"To put it in terms churchgoers would understand, Trump’s America is swapping the New Testament for the Old." 👏👏 Out with love thy neighbour in with an eye for an eye. www.ft.com/content/a284...

When your response to fascism is that 'the numbers don't add up' then you've lost all sense of what matters to humanity.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

'Playing out' was a massive success in Bristol when I lived there. My kids enjoyed it thoroughly and I am delighted a similar scheme is here.

Interesting how the mainstream think we have either a messaging/coalition building problem or we need just enough change to nudge us back to a mythical equilibrium, but when transformative change is mooted its 'ooh not that much'! Not saying Polanski is the answer, but at least he gets the problem.

Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

Real world complexity economics debunking neoclassical myths in FT. 🥳

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism

Yes, also if the lied to and liar both know what is being said is baloney, it's an assertion of power. But mainly it's this.

‘Tech prosperity deal’ unintentionally nails it. 😆

Ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies her refusal to "replace evidence with ideology" led to her firing

So regulation and capital requirements designed to make banks less risky also makes them slightly less profitable. We can't have that. www.ft.com/content/7347...

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

💯 Ming vase, a combo of game theory and technocracy that is negative in both senses, says you 'win' (elections) by criticising oppo, proposing nothing and being a political weathervane (governance? ethics? social contract?) Sans growth this reactionary ideology lands you exactly where we are.

There is real wisdom here. For over a decade, liberals existed in a world in which their opponents have denied that they meant what they said. Now this is unraveling in a frenzy of speech and thought policing by governments who cannot bear to hear their own words spoken back to them.

Second deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the first -nonthreatening target in an area the US military operates freely -no legal authority, nor attempt to cite statute -no evidence presented -no individuals identified -no articulated strategic goal, nor explanation how to achieve it

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Amsterdam: “Developers are effectively subsidising the building of low-income homes and charging the difference to rich people,” 😱 Paris' compulsory purchase orders: “The city’s urban planning rules amount to an attack on the property rights of owners.” 😱😱 www.ft.com/content/76fb...

The Thick of it? Peter Mannion: I always tuck my shirt in, it's part of getting dressed. What, should I not do my flies up either? Let the old chap flop out, is that modern enough for you? Stewart: Just try it, Peter. Not the cock out, just the shirt thing. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Many are pooh-poohing 'economic anxiety' as *just* an excuse used by racists, dismissing out of hand the notion of a precariat. Did US Dems telling the economically anxious to grow a pair win votes or was it the last straw, with many calculating they had nothing to lose by voting for Trump?

Excellent. “If we conducted monetary policy as if democracy mattered, we might consider a system of periodic reviews of the central bank. This iterative process could extend to the central bank’s mandate.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

I always remember when Anne Robinson tried to do her school ma’am act on Ricky Hatton on Celebrity Weakest Link. AR: “Ricky - you were the weakest link in that round. Why do you think that is?” RH: “Probably because I get punched in the head for a living, Anne.”

Liverpool’s goals after the 80th minute in the Premier League in 2025-26: 🍒 Bournemouth (Chiesa 88’, Salah 90+4’) 🔲 Newcastle United (Ngumoha 90+10’) 🔴 Arsenal (Szoboszlai 83’) 🟣 Burnley (Salah 90+5’) Arne Slot’s side are kings of the late show this season.

So minorities afraid to go out on the streets, hear UK gov. haven't got their backs? Whilst I'm not a huge fan of this government, this is a different level stuff, they've crossed a line.

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin. Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation. We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

A combo of game theory and technocracy that is negative in both senses, leads to bleedin' obvious outcome. If the 'game' is winning elections rather than governing, you propose nothing, criticise oppo and become a political weathervane. And main parties flummoxed by the appeal of Trump/Farage?! 🤔

(Reeves) “When I wrote to regulators and asked: ‘What can you do to drive growth?’ PE bosses, was the Thames Water fiasco caused by excess rules? Financial rules largely guard against *profitable* bad behaviour. We've been down the self-regulation road before. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

omg @leaypi.bsky.social so many questions

'Productivity forecasts, top OBR economist David Miles conceded last year, are an “educated guess, and maybe not even terribly educated”.' Extending that logic, budget balancing based on crap guesstimates is leaving yourself a hostage to fortune – daft from the outset. www.ft.com/content/50fe...

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

"...the mission’s success is based on data-driven, long-term mobility policies and urban development strategies that have transformed the once car-centric capital." www.politico.eu/article/hels...

State of play in the US, "Ms Hughes-Brown was detained on a misdemeanour relating to a $25 (€23) cheque she signed in 2015, for which she made restitution and received probation." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

"Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion." 17 Quakers arrested during 9th Aug London protest about the decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

This article is nonsense. There's no reason to believe that this is a factor. It is down to global moves plus slightly higher UK inflation at present. Paul Johnson is (of course) fine on details of govt spending but quite reactionary and usually wrong in his macroeconomics. (Got that off my chest!)

This👇 "politicians endlessly calculating the precise polling impact of every statement while refusing to defend basic democratic principles. This strategic paralysis represents not political wisdom but moral abdication, generals forever preparing for a war they never intend to fight." Peter Gratton

By swerving fundamental systemic problems (the Ming vase), I always feared a technocratic Starmer government would midwife a Farage one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OK, @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social, this is perfect…

Here, here. As the saying goes 'no man is an island'. Similarly rights and money are also dynamic institutions. Overemphasising atomisation at the expense of wrestling with what we owe each other is where liberalism has drifted off track.

She was therefore threatening to them, because she authentically spoke for the same people they (erroneously) claim to speak for and could not be dismissed as a liberal elite- their favoured tactic with anyone they don’t like.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

Just to expand a little. Suddenly in the US there are a large number of people who find themselves with arbitrary power over many others but no experience or training in how to use that power. The results are cruelty, brutality and the demonisation of the vulnerable and marginalised.

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?