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The thing about taxes is that they need to be way higher

Properly taxing land/property is the “wealth tax” we definitely need. Incredibly unfair council tax and counter-productive stamp duty need to go! Great to see Matthew Syed making the case.

The British right is redefining ‘working class’ to include landowning farmers and business owners whilst denigrating unionised public sector workers as ‘parasites’.

📢 New factsheet from the 2025 ASH Survey on vaping among 11–17-yrs in GB: 🔹20% have tried vaping – unchanged since 2023 🔹 7% currently vape; 40% of them daily 🔹 63% now see vaping as as harmful or more harmful than smoking Link below👇

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📷 We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… New research with Sharon Cox and Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD

EXTREMELY disappointing that the Government is giving in on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. These amendments will ❌ Slow down development ❌ Make infrastructure more expensive ❌ Do nothing to solve the housing crisis!

A thread of reactions to the Government neutering Part 3 of the Planning an Infrastructure bill 👇 There are a lot of disappointed YIMBYs out there

What’s the point in being unpopular if we won’t even do things that are difficult but necessary?

Mission accomplished! Finally in Greece we have nasal and pre-filled naloxone available for all! We have take home naloxone and peer2peer programs! Next target NO (No Overdose)!

Carney is everything Starmer should have been: A talented technocrat who's ramming through controversial but necessary reforms. The contrast with the Nasal Knight is profound.

Lock the state pension increase to how many houses get built per year.

Today, we remember the 77 innocent lives lost in the far-right terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya, 14 years ago. We send our love and support to survivors, families and our friends in the Norweigan Labour Party Youth Movement, AUF 🇳🇴

I get that “reform capital gains tax now” isn’t a great slogan, but in the end, evidence matters. We’re not getting a wealth tax under this, or any conceivable, government. For good reasons. The Left should focus on effective and achievable tax policy: pro equity and pro growth

Even if all 40,000 proposed homes were affordable and social, they would still campaign against them! Lambeth Greens Lambeth Green Party shamelessly campaigned against a 100% social and affordable development, minutes away from Gipsy Hill Train Station - a joke of a party

The cure to male loneliness is living near your bros in a walkable, mixed use neighborhood.