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Wednesday, February 14, 2024 →
What does Altman mean by “very subtle societal misalignments”? Valley gibberish, or does he have something in mind?
Heterodox macroeconomist and campaigner Richard Murphy has produced a Taxing Wealth 2024 report to show how wealth can be taxed fairly in comparison to wages. His worked example restating Rishi Sunak’s tax bill is bang on.
Rishi Sunak’s tax for 2022/23: a Taxing Wealth Report 2024 case study:
The additional tax owing would be £761,378. This is a tax rate of 57% […] The resulting tax liability is fair. What Rishi Sunak paid in 2022/23 was not and was instead an insult to all people who worked for a living and paid much higher rates of tax than the prime minister.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak paid around 23% tax on £2.2M income because most of his income is capital gains and dividends. Investment income enjoys a huge tax subsidy. Had Sunak “earned” a £2.2M wage, he’d have paid roughly 56% tax1 including student loan repayment.
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So far this year - as of 4 February 2024 - on my daily walks, and every single day since 1 January, at least one car has run red lights on a pedestrian crossing.
Wryly amused at our blundering elite who spent the last 45 years doing more damage to our productive industrial infrastructure than Hitler lecture us that we are moving from a post-war to a pre-war status.
Well, well, well. The other shoe drops.
Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal
The UK political class has used WhatsApp to avoid democratic scrutiny. They weren’t bamboozled by the tech or confounded by advice from their private office. They knew what they were doing. They knew it was wrong. They did it anyway.
Funny how aging TINA neoliberals accuse the kids of being intolerant of diverse opinions
An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Peck! Peck! by Sutton and Sons, Graham Road, Hackney, London E8. Sutton and Sons is a chain of North-East London chip shops.
It seems to me British politics reached its nadir some time ago. And now, various Tory wannabees are wrestling in the muddy slops below the bottom of the barrel.
Average car insurance cost in UK nears £1,000 after prices rise 58%
“Like a lot of our expenses, car insurance is getting more costly. And this is likely to be the case for some time. Claiming is one of the biggest factors when it comes to insurers pricing up policies. And with the cost of paying out for claims being considerably high, insurance prices are going to be too.”
From my perspective as an inveterate pedestrian, car driving has got a lot worse in London since the pandemic.
Technicians commission one of the Winter Lights exhibits at Westferry Circus.
X-risk: when the techno-optimists' AI tells them we need to reduce inequality and establish social democracy.
An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Frisco’s, Beckton Road, Canning Town, London E16. The streaks are wind-blown snow.
An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Seoul Bird with a branch of Wagamama above, in Jubilee Place, Canary Wharf, London E14.
Masala apple pie
Sunday, January 7, 2024
A nice warming apple pie for when the weather gets colder. Ingredients 1 teaspoon of chai masala powder. (If you live in the UK, you could do worse than Waitrose sweet garam masala in the Cooks Ingredients range) 2 teaspoons of sweet potato flour. (You’ll find this at East Asian grocers, or substitute with cornflour) 2 level tablespoons of dark muscovado sugar. (If the apples are sweet, you may want to use a bit less), and a little bit more for dusting 4 medium apples (cooking apples, but you can use any not-too-sweet apple you can get your hands on), peeled, cored and chopped 2/3 thumb of ginger, peeled and finely diced zest of 1 lime juice of half a lime 1 sheet of ready-made chilled vegan shortcrust pastry.
Happy new year. It’s been a cost of living crisis fireworks display so the pigeons are frightened but not totally insane with fear.
2024 approaches. The fireworks are ramping up, and the pigeons are getting unsettled.
Is it possible to create an arbitrary bookmark - not bookmark a post - using the microdotblog API? @help