By 2030, all Plan 2 graduates working full time will have to make some repayments on their loan because the threshold for repayment will be about the same as the minimum wage. At that point we can properly call it a graduate tax.

www.ft.com/content/13a0...

Thought provoking from Martha Lane Fox on whether public life has got so brutal that no one you’d want to get involved will do it anymore
martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/this-is-pu...

Immigrants are forced to pay £1000 a year for healthcare on the NHS. For healthier young people that's more than they would pay for private health insurance.

The sustained high inflation in the UK is down to the NI increases in last year's budget, at least in part. This year's budget really needs to avoid being inflationary.

Half the time QR codes don't scan anyway. What about when it's dark?

I just open up Google Maps at the bus stop and it shows you where you are and when the next bus is coming. Paper timetables are important for accessibility: using a bus should not require a smartphone.

I just keep thinking of this brilliant film that has cast an echo into reality many times since it was made.

youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY?...

The red circle is when Javier Milei became president of Argentina.

"Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic"

Not afraid to be rather unpatriotic as well apparently.

I'm pretty confident that Farage's plans will be challenged in the Courts. Unlike Trump, Farage as PM will not be leading an economic behemoth, just a little minnow. If he really goes off the rails and starts to behave above the law, then the global financial markets will hammer the UK's economy.

I hope it's mostly aluminium not steel? Al is more resistant to corrosion and can be recycled more easily with lower energy cost.

Remember what happened when scientists first claimed that cigarettes were dangerous.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...