I thought this was worth sharing, from BueSky: The idea that there is anything exceptional about the number of people living in the UK who
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To see off Farage the economy needs to be weaponised against fascism
As Phillip Inman noted in the Guardian yesterday: How can the Bank of England avoid being a loyal and trusted friend to Nigel Farage? That’s easy.
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The diminished state of the UK
As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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A hotbed of gross inequality
As The Guardian has reported: A gardener and activist hired by the Royal Horticultural Society to help it reach out to younger and disadvantaged people
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Why Labour is deep in political shit
There was an article in the New York Times yesterday on how to be happy. These are not my regular reading. For some reason, I
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The cult of Nigel
I am not a fan of Robert Lowe. But he is right when he says Reform is ‘the cult of Nigel’. This is BlueSky, so
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The Daily Mail thinks fleeing fascism is ‘woke’
On Friday, the Daily Fail Mail featured this profoundly enlightened headline: As they noted: Three liberal professors at Yale University said they’re jumping ship from
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Politicians need to do double-entry
Double-entry bookkeeping is based on a fundamental economic truth: that every action has a reaction. This is the audio version: This is the transcript: I
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Are the wealthy ripping off HM Revenue & Customs?
The National Audit Office (NAO) issued a report yesterday that suggested: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000
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