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The Last Tour on Earth

The Last Tour on Earth is the first live album by Marilyn Manson , released on November 16, 1999 by Interscope Records . It features recordings from Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals and Rock Is Dead tours. The UK version includes a bonus disc of four studio tracks recorded during the Mechanical Animals album. The Last Tour on Earth spawned one single (" Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes ").

• 1.1 UK Bonus Disc
• 2 Album credits
• 3 Cover gallery
• 5 Recording dates
• 7 Personnel

Track listing [ edit ]

• " Inauguration of the Mechanical Christ " – 2:44<
• " The Reflecting God " – 5:31
• " Great Big White World " – 5:22
• " Get Your Gunn " – 3:36
• " Sweet Dreams "/" Hell Outro " – 5:36
• " Rock Is Dead " – 3:20
• " The Dope Show " – 3:56
• " Lunchbox " – 8:35
• " I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) " – 7:31
• " Antichrist Superstar " – 5:16
• " The Beautiful People " – 4:30
• " Irresponsible Hate Anthem " – 4:40
• " The Last Day on Earth " – 4:26
• " Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes " – 3:59

UK Bonus Disc [ edit ]

• " Coma White " – 5:41
• " Get My Rocks Off " – 3:05
• "Coma White" (Acoustic Version) – 5:33
• " A Rose and a Baby Ruth " – 2:18

Album credits [ edit ]

INAUGURATION OF THE MECHANICAL CHRIST Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez Co Produced by Danny Saber THE REFLECTING GOD Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Reznor GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Gacy , Zum GET YOUR GUNN Lyrics: Manson / Music: Berkowitz , Gein SWEET DREAMS Lyrics & Music: Stewart HELL OUTRO Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez ROCK IS DEAD Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Gacy THE DOPE SHOW Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez LUNCHBOX Lyrics: Manson / Music: Berkowitz, Gein I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS (BUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME) Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Zum ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Gacy THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez IRRESPONSIBLE HATE ANTHEM Lyrics: Manson, Ramirez / Music: Berkowitz, Gacy THE LAST DAY ON EARTH Lyrics: Manson / Music: Manson, Gacy, Ramirez

Also ASTONISHING PANORAMA OF THE ENDTIMES Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, 5

All Tracks Except 5 and 14 Dinger & Ollie Music, Administered by Dinger & Ollie Music, BMI all Rights Reserved ● Track 5 BMG Songs, Inc. Track 14 © 1999 EMI Blackwood Inc. All Rights Administered Worldwide by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. ● International Copyrights Secured, All Rights Reserved ● Manson: All tracks, Songs of Golgotha Music except 5. ● Ramirez: All tracks Blood Heavy Music except 4,5,8 ● Gacy: Tracks 3,6,10,12,13 DCLXVI Music ● 5: Track 14, GTR, Hack Music / Chrysalis Music ASCAP ● Zum: Tracks 3,9 Violent Delight Music. ● Berkowitz: Track 4,8,12 Carducci Thrift Music ● Gein: Tracks 4 & 8 Use Once and Destroy Music, Inc. Reznor: Track 2 Leaving Hope/TVT music, inc. (ascap) Administered by Leaving Hope Music, inc.

Produced by Marilyn Manson ● Mixed by D. Sardy ● Live Engineer Brad Madix ● Mix Engineer Greg Fiddleman ● Editing Bon Harris ● Mixed at The Village Recorders, Los Angeles CA ● Mixing Assistant Okhee Kim ● Mixing Coordinator Martie Kolbl @ Worlds End ● Mastering Ted Jensen at Sterling ● Photos: Samuel Bayer, Bob Mussell, Steve Jennings, Simon Baeyrtz ● Design: P.R.Brown @ Bau-Da Design Lab, Inc. ● Management Tony Ciulla ● Agent Alex Kochan / Artist & Audience ● Agent Emma Banks Europe ● personal assistant Jonathan Pavesi● Nothing John A. Malm Jr. ● Interscope Jeff Anderson

BONUS DISC: COMA WHITE (Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Gacy, Zum) Produced by Michael Beinhorn and Marilyn Manson ● Mixed by Tom Lorde-Alge GET MY ROCKS OFF Originally recorded by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (Words & music: Shel Silverstein) ● Evil Eye Music Inc. COMA WHITE ACOUSTIC (Lyrics: Manson / Music: Ramirez, Gacy, Zum) Mixed by Bob Marlene ● A ROSE AND A BABY RUTH Lyrics and music by John D. Loudermilk ● Acuff Rose Music, Inc., BMI ● Bonus Tracks 1 & 4 Published by Dinger & Ollie Music, Administered by Dinger & Ollie Music, Songs of Golgotha / Blood Heavy / DCLXVI / Violent Delight BMI 1998 All Rights Reserved.)

Official Website: marilynmanson.net ● Marilyn Manson Fan Club ● 25935 Detroit Rd. Suite #329 ● Westlake, OH 44145

Cover gallery [ edit ]

Charting positions [ edit ]

Album [ edit ], recording dates [ edit ].

Please see this edit to see the explanation of the differences between bootleg records and the release, and why Manson's vocals are not equal on the records. Since the edit was done with no proof or external source linking, the dates in the track listing may still be considered inaccurate and subject to dispute.

Trivia [ edit ]

• " Rock Is Dead " is introduced as if Omēga and the Mechanical Animals, the alter-egos Manson and the band devised for the Mechanical Animals album and tour , were playing.
• The audio file of " Get Your Gunn " is wrongly titled "Get Your Gun".
• John 5: That live album is from the Mechanical Animals tour and that album we were so good as a band. We were just really tight and really good. That album is one hundred percent live. It's completely live. The reason why is we taped all these shows for this live album and I remember going through these tapes and picking out the best performances. And it was just me doing it. I listened like you know... like Manson like dropped the mic or you know, blah-blah-blah, and I would make all these notes and that's all. There's not even overdubs on that thing. It's just all live. And I'm really proud of that record. I think everybody was just, I mean the band, was on fire and they were just plain unbelievable. And it was you know I love that album because it is so live. (Reference: Rob Zombie's JOHN 5 talks about his Career in music W Eric Blair, May 2012 )

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• Twiggy Ramirez – bass
• M.W. Gacy – keyboards & synthesizers
• Ginger Fish – drums
• John 5 – guitar
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N eil Young’s highly-anticipated Love Earth Tour just kicked off with Crazy Horse in San Diego, California yesterday at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre. As always, Young puts on one hell of a show and hasn’t slowed down at this point in his six-decade career.

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5. “Down By The River”

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11. “Heart Of Gold” (Solo/Acoustic Performance)

12. “Human Highway” (Solo/Acoustic Performance)

13. “Don’t Be Denied”

14. “Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)”

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Neil Young is making his return to the Denver area this summer after not having played in Colorado since 2016.

He and Crazy Horse are set to play Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village on July 31. The last time Young played in Colorado was in October 2016 in Telluride, where he owns a barn he rebuilt. That barn is also home to a recording studio he called "Studio in the Clouds" where he recorded his 2019 album, "Colorado."

That album marked the reunion of Young and Crazy Horse after a 7-year hiatus. The group has played together for a combined 50 years.

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My journey into the world of manifestation (the belief that you can attract success in your life through positive affirmations and visualisation) has taken me places I never thought I'd go.

Like woods in Edenbridge, where I stood meditating under a tree in the pouring rain. I don't yet know where my journey will end (I've been hoping for an engagement ring but my boyfriend hasn't yet seen my visualisations), but it started with a conversation with Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, one of many people who say manifestation has transformed their lives.

"About a year ago, there was something happening and I thought we just need two grand to cover the expense," Jamie, a former dancer from London, told me. "The following day £2,000 landed in my account."

It sounded like a coincidence to me, too.

But Jamie was adamant. His husband calls him "the master manifester" because of his "ability to bring in money".

"It's happened on so many occasions, like four, five times," he said. "I've become very clear on what I want and the amount of money I need and literally it can be within 24 hours that I get a phone call for a job and it's almost identical to what I asked for money-wise."

When I asked the now-psychic where the £2,000 actually came from, he said it was payment for a modelling job he had been offered.

"With manifesting you don't get caught up in the how, and often it comes in ways that you don't expect," he added, explaining it could come as the result of a claim after being in a car crash.

"It's not always coming in the way that you think but money is out there for us to take in the world. It's just having the confidence to receive it and we are worthy of it."

"Even if it is a placebo effect, does it matter?" he said.

The 43-year-old also believes he manifested his husband Fiongal after being diagnosed with cancer. While going through treatment and dating "a lot" of people, he decided to take matters into his own hands, or rather his own head, and started visualising his perfect partner.

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After hearing Jamie's story and seeing the idea was popular with so many people, I thought it best to try to learn manifestation myself. I mean, who wouldn't want money landing in their account and a work promotion from the universe?

As I stood in the woods, in the pouring rain, being told to imagine roots growing from the soles of my feet, I felt like an idiot.

I was soaking wet (of course I had forgotten a coat with a hood) and while my mind kept wandering through thoughts about being cold, if I'd hit traffic on the way home and how dirty my white trainers were getting, a gentle, soothing voice kept bringing me back to what I was supposed to be thinking about.

"How we are all connected, how the trees and plants produce oxygen that we breathe, and we breathe out carbon dioxide which they need to survive."

While some people focus their manifestation practices on being grateful to the universe, Tansy Jane Dowman believes we need to get "out of our heads, into our bodies", connect with nature and find our true selves before we can practice it successfully.

My meditation in the woods was just one part of a six-hour workshop run by Tansy, which aimed to send me off with a clearer vision of what I truly desired.

Tansy charges anywhere from £25 to £580 for her courses, which range from one-on-one sessions and an online six-week programme, to forest bathing workshops and weekend-long nature retreats.

But some courses have popped up online which cost more than £1,000.

Tansy started practising manifestation in 2018 after going through a difficult period in her life. She eventually quit her job in events management and started teaching others how to do it successfully.

"The way I manifest is not to focus on material wealth or gain. I would ask my clients what an abundant life means to them in terms of feelings, experiences, connections, people and places," she explained.

"The more authentic you are, the more of a beacon you become for those things to find you."

After spending time walking in the rain and meditating under a tree, Tansy and I sat in her dining room and explored some of the happiest moments in my life and the feelings I experienced. It became clear I like feeling accomplished, needed and excited.

We also spoke about challenging times, but the conversation focused on the positives, like how I had overcome them and what I had learned.

"It's so important to bring in your values with manifestation because sometimes we can get really confused with what we want, with social media especially," she told me.

Throughout her house, Tansy has a number of "abundance boards" proudly on display - some she has made with her children, others are from her annual January tradition of setting out her desires for the year.

"I've had some really wonderful goosebump things happen to me. I did a board at the beginning of 2020... I put a picture of a microphone on it. I just thought I really like that image and I didn't immediately place any meaning onto it," she said.

"Then as the world was shutting down for lockdown, I did a press event and I met a lady who worked for Wellbeing Radio and she wondered if I would be interested in trying out as a presenter."

She explained that some people will be very specific with their desires, like selecting a photo of the exact car they want, or the perfect house, but that isn't how manifestation works. There needs to be an element of trust in the universe giving them what they attract.

As we created my abundance board, which Tansy describes as being like a "personal algorithm", she told me to select images and words from heaps of magazines that called to me intuitively.

As you can see from the picture below, mine calls for being "financially fabulous", travelling, getting engaged (coughs loudly in earshot of boyfriend) and living stress-free.

And while I'd love a big cash injection, Tansy explained to me that money is "only a stepping stone to a feeling" and, ultimately, I'm aiming to create an emotion with it.

Manifesters more likely to go bankrupt

While all the manifestation believers I spoke to said there was no downside to the practice, a researcher has been looking into whether it really does pay off.

Based in Australia, Dr Lucas Dixon (who specialises in consumer psychology) created a scale from one to seven to rank a person's strength of belief and found those who practice it are more likely to have been victims of fraud and declared bankruptcy.

He said there was a "danger" that manifesting could become harmful if taken to an extreme level.

He found those who believe in manifesting tend to think more positively and have a confident attitude when it comes to success, and while that can be helpful in business, it can also cause them to take unnecessary risks.

"They weren't more objectively successful in terms of having higher income or higher education attainment," he said.

"We also found that they are more likely to believe in get-rich-quick schemes, more likely to take higher risks... to have risky financial investments and more likely to have investments in cryptocurrency rather than traditional stock."

Using the scale he created, Dr Dixon found those who have "very strong beliefs", ranking at a seven, were 40% more likely to have gone bankrupt.

"The danger comes in a couple of different forms," he said, explaining that a "worst case scenario" could see people getting into financial difficulty by being encouraged to "just look at the positives".

"Someone might say it's not harmful because it is really just thinking positively but I think even that can be harmful because of what you might call an opportunity cost," he said.

"You're spending time, energy and money doing something that doesn't have a lot of evidence behind it. We found it does make you feel good but you don't need to pay thousands to do it."

Okay, so back to me...

I did my manifestation course about two months ago, and I have done as I was instructed - my abundance board is up in sight inside the flat, and I often have a cup of coffee in front of it.

But, so far I'm still using a credit card, the most travelling I've done has been to work and back and there is still no rock on my finger. I have been given an annual pay rise, though, and would say I am less stressed.

Perhaps believing that I'm just doing my best and there's a chance that I'll be rewarded for that one day, eventually, in the future, maybe, is making me feel better... who knows?

Each week, Money blog readers share their thoughts on the subjects we've been covering, and over the last seven days your correspondence has been dominated by these topics...

• Iceland's new slogan
• Rising mortgage rates
• Giving kids cash for grades

Iceland's new catchphrase

We learnt on Monday that Iceland had dropped its tagline "That's why mums go to Iceland", replacing it with "That's why we go to Iceland".

The move was made to reflect the store is for everybody, said brand ambassador Josie Gibson. Readers were split - with some feeling so strongly that they're prepared, they suggest, to sacrifice those frozen Greggs steak bakes forever...

I previously contacted Iceland about their slogan because I didn't think it did single dads justice, as dads can go to Iceland too. Their response was that people understood that it's not just mums that go to Iceland. It's about time they changed the message. Dave T  

Neither I, my wife or my children will shop in Iceland again due to this stupidness and woke attitude. To hell with you [Iceland boss] Richard Walker. John  

Banks hike mortgage rates

This week we reported that high street lenders such as Halifax, TSB, NatWest, Barclays, Leeds Building Society, HSBC and Coventry had all hiked mortgage rates. 

You said...

With house prices at already extortionate levels, now mortgage rates rising again, is there any hope for first-time buyers? Honestly, the situation is so bleak, people may need to consider other countries. GenZ 

Why would this happen? So many young couples struggling to get on the property ladder. I live in Dorset - a one-bedroom flat costs from £230,000. In Scotland, one can get a beautiful two-bed house for that price. Feel sorry for all couples living down in the South. Need huge deposits. Barbs

Why are they called high-street banks? Most banks in my town have closed. Martin J

Parents offering cash for good grades

A lot of views came in after our feature exploring the positives and negatives of parents incentivising good school grades with cash...

We had scores of comments on this - with a fairly even split...

We did it for our son at GCSE time. We think it made a difference of about a grade on most subjects. Got a two-grade lift on maths. Cost us £350. Thought it was good value as it has taught him how things work in the world. Andy

The whole world is built on a reward system which symbolises access to money commensurate with effort and excellence. The Nobel prize goes with a cash reward! Tom Deggs

Employees are offered incentives for achieving targets, so why not offer kids incentives for better grades? Claire228 

But others had concerns...

I think it puts too much pressure on kids who are under enough pressure at exam time. Parents should encourage their kids to do the best they can, not add to their stress levels. Emma

Children should value their education without it being monetised. My parents expected my brother and I to have the motivation, maturity and self-discipline to work hard for our GCSEs. We both achieved all As and A*s. Eliza 

When I was at school, from 1964-83, my parents never gave me money for good exam results, because "I should want to do well for myself". No matter what my grades were, they said that they would be proud of me if I had tried my best. Cash kills self-motivation. Nicola B 

The money story of the week has been mortgage rates - with a host of major lenders announcing hikes amid fears the Bank of England may delay interest rate cuts.

Swap rates - which dictate how much it costs to lend money - have risen on the back of higher than expected US inflation data, and concerns this could delay interest rate cuts there. 

US trends often materialise elsewhere - though many economists are still expecting a base rate cut from 5.25% to 5% in the UK in June.

The reliable Bloomberg reported this week: "Still, while some economists have since scaled back their predictions for BOE cuts, most haven't changed expectations for a summer move.

"Analysts at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group, Capital Economics and Bloomberg Economics are all among those still anticipating a shift toward easing in June."

The publication also quoted Sanjay Raja, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank, as saying: "Markets have superimposed the US cycle on the UK, but the US and UK are on very different tracks.

"The UK is coming out of technical recession. Inflation is falling more convincingly. Pay settlements are following inflation expectations. And crucially, real policy rates in the UK will be higher than in the US."

None of this reassurance changes the fact that financial markets, which dictate swap rates, are pricing in delays.

This week's hikes came from Halifax, BM Solutions, TSB, NatWest, Virgin, Barclays, Accord, Leeds Building Society, HSBC and Coventry.

This is what average mortgage rates looked like as of Thursday...

The next Bank of England decision on rates comes on 9 May - and pretty much no one is expecting a cut from the 16-year high of 5.25% at that stage.

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The family home where Captain Sir Tom Moore walked 100 laps to raise nearly £40m for the NHS during the first COVID lockdown is up for sale for £2.25m.

The Grade II-listed Old Rectory is described as a "magnificent seven-bedroom property" by estate agents Fine & Country.

In a video tour of the house, a sculpture of Captain Tom with his walking frame can be seen in the hallway, while a photo of the fundraising hero being knighted by the Queen is on a wall in the separate coach house building.

Introducing the property, an estate agent says in the tour video: "I'm sure you'll recognise this iconic and very famous driveway behind me as it was home to the late Captain Sir Tom Moore who walked 100 laps of his garden, raising over £37m for NHS charities."

It comes less than three months after the demolition of an unauthorised spa pool block in the grounds of the property in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

Speaking at an appeal hearing over that spa, Scott Stemp, representing Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband, said the foundation named after the fundraising hero "is to be closed down" following a Charity Commission probe launched amid concerns about its management.

For the full story, click here ...

"Status symbol" pets are being given up by owners who get scared as they grow up, an animal charity has said, with the cost of living possibly paying a part in a rise in separations.

The Exotic Pet Refuge, which homes parrots, monkeys, snakes and alligators among others, says it receives referrals across the country, including from zoos and the RSPCA.

"They're a status symbol. People will say, 'OK, I'll have an alligator or a 10ft boa constrictor'," co-owner Pam Mansfield told the BBC.

"But when the animal gets big, they will get too frightened to handle them, and then the pet has to go."

She added people who want to get rid of the pets sometimes call zoos for help, which then call on her charity.

In some cases, owners don't have licences to own dangerous animals, she says, blaming a "lack of understanding" for what she says is a rise in the number of exotic animals needing to be rehomed.

She says people "just don't have the space" for some snakes, for example, with some growing to as much as 12ft and needing their own room.

The cost of living crisis has also forced owners to give their pets away, she says.

Her charity has also been affected by those increased costs, with the electricity bill rising to £10,000 a month at their highest, to fund things like heated pools for alligators.

Private car parks are accused of "confusing drivers" after introducing a new code of conduct - despite "doing all they can" to prevent an official government version.

The code of practice launched by two industry bodies - British Parking Association and the International Parking Community - includes a ten-minute grace period for motorists to leave a car park after the parking period they paid for ends.

It also features requirements for consistent signage, a single set of rules for operators on private land and an "appeals charter".

Private parking businesses have been accused of using misleading and confusing signs, aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees.

That comes after a government-backed code of conduct was withdrawn in June 2022, after a legal challenges by parking companies.

RAC head of policy Simon Williams said: "We're flabbergasted that the BPA and the IPC have suddenly announced plans to introduce their own private parking code after doing all they can over the last five years to prevent the official government code created by an act of Parliament coming into force.

"While there are clearly some positive elements to what the private parking industry is proposing, it conveniently avoids some of the biggest issues around caps on penalty charges and debt recovery fees which badly need to be addressed to prevent drivers being taken advantage of."

BPA chief executive Andrew Pester said: "This is a crucial milestone as we work closely with government, consumer bodies and others to deliver fairer and more consistent parking standards for motorists."

IPC chief executive Will Hurley said: "The single code will benefit all compliant motorists and will present clear consequences for those who decide to break the rules."

Sky News has learnt the owner of Superdry's flagship store is weighing up a legal challenge to a rescue plan launched by the struggling fashion retailer.

M&G, the London-listed asset manager, has engaged lawyers from Hogan Lovells to scrutinise the restructuring plan.

The move by M&G, which owns the fashion retailer's 32,000 square foot Oxford Street store, will not necessarily result in a formal legal challenge - but sources say it's possible.

Read City editor Mark Kleinman 's story here...

NatWest says its mortgage lending nearly halved at the start of the year as it retreated from parts of the market when competition among lenders stepped up.

New mortgage lending totalled £5.2bn in the first three months of 2024, the banking group has revealed, down from £9.9bn the previous year.

The group, which includes Royal Bank of Scotland and Coutts, also reported an operating pre-tax profit of £1.3bn for the first quarter, down 27% from £1.8bn the previous year.

An unexplained flow of British luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia continued into February, new data shows.

About £26m worth of British cars were exported to Azerbaijan, making the former Soviet country the 17th biggest destination for UK cars - bigger than long-established export markets such as Ireland, Portugal and Qatar.

Azerbaijan's ascent has coincided almost to the month with the imposition of sanctions on the export of cars to Russia.

Read the rest of economics and data editor Ed Conway 's analysis here...

Rishi Sunak has hailed the arrival of pay day with a reminder his government's additional National Insurance tax cut kicks in this month for the first time.

At last month's budget, the chancellor announced NI will be cut by a further 2p - so some workers will pay 8% of their earnings instead of the 12% if was before autumn.

The prime minister has repeated his claim this will be worth £900 for someone on the average UK salary.

While this additional cut - on top of the previous 2p cut in January - does equate to £900 for those on average full-time earnings of £35,000, there are two key issues with Mr Sunak's claim:

• Once the effect of all income tax changes since 2021 are taken into account, the Institute for Fiscal Studies reports an average earner will benefit from a tax cut of £340 - far less than £900;
• Moreover, anyone earning less than £26,000 or between £55,000-£131,000 will ultimately be worse off.

In short, this is because NI cuts are more than offset by other tax rises.

We explain below how this is the case...

Tax thresholds

This is partly down to tax thresholds - the amount you are allowed to earn before you start paying tax (and national insurance) and before you start paying the higher rate of tax - will remain frozen. 

This means people end up paying more tax than they otherwise would, when their pay rises with inflation but the thresholds don't keep up. 

This phenomenon is known as "fiscal drag" and it's often called a stealth tax because it's not as noticeable immediately in your pay packet.

That low threshold of £12,570 has been in place since April 2021. 

The Office for Budget Responsibility says if it had increased with inflation it would be set at £15,220 for 2024/25.

If that were the case, workers could earn an extra £2,650 tax-free each year.

Less give, more take

Sky News analysis shows someone on £16,000 a year will pay £607 more in total - equivalent to more than three months of average household spending on food. 

Their income level means national insurance savings are limited but they are paying 20% in income tax on an additional £2,650 of earnings.

In its analysis , the IFS states: "In aggregate the NICs cuts just serve to give back a portion of the money that is being taken away through other income tax and NICs changes - in particular, multi-year freezes to tax thresholds at a time of high inflation."

Overall, according to the institute, for every £1 given back to workers by the National Insurance cuts, £1.30 will have been taken away due to threshold changes between 2021 and 2024.

This rises to £1.90 in 2027.

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Finding Life Beyond Earth: What Comes Next?

The future is full of questions for us earthly life-forms. How far can we take our search for life elsewhere? Which new technologies are best for detecting life? Could we ever visit planets beyond our solar system?

And if we find life beyond Earth, how will it change us?

Scientists and technological experts suggest a variety of possibilities, but many seem to agree on at least one observation: The search for life is accelerating, sprouting new technologies and new ideas even as our view of the cosmos grows sharper.

A question often asked, so far without an answer, is whether we’ll detect the first signs of life on another body within our solar system, or on an exoplanet – a planet orbiting another star.

Exploration of the solar system has the advantage of landing on planets, moons, or asteroids, and collecting samples for analysis. For the planets beyond our solar system, remote detection of signs of life will have to suffice.

Still, we might have good reason to expect the first detection will come from an exoplanet, said Mary Voytek, director of NASA’s Astrobiology Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

Although solar system planets are more directly accessible, finding life among them poses enormous technical challenges – whether we’re seeking life on Mars or on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, or Saturn’s Enceladus.

“The best hope on Mars is the subsurface,” Voytek said. “How long will it take before we’re able to drill into the subsurface? For Enceladus and Europa, we’re talking about being in a subsurface ocean below kilometers of ice. How soon will it be before we actually get into those? It becomes more an issue of access and not of, I think, greater probability.”

Exoplanets, on the other hand, despite the challenges of remote detection, offer a vast number of targets: thousands of planets confirmed so far in our galaxy, which likely contains hundreds of billions.

“Think about all the exoplanets out there,” she said. “Suddenly we have this giant, vast possibility of things to search on.”

And the right technology to conduct such a search is just coming online. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already adding to inventories of ingredients in exoplanet atmospheres; more powerful and sensitive observatories are being readied for the future search for life signs – also called biosignatures.

“In the short term, of course, we’re hoping [the Webb telescope] is able to make detection of biosignature gases in the atmospheres of a couple of terrestrial worlds,” said Michael Way, a physical scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York who creates computer models of possible exoplanet atmospheres.

Hopes are also high for the next generation of ground-based telescopes, massive instruments 100 or 130 feet (30 or 40 meters) wide.

“It’s not clear to me that the instruments coming online in the early 2030s will be capable of that or not,” Way said. “There are calculations that show it’s possible.”

Farther off, one of the most anticipated life-seeking technologies is a possible future space telescope, NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory. Now in the early conceptual stages, the proposal is an answer to recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences as part of a “decadal survey” released in 2021. It outlines scientific priorities for the decade ahead, including the discovery and exploration of habitable planets.

The observatory’s imaging capability, well beyond that of any existing space telescope, would be used to observe 25 potentially Earth-like planets to search for signs of life.

Such initiatives, combined with missions to come, like NASA’s Mars Sample Return and the exploration of icy moons in the outer solar system, represent a turning point for our species, said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, the NASA program scientist for the program responsible for early development of the Habitable Worlds mission concept.

“We’re going to tell the story of life in the cosmos by using that unprecedented imaging capability – to study the long-term evolution of galaxies, the stars they’re made of, the matter that makes up those stars, and to help us understand how habitable worlds came to be,” he said. “And we’re going to search for signs of life on those habitable worlds.”

More exotic ideas for decades or even centuries ahead remain speculative, but include sending probes to other star systems. One private-sector concept, called Breakthrough Starshot, would use lasers to push a fleet of tiny “light sail” probes to a fraction of light speed, perhaps to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, in 20 to 30 years.

But sending humans to other star systems, Way said, remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. While further human exploration of the solar system in decades ahead seems within reach, no existing or planned technology could preserve human life for the tens of thousands of years it might take to reach another star.

A shortcut to finding life, of course, would be picking up signals or evidence of intelligent life. “Technosignatures,” or signs of technological civilization, are gaining renewed attention from scientists at NASA and around the world.

The search would not be limited to signals via radio, or even the broader light spectrum. They might include evidence of pollution or artificial chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres, “city lights” on a planet’s night side, large artificial structures passing in front of a star, constellations of satellites, or waste heat detected as infrared radiation.

“Advanced civilizations, any civilizations using energy need to emit waste heat,” said Ravi Kopparapu, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who focuses much of his work on the hunt for non-radio technosignatures.

However the search plays out, whatever might be found, astronomer Jill Tarter, one of the world’s best-known seekers of intelligent life beyond Earth, hopes it will push humanity toward what she calls the “cosmic perspective.”

“We’re all Earthlings,” she said. “The cosmic perspective trivializes the differences among humans. So we need to become Earthlings, and act like that.”

In the very distant future Earth itself is, of course, expected to meet its demise. In about five billion years, our dying Sun should swell into a red-giant phase, engulfing some of its nearer planets and perhaps Earth along with them. By then, an increasingly hot Sun would have long-since rendered our planet uninhabitable in any case.

Would that end our chapter in the cosmic history of life? Maybe not. If humanity hasn’t become extinct by then, we might have migrated to another planetary system.

“Assuming we don’t exterminate ourselves in the meantime, we’ll find a way to go somewhere else,” Way said.

Such a story could, in fact, have been repeated many times throughout the history of the cosmos.

Search for Life

This article is one in a series about how NASA is searching for life in the cosmos.

Beginnings: Life on Our World and Others

Life on Other Planets: What is Life and What Does It Need?

The Hunt for Life on Mars – and Elsewhere in the Solar System

'Life' in the Lab

Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures

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