They (ONS) define disposable income as “the amount of money households have available for spending and saving after direct taxes have been accounted for. It includes earnings from employment, private pensions and investments, as well as cash benefits provided by the state”, so not exactly post-tax income, but £36.7k corresponds to about £48k gross. I completely agree that a couple earning min. wage should not be classed as high income in the UK, but I usually overestimate how much income a typical Brit actually has.

Median post-tax houshold income is £36.7k. Suggesting the amount of people in a high-income houshold is about half, which is still a lot, but not as much as I thought.

I didn’t notice anything on feddit.uk

Myanmar’s military government bomb small protest against them, with victims including children

Relevant Gary’s Economics video from a week ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mcu03c2dZQI

I just watched this, and I have come around to him

I’m pro-Green but I’m not sure about this guy yet. But he might not even be leader by the time of the next general election.

Carswell hit back against Afzal’s comment - not to deny inciting racial hatred but instead to note that he cannot be prosecuted because he now lives in the US.

“I live under the protection of a free Republic where free speech is protected and your courts have not held jurisdiction in 249 years, Mr Afzal,” Carswell declared.

Didn’t know about Syria’s flag change

The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining the proposal, The Times has reported.

The card, stored on a smartphone, would reportedly be linked to government records and could check entitlements to benefits and monitor welfare fraud.

I’m not against what it’s trying to achieve, but will it achieve that and isn’t there a less expensive or better way to do it?

No PM is really going to want to agree to one. It’s going to take a lot of pressuring and strong SNP showings in both parliaments to get to a stage where a PM considers it.

I was warching somebody yesterday say that since Cadbury was bought by Kraft and Dairy Milks are no longer milky. I really didn’t notice it if that’s true, but then again, I eat a Dairy Milk on average once every few years.

In my fanatsy, this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the UK withdraws its support.

Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.

Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?

If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.

If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.

It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.

No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.

She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.

It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives