THE TPA IS 20 YEARS OLD 🎉 As the TaxPayers' Alliance turns 20 years old, we look back on the achievements we've had over the years and turn our eyes to what challenges we will need to face in the future. This is the TPA at 20 👇 taxpayersalliance.com/tpa_20

During my life, concert goers have complained about touts, then moaned when venues made tickets non-transferable (it's my property!) and now complained about dynamic pricing that solves the tout issue. People just want cheap stuff and more options, while denying trade-offs.

Priti Patel eliminated

I think I found him

The Letby case has really highlighted that a lot of people are contrarian for the sake of it… “How can I show that I’m a radical? How can I show that I’m different? How can I let everyone know that I am not part of ‘the establishment’? I’ll bat for a baby murderer!”

Supply & demand and that

🚭“Many shisha lounges are family-run enterprises, where communities are able to come together and socialise with one another. With more than 500 shisha cafés across the UK, the closure of these venues would be a significant cultural loss for these communities.”

🚨Unions Resurgent? The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Trade Unions in Britain🚨 💷Increasing union power could burden taxpayers with higher public sector wage bills and further disruption to railways, schools and the NHS. 📕New book by IEA Editorial and Research Fellow

The TPA is out and about in Kent today with the first leg of our Debt Clock Roadshow 🚚 Residents can't believe that the debt is this high! And want the government to take it seriously 👏

Inevitably, Tom will become a NIMBY.

ALERT: I'm looking forward to being back in studio on Talk tomorrow morning (from around 10.20) joining Reem Ibrahim on Peter Cardwell's news panel. Always an exciting debate. On Radio. On Smart TVs. Online. And via Smart Speaker. Do, please, join us. Thanks. #Talk

🎙️ Mathew Hulbert 🔶️ 🏳️‍🌈 Talk

This is quite literally market success! You and I may have an aversion to such procedures, but people who wish to subject themselves to duckification can now do so affordably. 🦆

“Oh, it’s totally fine that thousands of wealthy people want to leave the UK!” Mental opinion.

No one has ‘the right’ to an Oasis ticket by the way.

You’re wrong. Just under 30% of income tax receipts come from just the top 1% of the highest earners. That is more than the combined total of the next 20m taxpayers!

Reflections of the Life in Mississippi compared to London