The depths Starmers is going to discredit the left by now linking islamic extremism with being left!!! Good god! #r4today

Credit to #r4today reporting on inhumane conditions in Gaza due to its destruction by Israel. Yet, we are at the same time being subjected to a narrative to suppress protest against Israel & its actions, by linking it to these antisemitic attacks..

It is really horrendous that Jewish people are being targeted with violence—no matter where you stand on what Israel is doing in Gaza. But this morning I heard a lot of conflating of Israel with being Jewish & trying to link pro-palestine protests with these attacks with no real evidence! #r4today

"What a nice friendly chat with Farage, he must be such a nice man, I don't know why everybody hates him so much" FFS Justin Webb do your effing job & hold his feet to the fire! Let's see how friendly they are with Zack Polanski #r4today

Should far right gain power and it all goes a Pete Tong fascist style, then history will look back at the complicity of the media like Nick Robinson who airs comments & doesn't challenge them like from the guy "who is not a racist", but blames immigrants for sponging off benefits! #r4today

Good news earlier that the gov is looking at breaking the stranglehold that gas prices has on all energy prices. It was Thatcher who introduced this marketised marginal pricing system, yet for some reason it has taken a crisis for Reeves to finally reevaluate!! #r4today

This is what we are building with the Global Council for a Common Good Economy launched today with Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Carlos Cuerpo. At Global Progressive Mobilisation plenary with Lars Klingbeil, Vice Chancellor of Germany, and Paul Magnette, President of the Belgian Socialist Party.

We've known since 70s human emissions were causing a warming globe. It sadly coincided with rise of neoliberal economics which only understand costs of things now & not their long term value. Now we don't need neoliberal economics to further paralyse gov from acting against it's effects. #r4today

So I see the immigrant bashing continues today.. How about some stats on the actual scale of the problem?! #r4today

For once there is some nuance in discussion of BoE interest rates and *external* shock inflation and fact that raising them just hammers the economy. But still shows that much is classical economics — which people at BoE are trained — defies common sense!! #r4today

I love way #r4today do proper investigative journalism for news stories that help demonise asylum seekers, but when it comes to a proper analysis of our monetary & economic system, failure of neoliberalism & vested interests these policies protect, they continue instead to be their mouthpieces!

Absolutely idiotic statments that somehow welfare spending prevents increased defense spending! And btw we only need increased defense spending because the world is being destabilised by likes of Trump and Putin. At least in Trump case his election was a failure of economics by Democrats! #r4today

If we had a decent journalistic media after Brexit vote & even now, each time ukip/Tory/reform would say phrase "betrayal of Brexit" in respect of single market/customs union then they would say neither of these was on the referendum question & not was it part of the leave campaign!!! #r4today

There are always trade offs and there is no free lunch, but this neoliberal economic discussion between Streeting and Darbyshire enforces an artificial scarcity to constrain gov spending within arbitrary fiscal rules! Gov don't have a finite pot of money like a household! #bbclaurak

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I've somewhat changed my mind about AI having used Claude & Deepseek they are incredibly useful tools. We ofc need to make sure they are just that — tools that aid human ingenuity and creativity — but like energy & defense, we need to be self-sufficient & UK needs to invest. #r4today

Lord Darroch has it backwards: we don't need growth to spend, we need gov spending to invest to get growth! #r4today

I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.

A key thing in that interview was Chinese gov invested in battery technology and allowed Chinese car manufacturers a relative advantage. Here with the classical neoliberal economic model for past 40yrs precluded any such investment by gov for fear of bond markets punishing gov borrowing! #r4today

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, CANADA, DENMARK, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND JAPAN.

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes

Mohamed El-Erian stuck in a classical economics mindset that BoE should increase interest rates to tackle external shock inflation. It is nonsensical! This is just one example of how classical economics & assumptions it makes ignore real world empiricism.. #r4today #econsky

Wes Streeting earlier using excuse that "public finances" are not in good state to block pay increase, is again neoliberal bollocks! There's public expenditure & how that is balanced across taxation & debt. Question should only be does pay increase improve NHS, wider economy & society. #r4today

Paul Johnson — neoliberal stooge — taxation is not just a cost but a benefit as the gov spends and invests in society and infrastructure. #r4today

It's like this guy doesn't understand the concept of international law and neither does Justin Webb push back. Why would we support a war which has no legality and no proper aim? #r4today

Labour aren't doing well on the economy, but this rabid right wing critique from Emma Barnett is out of order. She doesn't even bother to hide her bias quoting a former Tory politician as her evidence! #r4today

Again #r4today give prominence to an "economist" who refers to gov borrowing as the country's credit card!! It's ofc no such thing! And Labour minister calling gov debt as a "bill to pay" is again is equally idiotic!!

Copenhagen at #HampsteadTheatre: a play about Heisenberg, Bohr, quantum mechanics & ethics of nuclear bomb. Far too much explicit exposition, but still thought provoking. The play suggests Heisenberg went to Bohr after war to form a pact of scientists to veto working on nuclear weapons... 🧪⚛️

This is a very sad story. All these AI LLM technologies have come along in a blink of an eye & we need much better education of population & be very very clear that these are not sentient! The trouble is that many in industry have been talking up possibility that they are sentient! #bbclaurak

Yes but Zia, half of your party is now ex Tory has-beens and many part of the previous Tory gov! #bbclaurak

Eddie on the money.. we need to call out Reform for what they are.. it doesn't matter that their spokesmen today is an ethnic minority — in this case the useful idiot Zia Yusuf. #bbclaurak

Badenoch very worried about North sea jobs and tax takes, but for some reason she cannot see the same benefit of investing in green industry jobs, which would give us true energy independence, since North sea gains are marginal. #bbclaurak

Trump is an idiot & he has caused global mayhem on a whim. However, we should be using this crisis as an impetus to accelerate the transition to green energy, storage & transport. What'll you'll hear Reform & Tories is the opposite to lock us into future fossil fuel crisis! #bbclaurak

At the time in addition to advice being ignored by SAGE many were advocating New Zealand like elimination strategy, which would have saved many more lives with vaccines round the corner. A calculation I did suggests we could have eliminated SARS-CoV2 by Oct 2020 physicsworld.com/a/staying-th...

Once chaos of climate change is fully realised—a lot is already baked in—we will wonder blankly why we worried about bond markets & if we can afford transition to green economy. We need a war-like economy to transition asap not more wars in Middle East that only serve rich & powerful. #r4today

Just a reminder that classical economics got previous external shocks like 70s oil crisis and Russian invasion wrong! bsky.app/profile/bhav... #r4today

Things are going so badly for the US they'll have to release the Epstein files to distract from the war at this rate.

BoE increasing interest rates to tackle an external shock to prices because of US-Iran war is like there being a fire raging outside your home and then expecting that turning down the thermostat will deal with it!! #r4today #econsky

In the UK we only vaccinate infants, but apparently immunity wanes giving only a few years protection. We should be vaccinating children and teenagers at periodic intervals. #r4today

Good stuff from Burnham — we should stop this anti borrowing narrative, as ultimately these investments pay for themselves, which is self evident in the high growth of Manchester — but unfortunately the rest of his party is stuck with a Blarite neoliberal mindset! #r4today

The framing of #moralmaze is a bit outrageous: individuals—typically those on lower incomes—having to tighten their belts, when those much much richer—who ultimate cause of problem, causing financial crashes & slowing transition to green energy & transport—do not sacrifice proportionally! #r4today

Damn it I hate agreeing with Piece Morgan!! #bbclaurak

Meritocracy is a fallacy — not everyone starts with the same privileges and luck plays a massive role — so no surprise that #bbclaurak, who's a perfect example of this fallacy, is surprised that Rebecca Lucy Taylor is humble about her success!

Why is Pierce Morgan allowed on to spew nonsense unchallenged! Green energy is much cheaper, but we choose a pricing system that the most expensive contributor needed to meet load sets the price!! #bbclaurak

I sort of feel sorry for Milliband that he is part of this listless Labour gov that on simple questions he equivocates. On something which his brief he comes alive like being against new oil. Btw was plenty of evidence of price gouging due to Russian invasion & Tory gov did nothing! #bbclaurak

Again we have only a one sided neoliberal economic view presented on borrowing and no analysis of why France bond yields are lower (perhaps because it is part of the European union and Brexit baked in higher yields for us). #r4today

Justin's chat with Republican about popularity of Trump and Republicans happening in a vacuum where apparently the popular left don't exist and nor does the recent victory of Mamdani in NY, where he got votes from previous MAGA/Trump voters! #r4today

Nick Robinson & #r4today should stop being so openly neoliberal—asking question of how gov will pay for it is inherently neoliberal & many proper Keynesian economists would disagree & are ignored. It always comes down to a choice not whether we can afford school dinners or anything else!

Education should be for free as it is a public good just like infrastructure—an educated population pays for itself. But if you want to be neoliberal & worry how to pay for it, then surely a graduate tax with thresholds & increments that follow salaried tax bands would be simplest & fair! #r4today