Paul Mason While most most of your thread makes sense,this part is a huge false note. Starmer is heavily complicit in israel's genocide. He has not opposed Netanyahu on anything yet and his support for israel means there may be no chance of a Palestinian state, even if he recognises it.

Smotrich is a proud self-proclaimed fascist, racist geonocidaire. This is whom & what the UK, EU & US are proudly supporting, enabling & facilitating!

Just raise income tax. Anything else is unfair; pursuing them just because of a foolish manifesto commitment turns incompetence into insanity. Joe Powell MP

It will be very disappointing if a debate that ought to be focused on the preservation of world heritage is hijacked into an ultra-nationalist domestic row. Peter Ricketts

The idea no politician dares embrace is 100% IHT. Brings down house prices to an affordable level. But voters who have little chance of an inherited windfall prefer the dream to the reality of higher tax on them now in whatever form

Bonkers. Not only will people simply not move, but those that have to will devise highly artificial chains of cross-letting to avoid crystallisation. House values will become impossible to assess

All the wrong decisions, in all the wrong order

Are British taxpayers willing to pay the price?

It is YET ANOTHER bad morning for Bailey - the Governor who brought us 11pc plus inflation a few years ago and average 4.5pc inflation in his 5+ years in office. A pretty poor record and a period riddled with policy mistakes.

The old ones are the best...(and so are the reasons why they don't work)

Weimar, wir kommen!

This modern pastiche was one of three belonging to Mme Plésent in 1920; it bore a passing resemblance to an inconnue in Saint-Quentin J.46.1494 (eye colour??), so ever since that pastel has been called Mlle Chastagner de Lagrange. With no foundation... the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…

A far better painter than you might think based on the saccharine works that appealed to 19th century British collectors

Streeting's function is the seemingly impossible task of making us grateful to have Starmer as PM. He pulls it off brilliantly

But killing 60,000 Gazans and carpet bombing the territory was ok...

But we're always asking for more paintings to come out of storage. Perhaps we should put more politicians into storage