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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 7h

Emma displaying her deep knowledge of political economy: the Competition and Markets *Association*? #r4today

Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 7h

I found the Home Secretary’s suggestion that campaigners against genocide really want the genocide to continue offensive. Even more so just two days later, when it is clear that the ‘peace deal’ we were supposed to celebrate rather than question is already starting to crumble.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, but you forget that ‘AI’ will do all the “writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc” for us. And send us dirty texts as a bonus!

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 7h

The consolidation of vet practices into a few big corporations, followed by price-gouging and profiteering, is also what happened with funeral directors a while back. The CMA’s hand-wringing won’t get #r4today very far. It’s called monopoly capitalism. It’s how things work.

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 17h

Russia Today paid him, presumably?

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 22h

The Hone Secretary seems determined to be in the wrong side of history. And to lose Labour as many elections as she can.

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Me too…

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Incontrovertible evidence that buying a Tesla and/or using X/Twitter is directly funding fascism. The UK Government must stop using X as a primary comms channel.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 2d

I really think @mrjamesob.bsky.social shouldn’t be live-streaming this victory parade in Jerusalem. It’s embarrassing.

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Every policy needs to tested with the question “how will this change my life for the better?” Especially for a struggling government elected on a promise of change.

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 3d

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 4d

Poor Aura in Any Answers - having to get balance in the question “should Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize?” by reading out a ‘text’ from Anonymous of X saying yes he should. Pathetic.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

It will also, of course, reduce productivity in that sector!

Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

Given that many hospitality businesses have restricted their hours to reduce staffing costs (one shift instead of two, reduced transport costs for late finishers, etc) m, not sure how Labour’s new policy is going to help them, or growth. Same amount of revenue, spread more thinly?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

Amol loves bathing in uber-capitalist auras.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@adrianramsay.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
@fionaharvey.bsky.social

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

The CMA is the uber-regulator. But fair point, re competition. That’s why the industry regulators exist - to act as a proxy for the market. Of course, they fail completely at this. But the CMA effectively sets the rules (inc ridiculous models to ‘regulate’ costs and returns on capital employed)

Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

#r4today

Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

It pains me to say it, but I’m thinking that the Nobel Committee should announce that it will give the Peace Prize to Trump - next year, if a genuine peace in Palestine holds. This for purely instrumental reasons: it would embed Trump’s investment in enforcing it on Netanyahu.

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

It pains me to say it, but I’m thinking that the Nobel Committee should announce that it will give the Peace Prize to Trump - next year, if a genuine peace in Palestine holds. This for purely instrumental reasons: it would embed Trump’s investment in enforcing it on Netanyahu.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 6d

Here we go… there’s no obvious benefit in doing this. Just doing it because we can. Apocalypse looming.

Euronews @euronews.com · 6d

An AI-powered director just joined the board of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund — and it gets a vote.

Your country’s sovereign wealth fund, decided by a machine? Kazakhstan says yes

An AI-powered director just joined the board of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund — and it gets a vote.

l.euronews.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 7d

Oxford PPE?