open.substack.com/pub/drcolinb... @richardtatham.bsky.social we have allies. Colin is fantastic on this topic, he has a great distract post worth following

Wherever you are old friend….cheers! @richardtatham.bsky.social

Cycling in France (and for a cause) can be challenging but also truly wonderful. Our story unfolds here: nexpay.uk/ben-seans-ex... @richardtatham.bsky.social you might enjoy this.

Wes Streeting is talking dangerous nonsense on obesity www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

@richardtatham.bsky.social - see your WhatsApp- the Canadian National memorial at Vimy.

substack.com/@bennygoodma... Who’s mad really?

Love that! The Irish comes through doesn’t it?

A) indeed she has. Now you/she needs to ensure only the best suitors get within 50 metres of her. I’d use a cattle prod to keep their distance. B) JW: great player….yet to be proven. Does he know anything about tractors ?

Canada: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. You do beer and beavers extremely well. Mooning at Trump…now that’s a great look. Fart in his general direction.

I love stone circles. This is Minions moor in Cornwall. The larks were singing and the gorse smelled of coconut. A beautiful day.

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

The ‘squeeze out’ - rich get richer they have ‘low marginal propensity for consumption’ meaning they buy assets more than ordinary folk. House and stock prices rise; at first feels good for us. But the rich will soon outcompete the ordinary folk out of ownership of assets particularly housing.

The ‘squeeze out’ - the rich as they accumulate, impoverish ordinary folk. Post war welfare capitalism was an aberration, now we return to rentier and predatory capitalism.

The ‘squeeze out’ - the rich accumulate and then out compete everyone else for assets. The middle class are beginning to feel this now. Debt and wealth loss is the result for ordinary families.

Why do so many idiots end up in power? Bertrand Russell took up that question in 1946—shortly after a number of powerful and malicious idiots killed around 85 million. “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Why do so many idiots end up in power? Bertrand Russell took up that question in 1946. Russell offered a concise insight: “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

When is a ‘shortcoming’ an abject failure on par with Hitler’s project for world peace and harmony? #Welby #churchofengland

I know we are all feeling it, but on this beautiful spring morning can we not just for a moment believe the world is a kinder place than it actually is? Whiskers on kittens…?

Hobknobs. Is there a finer dunking biscuit? The Rich Tea has a place in the pantheon of hot beverage nibbles, but it has the staying power of a post coital erection after a particularly energetic session of dogging in Epping Forest* (*other comparisons are available). @richardtatham.bsky.social

skywriter.blue/pages/george... Well worth the two minutes read…there’s a lot of great stuff here.

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...

open.substack.com/pub/drcolinb... @richardtatham.bsky.social Colin is a GP friend of mine….his blog is terrific. I think you’d like it.

Am I dreaming ? The US wants to annex Greenland? This is not ‘news’ I know, but really? Really? A snotty nosed, dirty fingered, ‘bogies under his nails’, child grabbing your hob knobs without permission?

www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/03/26/p... The myth of the heroic billionaire.

Governments have been running deficits for ever, the odd surplus is followed by growth spurt then crash. Governments with sovereign currencies have no limits bar inflation - cured by tax. One debt is another’s credit. Austerity: ideological based ‘evidence light’ choice. youtu.be/L7iy4WN4KXc?...

The scale of tax/spend misunderstanding is staggering. We all talk about getting taxpayers to pay and/or governments to cut to balance the books. We are not a household or an SME. They can’t create money and the en destroy it via tax. Governments can. youtu.be/L7iy4WN4KXc?...

Taxpayers do not fund government spending. Governments fund government spending. The role of tax is to take money out of the system to prevent inflation. No one gets this right (see Richard Murphy on YouTube). youtu.be/L7iy4WN4KXc?...

There, he said it on prime time. Tax the wealthy - there is an alternative. He is right. Paul Nowak (TUC).

I once used WhatsApp to share plans to deport the nation’s cretins to the USA. Sadly, the morons read it (how did they do that?), got in first and started filling the Whitehouse with their mates. Boy, do I feel silly now. #hegseth #walz #wtf?

Nobody knows better than me…. It would be funny if he was a drunk uncle, wearing piss stained jeans, trying to recite a Shakespeare sonnet on some Kentucky farm….but he isn’t. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f...

open.substack.com/pub/tashthin... In ‘Shop Sh*tting Yourself’, Sam details how the ‘work hard play hard’ ethic almost broke him. How ‘success’ is actually having a balance between working for as much money as you need to pay your bills whilst having enough time for hobbies, friends, family.

open.substack.com/pub/drcolinb.... Obesity is a political problem. @richardtatham.bsky.social you already know this. This apis a great piece from Dr Colin Bannon

Heathrow: the story nicely illustrates how middle class concerns often gobble up news minutes. No one died, no one got hurt, many got ‘miffed’.

Green Party tax policies: you can’t afford the rich. www.evelyn.com/insights-and...

No one as part of a mass support party that translates votes into seats. No one will tax the super rich. Greens ? But under FPTP ? A proto fascist Reform awaits.

You can’t afford the Rich.

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

Capital buys power to make policy.

Sadly, I have to agree. I heard interviews of him 4 or 5 years ago and he came across well. I’ve been ‘disappointed’ to say the least.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @richardtatham.bsky.social

“If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up. “ @richardtatham.bsky.social Stewart Lee 👏👏👏👏👏

Stumpy bikers: when practicing your slow speed U turns, try not to put your foot down in case you strain your hamstring. Or get a smaller bike ? 🤔😉

Trumps world view is techno-optimist, neoliberal, minimalist, small state. He wants to deliberate trash the Federal Government, a stock market fall is his price to do that on the way to his vision. And of course ‘a twat’.

@richardtatham.bsky.social how serious are folks in BC taking Trumps 51st State talk?