Sean McGeever
@seanmated.bsky.social
University of Edinburgh, Physics and Astronomy, Computing Manager: https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/
‘not big, not clever'
‘not big, not clever'
Think the actual comments here are both more varied and more realistic than the subhead. Plenty of recognition of the need to increase short-medium term fiscal headroom (including via overall tax increases) and restore political credibility after recent kite-flying and then abrupt reverses.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Think the actual comments here are both more varied and more realistic than the subhead. Plenty of recognition of the need to increase short-medium term fiscal headroom (including via overall tax increases) and restore political credibility after recent kite-flying and then abrupt reverses.
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I don’t really disagree. Feel like a proper reform of property tax/council tax could raise proper money.
Whereas this is a lot of burned political capital for maybe £600m a year. Essentially a public finances rounding error.
Whereas this is a lot of burned political capital for maybe £600m a year. Essentially a public finances rounding error.
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I don’t really disagree. Feel like a proper reform of property tax/council tax could raise proper money.
Whereas this is a lot of burned political capital for maybe £600m a year. Essentially a public finances rounding error.
Whereas this is a lot of burned political capital for maybe £600m a year. Essentially a public finances rounding error.
Are you perhaps assuming (or just hoping) the current PLP would nominate challengers (leader and / or chancellor) with more political and financial sense than the incumbents? That seems a bit of stretch, tbh.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Are you perhaps assuming (or just hoping) the current PLP would nominate challengers (leader and / or chancellor) with more political and financial sense than the incumbents? That seems a bit of stretch, tbh.
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neither nice nor nasty, just reality. this is another reason why not raising income tax is a mistake, it means higher borrowing costs for investment and therefore lower growth. a simple truth that Starmer & Reeves are short-sightedly ignoring.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
neither nice nor nasty, just reality. this is another reason why not raising income tax is a mistake, it means higher borrowing costs for investment and therefore lower growth. a simple truth that Starmer & Reeves are short-sightedly ignoring.
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“We’re getting the Miliband back together”
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“We’re getting the Miliband back together”
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if it wasn't for the fact they can still make this worse, I'd be tempted by the 0.5% 2061 🚀, currently -3% on the day. but they definitely can still make this worse, just by being themselves. if you're a foreign investor in Gilts, why on earth would you step in now ahead of the Autumn Statement ?
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
if it wasn't for the fact they can still make this worse, I'd be tempted by the 0.5% 2061 🚀, currently -3% on the day. but they definitely can still make this worse, just by being themselves. if you're a foreign investor in Gilts, why on earth would you step in now ahead of the Autumn Statement ?
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Turns out tax tapas is not quite as appetising as Reeves was imagining *shocked face*
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Turns out tax tapas is not quite as appetising as Reeves was imagining *shocked face*
FT: France 17-32 South Africa
France were excellent, especially Ramos - but this generation of Boks clearly a level above anyone else on the planet just now, and look to have more talent and strength in depth. What a squad.
France were excellent, especially Ramos - but this generation of Boks clearly a level above anyone else on the planet just now, and look to have more talent and strength in depth. What a squad.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
FT: France 17-32 South Africa
France were excellent, especially Ramos - but this generation of Boks clearly a level above anyone else on the planet just now, and look to have more talent and strength in depth. What a squad.
France were excellent, especially Ramos - but this generation of Boks clearly a level above anyone else on the planet just now, and look to have more talent and strength in depth. What a squad.
Would be very interested to see the evidence supporting your first claim - isn't it well established by now that, at population level, there is a strong and consistent positive correlation between income and life expectancy?
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Would be very interested to see the evidence supporting your first claim - isn't it well established by now that, at population level, there is a strong and consistent positive correlation between income and life expectancy?
Perhaps (as @actuarybyday.bsky.social suggests), the distribution of such early deaths will skew heavily towards those who will pass on much less than average to their dependents?
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Perhaps (as @actuarybyday.bsky.social suggests), the distribution of such early deaths will skew heavily towards those who will pass on much less than average to their dependents?