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The £80k was in 2019. I shared the clip because he genuinely thought he was in the bottom 50% of earners. The average house price you quoted was almost the same as the one I used, and it's still £200k below the threshold to even START paying IHT. There's no argument at all that people whose...

It's not the middle earners though. It's the top few %. I've got no idea of your situation, but if you are worried that you can ONLY pass on £500k tax free to family, then that puts you in an incredibly fortunate situation. I don't put you in the same category as this man, but it's worth...

That doesn't stop it being a tax that is aimed at those who have the most ability to pay. And what difference does it make that you bought the house with money you possibly paid tax on? There's no guarantee of that, and much of the wealth in the house is likely to be unearned growth. Are you...

Even the most right wing of governments wouldn't plan on means testing the main state pension. It's an absolutely crazy idea that seems to have been floated mostly as a scare tactic in the right wing press.

The 4% is the current figure. The 7% is the 'nearly doubling". The average home price is approx £290k. Inheritance tax, if you're passing to kids/grandkids is £500k. That's the tax free bit too. Anyone inheriting £500k+ is also now one of the top few % richest people, so can afford to pay the...

Why would it need raising? It affects something like 4%-7% of estates. If it was abolished, half the total savings would go to the top 1% of the population. It's currently targeted at the very richest people in society. Why on earth would they be the people we target with a tax cut?

They're sailing on the very edge, but the plan is to clear out all the older players on high salaries and the "pure profit" Academy products, and to replace them with young players on lower salaries, and longer amortised contracts. Last Summer, they sold or let go of, Havertz, Mount, Koulibaly...

There are a few tens of billions in there.

Every economics editor seems to be sure it's Capital Gains, Inheritance Tax, and possibly pension relied for higher earners.

But they'll also be dead, so probably won't be too upset.

We've had historically high Premier League winners/runners up in recent years, but 81 is still not that unusual for the second placed team. City have been a total outlier in terms of consistency. Arsenal didn't manage 80+ for fifteen seasons, and it's far from a guarantee that they'd go up...

If we get knocked out of both domestic cups in the first tie, and then don't make it out of the group in the CL and the Club World Cup, then I think we've got more to worry about than James McAtee :) I do think there'll be opportunities. The minimum we'll play is 52. The worst season under Pep...

I hate to get involved, but isn't it whataboutery, rather than a strawman?

Can I get pissed off if it means I have to change my dog's favourite walking route? ;)

Surely it's also very different this time for McAtee. He was 18 when he made his debut, and was training with the main squad for a season, but I doubt it was expected he'd play much, if at all. This time round, it's very different. He'll be expecting to start some easier games, and be a...

With the Club World Cup at the end of the season, we're looking at potentially 70+ games. So long as he doesn't expect to start the big matches, and we don't have a total meltdown in the cup competitions, it won't be too difficult for him to spend more time on the pitch than he did last season.

There are tons of conspiracies that are true. Governments up to no good. Rich people colluding to screw people over. There's a big difference between nonsensical theories like the moon landing being faked, or school shootings not being real, or climate change being a hoax, where it's easy to...

See, there was no need to misstate what I'd said in your previous comment. That's a genuine take, and I agree with all that.

You're right, if I'd made that comment, it would be nonsense, but I didn't say that. I'll assume you just misread my actual comment. I said: "I'm not sure it was great politics to cut the WFA, or particularly fair for those just above the limits, but if more people claim PC and we end up...

There are some bizarre takes around. One of the key planks of Osborne's austerity was the public sector pay freeze, and his commitment to cut public sector jobs. Yet now we're being told that not only are the pay rises austerity, but it's ALSO unaffordable and inflationary. We're now being told...