Indy
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Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Anyone who reads The Times can take a look at this and see if the headline is sensible? @oldtrotter.bsky.social ?
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Anyone who reads The Times can take a look at this and see if the headline is sensible? @oldtrotter.bsky.social ?
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Funny which manifesto commitments are sacred and which aren't, isn't it?
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Funny which manifesto commitments are sacred and which aren't, isn't it?
Vaccines are amazing
Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Vaccines are amazing
It was all a cunning plan to get more wind turbines installed
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It was all a cunning plan to get more wind turbines installed
The bit that will really bake Labour's noodle is that a positive immigration policy would actually have economic benefits.
I love how the obvious response to this - tone down rhetoric and anti-immigration policy - is both essentially economically costless and also absolutely anathema to Number 10 strategists.
The fundamental political-economy for the government is that is objectively implementing a soft left economic policy on speed whilst being hated by lots of left leaning people because of its other policies and rhetoric.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The bit that will really bake Labour's noodle is that a positive immigration policy would actually have economic benefits.
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OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
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The deep history of podcasting
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The deep history of podcasting
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Wonder if we’ll see petrol cars phased out earlier than fuel duty being unfrozen!
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Wonder if we’ll see petrol cars phased out earlier than fuel duty being unfrozen!
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Bar book-related plugs and FLA episodes, won’t be on here much for a while. Genuinely quite scared about the future and the lack of paid work. If you know of any book editorial work coming up, do email me (email in bio). PS I do have to work from home at the moment. Thanks c
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Bar book-related plugs and FLA episodes, won’t be on here much for a while. Genuinely quite scared about the future and the lack of paid work. If you know of any book editorial work coming up, do email me (email in bio). PS I do have to work from home at the moment. Thanks c
Not at all enough discussion over the years of how much a very similar phenomenon built Silicon Valley.
there's an old stereotype of china as outcompeting america because of masses of cheap labor. but as michael pettis puts it, contemporary chinese firms don't act as if labor is free. they act as if capital is free
“Yang Jiemin, VP of the state-owned company behind the port, said its highly automated operations require 60% fewer workers than traditional ports. It underscores one advantage Chinese companies have in deploying AI versus the U.S.: no independent labor unions.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-r... (🎁🔗)
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Not at all enough discussion over the years of how much a very similar phenomenon built Silicon Valley.
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@swatidhingra.bsky.social touched on this last week in Sheffield - why the "puzzle" of weak UK consumption vs (on the face of it) robust incomes growth isn't such a puzzle once you include the stuff that isn't in the CPI basket
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@swatidhingra.bsky.social touched on this last week in Sheffield - why the "puzzle" of weak UK consumption vs (on the face of it) robust incomes growth isn't such a puzzle once you include the stuff that isn't in the CPI basket
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
Robbie Gibb wins again.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Robbie Gibb wins again.
I’m just at sea with how delusional he is. Did you not hear about Windrush Trevor? Do you think British ICE will not approach you on the street?
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I’m just at sea with how delusional he is. Did you not hear about Windrush Trevor? Do you think British ICE will not approach you on the street?
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Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
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I am now curious if there is some linguistic theory as to why adverbs specifically are the worst drifters
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I am now curious if there is some linguistic theory as to why adverbs specifically are the worst drifters
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"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
This is a good reminder that while the professional structures of self regulation of lawyers in the US legal system has partly resisted the authoritarian march, ours will actively enable it.
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is a good reminder that while the professional structures of self regulation of lawyers in the US legal system has partly resisted the authoritarian march, ours will actively enable it.
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Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
Some times the Pitchbot is just art.
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Some times the Pitchbot is just art.
We have a "it's just bantz" out in the wild. 😞
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We have a "it's just bantz" out in the wild. 😞
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
If this isn't evidence that Gibb doesn't have the quality of judgement to be in his current position of influence, what would it take?
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If this isn't evidence that Gibb doesn't have the quality of judgement to be in his current position of influence, what would it take?
Much like Angela Rayner got DOS'd by having to respond to every scandal of the Tory government, there's a danger I'll overload @dsquareddigest.bsky.social - but EDF, fish etc. - have you heard anything reliable about this?
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Much like Angela Rayner got DOS'd by having to respond to every scandal of the Tory government, there's a danger I'll overload @dsquareddigest.bsky.social - but EDF, fish etc. - have you heard anything reliable about this?