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He was good too. Post-World Cup, or even if Tuchel packs it in early, we should back him to do the job on a permanent basis. We shit the bed after losing to Greece.

Oh brother… Politics and economics isn’t a game that can be min-maxed, then copied and pasted across all countries. There isn’t a right or wrong answer and there’ll be time and place when ‘centrist’, ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’ policies are correct. The Laffer curve is not an instruction manual...

The tax system ought to be optimised for revenue and the mistake the left often makes is that increasing tax % = more receipts. Labour is finding this lesson the hard way because their non-dom clamp down and private school VAT raids have backfired (3 or 4 x more students left than projected)...

Generally, we risk over diagnosing and potentially over medicating now. I hear a lot of anecdotes that children with behavioural issues are effectively allowed to run riot in the same of empathy.

Jonathan Haidt has done some good work on this. iPads/iPhones (and so on) are hugely effective pacifiers. They are genuinely terrible for child development!

11% on incapacity benefits is no longer a minority underclass that can be ignored. The approvals for sickness benefit has surpassed 3,000 per day. The system entraps people into dependency, below, I’ll link an interesting Twitter thread (same guy has done a documentary with more detail, C4)...

Austerity effectively ended in 2017. The left needs to get out of its head that all evils go back to austerity. Fraser Nelson did a documentary on the welfare state and there are specific things where the UK is an outlier. Close to 90% of people in receipt of welfare will not leave the system...

Exactly, my mum remortgaged in 2008 at 6 or 8%. When interest rates spiked under Truss to historically normal levels, there was mass panic and rightly so. It just demonstrates how dysfunctional the economy is. There were even calls for government to step in and support with people’s mortgages...

It was pumped into the economy and did two things primarily: 1) a record transfer of wealth to the ‘wealthy’, be it individuals or corporations, AND; 2) introduced the welfare state to many young and able people It’s a twofold issue and 2 obviously unintended consequences.

Yep and ironically as a result of quantitative easing and generous hand outs of COVID grants/loans and more. Quantitative easing is credited with pushing up asset prices (i.e. property). Cheap credit hasn’t helped because there’s a generation of new homeowners that has increased the % of their...

How do you definite wealth? Someone like Elon Musk is a billionaire on paper, if Tesla’s share price went to zero, we’d all be richer than Elon Musk. On physical assets, like homes for example, if they continued growing in value at the same rate as the last 20-30 years, we’d all be...

This doesn’t include NI and student loan repayments btw. 14% is a hell of a lot of people for tax that was designed with the ‘Top 1%’ in mind. I’ve maxed out my own pension contributions to reduce my tax bill (for now). In my view, it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face because people’s...

Your first paragraph completely misreads the regulations. Raising the personal allowance benefits everyone the same. The current rule is that you lose £2 off the tax-free allowance for every £1 you earn over £100,000 so you don’t have a tax free allowance if you earn anything above £125,140 per...

It gives you the option to add payment details so I’d like to able to set it up so the club automatically takes payment for a ticket in my ST seat. It saves the fans and clubs time by just automating the process.

A memo to anyone flirting with the idea of a wealth tax: Labour were elected to do this in 1970s and decided it was politically toxic to implement. It’s not even a new idea across Europe. The big change that needs to be made to income tax is raising the tax-free threshold. It was a good policy...

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Has anyone else noticed that there’s a ‘Cup Ticket Scheme’ added on eticketing? I rang the ticket office asking about it and they did not have a scooby about it yet. @Saddlebrains perhaps your source may know a bit more detail?

The results under Lampard were improved from Day 1. It was our home form that drove us up the table and our home form under Robins was the worst it’s ever been in either of his tenures. IIRC, the early criticisms against Lampard was that the results have been propped up by playing poor teams...

At the time, significant proportion of the fanbase couldn’t countenance the idea that it was in fact Robins who had made strategic mistakes and dug his own grave. It took Lampard coming in and turning the season around to prove that the players were in fact, more than capable of living up to...

Yes and mass immigration has coincided with flatlining of GDP per capita, longest period of stagnating living standards since the Napoleonic era, declining access and quality of public services. Immigration has scored high up on people’s priorities since 2005 and because it hasn’t been...