Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was supposed to drag the political conversation to the right. But, as we've seen in Reform UK's post-conference polling crash, the result is increasingly just a rotting of conservative brains.

Yes, it's a negative consequence if someone turns down hours they would otherwise be willing to work for tax reasons. But the idea that these people aren't vastly more comfortable than the majority of people in the UK is silly.

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The framing of these stories is always "people who are objective well-off in the context of the UK are actually struggling when you think about it", which is both untrue and distasteful.

To the several people trying to frame £100k as not very much money (or as some kind of middle class wage), I think you might need to consider that you might've lost a little sense of perspective.

Fully deserve some of the dunking for being unclear/flippant here. Yes, this is an issue. Yes, it's *also* infuriating that we get a story on this (and "HENRYs") every single week.

I'm pro sorting this out just so we no longer have to hear quotes from extremely high earners telling us they're "not well off people" ever again.

"A £1 payrise could cost you tens of thousands of pounds". Apart from that the chances it could cost *me* that is actually nil, isn't it? Or the vast majority of the rest of your viewers.

Fascinating reflection of the British media that an article gets written about the "£100,000 tax trap" at least every week. The median wage is £36k. Never has an issue which effects so few people been given so much press coverage.

There's perhaps pros and cons to both approaches. Maybe Your Party's long founding process reaps fruit further down the line. But there will surely be many within the Greens who are quite happy to see Your Party absorbing activists who are hyper-focussed on internal disputes.

There was previously a world in which Your Party and the Greens ended up clashing in pursuit of support. The divide between the two, however, feels increasingly stark on a structural level: the Greens being enthusiastically outward-facing, and Your Party very inward.

So, yes, this does feel a bit like that book about the "astonishing rise" of Liz Truss which was published the month she resigned. But interesting that many of the criticisms here are "book costs money".

“The Fate of Ophelia” is actually how the kids refer to drowning on TikTok to avoid the content moderation system.

Help! My encyclopaedia is too academic!

I think the birth rates crisis would be solved if everyone simply met my baby.

- “The Rest is History” is an actual saying. - “The Rest is Politics” kind of works. - “The Rest is Entertainment” was a stretch. This just doesn’t make sense?

Obsessed with this bit. "Buy celery in... well, any shop I guess... it's celery".

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A sticker on some celery I bought drew my attention to the existence of "Love Celery", which I guess is the UK's lobby group for celery. It's actually really charming. If you have to work for "Big" anything, work for Big Celery.

When I was about 10 years old, I went to visit my grandad. We got on the bus, and I went to find a seat while he paid the driver. He then went and sat in a seat *nowhere near me* because that was his usual seat.

Poor soul.

I think maybe there is something to be said for keeping electric guitars out of churches after all.

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I credit my many hours in Sunday School and the strong faith of my mum and gran for much of my politics and worldview. American evangelicalism is hard to parse as existing in the same universe, let alone as a branch of the same religion.