Callum Price

The Government has made two key promises: 1) to prioritise economic growth 2) to not tax working people. The Employment Rights Bill, back in Parliament today, effectively breaks both of these promises. 🧵

This is an unimaginably bad take in the @guardian. (1) because air conditioning is (at least in the UK) actively helpful for greening the grid, and (2) because there are no points for needless suffering in a climate crisis.

📩 New Digest! Read for takes on Britain’s data breach, tax tribulations, labour market reforms and the intangible economy. Incl: @deenamousa @joshsimonsmp @TaliFraser @lewis_goodall @stianwestlake @kylascan @HannoLustig @pietergaricano

📩 New Digest! Read for takes on fiscal illusions, wealth taxes, nuclear power and liberalism (obviously). Incl: @rcolvile @TomClougherty @NJ_Timothy @K_Niemietz @DanNeidle @PJTheEconomist @RMLLowe @TomTugendhat

📈 "Don't let anybody tell you that the cost of this can be covered by taxing other people ... It has to be taxes on everybody. That means raising VAT, doubling income tax." @callumtprice lays bare the reality of Britain's fiscal crisis.