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www.facebook.com/share/1FKVT8... #CodyfromAndulucia needs a new home.

🚨Watch Dr Grace Brown explaining the ROSCO rip-off. 🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade. The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.

Govt bends to gilt market's will ... so ... giLt mArKeT sAyS dEpOrT iMmIgRaNtS according to new Reform UK affiliated think tank. Can't think that everyone at BlueBay will be thrilled to find their leader's name attached to it. www.ft.com/content/db1e...

If social media companies are actively making choices about what kind of political content to highlight, then how are they different from traditional media companies? And so why aren't they liable to being sued for libel, etc, in the same way? news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The ambiguous way journalists use the word “investment” makes this headline puzzling. I first thought it was about asking insurers to hold more UK assets. Reading the piece it seems to be about expanding their business in London. But I’m not sure. #EconSky on.ft.com/4nK0BUp

POP on.ft.com/4oNA3SZ US stocks slide as investors fret over high valuations for AI companies

The purpose of fighting an election is to form a government. It is not the purpose of a government to fight an election.

Actually it’s 82 pence in every ten pounds.

That hole in the public finances, does anyone know what colour it is?

Promises, promises.

The real question is do the banks invest in the economy? Britain has the largest financial sector and the lowest investment in the G7. on.ft.com/4omV0EI The UK bank bashing must stop

Good article. I think the choice would be easier if the government had an overarching purpose.

The Guardian says the City is suffering. The Financial Times says something else. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

imprescindible

The graphic in the article shows clearly that the impact of Brexit on productivity began eight years before the referendum.

Changing your name and moving away to a new place are characteristic of a witness protection scheme. (Normally, you give evidence first and keep your new name secret. Having the King put your new identity in a press release isn’t how it works.)

A big boy did it and ran away.

City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache. But silence on its own role in economic crisis. Short-termism and lack of investment Endless financial scandals Pushed for privatization. Urged deal wage/benefit cuts Opposes redistribution of income and wealth Unchecked fat-cattery

A big boy did it and ran away.

That hole in the public finances, does anyone know what colour it is?

This is an odd argument. Demand for homes at current prices is too low, he says. The solution is a little house price inflation. I think making houses more affordable would be a better solution. #EconSky www.ft.com/content/9080... New homes: even if you build them, there’s no one to buy them

Is that Australian dollars followed by imaginary dollars?

Buy more stuff for the sake of the economy! on.ft.com/476IEu9 UK retail sales unexpectedly rise by 0.5% in September

Not just abstract philosophical concepts. Here’s one for mathematicians. Amazon has a wide range of metric spaces for sale. #mathematics

🔴 ‘No Faith’ in X and Meta to Tackle Abuse in Politics, Says Speaker’s Inquiry as It Suggests MPs Leave Platforms Damning report finds social media giants are failing in legal duties to remove threats. New for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/x...

He's right. So right. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Or Just Say No on.ft.com/4oC9HTU The crypto policy paradox

“The average household now pays £3,900 in tax just to fund debt interest,” says the former chancellor. But the average household pays £7,000-£7,500 in tax in total. (ONS) So he thinks that more than half of tax revenue goes on interest? Bollox

#CodyfromAndalucia trying to be cute.

Chapter 7 on taxation of banks is particularly good.

Congratulations to Lucy Powell for winning the Deputy Leadership contest. We look forward to working with you. If you haven’t already, read Lucy’s vision for the role, which she set out for Fabian members ahead of our hustings. ⬇️ fabians.org.uk/connected-wi...

Congratulations to Co-operative MP Lucy Powell on her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

I love the old fashioned search engines. This one offered me low priced Neoplatonism.

Taking time off from attempting satire for a bit of Beethoven.

Tired of your old ethics, get new low cost ethics from the Amazon bookshop:

Put off paying your bills for the sake of the economy.

“Lots of people in Congress do criminal stuff.”

Buy more stuff for the sake of the economy! on.ft.com/476IEu9 UK retail sales unexpectedly rise by 0.5% in September

I love the old fashioned search engines. This one offered me low priced Neoplatonism.

It’s a bubble. We know it’s a bubble. But we keep inflating it. We are not concerned. When it pops, government will bail us out. Like last time. The same governments now worried about selling their bonds will borrow more to save us. #EconSky 👇 on.ft.com/4oR5r3l Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere

I think she should go further and introduce a higher band of employers/partners NI on remuneration above £500,000. Think of it as a sin tax on businesses paying excessive salaries. on.ft.com/4nhjFt2 Rachel Reeves targets tax partnerships in crackdown on wealthy Britons

It’s a bubble. We know it’s a bubble. But we keep inflating it. We are not concerned. When it pops, government will bail us out. Like last time. The same governments now worried about selling their bonds will borrow more to save us. #EconSky 👇 on.ft.com/4oR5r3l Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere

9/9 The bigger point is that the only sustainable way for a country to increase its consumption is not by reducing the price of its imports but rather by increasing the value of its domestic production. www.ft.com/content/8911...

Why do we assume that someone who has been lucky in the past will be lucky in the future?

"Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness."

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

This is part of what is sometimes called “the finance curse”. It’s an analogy with the resource curse where the discovery of natural resources, oil or gas for example, slows a countries economic development. on.ft.com/4hAQQql How our brightest minds get trapped in the City