What's shamebolic is a discussion of our economic future without saying capitalism has caused climate change and will cause future economic damage. This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change. #r4today

If you look at composition of BBC board of 13 (before resignations) then only one who you could say is out-and-out on the left (Muriel Gray) with the rest likely centrist or further right. So not a surprise that in fact there a bias against anything left wing, socially or economically. #bbclaurak

Fact that Laura Kuenssberg asked both Mahmood and Phelps basically the same questions tells you everything you need to know! #bbclaurak

What made me angry about Tories is they had knack of promoting ethnic minorities with callous views to positions of authority, since they calculate that it is more difficult to call them racist or immoral. It seems with Mahmood Labour are taking a leaf out of their playbook. #bbclaurak

Someone should send Trump this! #r4today

Lewis Goodall: "I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.." #r4today

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

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You've got to ask why promising UK green technology companies — here developing hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells, which could be critical for storing excess energy capacity of renewables— are being allowed to fail by this Labour government?! #greentechnology #greentransition #hydrogen

So the left & right both criticise the BBC, so surely they are unbiased?? But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power. The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since. #r4today

Pray tell me why the BBC are asking an investment banker from Deutsche Bank about the UK employment situation and macroeconomics! Clear left wing bias!! #r4today

This is all misdirection. While the BBC continues to fail daily to talk about the facts on how neoliberal economics has failed working class communities and society, we get the right wing zealots sniff blood to push the BBC further right and the country closer to fascism. #r4today

Harrowing story and completely preventable if this company — Character AI — gave a shit more than converting addiction to profit. #bbclaurak

I would hope that Lisa Nandy as a Labour minister would highlight the systematic right-wing bias in economic reporting on the BBC: e.g. governments are not households and so they do not need to balance the books, and in fact doing so can damage the economy! #bbclaurak

The bias against left that #r4today on show again: lead headline news item far right agitator Musk's $1trillion pay out Vs historic election of first Muslim, first south Asian and first democratic socialist major of New York—home of Wall street & finance—not lead, but 3rd item on hourly headline!

Microplastics is just another example of unfettered capitalism not living within it's means causing damage to ourselves, our planet and ecosystems in which we depend to survive long term. We are unique as a species that as populations grow we use more energy per capita not less! #r4today

Great reporting, great story-telling: How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

I can't help thinking that if Cuomo won there would be wall to wall coverage right now about the failure of the "hard/radical" left. As it is, feels this momentous win for the left in the heart of capitalism and finance is being downplayed. #r4today

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Given that increasing taxation is likely to reduce spending power and growth, you can tell that the government aren't serious when there exists a simple way to reduce gov expenditure: the BoE pays — for no good reason — £20B to £30B interest on commercial bank reserves! #r4today

”The entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events.”

Marginal pricing is a choice that means gas sets the price of all electricity generation. We need to make different choices that brings down prices and penalises carbon emissions. #bbclaurak

When Zia Yusuf and Reform cite academic research that means they found the one paper that supports they ideology! #bbclaurak

It was Carl Sagan who warned that divergence between technological advance & general scientific education of the public that would lead societies "to slide into superstition and darkness". The fact that a serious news programme suggests ghosts might exist suggests we're well down the slide! #r4today

There was no need for stabilisation of the economy, because it wasn't unstable in any sense in the first place! Conservatives did decimate the economy, but the solution is for gov to spend and not balance the books, which is repeating the Tory mistake!! #r4today

Renewables are cheaper and the marginal pricing system means we don't get that benefit and instead the most expensive provider to guarantee energy sets the overall price! This is a choice and there other choices that would allow consumers to benefit from cheaper renewables! #r4today

Why would Hamas want to continue controlling Gaza if they called for release of Marwan Barghouti, who is their political opponent? Sadly, Israel refused his release, since he is likely the strongest chance for forming a 2-state solution. #r4today

Great how @zackpolanski.bsky.social handled Victoria Derbyshire: clearly wealth tax is not a panacea & govs can directly invest. And yes stop treating IFS as some unbiased economic arbiter—just look at their foundations! They are die hard, card-carrying "balance the books" economists! #bbclaurak

I've joined the Greens. With Zack Polanski as leader I think they are the only realistic resistance to the managed decline to fascism that centrism and austerity offers. #thegreenparty #greenparty

🧠 Midlife is a mental peak, not a decline A new study finds overall psychological functioning peaks between ages 55–60, when reasoning, emotional balance, and judgement combine at their best. 🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AA.... #Psychology #SciComm 🧪

Are the UK's problems caused by immigration? Don't think so. Here I channel the spirit of, of all people, the great Age of Enlightenment explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt, on whom I am forming quite a crush... timharford.com/2025/10/the-...

The 615am business slot tells you all you need to know about why we balance books on backs of the poor — it should be renamed as slot for the "propaganda for the rich & powerful". Who cares about Burberry bags & why should I have to resort to gambling to ensure I can retire with dignity?? #r4today

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Barghouti is still massively popular amongst Palestinians and a well-known supporter of a 2-state solution — this is exactly why he will not be released by Netanyahu. European govs were serious about a 2-state solution they would put pressure on Israel and Trump for his release. #r4today

Fascinating book about, possibly key moment in economic history of globe. Should Keynes' idea of world (clearing) currency won favour, when world was trying to design a new world financial system post WWII then the world could well be a very different place right now. Instead the US... #economics

It is good news that there is agreement, but let's not think that Trumps motivation is peace (and justice), but an opportunity to exploit Gaza. If Israel & US were serious about a stable peace they would release political prisoners like Marwan Barghouti #r4today

It was trying to balance the books that lead to the mess we are in and yet Justin Webb was unable to challenge shadow Chancellor Mel Stride on this. Time and again BBC are getting it wrong on economics and only allowing a very narrow view to be presented. #r4today

Pop quiz: which economic policy and which party inacted it which lead to 14 years of economic decline? And why are we continuing with the same economic model with Labour and expecting different results (Einstein's definition of madness!) #r4today

Morning sun and mist over Shoreditch Park, London. #photography

Really interesting video by @tibees.bsky.social. Exam really about critical thinking & how Sagan thought this was key to unlock humanity's potential. Quote from his book "The Demon Haunted World" at around 15.30 shows tremendous prescience of the West's current descent to "superstition & darkness"🧪⚛️

On one hand we shouldn't hold Jewish people account for Israel's actions—& we shouldn't & senseless, tragic murder of British Jews is antisemitic—yet a protest against Israel's continuing senseless & tragic murder of Palestinians is antisemitic?? I think Ben Houchen is a useful idiot! #bbclaurak

Horrendous interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Justin Webb — and his condescending tone — should be ashamed. No time left for any substantive discussion of Green economic policies with the majority spent with Justin trying to gotcha Zack over antisemitism. #r4today

Starmer's conference speech had a tone was a lot more left wing & progressive than I had expected—maybe he finally figured courting right wing is counterproductive. It didn't take long for ghoulish Starmer to come back with rowing back on asylum rights! #r4today

Happy that I have finally published this work at @epljournal.bsky.social which calculates the distribution of pandemic extinction times using only NPIs (yes lockdowns) & predicts that the covid pandemic could have been eliminated in a time of order months! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... ⚛️🧪

Labour's fiscal rule is austerity in all but name, but it does allow borrow to invest on long term projects, so why this dithering on rail & biotech investment?? I suspect they're still worried about total borrowing & so botching otherwise good investment policy. Utter incompetence! #r4today

My just published work with Frank Uhlmann at the Crick, which measures the shape changes of human chromosomes during mitosis. Our polymer simulations suggest that the loop capture mechanism of chromatin compaction can explain the out-of-eqm nature of longest arms & observed shape changes over time.

Nice to know that the sort of abuse I got growing up on the streets of London are now tacitly supported by the current Labour government by continuing to post on the platform X which allows this racial hatred to go unchecked.

The 1st half of #Romans @almeida.co.uk is intense with perfectly judged acting particularly from Kyle Soller. It ends with tantalising prospect of saying something profound about effect of toxic masculinity on society. Sadly, 2nd half loses that intensity & turns into a pastiche of cliches. Shame.

You're looking at a Morelet's Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), and more importantly, she's looking at you. 🐸 They're also known as "Black-eyed Tree Frogs", for obvious reasons. Those big eyes collect light without acting like reflectors, allowing them to hunt at night.