Alex Briggs
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Retired but still curious. Numbers, not waffle
https://cityboykan.blogspot.com/
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Farrukh
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Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM" "We need a radical reset, fundamental change" "The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you" "Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop Reform UK"
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.
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Dear Keir Starmer. Clive Lewis has a degree in Economics. How about sacking Rachel and appointing Clive to take her place?
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Are there any Labour MPs with Economics training who could step into Rachel Reeves's shoes if and when she is sacked? Or is the absence of economic expertise Labour's achilles heel? If so, they're doomed. Doomed, I tell ya
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Maybe the unholy couple of Starmer and Reeves should both go. Both seem to lack any political intelligence
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I expect Labour to lose bigly (:-) in Birmingham in the May elections. They shouldn't expect an electorate which has gone without a reliable, regular waste collection and disposal service for 2 years to vote them back in.
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Andrew Fisher
1 day ago
Equating the Greens with Reform is the dumbest response possible. The hypocrisy and stupidity is staggering.
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Let's hope Starmer's response to the result is to dismiss his useless chancellor
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Lewis Goodall
3 days ago
Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.
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Chris Dillow
1 day ago
Can't get a posh job - blame the "woke" establishment. Can't get a shag - blame the "unregulated sexual economy". Lose a by-election - blame cheating. Anything else - blame immigrants. Reform really is the party of excuses for mediocre white men.
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As with juries, it is a hazardous task to predict how voters will vote
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In terms of using the phrase "In terms of" to substitute in terms of literate sentence construction who, in terms of offenders, is the worst in terms of people?
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Jonathan Portes
3 days ago
Truly horrifying. A very difficult read. [& the BBC at its best]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows
Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqwv9vvzx9o
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Lewis Goodall
2 days ago
The student loans system is scandalous. Labour have made it worse and allowed the Tories (who built it) an opening because it's the same old story: Lab forgets who its voters are. It doesn't like the coalition it has and hankers for another. New substack from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Labour has forgotten who its voters are
And that's the real story of student loans
https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/labour-has-forgotten-who-its-voters?r=4i04j3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Boris and Carrie
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Jonathan Portes
3 days ago
Well worth reading for the Chris Mason story..., 😉
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Anne Applebaum
3 days ago
Russian embassy, Washington DC. To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion
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The break even point for electricity usage given the unit price reduction and standing charge increase is 298 units over the year. Only when usage is above 298 units will usage savings pay for the increased standing charge
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Strewth
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The Ofgem Price Cap for the three months starting 1 April is to FALL by 6.7% with the biggest reduction on electricity unit rates. Here’s how that change will manifest in terms of average rates on Direct Debit (from 1 April)…
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BBC reporter: "Keir Starmer's political future depends on winning tomorrow's bye-election" Fact or prediction? Get back in your lane, reporter. Just report facts. Leave predictions out of it
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Jonathan Portes
4 days ago
What could possibly have attracted this racist Holocaust denier to Matt Goodwin? Truly, it is a mystery..
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK by-election activist suspended over posts
Adam Mitula, who has been campaigning ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, made the posts on X.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89k0g7vexeo
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Paul Krugman
4 days ago
Trump loves tariffs but the economy doesn't
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...
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Attack of the Zombie Tariffs
A brain is a terrible thing to have eaten
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs
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Always worth reading Paul Krugman on Trump and tariffs. An excellent choice of music to accompany his piece too!
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Dear journalists and broadcasters: please confine yourselves to reporting facts, not your opinions or your predictions. Facts and nothing but the facts, please
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Sandy
5 days ago
💔 STORM 💔 358 days just looking at a concrete wall. All this beautiful dog wants is to be loved. Let's find her a home. Repost Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue Wantagh, NY, 11793 Bio 👇
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2.1K views · 4.1K reactions | Storm has spent 358 days in a shelter after losing her home, and while the world still feels scary, her heart keeps trying to stay strong. She’s waiting for someone patie...
Storm has spent 358 days in a shelter after losing her home, and while the world still feels scary, her heart keeps trying to stay strong. She’s waiting for someone patient and kind to show her she’s....
https://www.facebook.com/reel/908508651544791/
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Jonathan Portes
5 days ago
Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals
The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jg2g341jo
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As of February 2026, the average tariff charged by the European Union on imports from the United States is approximately 1% to 1.35%. This rate reflects the "Most Favoured Nation" (MFN) status that applies to trade between the two powers in the absence of a comprehensive free trade agreement. Wiki
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Paul Krugman
6 days ago
What is a balance-of-payments deficit? I should know, but I don't. Nobody does.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6d...
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So what is a balance of payments deficit, anyway?
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6dZSseUY0
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Borrowed Trouble📚🎧🎥
6 days ago
I turned on The Children’s Hour to watch while puzzling but the movie was so good that I never touched a piece 🤯🧩🎬
#FilmSky
#CriterionChannel
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The Children's Hour (1961) ⭐ 7.8 | Drama, Romance
1h 48m | Approved
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Nick Cohen
6 days ago
This is the policy of the National Front and BNP
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Paul Krugman
6 days ago
An update: We're now starting to see how much Trump lost with the tariff ruling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0K...
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Trump loses his tariff power
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0KDgPK-EM
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Otto English
6 days ago
Superb.
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Rick
6 days ago
Great stuff.
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Dee Lomas
6 days ago
I was always a very big fan of Gordon Brown. Considered him a very decent human being unlike Blair and his dubious and devious Blairite team!
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Climate Change Solutions
7 days ago
Myth: Offshore wind isn’t a game-changer. Reality: The UK is stepping up with 15MW turbines from Vestas! These beasts are boosting efficiency and cutting emissions in a big way. Denmark is showing us that bigger blades lead to lower costs and quicker climate gains. Wind power is here to stay! 🌬️⚡
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Katie Martin
7 days ago
Immensely shitty behaviour!
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Otto English
7 days ago
Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.
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Idea for tax reform: Replace income tax on earned income with increased National Insurance contributions which entitle workers and claimants to social social benefits from a larger, more generous NI fund. Levy income tax on unearned income with higher marginal rates and no access to SS benefits
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Prem Sikka
7 days ago
Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies. Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied. Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains. Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.
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We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations
The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/02/we-need-to-get-serious-about-tackling-corruption-through-political-donations/
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Jim Waterson
7 days ago
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-mass-eviction-billionaire-landlord-criterion-capital
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The Minstrel of Horror
7 days ago
Re-Watching The Orphanage (2007)! I suppose that you could open up an orphanage for ghost children. I imagine that there are people that wouldn't be able to handle the ones haunting their homes & would give them up in hopes they could find a place that could give them the attention they need.
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Liberty
7 days ago
LAST DAY TO APPLY We're hiring a Policy & Campaigns Officer to help us defend civil liberties in the UK. • Full time, 35 hours per week • £43,918 • Hybrid (2 days per week in our Westminster office) • Deadline: Midday, Monday 23 February
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
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Work with us - Liberty
Come and join our team
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
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Laura Trott. A Trot, she's not.
#IfOnlyNominativeDeterminismWorked
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8 days ago
Hey, Donald! When we said no taxation without representation, we meant it. That's what SCOTUS is saying with this opinion.
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Dog Desk Animal Action
9 days ago
Double Vote Weekend has started 🤍 Every vote helps but this weekend they count twice, which means a small moment of support goes a lot further for the dogs. If you have a minute today, this is the best time to use it 🐾
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Trump has met his Waterloo
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Giles Wilkes
7 days ago
Listening to a podcast about tariff rebates: What's really fun is how the whole process will make it incredibly bloody obvious who has been paying these stupid taxes. It isn't the Chinese who are about to sue the US Federal Government, it's US citizens.
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