Why did Reeves pitch roll tax increases if she knew they weren't necessary?
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why did Reeves pitch roll tax increases if she knew they weren't necessary?
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All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
Hoisted by their own petard: Labour trapped by tax promises and the stagflation inevitable from hard brexit.
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hoisted by their own petard: Labour trapped by tax promises and the stagflation inevitable from hard brexit.
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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v. good video
anyway, no reason but FYI we made a film about MicroStrategy/Strategy that went out in May
If you missed it:
www.ft.com/video/4d1a16...
If you missed it:
www.ft.com/video/4d1a16...
Michael Saylor's $40bn bitcoin bet | FT Film
Crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy from a loss-making software company into the world's largest corporate holder of bitcoin. The FT unpacks what some investors have dubbed Saylo...
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
v. good video
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Timely reading from @jillongovt.bsky.social at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for anyone who’s so far put their hopes in Labour’s bolder words and reset delivering major economic relief from the hard Brexit the Tories negotiated. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
Rachel Reeves cannot start to blame Brexit now for her economic fix | Institute for Government
Why is the government talking about Brexit and the economy again?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Timely reading from @jillongovt.bsky.social at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for anyone who’s so far put their hopes in Labour’s bolder words and reset delivering major economic relief from the hard Brexit the Tories negotiated. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
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It's not a one-off. There are at least *seven* Barrowman companies with identically named tax haven "shadow companies"
The question is: why?
The question is: why?
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's not a one-off. There are at least *seven* Barrowman companies with identically named tax haven "shadow companies"
The question is: why?
The question is: why?
reading about lab leak theory today www.propublica.org/article/sena... also see podcast transcript or listen to this www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab
The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica giv...
www.propublica.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
reading about lab leak theory today www.propublica.org/article/sena... also see podcast transcript or listen to this www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...
The "progressive/left/pro-Europe/sane voters have Nowhere else to go" gambit.
What could possibly go wrong
What could possibly go wrong
I hate to admit it but I suspect McSweeney is right that the 2029 election will be a ‘republican front’ vs Farage. Farage veering further right makes that easier to do. Whether McSweeney’s own advice over the past year has made this situation more likely is another question…
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The "progressive/left/pro-Europe/sane voters have Nowhere else to go" gambit.
What could possibly go wrong
What could possibly go wrong
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Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”
September 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
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Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.
Unconstitutional as prevents free speech
Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Unconstitutional as prevents free speech
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This is one of the most important posts of the day.
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is one of the most important posts of the day.
When I pointed out Starmer had pivoted to right wing authoritarianism way back in 2020 people told me:
"It's OK: he was lying on every pledge in his Labour leadership campaign so he could be lying now".
Wondering, how's that going?
"It's OK: he was lying on every pledge in his Labour leadership campaign so he could be lying now".
Wondering, how's that going?
September 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
When I pointed out Starmer had pivoted to right wing authoritarianism way back in 2020 people told me:
"It's OK: he was lying on every pledge in his Labour leadership campaign so he could be lying now".
Wondering, how's that going?
"It's OK: he was lying on every pledge in his Labour leadership campaign so he could be lying now".
Wondering, how's that going?
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Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!
Labour's only hope of coming back from this is to reject the nativist fascism from Reform.
That's the only way they can win back the voters who have deserted them.
Instead Starmer talks of "patriotic national renewal" like it's 1930s Germany.
That's the only way they can win back the voters who have deserted them.
Instead Starmer talks of "patriotic national renewal" like it's 1930s Germany.
September 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Labour's only hope of coming back from this is to reject the nativist fascism from Reform.
That's the only way they can win back the voters who have deserted them.
Instead Starmer talks of "patriotic national renewal" like it's 1930s Germany.
That's the only way they can win back the voters who have deserted them.
Instead Starmer talks of "patriotic national renewal" like it's 1930s Germany.
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superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social
“racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….”
www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
“racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….”
www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social
“racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….”
www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
“racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….”
www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
"Lucy Powell – now apparently on a vengeance mission running for deputy leader against the Starmer/McSweeney candidate Bridget Phillipson – was removed as Commons leader because “she kept standing up to McSweeney and telling him he was wrong"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Why Keir Starmer cannot survive as prime minister without this man
Many people in Labour want Morgan McSweeney sacked as Downing Street chief of staff, but there are doubts Keir Starmer would survive as PM without him, writes David Maddox
www.independent.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"Lucy Powell – now apparently on a vengeance mission running for deputy leader against the Starmer/McSweeney candidate Bridget Phillipson – was removed as Commons leader because “she kept standing up to McSweeney and telling him he was wrong"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...