Norrette M.
@norrette.bsky.social
#UK West London Socialist (Uxb), interested in #art, #history, #gardening and #politics. Ex IT bod. Perpetual OU student for 20 odd years.
Here since Sept 2023
Here since Sept 2023
Rewatching Bourne's Swan Lake. I mean to say, Adam Cooper IS a swan. A choreography (and interpretation) that will go down in history, forever imho.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Rewatching Bourne's Swan Lake. I mean to say, Adam Cooper IS a swan. A choreography (and interpretation) that will go down in history, forever imho.
Prescott - the Tory stooge:
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Link in alt.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Prescott - the Tory stooge:
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Link in alt.
Tim Davie resigns....don't cheer - he'll be replaced by Atilla the Hun, no doubt.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tim Davie resigns....don't cheer - he'll be replaced by Atilla the Hun, no doubt.
I didn't know her other existing company shared the same registered office.
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I didn't know her other existing company shared the same registered office.
Trump's America, the start of his demolition of 250 years of democratic history. Symbolic.
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trump's America, the start of his demolition of 250 years of democratic history. Symbolic.
Link in alt. Took me a minute to get it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Link in alt. Took me a minute to get it.
The Upper East side ?
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The Upper East side ?
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I must be getting old, agree with 90% of Simon Jenkins article.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I must be getting old, agree with 90% of Simon Jenkins article.
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The next Nobel Prize for Physics should go to the person who invents SILENT Fireworks!
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The next Nobel Prize for Physics should go to the person who invents SILENT Fireworks!
Why tax must go up...or why nothing works in the 21st century.
![In 1971 the top rate of income tax on earned income was cut to 75%. A surcharge of 15% kept the top rate on investment income at 90%. In 1974 the cut was partly reversed and the top rate on earned income was raised to 83%. With the investment income surcharge, this raised the top rate on investment income to 98% – the highest permanent rate since the war.[citation needed] This applied to incomes over £20,000 (equivalent to £263,269 in 2023).[8]
The government of Margaret Thatcher, who favoured taxation on consumption, reduced personal income tax rates during the 1980s in favour of indirect taxation.[19] In the first budget after her election victory in 1979, the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% and the basic rate from 33% to 30%.[20] The basic rate was also cut for three successive budgets – to 29% in the 1986 budget, 27% in 1987 and to 25% in 1988; The top rate of income tax was cut to 40%.[21] The investment income surcharge was abolished in 1985.
Under the government of John Major the basic rate was reduced in stages to 23% by 1997.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttktewflexn76qf7ec2nicpb/bafkreieuqocubrzb637r572bgx7w5mdke3hepmc3yenvwqi3r3vjsmnkyq@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why tax must go up...or why nothing works in the 21st century.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
2017 - appropriate.
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
2017 - appropriate.
Strands #591
Day 100
“Going up?”
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Day 100
“Going up?”
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October 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Strands #591
Day 100
“Going up?”
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Day 100
“Going up?”
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Richard III era,favourite banquet fare: swan, crane, heron and egret.
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Richard III era,favourite banquet fare: swan, crane, heron and egret.
No accounts? oh dear.
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
No accounts? oh dear.
September 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Spot on. One down, two to go.
September 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spot on. One down, two to go.
September 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM