in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

1932: Neville Chamberlain slashed Britain’s debt costs and freed £17 billion a year in today’s money. 2025: Rachel Reeves could do the same - invite investors to swap short-term gilts for long bonds as rates fall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com

The Guardian view on the BBC under siege: Britain must defend its own truth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily. This is not good sign for our polity.

UK divisions of ticket resale website Viagogo hit with £15m bill over tax shortfall. The company suspected of shifting profits to low/no tax offshore jurisdictions, a widespread practice among large companies. Viagogo is already under scrutiny as the govt moves is reviewing “secondary ticketing”.

“The latest evidence from an IMF study is that there was no significant difference between Inflation Targeting (IT) and non-IT nations in the recent inflationary episode”!

Oates really is the Devon Malcolm of posters. Wildly erratic but catch her on the wrong day and you might suddenly find she’s taken 9-57

A London family wants £180k a year tutor for one-year old child to help him become an English gentleman. Tutor must have gone to "the right kinds of schools", knowledge of horse riding, skiing, the arts and music. This is the real island of strangers where class wars are inculcated at young age.

“Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood”

Pundits are trying to minimize Mamdani’s victory, pointing to bigger victory margins for Democratic governors in NJ and VA. What they ignore is: MAMDANI RAN AGAINST A DEMOCRAT!

It's "Let's copy Denmark" season again. With politicians and journalists making claims about a country they very clearly know absolutely nothing about. Did you know the Danish People's Party isn't the only radical right party in Denmark? No? Maybe you should not use the country as a reference point

Councillor Alexander Jones - hailed by Nigel Farage as "young, energetic and exactly what’s needed" - made the inflammatory comments on Facebook ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:

Anti-black racism 'baked' into Met, review finds. This is 26 years after the Macpherson report which concluded that the Metropolitan Police was "institutionally racist". Little changed. Leaders of major political parties incite hatred. None charged.

Exit polls say Abigail Spanberger won young men 56–42 today. Talk about a narrative buster.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

hell yeah eugene debs

Great speech @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social quoting Nehru, speaking Arabic and thanking his mama and baba! www.youtube.com/live/y7ysB8K...

Ms Reeves' gamble rests seemingly on households borrowing what the state will not spend, and on markets believing in a confidence that never arrives. If New Labour’s tragedy was debt-fuelled growth, then the farce is pretending it can happen again www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’ www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

They lied as well as knew! Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America. Documents reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the climate treaty process. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Shut down by state regulators" is a much gentler way of dealing with Kalshi than I think it deserves (employees buried in sand up to their necks and then have chips dumped on them, which brings the seagulls out) gothamist.com/news/ny-want...

Graduates who get a job in quantitative finance can expect to start on £250K to `£800k a year! www.ft.com/content/8a65...

Crikey - Bagehot is going to upset and outrage a lot of people with this. Takes (the proverbial) balls of steel to go up against conventional wisdom like this.

Whenever Dems suggested doing this (or even hinted as Biden did in the runup to the 2022 midterms), the media leapt into action to declare it to be a hideously unpopular overreach that would surely boomerang on Dems if they went through with it

Excellent, excellent, excellent from @danielagabor.bsky.social on a podcast with Andy Haldane, ex-BoE. She doesn’t let him get away w/ saying stuff he knows not to be true, eg claiming the BoE could ‘go bust’. It’s mainstream central bank speak that’s bankrupt! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

There are 3,508 billionaires on the planet. About a third were in the U.S.—their fortunes accounted for 43% of the collective wealth, according to Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. 🔗: on.wsj.com/3X2vEQf

“The world without hegemony” — A long-form article based on my book with Amitav! Many thanks to Sam Haselby! @yalepress.bsky.social

power concedes nothing without a demand...

Good question for the BBC and its board.

14/15 of the most influential political people to follow in the UK are men. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

Yep def influenced by @nakedkeynes.bsky.social and @danielagabor.bsky.social as well as Bresser-Pereira

Failing to see that government spending creates the private sector’s income... Allergic to the idea that state spending can be both sustainable and expansionary... Made this mistake once before (see eg criticalfinance.org/tag/economics/ and mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-....

Open source baby

Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific. Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization." Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists." There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.

The reason this Nazi crank keeps arsing on about Britain specifically is that he has noticed that here, he is pushing at an open door. We should think about why that might be so.

The significance of a D66 win in 🇳🇱 (if it transpires) will need some explaining outside the country. The Netherlands, like Denmark, has two liberal parties: one rooted in the classical liberal tradition, the other in the radical liberal one. D66 is the latter, ie the left-of-centre liberal party.

Is "it drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people" "racist or realist" asks Robert Peston?

About 25 years ago I did a study of tv adverts for an assignment. Then there were basically no ethnic minorities, gays or disabled people driving cars buying houses, using household gadgets. The worst advert was for a ford galaxy with a white couple driving past mesmerised 'indigenous' peasants....

To the surprise of nobody, Grok is sharing an innumerate and exaggerated defence of Sarah Pochin's comments, which is being widely celebrated by those with as or more prejudiced views than those expressed by Pochin.

Sorry to report that Milei has had a successful evening. elpais.com/argentina/20...

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

Good evening from Queens. New York is not for sale.

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

ah yes, “concerns” and “questions,” the syllabus of every class in the Susan Collins School of Furrowed Brows

High hopes they'll set out exactly how many black faces are going to be allowed on TV in any one evening.

What is Democratic Public Finance?

This is how sick the US has become. Her name is Talia Teneyuque, a 32-year-old baker from Saginaw. Her dream was simple: use her talent to build a small home bakery called Luv’n a Jar, selling strawberry crunch cakes, candied grapes, and cheesecakes — “made with love,” her Facebook page says.