Thus the final score card could read as follows: higher tax rates, lower upper class income and public revenues that fall short of estimated targets, even if they do not decline in absolute amount.
It was also noticeable that the Deputy Prime Minister did not feel able to even hint that a bill to move us towards an elected Upper House would be in the legislative programme for the coming parliamentary year.
The single most important one is probably Notifications, a unified system that lets programs of all sorts briefly command your attention even when you're not using them, via messages which pop up in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
The rise in inequality is, as those protesters reminded us as they camped out last year, not really between the poor and the middle classes, nor really even between the middle and the upper.