It would increase rental supply if people couldn’t turn (much of) a profit by selling houses that are too big for their needs. I get your point though.

I always wondered why first homes were excluded from CGT because it creates perverse incentives in the property market where a home becomes an asset with better returns than any other investment

It’s difficult because people in the higher tax brackets are already paying the lion’s share of taxes in the UK and due to the laffer curve and expensive accountants it’s hard to squeeze them. They’ll say a load of BS about leaving but the real issue is the little things they can do is extra pension contributions and those sorts of things that let them avoid the next tax bracket. Fiscal drag is increasing the tax intake without the govt needing to enact any specific rises anyway.

I watched on BBC iPlayer because I’m in the UK but someone might have posted them on YT.

It’s our collective fiscal hole unfortunately and the markets are reacting badly to Starmer implying he might replace her.

Man, what a sad way to live their lives. I love “scaring the bros” music. Was watching Glastonbury festival on tv last weekend and the two best sets I caught were Charli XCX and Doechii.

Does anyone else have a viable plan to pay for our social services? This bill has been watered down to the point where it is not saving the public purse anything while the welfare bill continues to grow unsustainably.

I’m worried Labour are going to continue floundering and in-fighting until the next GE and then Reform will come in and make cuts that are a magnitude larger than what Reeves/the Treasury had been proposing here.

I don’t understand how “death” and “kill” have started being so context dependent.

When we see people protesting in parts of the world chanting “death to the west” on tv, does the average person watching it understand it’s a figure of speech which is implicitly calling for social justice or whatever?

Social media posts too like “kill fascists/nazis”, I am terminally online enough to read it as a figure of speech but it’s pretty clunky.

FWIW Israel are committing war crimes in Gaza and protesting at Glastonbury where there are lots of eyeballs watching makes sense. I just find the rhetoric a bit clumsy if you are chanting words that sound catchy but don’t mean to use them in their normative sense.

Aronofsky is a misery monger

Patents are expiring next year for semaglutide

I wish I had some to hand but I tend to look them up ad hoc when I’m arguing with strangers for imaginary internet points

Yeah I agree it’s hard to say anything definitively. Especially if you are an armchair physician like me who read abstracts for random papers online.

I’ve read some studies that suggest people dying of lung cancer save the NHS money. They take up a lot of money in a lump sum but it tends to be incurable and kills them quite quickly. The alternative is people getting dementia or other degenerative cares and living for decades with round the clock care.

Oh well on the bright side we’ll save a lot of money on late life social care

I didn’t enjoy it that much. Found it overly sentimental and saccharine. Although to be fair I got the impression if I were a parent it would resonate with me more.

shit pushed in? Sign me up!

The Whale is probably going to be an artefact of its time very soon. Now that everyone has started on ozempic it was probably the last time they could film that story and have it be relatable/recognisable.

I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven’t used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

le wrong generation. more like cRAP music, amirite?

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.