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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Unconscionable that this externality is happening unregulated/taxes.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is an excellent prompt to segue to the *NEXT* piece I wrote on immigration policy in the UK, which is precisely on the economically inactive working age population and people aged over 65:

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This sounds.... reasonable? UK isn't part of the EU so why should the EU be benefitting UK industry/workers when production could be in the EU benefitting EU industry/workers?

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Feels like this is taking society back 40 or 50 years. Thought we'd moved on. And we have. These are fringe views. But. Why are they being raised? Performance? Desperation for publicity?

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

V interesting thread. Somewhat encapsulates a lot of the UK (and Europe generally) economy and why growth is rubbish. I suspect it's due to too many comfortably well off people making and enacting policy, letting an initially sensible system run out if control.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I wish Labour would come out swinging at the Tories on this...

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Notable that not a single one of these headlines reflect the fact that flat tax is is a tax cut for the rich and increase for the poor. All assume a knowledge of the implications of a flat tax which I doubt most readers have. This encapsulates the dire state of UK political discourse.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The faux "isn't this boring lol" approach to policy (and much of business) reporting in the UK* seriously underserves the country. Brexit being a classic example. *FT being a notable exception.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

V good analysis. I'd like labour to do more but it's constrained by its manifesto. Still, Reeves could have acknowledged that the trade barriers are a consequence of brexit to start setting the tone for the next manifesto (and to lambast those who negotiated and those who voted for the TCA).

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just watching this and it is SO good. Got the Most Iconic Samples from Hip Hop 1973-2023 to watch next. youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM

youtu.be

Sample Breakdown: The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2024)

YouTube video by Tracklib

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SANE | Changing mental health for good @sane.org.uk · 19/11/2024

Today is International Men's Day! We encourage any men who are struggling with their mental health to reach out for help and support. Speak to trusted family or friends, talk to your GP or medical professional, or reach out to a helpline ❤️ #InternationalMensDay

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I started actively using Twitter in 2010 & quickly realised there were other sides to the place outside my hinterland of people there to have fun. Whether you looked for it or not it would pop up in your timeline. Far beyond what I was exposed to irl. So I’ve always thought ‘bubbles’ were bullshit.

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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Brilliant

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Lots of old faces from X now here. But where’s the Brussels local politics / Brussels biking community? Time to abandon ship over there…

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Don't think I got half the jokes as a kid. Must rebuild the collection and reread...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/11/2024

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic “‘All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?’ ‘Yeah,’ said Rincewind. ‘…Luters, I expect.’”

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Carbon inequalities: It would take the average Amazon employee 207 years to emit the amount of carbon that Jeff Bezos’s two private jets release in a year. Elon Musk’s two jets emit 834 years’ worth of the annual emissions generated by the average person.

theguardian.com

Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam

Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Everyone has the right to seek asylum in another country. It doesn't mean you can just live wherever you want. It means you have the right to ask for asylum & authorities must consider your individual case & treat you humanely as they do

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Excellent advice. And to add, don’t be afraid to apply this to sentence structure.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Not the way to get youth supporting the conservatives I would suggest?

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

I expect no contract lawyer dealing with this dispute - for let’s not forget it was a dispute about contractual interpretation - had this in their matrix of possible solutions. Too much reliance on the rule of law in legal training perhaps…?

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Definitely agree here including with the parallel to big law the article makes. V interesting analysis.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

An expo on the Palais Stoclet as it might have been when new in 1911 opens Thursday at the Saint-Géry centre. en.hallessaintgery.be/event/stocle...

en.hallessaintgery.be

Stoclet 1911, Restitution - Halles/en st-Géry

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2024

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Depressed as I am about today’s result, this is crucial context.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

The magic under the hood of technology...

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

EU likely to be watching with interest...

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 30/08/2024

Lol scratch that, >800 evt/sec! Holy crap this is insane!!!

graph of Firehose event rate showing a huge spike from 150 evt/sec to over 800 evt/sec

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Wish HMRC was doing this so that the excellent @danneidle.bsky.social wouldnt need to! Underfunding HMRC + a complicated tax code is a disservice to the UK...

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Reluctantly think this is the only way. Similar to Cameron’s failure in refusing to call Johnson and other Tories liars during Brexit referendum. Some things are too important to treat with kid gloves.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Presumably a journalist who reported this to the council to generate a story? There would be no safeguarding /privacy issues for the council to confirm?

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Somewhat amazed this isn't a staple on the curriculum already. May make teaching of some subjects eg history harder but I thought being critically of sources was already the case.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Sums up the challenge of AI regulation when the incentives to roll out ASAP are strong. Real issue for regulators and policy-makers.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

There's enough chaos without agents of chaos sticking their oar in. Wonder to what extent this is also the case in the UK. (Although UK seems to be doing a pretty good job at dividing itself with the current government and much of the media/opinionators seeming to prefer division to cohesion.)

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Don't expect art criticism from this account on a regular basis but the Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is extraordinarily good.

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bxlsldn.bsky.social @bxlsldn.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

V insightful. Symptomatic of most Tory politicians not having done real jobs before politics.

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Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

We @instituteforgov.bsky.social have looked at the use of WhatsApp in government - we've argued that government phones should be used for government business, given the importance of the conversations taking place on WhatsApp www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

WhatsApp in government | Institute for Government

Government must introduce rigorous WhatsApp guidance for ministers, special advisers and officials.

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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Aha - Keith has been building up to this.... Reynolds turned the 'disappearing messages' function on to this whatsapp group around the time the PM announced a covid inquiry, despite the group continuing until Reynolds left his post and left the group.

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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Baroness Hallett making a Hoyle like intervention about whatsapps being leaked . 'It only assists those... who have an agenda to pursue' to share evidence before Inquiry gets to them. Clearly directed at George Osborne's podcast revelations, among others

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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Starting a new thread for the afternoon. I again found myself watching two streams of past and curent Martin Reynold's evidence but it was too much. So have paused the rest of the morning and gone back to LIVE

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