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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not a chance👇 Burnham needs to call an election asap & implement The Productive State. He can be Labour’s Thatcher & free us from her legacy.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

👇This paper is the future of Britain - read it & hope again! We need 10 years of this. Burnham should take the risk & call an election👇

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

HOPE AT LAST! This paper is brilliant. Keynes, Polanyi, Christophers, Mamdani, Splintering Urbanism - it’s all there. Supply/demand inflation targetting? Just brilliant. Brilliant. I’m sure Haldane will be all over capital inflows & reserve tap for markets. Current acct still a problem but HOPE!

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

if you have a chance, start reading / watching @thunen.bsky.social. He's just written a brilliant piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social which made me seek out other content. Great 2025 podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tVm... Not just outstanding scholarship, this guy is very funny too👇

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Signs of the Times #7 - Empire, Trump, US dollar, and American decay, with Herman Mark Schwartz

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Phenomenal World is brilliant. If you want yawn debates about migration & Brexit then it won’t be for you. But if you want to understand the deep global patterns that lead to populism / Brexit / tariffs / currency collapse then dig in…

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The thing to remember is that Blair is happy for the UK to be a safety deposit box for capital. That was the New Labour strategy & due to low(ish) debt in the 90s, we could sustain this policy, service the interest & still have money left over for benefits & wagefare. That world ended in 2008.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 27/05/2026

With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?

BBC news article headlined "Better WiFi for hundreds of trains under government plans"

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

An optimistic thread for anyone who thinks these are dark days. The world is changing. Endogenously - the only way it sticks. Investors flocking to green energy heralds economic sovereignty & distributed power in the world to come. A better, freer, more equal world may emerge👇

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

18/ "In the short term, the war raises export income for US oil producers In the longer term, the energy dominance strategy is self-defeating—creating profound volatility, insecurity,& intermittency that militates against investors, consumers, and govts alike" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

16/ Trump "has made fossil fuels both expensive and unreliable. People used to worry that addiction to oil made us dependent on Middle Eastern autocracies. ...We have learnt since 2022 that it also makes us dependent on Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu." bsky.app/profile/ande...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

9/ Over the past decade there has been a global green industrial buildout as country after country wanted a position in new industries. The problem in the mid-2020s was not factory overcapacity, but a lack of coordinated global demand The Hormuz shock has violently solved that under-demand problem.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Well done Charles. How nice to wake up to old-fashioned diplomacy. Calm, polite but direct in his message. What a lesson in manners to Trump’s vulgar rabble. And someone deserves a knighthood for that Trump bell. It will be mercilessly memed online - which is of course, the point: eyeballs.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

When this happened in WW2, I believed we called it the ‘blitz’. If I remember my GCSE history, the people raining bombs on our capital city were seen as the bad guys?

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Perhaps this is a good faith post but it repeats the false equivalence of invasion of Iran to defence *against* Hitler. The second problem is to conflate mistakes with reckless abandon of norms. Let us remember that Iran stood down & expressed contrition after bringing down Flight 752 in 2020👇

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

3/6 It runs a trade surplus because it produces far more than it consumes or invests domestically. In more familiar terms, China runs a trade surplus because it saves far more than it invests, and of course saving is just production minus consumption.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The people who listen to Michael Hudson will already know that he is one of the most perceptive geopolitical commentators out there - trigger warning: also cantankerous & fervently anti US - but even I am stunned as his ability to predict every move in this war *before* it happened👇

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

UK govt finances better than expected in January. Ridiculous single statistic obsession. Must prioritize public welfare. Unemployment rising, millions in poverty, unfit roads, unaffordable housing, NHS queues, deindustrialization, endemic profiteering. Can't rejuvenate without public investment.

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UK government finances better than expected in January

The government took in more from tax receipts than expected, official data suggests.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/02/2026

America: well we must have extended immunity for the president because we inherited the principle of sovereign immunity from British legal tradition, and... Britain: *arrests the brother of the sovereign*

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Lioness Devouring a Man, palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Nimrud, near Mosul), Iraq, ca. 750 BCE

Bas relief of a man sitting on the ground leaning back elbowd bent backward hands trying to hold him up as a lioness sinks her teeth into his throat. the way the man's hair is depicted May indicate that he has kinky hair

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but in Britain: sleaze, malfeasance and/or incompetence in office - Johnson, Truss lose jobs Britain: Epstein dealings: Mandelson fired; Andrew arrested US: crickets. Nothing to see here. The rich and powerful do as they please.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Suspect William & Charles escalated this. Lots of unflattering articles about the late Queen’s judgement. They needed a separation strategy.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/02/2026

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

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Melinda Batchelor @melindab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Our son had a tooth out in USA under anaesthetic…

$10k bill for child having tooth out in USA

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What this child has gone through. The stress surges will live in his body. He’ll feel unsafe & needy, likely causing hell to future partners. He’ll shut down or lose control when threatened. He may struggle at school & fall into petty crime. It is criminal for the state to inflict such harm👇

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The financial crisis is why we’re here. We backstopped asset markets & tore money out of the real economy with austerity. Better to have split the banks, let housing crash, let City contract & sort out our damn trade deficit & energy deficiency. Instead we got Brexit & US tech monopolies.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It really is an urgent matter. A huge geopolitical mistake that ties us into path dependent reliance on the US👇

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“Stop pretending Jesus was crucified because he preached good vibes & personal growth” Amen to that. Jesus was a radical who stood up to power to protect the weak. A stunning piece of writing👇

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 25/01/2026

You might ask why Labour seems fixated on giving Palantir contracts for police and health in the UK?

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Gosh, this is quite something👇

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Exactly. The important thing is to balance trade & capital flows. Not try & protect against genuine productivity improvements👇

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Code for - we need govts to give us more $, because the market is not delivering adequate use and revenues, because users don't yet see the benefits from the technology.

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Because the US needs oil. It needs oil to sustain $$ demand. Once countries are self sufficient in energy, the demand for $$s dies & the US can’t fund their budget. China & Oil > strong $$. End of oil, China decoupled, the US has a massively overvalued stock markets & a gig economy👇

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Great interview *but* “the motive is domination” is wrong. The motive is fear. The US saw that China was beginning to decouple from the US system. That put the $$ at risk & *that* puts all those crazy/stupid valuations at risk which is why the tech billionaires got involved. The UK & EU now have …

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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

You are missing that the $$ is going to come under increasing pressure & may collapse if China stops investing its surplus in US markets. There are better responses than Trump’s but forcing your trade deficit on your colonies - sorry, allies - is hardly new?

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