Julie Bygraves
@juliebygraves.bsky.social
public policy writer:energy+water economic regulation, clim finance, eco restoration, Spain
ex-UK Treasury energy, EU Budget
18+ yr policy maker
Int’l forestry / deforestation
EU/UN chemicals negotiations
tax & digital transformation
KM
wildbourne_ebn@IG
ex-UK Treasury energy, EU Budget
18+ yr policy maker
Int’l forestry / deforestation
EU/UN chemicals negotiations
tax & digital transformation
KM
wildbourne_ebn@IG
Do people think that levying a differential tax rate on citizens by age group is legal in the UK?
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Do people think that levying a differential tax rate on citizens by age group is legal in the UK?
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
People always get this sort of thing wrong in policy.
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
People always get this sort of thing wrong in policy.
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
People always get this sort of thing wrong in policy.
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
People always get this sort of thing wrong in policy.
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
You can’t create a requirement with the stroke of a quill.
What’s the penalty for not acting or being 10% or two years out?
“You, Sir, will be sent to the workhouse (when a space opens up).”
A clementine and two humbugs
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November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A clementine and two humbugs
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🎄
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
A higher minimum wage won’t eliminate exploitative work conditions, nor gig economy, but it will push wages up slightly & help make jobs ~more real.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A higher minimum wage won’t eliminate exploitative work conditions, nor gig economy, but it will push wages up slightly & help make jobs ~more real.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
lobbyists on x, exercised about min.wage, really are something else.
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
lobbyists on x, exercised about min.wage, really are something else.
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
This is an old skool take, Jim.
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
a group of cartoon characters flying kites on a hill
ALT: a group of cartoon characters flying kites on a hill
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is an old skool take, Jim.
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
A higher minimum wage won’t eliminate exploitative work conditions, nor gig economy, but it will push wages up slightly & help make jobs ~more real.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A higher minimum wage won’t eliminate exploitative work conditions, nor gig economy, but it will push wages up slightly & help make jobs ~more real.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
Enforcement needed, but isn’t perfect. Large employers regularly identified as breaching minimum wage, structurally or as a product of adding hours.
lobbyists on x, exercised about min.wage, really are something else.
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
lobbyists on x, exercised about min.wage, really are something else.
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Low wages are topped up by welfare. Many young ppl are in FT ed., training, unemployed or on welfare anyway so will benefit those who *do* work, at any age. Incentivises real work and better job opps.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The spectacle of some v well-paid right-wing commentators squealing about a raised minimum wage is quite something.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
Does anyone think the commentators really have best interests of young 18-24yr old workers at heart?
It’s one of the good policies from Labour.
If only fuel duty was raised too.
I find that by blocking loads (700 and counting), I have curated a feed which is more or less ok.
Still not enough done to tackle bots, spammers and abusive content, but the most widespread influential and misleading content, as I see it, comes from well known names and Uk media commentators.
Still not enough done to tackle bots, spammers and abusive content, but the most widespread influential and misleading content, as I see it, comes from well known names and Uk media commentators.
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I find that by blocking loads (700 and counting), I have curated a feed which is more or less ok.
Still not enough done to tackle bots, spammers and abusive content, but the most widespread influential and misleading content, as I see it, comes from well known names and Uk media commentators.
Still not enough done to tackle bots, spammers and abusive content, but the most widespread influential and misleading content, as I see it, comes from well known names and Uk media commentators.
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
As an IC alumnus it saddens me to see this.
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As an IC alumnus it saddens me to see this.
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
As an IC alumnus it saddens me to see this.
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As an IC alumnus it saddens me to see this.
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
There’s evidently no lack of money for buildings.
Students and postgrads need good teaching staff. Not shiny corporate buildings.
Too many DICs?
This is an old skool take, Jim.
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
a group of cartoon characters flying kites on a hill
ALT: a group of cartoon characters flying kites on a hill
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is an old skool take, Jim.
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
With AI replacing the analysis which civil servants used to do, how else do you think policy ideas get tested except via kite flying?
The mind is a skilled painter.
But little skill involved in littering the land with cheap plastic flag tat as a misplaced gesture of patriotism.
If so patriotic, first clean up the litter in the hedgerows?
But little skill involved in littering the land with cheap plastic flag tat as a misplaced gesture of patriotism.
If so patriotic, first clean up the litter in the hedgerows?
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The mind is a skilled painter.
But little skill involved in littering the land with cheap plastic flag tat as a misplaced gesture of patriotism.
If so patriotic, first clean up the litter in the hedgerows?
But little skill involved in littering the land with cheap plastic flag tat as a misplaced gesture of patriotism.
If so patriotic, first clean up the litter in the hedgerows?
Reposted by Julie Bygraves
Finance & economics dictate:
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Finance & economics dictate:
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
Finance & economics dictate:
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Finance & economics dictate:
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky
grid-scale solar is as subsidy-dependent as agriculture. Battery back-up.
Replacing one set of subsidies with another= unsustainable.
Public subsidy for public good:
rooftop solar
ecological restoration
tax FF
Doesn’t lower marginal cost tech hasten this?
#energysky