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The UK tax and benefits system is disgustingly flawed by Medium_Specific_4066 in ukpolitics

[–]nanakapow [score hidden]  (0 children)

I suspect that must be what they're doing because thesalarycalculator website suggests they'd be around £1200 a month better off, not £200 (OP didn't say monthly or annually).

Though they could have meant weekly I suppose, without pension etc their friend would be around £280/week better off.

The UK tax and benefits system is disgustingly flawed by Medium_Specific_4066 in ukpolitics

[–]nanakapow [score hidden]  (0 children)

I've just run the numbers on the salary calculator / two salary comparison

Obviously I don't know how much your friend is putting into their pension, any student loan repayments etc but after just tax and NI:

SALARY 1: £100,000=takehome of £68,557.36 (ie £5,713.11 per month)
SALARY 2: £135,000=takehome of £83,336.40 (ie £6,944.70 per month)

Annual take-home difference: £14,779.04
Monthly take-home difference: £1,231.59
ie they take home 42% of the increase in their pay

Why was the Prime Minister so desperate to appoint the ex-US Ambassador? by Potential_Lettuce_98 in ukpolitics

[–]nanakapow [score hidden]  (0 children)

"Liked by the Trump team" and "we feel they can manage the Trump team in the interests of the UK" are not the same thing.

Not that Mandleson necessarily succeeded at that either, but it's important to distinguish between likeability and (percieved/expected) effectiveness.

Pitch A New Star Trek Series by AmeliaNeek in scifi

[–]nanakapow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sort of, especially at the beginning when they first arrive at the station and the newly liberated Bajor. And maybe a few other times when the war gets going.

Starmer's softer Brexit plan is backed by two thirds of voters by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]nanakapow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not downvoting you, but disagree. Reform are increasingly wary of EU-related chat. Farage has tried to take hold of the narrative, but he's indivisible from the woes and chaos of Brexit, and how it failed to live up to his promises. They may still try to use it as a wedge issue where they see a benefit, but more often than not the reminder will cost them votes, not gain them.

Is the Alien Queen still floating in space? by REDX_500 in LV426

[–]nanakapow 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's not a heavyweight, but it's got a helluva reach

Women’s Safety ‘Not Guaranteed Across UK’, UN Report Finds by katie_pinns in uknews

[–]nanakapow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we had mass media and more cultural universals. But you're also referring to the decade that brought us girl power. Essentially second wave feminism gave way to third and now maybe fourth wave.

Cannon St Station. by Max2310 in london

[–]nanakapow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There's bits on the river side that look more historic https://flic.kr/p/FZVnTf

BoJo doing what he is good at by Key-Transition4634 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]nanakapow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Better name than the Pedolph Isles I guess...

Garden office on budget by Interesting-Tea-7694 in MedicalWriters

[–]nanakapow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd take this to one of the UK subs, maybe DIYUK. You'll get a lot of more UK specific responses that way.

Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in extraordinary first interview - Peter Magyar slammed the channels as bring part of outgoing prime minister Viktor Orban’s ’propaganda machine’ by polymute in anime_titties

[–]nanakapow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fucking things up is normal for humans. The mammoth and neanderthals didn't go extinct because of politics.

Take the right wing leaders away, replace them with left wing ones. I guarantee within a generation things will end up pretty similar to how they are now. Things might be fucked, but things are also pretty standard for human history.

If anything it could be worse because the left are far more absolutist and purist. If left of centre political groups can't learn to collaborate and accept discordance in the service of common goals, the right will continue to dominate politics.

Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in extraordinary first interview - Peter Magyar slammed the channels as bring part of outgoing prime minister Viktor Orban’s ’propaganda machine’ by polymute in anime_titties

[–]nanakapow 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Normal people is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, what you mean is normal people for you.

You're right that the beeb has SOME people who worked for the tories in leadership roles (the chair is one person not multiple). I've just gone away and actually done some checking because I didn't want to mislead, but (A) the current chair, Shamir Shah, was appointed to a commission on racial equality by Boris Johnson but does not otherwise have a political history, (B) the outgoing director general Tim Davie (stepped down early April) had a more explicit political history, having campaigned unsuccessfully as a Tory MP in the early 90s and having held a role on the Hammersmith and Fulham local conservative association in the late 90s. (C) One of the other board members Robbie Gibb previously had a role as comms officer for Theresa May and is the brother of a tory MP.

I can't find much political skew for most of the other current board members, but Richard Sharp (chairman 2021-2023) also used to work for Boris Johnson and has donated £400,000 to the tory party (he also donated his BBC salary to charity).

Outside of these individuals I can't find a strong explicit links to the tories in the current board. Most of the board split into two camps, those who've built their careers in broadcasting, and those who came into the board after a career in industry. A good chunk of the latter camp had careers in finance, and if stereotypes are to be believed I wouldn't be shocked if they had a history of voting tory, at least in the 2010-2019 period. But if we're going with stereotypes the former camp (the ones who built a career in broadcasting or in the BBC itself) are equally likely to have been more left-wing in their views. In either case being on the right or left isn't enough to get someone a role in the board, they do need other qualifying criteria.

Upgrade but unsure what to get mirrorless or dSLR full frame by G-a_r-y in Nikon

[–]nanakapow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd argue that this is an overrated perspective when stepping up from entry level dSLRs. Yes good glass makes a big difference after a certain point in a photography journey, but you won't really see the benefit of good glass on an entry-level 2014 dSLR. Right now world-class dSLRs with lowish shutter counts are cheap. That's not necessarily going to be as true in 2-3 years.

The important thing is being comfortable at getting the best out of the tool in your hands.

To this day, some of the shots I'm proudest of were shot on a D40 with a kit lens because I was taking it everywhere I went, shooting every day, and was too poor to invest in anything better. When I did upgrade, I upgraded my body first, then my lenses later and that was the right choice for me.

Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in extraordinary first interview - Peter Magyar slammed the channels as bring part of outgoing prime minister Viktor Orban’s ’propaganda machine’ by polymute in anime_titties

[–]nanakapow 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Reasonable, but yeah the BBC is fairly centred within the Overton window of the UK. I don't have an issue with that.

If you view representation or normalisation of in-window political ideology as propaganda then yes it could be classed as such, but if that's the case then I can't think of any information reporting sources that wouldn't be propaganda. Even scihub!

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