Ann Pettifor
@annpettifor.bsky.social
Coming in January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. In the meantime check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
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Ann Pettifor
@annpettifor.bsky.social
· Jul 15
After doing several laps we're now on the last editing lap - and getting ready for take-off - in January 2026.
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I signed the letter calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Overnight, I've received some 2,000 attack emails, identical text but different purported senders and subject headers. Still coming through now. Other signatories also getting it. Definitely an op.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I signed the letter calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Overnight, I've received some 2,000 attack emails, identical text but different purported senders and subject headers. Still coming through now. Other signatories also getting it. Definitely an op.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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This got past the Telegraph's editor.
Morning.
Morning.
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This got past the Telegraph's editor.
Morning.
Morning.
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Spurs are removing a pride flag for tonight's game at the request of the opponents Slavia Prague who apparently can't control their fans behaviour upon seeing a rainbow.
The flag is in a prominent position for TV we've probably all seen it.
Another backwards step 🤦♀️
The flag is in a prominent position for TV we've probably all seen it.
Another backwards step 🤦♀️
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Spurs are removing a pride flag for tonight's game at the request of the opponents Slavia Prague who apparently can't control their fans behaviour upon seeing a rainbow.
The flag is in a prominent position for TV we've probably all seen it.
Another backwards step 🤦♀️
The flag is in a prominent position for TV we've probably all seen it.
Another backwards step 🤦♀️
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"The Indonesian Agency for #Climate Science, Geophysics and Meteorology reported that warmer seas in the eastern Indian Ocean might have boosted the intensity of rainfall in this storm in some areas to more than 300 millimetres a day - up to six times the usual rate"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
"Further attention must be given to this #climate tragedy, not only to apply pressure to speed up rescue & recovery...[&] to recognize the planetaryscale crisis that humanity is currently facing. A new future awaits us- we need to recognize its patterns now, before more lives are lost"
#Indonesia 🇮🇩
#Indonesia 🇮🇩
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"The Indonesian Agency for #Climate Science, Geophysics and Meteorology reported that warmer seas in the eastern Indian Ocean might have boosted the intensity of rainfall in this storm in some areas to more than 300 millimetres a day - up to six times the usual rate"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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#ProtestMatters 👏
#BahHumbug: The land is owned by #SheringhamTC but #NorfolkCC have control/management of all parts of the site during construction/our legal experts have advised that the eviction notice issued is entirely lawful 👀
@steffanaquarone.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#BahHumbug: The land is owned by #SheringhamTC but #NorfolkCC have control/management of all parts of the site during construction/our legal experts have advised that the eviction notice issued is entirely lawful 👀
@steffanaquarone.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The battle for Sheringham bus shelter: protesters defiant as bailiffs sent in
Norfolk county council wants to demolish a ‘beloved’ 1950s bus shelter in Sheringham, but campaigners are staging a 24/7 sit-in
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#ProtestMatters 👏
#BahHumbug: The land is owned by #SheringhamTC but #NorfolkCC have control/management of all parts of the site during construction/our legal experts have advised that the eviction notice issued is entirely lawful 👀
@steffanaquarone.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#BahHumbug: The land is owned by #SheringhamTC but #NorfolkCC have control/management of all parts of the site during construction/our legal experts have advised that the eviction notice issued is entirely lawful 👀
@steffanaquarone.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I'm glad the EU is punishing X, but it's about time our own (UK) government did as well.
I'm curious to know though what mechanisms the EU can put in place to actually ensure X pays the fine.
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/eu-s...
I'm curious to know though what mechanisms the EU can put in place to actually ensure X pays the fine.
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/eu-s...
EU says it will ‘make sure’ Elon Musk pays €120 million X fine
The EU Commission has fined X over its "deceptive" blue-check badge system
leftfootforward.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm glad the EU is punishing X, but it's about time our own (UK) government did as well.
I'm curious to know though what mechanisms the EU can put in place to actually ensure X pays the fine.
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/eu-s...
I'm curious to know though what mechanisms the EU can put in place to actually ensure X pays the fine.
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/eu-s...
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The latest JOLTS report for October offers a mixed picture of the U.S. labor market.
Layoffs rose to 1.85 million — the highest since early 2023 — while hiring slowed. Yet job openings climbed to 7.67 million, the most in nearly half a year and well above expectations (7.12 million).
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Layoffs rose to 1.85 million — the highest since early 2023 — while hiring slowed. Yet job openings climbed to 7.67 million, the most in nearly half a year and well above expectations (7.12 million).
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1 of 2.
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The latest JOLTS report for October offers a mixed picture of the U.S. labor market.
Layoffs rose to 1.85 million — the highest since early 2023 — while hiring slowed. Yet job openings climbed to 7.67 million, the most in nearly half a year and well above expectations (7.12 million).
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1 of 2.
Layoffs rose to 1.85 million — the highest since early 2023 — while hiring slowed. Yet job openings climbed to 7.67 million, the most in nearly half a year and well above expectations (7.12 million).
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1 of 2.
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Brian Eno on how Lula Da Silva's policy (in Brazil) of giving money to the poor both helped those poor families and stimulated the economy.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Brian Eno on how Lula Da Silva's policy (in Brazil) of giving money to the poor both helped those poor families and stimulated the economy.
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
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🍃 A sustainable world possible but requires political courage. The science is good/solutions known. The public have got to demand that they want a sustainable future for their children and their grandchildren. measures such as a #UBI taxes on meat/subsidies for healthy, plant-based foods🍃 @unep.org
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
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Earth is hotter than it’s been in about 125,000 years.
CO2 levels their highest in around 12 MILLION years.
Scientists are warning of 4C+ this century, societal collapse & BILLIONS of deaths.
Imagine a media & politics not interested in talking about this.
We should be furious.
CO2 levels their highest in around 12 MILLION years.
Scientists are warning of 4C+ this century, societal collapse & BILLIONS of deaths.
Imagine a media & politics not interested in talking about this.
We should be furious.
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Earth is hotter than it’s been in about 125,000 years.
CO2 levels their highest in around 12 MILLION years.
Scientists are warning of 4C+ this century, societal collapse & BILLIONS of deaths.
Imagine a media & politics not interested in talking about this.
We should be furious.
CO2 levels their highest in around 12 MILLION years.
Scientists are warning of 4C+ this century, societal collapse & BILLIONS of deaths.
Imagine a media & politics not interested in talking about this.
We should be furious.
Have just been re-reading The Global Casino as I prep for a conversation with @adriennebuller.bsky.social on the 'Breakdown' podcast. Call me vain but am surprised at how clear it is, and what a racing good read it is.
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Have just been re-reading The Global Casino as I prep for a conversation with @adriennebuller.bsky.social on the 'Breakdown' podcast. Call me vain but am surprised at how clear it is, and what a racing good read it is.
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Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
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And then throw a climate changing disaster on top 😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after floods leave hundreds dead and many missing
The president says it is the
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
And then throw a climate changing disaster on top 😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“When the news feels like a migraine wearing a trench coat”
It’s all so exhausting but stay engaged even when the news feels like a migraine wearing a trench coat. Authoritarianism counts on exhaustion. Democracy depends on very boring persistence.
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“When the news feels like a migraine wearing a trench coat”
Sr Lanka's ghastly tragedy - sovereign defaujt followed by a deflating economy and central bank technocrats imposing punishingly high real rates of interest - a macroeconomic crime. open.substack.com/pub/jwmason/...
Sri Lanka's Interest Rate Trap
by Arjun Jayadev, Ahilan Kardirgamar and J. W. Mason
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Sr Lanka's ghastly tragedy - sovereign defaujt followed by a deflating economy and central bank technocrats imposing punishingly high real rates of interest - a macroeconomic crime. open.substack.com/pub/jwmason/...
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Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
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"I did not resign to make a symbolic point," writes Dr. Debra Houry, former chief medical officer of the CDC. "I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." 🛟 🧪 time.com/7338714/dr-d...
I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
time.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"I did not resign to make a symbolic point," writes Dr. Debra Houry, former chief medical officer of the CDC. "I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." 🛟 🧪 time.com/7338714/dr-d...
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Was lucky enough to read this to blurb and as I wrote, few books have made me angrier. Incredible reporting and analysis.
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Was lucky enough to read this to blurb and as I wrote, few books have made me angrier. Incredible reporting and analysis.
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My Friend Frank Gehry
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
My Friend Frank Gehry