse.

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@SJones87369 @afneil of the rises to 47p and 48p, and Scotland's share of UK self-assessment tax fell to a statistically significant low while its PAYE share held steady. That is what you would expect if the response is concentrated among those who control the form and timing of their income .../

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@ManySposob43335 @afneil Eh? Reduced revenues from behavioural responses to rising tax rates is *precisely* the Laffer Curve in action.

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@SJones87369 @afneil Worse, he has just said (on Today) that he was on the Scottish tax advisory body that was never asked for its views on the likely effects of this tax. In other words, socialist poseurs in the SNP thought their righteous instincts would be correct, but never thought first to check

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@SJones87369 @afneil The analysis is not just very good: it is damning - and completely unanswered by the Scottish Government. Of course Dan Neidle is not categoric where he can’t be, but the overwhelming likelihood is that this was a leftie stunt that has both harmed and cost Scotland.