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"In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 71 comments

Clever of him to diversify into shoes

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

We normally love a bit of doom and gloom... ... but healthier longer lives and more women working for longer means advanced economies have seen a big growth in average working lives ... exactly what was not expected in 2000 on.ft.com/4dzBXCo

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Impressive positivity from @chrisgiles.ft.com - with a great chart showing that @oecd-ocde.bsky.social predictions that ageing societies would automatically feed through into plummeting employment rates were very wide of the mark

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

If you want to really worry about what a PM Farage might do, compare the pushback that Trump is getting from courts and some other institutions, and how little of that would happen in a UK which gives huge powers to the executive.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit. “And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

“.. It was not clear precisely when and how the tariff collection machinery would grind to a halt. The decision gave the executive branch up to 10 days to complete the bureaucratic process of halting them.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

📺 The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone Watch the new BBC documentary charting Michelle Mone’s career from startup to the VIP lane – now on iPlayer or tomorrow on BBC 2 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This guy. He must do amdram in his spare time. Someone should book him for panto season.

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We still over-think his motivation/game plan. He’s filling his boots, even if it impoverishes his own base. That’s all there is. That’s all there ever was. (Great piece.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Something a bit different for today's #foxoftheday . Watch some newts , accompanied by a drinking fox's tongue , shared by @urbanponds101 ! Top work !

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Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

under attack

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Misinformation: A Telegraph guide 1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱 2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔 3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉 4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x less likely🙊 5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈

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Blue Labour founder Lord Glasman says he talks weekly to Steve Bannon. Bannon is a racist and fascist orchestrator who said, "Let them call you racist. Let them call you xenophobes ... wear it as a badge of honour. " Blue Labour is a far-right entryist movement that must be expelled from Labour.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Israeli forces are killing Red Cross workers. In their homes. Posting this here because it’s unlikely you’ll see this in the news. Killed yesterday (May 24), their names were Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

submitted 4 days ago • 129 comments

Financial crime in the UK. $2trn to $5.5trn dirty money laundered globally. 40% through the UK, its Crown Dependencies, Overseas Territories. Govt can take out Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) to chase crooks. 2017-2025: 7 UWOs, none since 2019, no prosecutions. Laws not enforced on the City.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Whether it’s a 10 or 15% foreign state ownership limit of our media – surely this should be for foreigners completely, not just foreign countries. I see no logic in only focussing on states - the issues are all the same. 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

As benches go, this one is perfectly placed. 📍Coleton Fishacre, Devon

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Well done Angela, putting some valuable content in your response to the same old tired Westminster bubble question

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Here’s hoping. Removing the two-child benefit cap will take 470,000 children out of poverty. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Good to see Ed Miliband ready to fight for Net Zero, it’s the answer not the problem. We need to get energy bills down if we want to win the argument. Waiting till 2030 won’t cut it. We need to ‘Break the link’ between gas and electricity prices now. buff.ly/XcJUoFh

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Finally.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

This is a bad idea. It will result in large numbers of pensioners paying HMRC penalties. Quick thread.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

And wouldn't have happened without backbencher pressure - always good for them to remember that they do hold power and the government is reliant on them, not the other way round. A healthy parliament is not a rubber stamping chamber.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

"Trump is unique among the nation’s presidents in having no interest in presiding over a functioning govt, let alone building institutions that will survive his term in office. That's why the analogies pundits have tried to draw between the early periods of other presidencies fall entirely flat."

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

#NotGoingBack 🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Hi folks, hope everyone is well, it’s time for #5albums50s60s1 this being the 1st of 5 semi finals to ultimately determine the best album of the 50’s/60’s. Your task is to select your top 5 albums in order from the enclosed 100 album list. Here’s my picks, hope you’ve found some good one’s…

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

US has a collective action problem. It's 50 states but they're being represented by this one group in the White House. So some of the feedback I've been getting is that the underlying states don't even know what the US is negotiating on their behalf.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

By locking out trans people, ignoring its Human Rights Act obligations, ignoring what Parliament was told the GRA was for, relying on a biased academic researcher, its ascientific 'biology' and hubristic attitude to lesbians, the Supreme Court caused incalculable harm to trust in the rule of law.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

It's been a good week for us at Good Law Project. 🧵

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UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court ruling www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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After more than a year of threats from us, the Charity Commission has finally agreed to open a formal investigation into the Institute for Economic Affairs, the so-called charity responsible for Liz Truss' calamitous mini budget. goodlaw.social/00rn

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Connecting crypto up to the banking system and having crypto creditors first in the queue when it goes wrong (it will), we're in the end times. "If a bank custodian for a stablecoin issuer's reserves ends up insolvent, the claims of the stablecoin investors will come ahead of the bank depositors."

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The world’s largest electric vehicle isn’t a car or bus—it’s the eDumper, a 45-tonne mining truck in Switzerland. It hauls 65 tonnes and can finish a shift with more charge than it started, thanks to regenerative braking. If we can electrify mining trucks, what’s next?

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Profits made. Profits kept. 🇺🇸 www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

Another rooftop #foxoftheday , shared by @adrianblack , thank you Adrian !

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Care home investors rake in billions from pensioners 96% of elderly care privatised. Private equity moving in. Focus on short-term profits, cut wages/staff, low investment, poor care. 27% price hike. £1.5bn taken by shareholders. Need integrated healthcare, not sharks. archive.ph/0HR8Y

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

The 50% drop in net migration just announced will surprise precisely nobody who has been paying attention to the issue, as opposed to exploiting and lying about it for clicks & votes. I doubt the stats will change the toxic narratives of the latter group, though.

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments