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Edwin Hayward

@edwinhayward

Mar 23, 2024 • 1 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

The news about Kate was released 16 hours ago.

Let's take a stroll through all the ways the Express have trolled Meghan and Harry since the announcement was made...

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REMINDER: The ONLY thing Harry and Meghan have done since Kate's bombshell is put out the following supportive statement: "We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace."

NOTE: All the articles linked below were either written or updated AFTER Kate's news broke.

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1) Articles shoe-horning attacks on the couple into news about Kate's illness

Headline: "Prince Harry and Meghan blasted for 'pushing own agenda' after Princess Kate's cancer news"
Article: "But the PR expert added the Sussex couple's 'wish for privacy' is a 'nuanced addition' as it could be seen as a 'subtle promotion of their longstanding battle for personal privacy'."

Headline: "Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry and Meghan had ‘no idea’ about Princess Kate’s cancer"
Article: "Meanwhile, a source told the New York Post Harry and Meghan 'had no idea' about Kate's cancer and "only learned of the news around the same time the rest of the world found out. This goes to show the irreparable damage they have caused.'"

Headline: "Princess Kate branded 'a bright light in troubling world' as Harry and Meghan send wishes"
Article: "Meanwhile, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were cautioned that this is 'not a moment for anyone to seek notoriety' as Princess Kate undergoes preventative chemotherapy for her undisclosed form of cancer."

Headline: "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle break silence after Princess Kate's shock cancer diagnosis"
Article: "Prince Harry and Meghan's reaction to the news came in the shortest of statements and was not always guaranteed given nothing was publicly said when King Charles's cancer diagnosis was announced in February."

Headline: "Kate's love shone through in video - in contrast to the hatefilled bile of her critics"
Article: "Just as nasty are Harry and Meghan’s deranged supporters, whose humanity has been obliterated by their partisan hatred of the House of Windsor."

Headline: "Princess Kate's uncle Gary Goldsmith issues apology for ill-timed tell all chat on niece"
Article: "'I’ve got more chance of making it onto the Palace balcony than [Andrew] has. And then you’ve got Harry. F*** me! He and that woman are chasing the American corporate dollar and that is so, so ugly. William, Harry and Kate were such a happy little trio and it got totally ruined.'"

Headline: "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's rare public outing one night before Kate's cancer news"
Article: "It is not known if the royal couple had any knowledge of Kate's diagnosis when they attended the event."

Headline: "Meghan Markle's mouthpiece tries to defend ‘disgusting’ Princess Kate alarm clock post"

Headline: "Should Prince Harry return to royal duties amid Princess Kate's cancer diagnosis? Vote now"

2) General attack articles of the type the Express publishes every day of the year

Headline: "Prince Harry is ‘drifting away from Royal Family' despite his attempts at reconciliation"

Headline: "Prince Harry's future with the Royal Family rests on three key factors"

Headline: "Donald Trump just 'flexing his muscles' by issuing 'empty threat' to Prince Harry"

Headline: "Prince Harry's memoir should 'read like a novel' as it contains 'more fiction than facts'"

3) Articles digging up past things Meghan supposedly did wrong

Headline: "Meghan Markle’s surprising seven-word remark about Princess Kate’s royal wedding"
Article: "During the celebrated occasion, Meghan Markle, who had not yet met her future husband, Prince Harry, shared a polarising seven-word remark about the royal wedding between William and Kate on her lifestyle blog, the Tig."

4) General articles designed to fool Express readers into believing that Meghan is busy seeking attention (whereas in fact she's done NOTHING since the cancer news broke except send the brief joint statement with Harry).

Headline: "Tell-tale sign Meghan Markle has been preparing to launch lifestyle brand for years"

Headline: "Meghan Markle's simple three-word call to agent after Suits audition that changed her life"

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So there you have it. More than one article per hour.

Aside from all the above, they also published a number of articles demanding that people stop trolling Kate.express.co.uk/news/royal/188…
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Some more experiments with AI music generation. See what you think...

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Perhaps it's unworkable, but this feels like it would be a fair tax system...

1) Set the tax free allowance so that it is the same as annualised minimum wage, and raise it every year in line with inflation. Do the same for NI thresholds. So someone on exactly the minimum wage will never pay tax/NI. If it's really meant to be the "minimum" people need to live on, then let them keep all of it.

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3) Eliminate all 100%+ tax situations. Work should always pay, regardless of the combination of salary and benefits you're receiving. Set a maximum (say 75% combined for tax + NI) and fiddle with the tax system so there are no cliff edges that create effective tax rates above that 75%. In other words, if your income from any source increases by £1, you should never gain less than 25p.

4) Tax every source of income exactly the same. EVERYTHING falls under the same regime - salary, dividends, capital gains, etc. - with no loopholes or exceptions. (If expensive tax lawyers are left twiddling their thumbs, you know the revised system is working.)

5) Adjust all the rest of the income tax and national insurance bands above the sacrosanct "no tax/no NI" lowest band to allow for 1) to 4). This will almost certainly require more tax bands and more granularity.

Net result:
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Ok, over to you. What do you think? Be gentle, please. It may well be a naive plan, but it's a naive well-intentioned plan.

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I also believe that NI should be eliminated and there should be just one combined tax.

But that's not necessary for anything I've outlined above - it just makes things simpler, especially when you're taxing ALL income from ALL sources the same - so I left it out.

Added: Minimum wage is about £20,500 for a 48-week year of 40-hour weeks.

Removing both the income tax and the NI from that would leave over £2,200 more in the employee's pocket.

(MSE income tax calculator below.)

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THREAD

As Labour are coming up to 100 days in power, it's good to ponder why their honeymoon was so short, and why they appear to be getting a torrid time from media outlets all across the political spectrum.

I've illustrated what I believe is happening. More below...

1/4

The average person's expectations of the Tories was VERY low. Yet they underperformed even that low bar.

On the other hand, people had high hopes of Labour. The gap between such stellar expectations and reality is wider than on the Tory side - even though Labour are better.

2/4

Dashed hopes can be a terrible thing. Especially after 14 years of despair. So it's hardly surprising that there has been a good deal of negative reaction and pushback.

Labour urgently need to improve their various stances to come much closer to what people expect of them.

3/4

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THREAD: The BBC have been having an absolute shocker the last couple of days.

Let's concentrate on 3 specific examples.

Example 1: Laura Kuenssberg's diabolic introduction to her interview with Ed Davey.

No spoilers. Wait until the end. It's worth it.

Example 2: The case of the quietly changed headline.

Original one (left)

Changed version a few hours later (right).

Remember, the one on the left is the one most of the BBC News website visitors will have been exposed to. web.archive.org/web/2024070606…
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Example 3: Eye-popping headline and bizarrely framed article about the Far Right's failure to meet expectations in France's election.

Objectivity be damned.
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For the first time, we could demote the Tories to third. Winning fewer seats than the LibDems would wipe them out as a political force.

Polls suggest this is within reach, but we need tactical voting to get us over the line.

1/12

Our choice is stark:

5 long years of the Tories in Opposition, pushing a hate-filled agenda of culture wars and immigrant-bashing.

Or the LibDems in Opposition, holding Labour to account on the issues that matter, with the Tories fuming, impotent, on the back benches.

2/12

If the Tories are in Opposition as the 2nd largest party, they get:
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3/12

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