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Boris Long

@borislong.bsky.social
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Getting older but no wiser every second. I refer you to line 1. In a world of no justice, be a 'chaos goblin'. Keynes for the win.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
Deloitte fined £6.05m for dud audits at Go-Ahead Group. Fines passed to clients in higher charges. Big firms routinely deliver dud audits. None shut down. Regulator so impressed, set to reduce audit quality inspections, will rely on self-reporting by firms.
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Sanctions against Deloitte LLP
Executive Counsel of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a Final Settlement Decision Notice under the Audit Enforcement Procedure and imposed sanctions against Deloitte LLP (Deloitte) in ...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Documents obtained by Freedom of Information requests show that parts of the 'simplification drive' have ended up closely reflecting the demands of fertiliser & chemical companies to roll back environmental & health safeguards Insects in EU have declined 75% in 3 decades www.ft.com/content/3c86...
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Chemical groups succeed in watering down EU pesticide rules
European Commission and leading MEPs side with industry demands for laxer standards
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 17h
Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 18h
Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism? As a matter of fact, people will only stand for abuse from a financial system designed to oppress them for so long. France and maybe Spain seem to be indicating they've had enough. youtu.be/CpRl1ajsj-k?...
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Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism?
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I will be delivering the keynote at this event on 21 November. Tickets are going fast and they're thinking of finding a bigger venue... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-model-...
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New Model Economy : A Festival of Ideas for After Neoliberalism
From Thatcherism and Reaganomics came five decades' worth of Neoliberalism. 'New Model Economy' is a day of ideas for what might come next.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 07/10/2026
From the AI bust, a new set of Mega Big Tech companies will emerge – with even more power than they currently command. These companies would not just control markets – they would control entire societies. They would be hegemonic. The ultimate capitalist planners. open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...
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When the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than Ever
The AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised enough to benefit from the concentration of power that will follow – we need to get organised enough to resist.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch: £200bn of the nearly $3tn of national debt has been added by Labour since 2024. And the rest? #PoliticsLive
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What's the mood like at Tory conference? Well it's 10:30 in the morning and the party chair is drinking on stage #CPC26
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ISDS is a clause in trade deals that lets corporations sue countries in secret 'corporate courts' over policies that threaten their profits – even when they protect people and planet. Join us on 15 October outside UK parliament to demand an end to ISDS: www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here I join others to discuss central bank 'independence... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Wednesday briefing: Is it time to end the Bank of England’s independence?
In today’s newsletter: As MPs launch a fresh inquiry into the Bank, leading economists make their case for rethinking one of Britain’s most powerful institutions
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/10/2026
👉NEW -- Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements by Martin Williams & Dania Akkad Amnesty International says Conservative donor JCB is ‘part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing’ in illegal West Bank settlements www.declassifieduk.org/tories-took-...
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Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements
Amnesty International says Conservative-donor JCB is ‘part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing’ in illegal West Bank settlements
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Britain can’t rebuild on vibes. It needs investment. That means getting serious about the Tax gap. Because right now £59Billion— enough to pay for free school meals AND affordable childcare AND build 1.45M social homes— is being lost to non-payment. 👉 bit.ly/4z9JQrK
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Tax gap 2026 - Tax Justice UK
Britain's tax gap is growing which will provide a headache for the Prime Minister in-waiting, Andy Burnham, and his plans for devolution.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FT exclusive: UK tax authorities probed Manchester City in 2018 over whether it used complex arrangements to underpay tax, nearly a decade before the club was found to have breached the Premier League’s financial rules. www.ft.com/content/796e...
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HMRC opened probe into Man City’s tax affairs in 2018
Investigation into whether English football club was underpaying tax began after its internal emails were leaked
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is France jettisoning neoliberalism? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
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Is France jettisoning neoliberalism?
I watched a series of news broadcasts last night, all of which referred to what is now being called a polycrisis in France. As a consequence, the thought occurred to me that France might be leading th...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know who else said that zionism is racism? The UN. In 1975 the UN general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination". The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
".. a 15 year old boy who had his hand blown off after picking up a police stun grenade.. 4,000 out of the 5,000 arrested are under the age of 18.. right now.. pictures being broadcast around the world of police firing tear gas at French children" #GMB
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yanis Varoufakis on Newsnight suggests that the European central Bank should forgive EU gov debt in exchange for investment programs to drive growth and productivity. And to address inequality e.g. by doing away with tax cuts for the rich, and lower taxes which the middle classes pay
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Four Dutch supporters travelled to Liverpool to participate in a peaceful signholding action outside the Labour conference. One was arrested under the Terrorism Act on arrival in the UK. A second was arrested for having shoe repair glue in their bag.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russia is first country in 500 years where it will be possible to compare the life expectancy of a solider on the front and a civilian with the plague. I remain a master strategist.
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every year UK bomb disposal teams respond to an average of 2500 call outs. 2000 of those are related to unexploded munitions from WW2. My latest piece tells the story of two sizeable bombs found in a single day in Devon earlier this year www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/10/2026
Don't you reckon if only some of these women had tried to siphon some red diesel near Greenham Common in the Eighties, we could have saved a lot of bother over cruise missiles?
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Guard The Leaf @guardtheleaf.com · 06/10/2026
America Was Our Habit. Not Anymore. #elbowsup #boycottusa #FuckTacoTrump #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #canadaunited #political www.guardtheleaf.com/p/america-wa...
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America Was Our Habit. Not Anymore.
We trusted America, travelled there, spent our money there and treated them like family. Then they showed us exactly what that friendship was worth.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CALL ARIZONA U.S. Senators! Let them know they are attacking community members who are protecting their land. Demand federal agents leave tribal land.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
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Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fossil fuel industry at it again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times
Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Tories are copying from Trump who is copying from Reagan whose Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) failed to achieve its promises & was ultimately terminated in 1990 after spending around $40bn. The program did not develop a viable missile defense system as intended.
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Tories pledge ‘Britannia Shield’ to protect UK from drone attacks
A planned network of radar, command and control systems and interceptor missiles would strengthen defences against aerial threatsScreenshot from National DEFENSE

Trump Revives Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile Defense Aspirations

President Donald Trump Jan. 27 signed an executive order that on paper appears to revive the Reagan era plan to create a space-based missile defense system designed to protect the homeland from a variety of aerial threats.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tax does not pay for government spending. So what is it for? Instead, it controls inflation and shapes our society, and understanding that could transform how we manage our economy. youtu.be/BTqN9V58ugw?...
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Tax does not pay for government spending. So what is it for?
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DEFEND OUR JURIES We’ve stood against David Lammy’s attack on trial by jury since it was first proposed. We believe it to have been a direct attempt to block acquittals of people of conscience in protest trials. This is a step in the right direction: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Courts backlog will fall despite scrapping plans to curb jury trials, Alex Norris insists
Proposals to limit jury trials were first introduced by former justice secretary David Lammy last year.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We have millions of cameras filming us all the time. meta glasses are just another way.
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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM Palantir’s tentacles reach everywhere…🐙 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
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Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yeah, let's give drug dealers and other scumbags a way of easily laundering their criminal swag into US dollars. I mean why would anyone with legally earned funds want to hold this rather than actual dollars? Makes perfect sense. #CryptoScam #C4News
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Tim Collis @timcollis.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
I see some airport drop off charges are going up yet again. Did a bit of research and surprise surprise they used to be in public ownership and were flogged off in the 80s by Thatcher! Just look how much these could be adding to the economy every year if they were still public utilities.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
substack.com/@donmoynihan...
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Don Moynihan (@donmoynihan)
Had not really processed this, but the Trump presidency is comparable to the pandemic in terms of killing tourism to the US. Another astonishing own goal, destroying a major US industry.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist? youtu.be/Xp-pnyJU_n4?... In the run-up to the Budget, there is going to be a lot of talk about fiscal headroom, but the reality is that this is just a figment of a Chancellor's imagination, just as fiscal rules are.
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What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forget Milk Snatcher, Margaret Thatcher literally sold orphans for profits. She is the Child Snatcher. The forced privatisation of Children Home's is Margaret Thatcher's most evil legacy. Even though she has so, so many.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've only seen this kind of bravery in women
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reform UK’s Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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Reform UK's Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s leader in Wales works part time for an organisation that helps foreign migrants obtain visas to work in the UK, we can reveal. Helen Jenner recently took over from Dan…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As sure as night follows day.
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