Me watching this... Only joking, looks great!

It's sad not to be even slightly awed that you're in a place that was important to people thousands of years ago and the stones are still standing

"Why did you complain that I crashed the car into a tree? You've been saying we need to change direction for hours now"

🙄

... so the rococo elements look like cheap adornments. Even if all the features were genuinely expensive and artisinally crafted, they're out of place and look tacky because they're not speaking to the architecture of the building.

They're a knockoff Rolex and gold chain on a patched tweed suit

... like wearing a tuxedo jacket over a polo shirt - the styles don't marry up.

The reason it looks cheap is because the style he's going for is closer to rococo or baroque which was all about excess and filling every space. The WH still has the big blank spaces from its neoclassical design...

It's like when you describe an outfit of not speaking a single coherent language.

The building is designed in a neoclassical style, which was predominantly about stripping away the excess of the earlier baroque style.

When you apply a load of gilding and flamboyance over that, it looks wrong...

There is a War Museum in Sarajevo dedicated to children who lived through the siege. It was one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen. The idea that people were paying to do that for fun is sick.

Doctor Who usually has the best long-running approach to canon: reference it where it makes a good story, ignore it where it doesn't. This is something that RTD seems to have forgotten in his most recent series

Continuity obsessives have ruined modem media

Good grief

The only downside to Bluesky is when you mute someone, the other people in the thread don't get to see what was said 😅

I thought I was being pretty fair. Could have just left it at the UK example, but also looked at the US to show that sometimes the ceiling can come down as he claimed.

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In what world are people with £10m of assets 'in poverty'? Give your head a wobble.

I've demonstrated that isn't the case

*though I accept that's a UK e.g. In the US, income tax was introduced in 1913 (ignoring pre- 16th Amendment taxes which were dubiously legal) at about $98k

The point is that the ceiling doesn't have to come down, and if it's set at £10m it would need to come down ENORMOUSLY to hit ordinary people.

When the income tax was introduced by Pitt the Younger in 1799 it was set to kick in at £60, the equivalent of about £11,500 today.

Today, the income tax comes in at £12,570.

The ceiling for the one tax you've given as an example has gone up...

The proposal currently gaining signatures in the UK Parliament is a 2% tax on assets over £10m. That would safely exclude Joe Bloggs et all