HudPug
@hudpug.bsky.social
Tories are out, miss being in the EU, ex forces, academic, support our public services.
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Already looked it up. She’s mentioned it….
ZERO times.
She has been family and children’s minister.
ZERO times.
She has been family and children’s minister.
January 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Already looked it up. She’s mentioned it….
ZERO times.
She has been family and children’s minister.
ZERO times.
She has been family and children’s minister.
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Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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This whole farmers IHT thing is Thatcherism coming home to roost, just like privatising the water companies and deregulating the City. She removed IHT on agricultural land precisely so the mega rich could get richer. Read this jonathancoewriter.com/book/what-a-...
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
After The Dwarves of Death I knew that it was time to write a more ambitious novel. I jotted down some ideas for a novel about a travelling salesman driving the length and breadth of Britain’s motorwa...
jonathancoewriter.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
This whole farmers IHT thing is Thatcherism coming home to roost, just like privatising the water companies and deregulating the City. She removed IHT on agricultural land precisely so the mega rich could get richer. Read this jonathancoewriter.com/book/what-a-...
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for some reason I’ve remembered what Jeremy Clarkson, who said he bought land to avoid inheritance tax, said on live TV about striking public sector workers (extra marks for use of ‘us’)
November 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
for some reason I’ve remembered what Jeremy Clarkson, who said he bought land to avoid inheritance tax, said on live TV about striking public sector workers (extra marks for use of ‘us’)
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she was definitely an economist. I worked closely with her for a couple of years. Last time I saw her, she was giving a seminar on why the US fiscal position was unsustainable. In 2002 😉
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
she was definitely an economist. I worked closely with her for a couple of years. Last time I saw her, she was giving a seminar on why the US fiscal position was unsustainable. In 2002 😉
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If anyone wants to use me as a talking head or rent a quote I suggest the following format:
"You were an economist at the BoE?'
"Yes"
"At the same time as Reeves?"
"Yes"
"Can you confirm that she was an economist?"
"Yes"
"How can you be sure?"
"She wrote lots of economics and I read it."
"You were an economist at the BoE?'
"Yes"
"At the same time as Reeves?"
"Yes"
"Can you confirm that she was an economist?"
"Yes"
"How can you be sure?"
"She wrote lots of economics and I read it."
November 19, 2024 at 8:38 AM
If anyone wants to use me as a talking head or rent a quote I suggest the following format:
"You were an economist at the BoE?'
"Yes"
"At the same time as Reeves?"
"Yes"
"Can you confirm that she was an economist?"
"Yes"
"How can you be sure?"
"She wrote lots of economics and I read it."
"You were an economist at the BoE?'
"Yes"
"At the same time as Reeves?"
"Yes"
"Can you confirm that she was an economist?"
"Yes"
"How can you be sure?"
"She wrote lots of economics and I read it."
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UK farmers are campaigning against inheritance tax on over £1m - which also has get outs - so it’s probably £3m for a couple.
UK govt say 500 mainly affected - which will include:
UK govt say 500 mainly affected - which will include:
November 18, 2024 at 10:53 AM
UK farmers are campaigning against inheritance tax on over £1m - which also has get outs - so it’s probably £3m for a couple.
UK govt say 500 mainly affected - which will include:
UK govt say 500 mainly affected - which will include:
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On the issue whether scientists have a duty to stay on X and fight
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
"Why engage in the cess-pit of misinformation that X has become and suffer the concomitant daily abuse when I could speak to the same number of people on Bluesky without the bile, the hate and the outright lies I’ve encountered on X?"
https://buff.ly/4hLOZyB
https://buff.ly/4hLOZyB
Hey there Mr Blue (sky)
We’re so please to be with you (sky)
buff.ly
November 18, 2024 at 8:09 AM
On the issue whether scientists have a duty to stay on X and fight
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
Hypocritical comedienne of the worst kind.
2024: Laura Kuenssberg criticises Labour who have been in office for four months for not fixing social care
2019: Boris Johnson, "I am announcing on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared"
2019: Boris Johnson, "I am announcing on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared"
November 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Hypocritical comedienne of the worst kind.
Agree
well I just blocked Kemi Badenoch and I suggest the same to you
these people are catered to by the entire media, whatever they say you *will* hear about it anyway. there's no point in giving them airtime on your own feed.
these people are catered to by the entire media, whatever they say you *will* hear about it anyway. there's no point in giving them airtime on your own feed.
November 17, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Agree
I hope, for all our sakes, that you, and your partners of like minded leaders, are able to increase, even reshape, the defense of Ukraine.
It's not only Putin who must NOT win now. Democracy across europe and the US is at stake. Hostile players have too much influence.
It's not only Putin who must NOT win now. Democracy across europe and the US is at stake. Hostile players have too much influence.
No-one will stop Putin with phone calls. The attack last night, one of the biggest in this war, has proved that telephone diplomacy cannot replace real support from the whole West for Ukraine. The next weeks will be decisive, not only for the war itself, but also for our future.
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I hope, for all our sakes, that you, and your partners of like minded leaders, are able to increase, even reshape, the defense of Ukraine.
It's not only Putin who must NOT win now. Democracy across europe and the US is at stake. Hostile players have too much influence.
It's not only Putin who must NOT win now. Democracy across europe and the US is at stake. Hostile players have too much influence.
This one is running an anti Starmer campaign using all the old X stuff, nasty piece of extremism. No discussion, just bile.
You can decide but I have blocked them.
You can decide but I have blocked them.
November 17, 2024 at 1:18 AM
This one is running an anti Starmer campaign using all the old X stuff, nasty piece of extremism. No discussion, just bile.
You can decide but I have blocked them.
You can decide but I have blocked them.
Lol my son is a LARPER and have to say his fake weapons and character outfits, look a whole lot scarier, real, than that dudes.
But this dead pan retell, is hysterical.
But this dead pan retell, is hysterical.
Deserves to be shared on Bluesky too. The funniest video of all time.
November 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Lol my son is a LARPER and have to say his fake weapons and character outfits, look a whole lot scarier, real, than that dudes.
But this dead pan retell, is hysterical.
But this dead pan retell, is hysterical.
When fiction is reality.
Are dramas, series, books that show a dystopian future, coming too close to reality?
Do you think eg. 'The Man in the High Castle' has influenced Republicans dystopian agenda in the US.
How far reaching is all media influence?
SciFi certainly activates minds.
Are dramas, series, books that show a dystopian future, coming too close to reality?
Do you think eg. 'The Man in the High Castle' has influenced Republicans dystopian agenda in the US.
How far reaching is all media influence?
SciFi certainly activates minds.
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 AM
When fiction is reality.
Are dramas, series, books that show a dystopian future, coming too close to reality?
Do you think eg. 'The Man in the High Castle' has influenced Republicans dystopian agenda in the US.
How far reaching is all media influence?
SciFi certainly activates minds.
Are dramas, series, books that show a dystopian future, coming too close to reality?
Do you think eg. 'The Man in the High Castle' has influenced Republicans dystopian agenda in the US.
How far reaching is all media influence?
SciFi certainly activates minds.
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1) Go to search 🔍
2) enter 'block list'
3) subscribe to block lists that you choose.
2) enter 'block list'
3) subscribe to block lists that you choose.
November 15, 2024 at 5:55 PM
1) Go to search 🔍
2) enter 'block list'
3) subscribe to block lists that you choose.
2) enter 'block list'
3) subscribe to block lists that you choose.
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The lastest from Led by Donkeys
November 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM
The lastest from Led by Donkeys
Nothing profound, just!
HELLO TO BLUE SKIES AND GOODBYE TO THE BLACK SEWER TROLL FACTORY!
HELLO TO BLUE SKIES AND GOODBYE TO THE BLACK SEWER TROLL FACTORY!
November 14, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Nothing profound, just!
HELLO TO BLUE SKIES AND GOODBYE TO THE BLACK SEWER TROLL FACTORY!
HELLO TO BLUE SKIES AND GOODBYE TO THE BLACK SEWER TROLL FACTORY!