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Tony Bird
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🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 ✅ Socialism and sequins. HIV+ he/him.

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tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
I was skeptical too - but it looks like they've raised £100,000 in a couple of hours so it shows that I know nothing
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
Oh well done
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
Also this proves you fundamentally wrong
bsky.app/profile/reso...
resolutionfoundation.org Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 3d
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?

Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.

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⤵️

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The chart shows where spending on social security is shown as a share of GDP. As this makes plain, total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP. This is 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than it stood on the eve of the global financial crisis in 2007-08. But since 2012-13 (the peak in the post-GFC recession), total welfare spending has fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP. Added to this, welfare spending is expected to rise by just 0.1 per cent of GDP across the forecast period until 2029-30 (after U-turns and before any decisions made at the Budget).
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
"Mr Jennings was also ordered to pay NatWest’s appeal expenses"
😊
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
Loved the exhibition of Diane Arbus portraits at David Zwirner.
Celebrities, nudists, faded socialites, friends, gender non-conforming people, teenagers
Two friends at home, N.Y.C. - 1965
www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...
Black and white photo from the 60s showing two young people standing by a bed with rumpled sheets in a slightly down at heel apartment with windows behind them. A tall woman with glasses and a small beehive has her arm round a shorter androgynous person with slicked hair
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
You're being eaten alive in the comments and quote posts for this blatant right wing claptrap.
And deservedly so
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
I'd hoped the Observer would be less transphobic after Sonia Sodha left.
I guess not.
I can add Andrew Hankinson to the list of bigots that work for you
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
This made me guffaw x
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM