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Same in London. Whereas you can cycle a residential road with an incoming normal car, it is either plain scary or impossible with a big SUV. There seems to be a common theme between those large cars and selfish/dangerous driving too.
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There was an article, Times or Guardian, couple of weeks ago showing that drivers cannot see a nine year old child from the height of these monsters.
They should be outright banned.
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Totally agree. The massive rise in huge SUVs is reversing much of the good gains in cycling that @willnorman.co.uk and @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social have introduced. They are lethal and something needs to be done.
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Sad to say but 80% plus chance that under the pathetic sycophants like Ratcliffe, you cannot trust these clarifications.
Very likely Trump lied when he said the US bombings were successful. Very likely the initial leaked CIA intelligence was correct in saying it wasn't.
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Mark Rutte is totally pathetic.
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Utterly embarrassing. Mark Rutte is pathetic
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London is one of the nicest, greenest major cities to live in. It has a lower per-head crime rate than the UK average, despite its size. If New York becomes more like it that will be welcome.
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Interesting Paris has a score of 89 for the almost whole city, which is then compared to borough level at London. This must make Paris far better overall given how poorly places like Bromley and (inner city outlier) Kensington and Chelsea scores.
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Great to see progress and brilliant to have this table but not sure if I quite align with the results. It includes the south circular through Lewisham and Forest Hill as "low stress cycling"... not sure if many using that road at its junctions will agree!
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This certainly applies ro voters on the left and centre where competency, honestly and ideals are still seen as things that matter.
The political right has voters who either are happy as long as their taxes are low, and the far right who are solely concerned with electing anti-immigrant leaders.
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Really good summary here.
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This 100%. Baffling that the BBC and even @theguardian.com give them a free ride.
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We therefore believe its fair to say that Reform UK's proposal will cost around £34bn if it was enacted before 2026/27.
That sum would therefore likely have to be funded by some combination of spending cuts and tax rises.
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It's worse than that:
- Reform UK are providing a much more generous regime for the very wealthy than was in place before March 2024.
- There would be additional costs from deterring "normal" expats from coming here.
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Second, Reform give a windfall gain to a relatively small number of v wealthy people who were planning to stay here and pay tax, but will now pay the £250k instead.
That's tax that now disappears
There's no wider benefit (because these people were already going to be here)
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Reform UK is proposing to go back to the pre-2017 position for the very wealthy, with non-doms able to pay a one-off £250k fee for a "Britannia card" and become a tax-exempt non-dom forever.
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Nice positive news to start the week. Well done to all involved.
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Plus: there's good reason to believe that a significant chunk of the "small company" tax gap isn't real small companies at all, but companies established by bad actors for the sole purpose of ripping off the taxman. See our report for more details.
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It means that small companies that pay their taxes properly are put at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who cheat. It rewards the unscrupulous and punishes the honest.
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Both reactions are wrong. Devoting more attention and resources to the small company tax gap will be self-funding; it's not going to reduce resources used to pursue wealthy/corporate tax avoiders/evaders.
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This doesn't fit any media narrative very well.
It's inconvenient for people on the Left, who want to talk about the wealthy and large companies
It's inconvenient for people on the Right, who often don't like the idea of taxing small companies at all
And so nobody's cared.
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They have always essentially been a paper aimed at commuters from outside London with a right leaning view. Half the reason why the London Paper et al had a bit of a run for a while: like Time Out they seemed interested in London beyond stories of crime and immigration.