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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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Surely it's much cheaper to support 7,500 people who find themselves out of work than it is not to levy the tax?
(In any case, this smacks of ludicrous scaremongering.)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
(In any case, this smacks of ludicrous scaremongering.)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Surely it's much cheaper to support 7,500 people who find themselves out of work than it is not to levy the tax?
(In any case, this smacks of ludicrous scaremongering.)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
(In any case, this smacks of ludicrous scaremongering.)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
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Guess the biggest source of NOx road air pollution in central London.
Taxis? Buses? Private cars? Nope, it's now vans.
Once the biggest polluter, taxis have rapidly gone electric. Meanwhile vans fleets are only slowly being electrified.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Taxis? Buses? Private cars? Nope, it's now vans.
Once the biggest polluter, taxis have rapidly gone electric. Meanwhile vans fleets are only slowly being electrified.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
September 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Guess the biggest source of NOx road air pollution in central London.
Taxis? Buses? Private cars? Nope, it's now vans.
Once the biggest polluter, taxis have rapidly gone electric. Meanwhile vans fleets are only slowly being electrified.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Taxis? Buses? Private cars? Nope, it's now vans.
Once the biggest polluter, taxis have rapidly gone electric. Meanwhile vans fleets are only slowly being electrified.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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The latest inflation data has revealed that the UK now has the highest rate of inflation in the G7.
September 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The latest inflation data has revealed that the UK now has the highest rate of inflation in the G7.
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It would be helpful for Reform to warn donors that, if you (for example) buy some bitcoin for £2k, and its worth £4k when you donate it, then you’re taxed on a £2k capital gain.
May 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It would be helpful for Reform to warn donors that, if you (for example) buy some bitcoin for £2k, and its worth £4k when you donate it, then you’re taxed on a £2k capital gain.
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Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth.
But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:
But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:
June 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth.
But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:
But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:
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Trump says he will double tariffs on US steel imports to 50%
https://www.ft.com/content/b85586fe-5886-4c90-bc29-c3284413e0dc
https://www.ft.com/content/b85586fe-5886-4c90-bc29-c3284413e0dc
Trump says he will double tariffs on US steel imports to 50%
US president escalates global trade war days after a court ruled some of his levies illegal
www.ft.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trump says he will double tariffs on US steel imports to 50%
https://www.ft.com/content/b85586fe-5886-4c90-bc29-c3284413e0dc
https://www.ft.com/content/b85586fe-5886-4c90-bc29-c3284413e0dc
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First response: fine, as long as London is not ignored and/or is given greater powers to raise funds at regional level, because without a strongly-growing London you will not have a strongly-growing UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #london
Rachel Reeves to announce billions in regional spending after Treasury rule changes
Extra investment lined up for schemes such as energy projects, roads and rails outside London and south-east
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
First response: fine, as long as London is not ignored and/or is given greater powers to raise funds at regional level, because without a strongly-growing London you will not have a strongly-growing UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #london
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The new V&A East Storehouse looks incredible, something between a public library and a museum www.vam.ac.uk/east/storeho...
May 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The new V&A East Storehouse looks incredible, something between a public library and a museum www.vam.ac.uk/east/storeho...
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The other 5 in England are Blackburn, Southwell, Southwark, Guildford and Rochester.
May 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The other 5 in England are Blackburn, Southwell, Southwark, Guildford and Rochester.
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Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal!
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal
Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
www.desmog.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal!
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
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What should the Government prioritise when tackling its welfare trilemma (means-tesing winter fuel payments, cutting disability benefits and the persistence of the two child limit)?
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social considers the options ⤵️ buff.ly/5ibPBVM
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social considers the options ⤵️ buff.ly/5ibPBVM
May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
What should the Government prioritise when tackling its welfare trilemma (means-tesing winter fuel payments, cutting disability benefits and the persistence of the two child limit)?
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social considers the options ⤵️ buff.ly/5ibPBVM
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social considers the options ⤵️ buff.ly/5ibPBVM
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A ‘groundbreaking’ Essex project aims to plant a 100 mile tree corridor to connect isolated ‘orphan’ woodlands together for the benefit of wildlife.
By @davidj2024.bsky.social
By @davidj2024.bsky.social
New forest ‘chain’ across Essex enters critical phase
A ‘groundbreaking’ Essex project aims to plant a 100 mile tree corridor to connect isolated ‘orphan’ woodlands together for the benefit of wildlife
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A ‘groundbreaking’ Essex project aims to plant a 100 mile tree corridor to connect isolated ‘orphan’ woodlands together for the benefit of wildlife.
By @davidj2024.bsky.social
By @davidj2024.bsky.social
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*steps tentatively in the LTN debate shitshow*
A fairly understandable LTN criticism is that they result in static traffic on boundaries belching out tailpipe pollution. But in about five years' time you'd expect a vast number of those cars to be electric vehicles so will that solve that objection?
A fairly understandable LTN criticism is that they result in static traffic on boundaries belching out tailpipe pollution. But in about five years' time you'd expect a vast number of those cars to be electric vehicles so will that solve that objection?
Opposing LTNs doesn't make you a 'culture war' petrol-head. Just look at what happened in Lambeth | Joseph Harker
Opposing LTNs doesn't make you a 'culture war' petrol-head. Just look at what happened in Lambeth | Joseph Harker
For five years residents have complained about traffic being pushed on to other roads. Finally they’re being listened to, says Joseph Harker, the Guardian’s senior editor, diversity and development
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
*steps tentatively in the LTN debate shitshow*
A fairly understandable LTN criticism is that they result in static traffic on boundaries belching out tailpipe pollution. But in about five years' time you'd expect a vast number of those cars to be electric vehicles so will that solve that objection?
A fairly understandable LTN criticism is that they result in static traffic on boundaries belching out tailpipe pollution. But in about five years' time you'd expect a vast number of those cars to be electric vehicles so will that solve that objection?
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extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10%
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10%
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
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Cool!
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
Government to press ahead with net zero plans as Keir Starmer rejects Tony Blair’s criticisms of climate policy
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Cool!
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The social care system is broken and it seems the Govt’s in no hurry to fix it.
But it would mean better outcomes for our NHS overall & for millions of lives.
The Govt should wrap up the Commission on social care within the year - so change can happen ASAP.
But it would mean better outcomes for our NHS overall & for millions of lives.
The Govt should wrap up the Commission on social care within the year - so change can happen ASAP.
MPs warn social care needs substantial investment to fix ‘broken’ system
Cross-party group’s report emphasises risk of failure after finding 3.5 million people not getting care they need
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The social care system is broken and it seems the Govt’s in no hurry to fix it.
But it would mean better outcomes for our NHS overall & for millions of lives.
The Govt should wrap up the Commission on social care within the year - so change can happen ASAP.
But it would mean better outcomes for our NHS overall & for millions of lives.
The Govt should wrap up the Commission on social care within the year - so change can happen ASAP.
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looking through that nutrient neutrality assessment I am, to be honest, further convinced that my Niskanen paper was on the right track. how can you read this problem description and not think the solution is "the government should commission experts and make a plan"?
May 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
looking through that nutrient neutrality assessment I am, to be honest, further convinced that my Niskanen paper was on the right track. how can you read this problem description and not think the solution is "the government should commission experts and make a plan"?
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I know how frustrated local residents are about the difficulty they have in getting a GP appointment.
I'm pleased, after a number of false dawns, GP services in Ipswich are set to improve. If these plans are made a reality, people should finally receive the treatment they need, when they need it.
I'm pleased, after a number of false dawns, GP services in Ipswich are set to improve. If these plans are made a reality, people should finally receive the treatment they need, when they need it.
www.ipswichstar.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I know how frustrated local residents are about the difficulty they have in getting a GP appointment.
I'm pleased, after a number of false dawns, GP services in Ipswich are set to improve. If these plans are made a reality, people should finally receive the treatment they need, when they need it.
I'm pleased, after a number of false dawns, GP services in Ipswich are set to improve. If these plans are made a reality, people should finally receive the treatment they need, when they need it.