How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

interesting to see how the average voter responds to direct action designed to stop farming families pay any tax on their first £3m of inheritance (and even then at half the rate of everyone else)

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Missing context: the author of this article owns a 1,150-acre estate - making this farm larger than 90% of farms in England mindrumestate.co.uk Guardian Environment trust you’ll add that detail?

This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment. While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1)

in an exceptionally crowded field i don’t think there’s ever been a more embarrassing man than elon musk

Why would there be no farms 🤣🤣🤣 they used to pay Inheritance tax up until 1985 - did we have no farms before then 🤣🤣😍

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest?... 1/

Tesco have written to Rachel Reeves to say they can’t cover the increase in costs caused by NIC increases. Their own figures show an increased pre tax cost of £0.25bn a year. It is hard to see how the shareholders of a company with a pre-tax profit of £2.9bn can afford that.

The tax hasn’t even been implemented, most farmers aren’t affected. The amount of attention this is getting compared to families affected by SureStart closures and benefit sanctions is frankly appalling

Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax. Without people like him, farmland would be more affordable for actual farmers.

Jeremy Clarkson's views on those who strike/protest due to money.

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

Tesco: Profits £2.3 Billion. M&S: Profits £672 million. Sainsbuty: Profits £277 million. Asda: Profits £1.1 billion...

Andrew Lloyd Webber once took a first class flight from America to England so he could vote AGAINST tax credits for the poorest in British Society. Self serving tory.

Did you think women were gonna organise it for you?

The working people of Britain have been struggling to make ends meet for the last 3-4 years. They've been told "sorry, we know it's hard, but it is what it is. You have to put up with it". But as soon as anyone says to the rich executives and shareholders of the wealthiest

Footballers are an extremely rare example of super high earners who actually pay the top 45% rate of tax on most of their income. Invoking Marcus Rashford in a debate about taxation suggests you either know nothing about tax or just don’t like black people (or both).

I keep hearing about hard working people. My Dad did 43 yrs down the pit (we were 7th? generation miners) They powered this country + both Wars we continually brag about. Paid tax until he died of lung disease. He didn't inherit the pit. So nobody gives a toss. Just saying.

The news that people inheriting land worth at least £1 million will have to pay tax on it has drawn significantly more outrage from politicians and the press than the news that 1 in 3 children in Britain are now living in poverty.