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Paddy Boocock
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A disordered shout of rage at the ongoing, accelerating and mindless, but totally conscious, destruction of our terrestrial home and body politic for the vacuous goal of the satiation of endless greed
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 22h
They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
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They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
Please Support My Research Into the Global Rollout of Free Zones
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Please Support My Research Into the Global Rollout of Free Zones
What Are Free Zones—And Why Hasn’t Anyone Told You About Them?
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
Huge concern in New York that Zohran Mamdani could make food and childcare affordable
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Huge concern in New York that Zohran Mamdani could make food and childcare affordable
New York has gone to the polls in the mayoral election and there is huge concern that Zohran Mamdani could win and fulfil his Islamist agenda of making life affordable for ordinary New Yorkers.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
How Hardcore is Pee-Wee German?
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How “Hardcore” is Pee-Wee German?
I investigate.
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Phil Groom @philgroom.bsky.social · 1d
Well said Zack! #BoycottIsrael
Screenshot from article: 'Strengthening our trade relationship with an apartheid state as they have committed an active genocide is horrific' - Zack Polanski, Green leader
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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d
Israelis beLIEve they have THE RIGHT to kill and terrorize Palestinians.

No one has that right.

That’s just called theft and murder.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
By a strange coincidence, all the countries Trump wants to bomb are rich in oil
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By a strange coincidence, all the countries Trump wants to bomb are rich in oil
After many months contemplating war on Iran, and later Venezuela, the US president has set his sights on… Nigeria.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
Elon Musk shares terrifying story of UK that he entirely made up
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Elon Musk shares terrifying story of UK that he entirely made up
Kind-hearted billionaire Elon Musk is so concerned about the UK that he has made up a story to illustrate how bad things are.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now
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The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 1d
How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity
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How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 2d
"What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent. The mainstream press barely mention it. Americans have hardly any idea who their own country is bombing."
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Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 5d
The Death House
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The Death House
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 5d
Is Apple worth $4 trillion? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Is Apple worth $4 trillion?
Apple has crossed a $4 trillion valuation. That’s $495 for every single person on Earth — if we all shared it. But we don’t. This video explores how its shareholders extract vast profits from billions...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 5d
The market is not the solution to our housing problems www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
The market is not the solution to our housing problems
The FT is annoying me, again, this morning with an article by someone called Neil Hudson that opens with this: There is a line about the UK property market that you hear so often it barely registers a...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 5d
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Byline Times on X: "🔴Inside Brook House: The Human Cost of the UK’s Abuse-Filled Privatised Immigration Detention System Private contractors are taking hundreds of millions of pounds from a system riddled with abuse, suicide and criminality, reports Ruth Hopkins https://t.co/hzW6htUzeY" / X
🔴Inside Brook House: The Human Cost of the UK’s Abuse-Filled Privatised Immigration Detention System Private contractors are taking hundreds of millions of pounds from a system riddled with abuse, suicide and criminality, reports Ruth Hopkins https://t.co/hzW6htUzeY
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 5d
Richard Murphy assesses right-wing think-tanks' (think - ?) propositions to impose further hardship on the not-wealthy and add to the already massive neoliberal damage done to the economy and the nation.

The state of right wing thinking on the economy.

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The state of right wing thinking on the economy
It's important to be reminded what right-wing thinking about Britain really is every now and again. The reason is that in recent decades, where right-wing think tanks have pointed, is where policy has...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
The Round-Up/ ARGH! WES STREETING!
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The Round-Up/ ARGH! WES STREETING!
Let's cut through the noise this winter...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
New Painting: "Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
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New Painting: "Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
The other day I read an article about how Peter Thiel has been going around giving strange speeches in which he speculates about who the Antichrist might be and what signs we should look for to spot h...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
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Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
Yes: AI Is a Bubble. But It Is a Bubble-Plus. & That Makes a Substantial Difference
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Yes: AI Is a Bubble. But It Is a Bubble-Plus. & That Makes a Substantial Difference
Bubble-double-plus: how the AI boom props up the economy with debt, data centers, faith, and valuations without rational expectations of durable and monetizable productivity growth…
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of the Budget: [Reeves'] first priority must be to get whatev...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
What Rachel Reeves is signalling in advance of her budget www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
What Rachel Reeves is signalling in advance of her budget
Rachel Reeves has published her pre-budget pitch in The Guardian this morning. In it, she claims that the economy has “strong foundations”, that interest rate cuts, trade deals and inward investment s...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
We need a Basic British Bank www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
We need a Basic British Bank
We’re told that competition makes everything better — cheaper, fairer, more efficient. But when it comes to banks, that’s a myth. Six giant institutions dominate the UK market. They are all charging h...
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Paddy Boocock @boococp.bsky.social · 6d
It is time we got on with the process of change www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
It is time we got on with the process of change
I know it's a cliche to quote Gramsci saying: The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.  The line is from his Prison Notebooks. They were written whi...
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