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Pension Protection Fund @ppf.co.uk · 1d

We've just published our latest 7800 update. View the full update and the index history on our website: ppf.co.uk/PPF-7800-index

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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 1d

Preempting the asset manager society in Philadelphia...

"A third bill would ask voters to approve another charter amendment, this one to ban the city from privatizing or otherwise contracting out the ownership or operation of its water supply and sewage systems."

O’Rourke proposes rent rebate and permanent funding for free SEPTA passes

Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke argues that more public transit aid for low-income residents would show that government can work.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 2d

Beware of IFS recommendations that depend on an IFS judgement of what is “unfair and distortionary”. IFS are taking a political position on pension contribution rebates. This option should be on the table and should get a full open informed political debate

Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 2d

All Budgets are billed as important but this one is set to be especially challenging.

Pleased @nuffieldfoundation.org supports @theifs.bsky.social Green Budget which illuminates the key choices & trade-offs.

Here's the chapter on options for tax increases.

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Options for tax increases | Institute for Fiscal Studies

If the Chancellor hopes to raise large sums from tax increases at the Budget, she should consider reforms that would make any increases less damaging.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 4d

This from Andy Haldane gets some basic stuff wrong, notably this:

"A £30bn will need to be filled in this year’s Budget,e ven though a stalled economy needs a 1% of GDP fiscal tightening like a hole in the head."

Just wrong. Not how the fiscal framework works at all.

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The UK’s failing fiscal framework is a Brexit tribute act

The path and peak of policy uncertainty over the past year eerily mimics sentiment at the time of the 2016 referendum

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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 4d

“I went to a policy conference last week about the Pension schemes bill where CDC wasn’t mentioned, it was run by a brilliant firm who forgot to include it!”

Starved of the oxygen of consultant bandwidth, does CDC really have any chance of survival in the UK pensions landscape?

Henry Tapper @henrytapper.bsky.social · 4d

"Fear of risk has has ruined the prospect of a real pension" - Pullinger henrytapper.com/2025/10/11/f... I am not prepared to see CDC confined to discussions between actuaries in City Conferences. I want CDC to work for everyone and be known as “wage in retirement pension schemes”

“Fear of risk has has ruined the prospect of a real pension” – Pullinger

Terry Pullinger and I are friends, frustrated by the failure of Government after Government to see policies over the line, content to make asset managers and insurers rich while millions of savers …

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 4d

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 One for the pensions geeks, and those who look to Canada as a model for the UK pension system. on.ft.com/4h0cXG6

FTAV Q&A: Michelle Ostermann

The UK Pension Protection Fund’s chief talks Canada envy, risk, reform, and public sector consolidation

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 5d

How much revenue is on the line as the Supreme Court deliberates over the IEEPA tariffs?

from @bloomberg.com

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 1 WEEK TO GO!
🎟️ 350+ tickets gone!

Join us to launch @transitionsec.bsky.social with a panel on the war economy, climate crisis & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

🎙️ @stephensemler.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch

A collaboration between Common Wealth and Climate & Community Institute to investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes.

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 7d

“the unbearable tightness of credit spreads” on.ft.com/3J2AUjB Brace for a market melt-up

Brace for a market melt-up

Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, the sad reality of local government
on.ft.com/4gVrLpv Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 11d

TAKAICHI WINS

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

www.theguardian.com

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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · Sep 2

In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17d

The thing that human beings seem to value above (almost) all else is other human beings paying attention to them. Put that in your algorithm and smoke it.

Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 17d

A student told me Thursday that another prof had told the class to post their work into an AI LLM, to be graded and commented on by the AI. The other students were all offended. Which is good. They should be offended.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17d

While everyone is focusing on the Fabians the Co-Operative movement have free rein to plot their own conspiracies. Obvious black ops.

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 21d

All projects looking into just transition questions welcome - we are a pluralist and interdisciplinary group of economists with broad research method specialisms. Please spread the word.. @jomichell.bsky.social @csissoko.bsky.social

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 21d

Funded phd opportunity with Bristol Research in Economics colleagues at UWE Bristol. Message me if you want to know more www.uwe.ac.uk/research/pos...

Just transition to net zero - Studentship opportunities | UWE Bristol

An opportunity to apply for a full-time PhD in the College of Business and Law.

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Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social · 22d

on.ft.com/3Vsv7Xl UK pensions ‘lifeboat’ halts levy for defined benefit retirement schemes

UK pensions ‘lifeboat’ halts levy for defined benefit retirement schemes

Pension Protection Fund cuts participation charge to zero for this year after the government moves to lift restriction

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 22d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22d

When the government is using *three* adjectives, it is a considerably weakness to have all three of them - "unrealistic, unworkable and unfunded" - being about how, rather than why. At least one or two of the three words should be fron the family of "unprincipled" or "extreme"

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