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Any comedy panel shows that were last relevant and funny in the mid-noughties in need of a writer, please get in touch

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Can't believe a certain other person didn't win for all his work on macroeconomic destabilisation...

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Just turned on the TV and This Morning is on and they're talking about the importance of sewing and not being so wasteful with ripped clothes

There is no joined up strategy on energy, which is why we lurch into crisis, try and remedy it with subsidies and tax cuts which stimulate demand, and then get a bit of respite in the warmer months before doing the whole thing again in the winter

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Asides from the fact that I think it's good that even people on high incomes should benefit from state support, they also have a higher propensity to consume fuel, and this reduces the need for consumption which is something we should be striving for in a supply crisis to effectively lower costs

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If we do re-join the EU at any point, we can get our own Goodbye Lenin where a guy has to convince his grandparents we are still out by moaning about airport queues and the price of cheese

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Shouldn't be understated how damaging it is to signal and encourage certain sectors and industries to develop, only to pull away support at the moment activity begins to really get going, any supposed savings are eclipsed by the sunk costs of investing in skills and capital no longer needed

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Would love to know how many hours on aggregate get wasted each year trying to get a refund you are entitled to or re-negotiating the final deal for something like your internet package

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When we talk about small changes to help people, this is the sort of stuff that is meaningful, not to be dramatic, but the constant battle with companies not to get ripped off is just a bit demoralising

Glad the international break is over so I don't have to watch the terrible defending of Scotland and can instead enjoy the terrible defending of Palace

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Put it off but watching (and enjoying) Andor and the portrayal of every day life for imperial figures really raises questions about what Darth Vader was doing whenever he had to go back to the capital, did he attend fancy dinners or participate on think tank panels, this is the stuff I want to see

Although they certainly should not have committed to a spending target while ruling out tax rises

Streeting looking a bit evasive on the 3% defence spending target I think demonstrates why it is an issue, imo would have been better to set out what the gov wanted to achieve for defence capabilities and set out how to get there

Saw a guy on linkedin suggest the government didn't understand market dynamics because instant access to price signals would be bad because it would lead to tacit collusion and I guess you just have to put your head in your hands

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Normally hate using phrases like "basic economics" because in reality simple models fail to capture the complex dynamics which influence our economy and can lead to excessively simple arguments, but then I see people continue to suggest cutting VAT on fuel during a supply crisis and I re-consider

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Better late than never, but this hopefully kick-starts a conversation on what digital sovereignty looks like and how we can support domestic tech firms

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All the charm and intuitive empathy will come in handy

Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ricardo failed to consider what if you just really hated the thing you had a comparative advantage in

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They're so desperate to peddle the overdiagnosis narrative they're not even a little bit curious about what the challenges are for people with ADHD or how the modern labour market or health system might be adapted to support them

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No more demanding Claude draft linkedin posts about how you now understand sales isn't about selling, it's about building a connection

Horrid rhetoric but it comes from a place of desperation not strength They're squeezed to their right, failed to supplant the tories, and progressives rally around opponents All he has is drifting further for attention, with no thought to those who suffer when this nonsense becomes normalised

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Not the main thing, but it does seem wild to me and an indictment on our political environment that we have gone from a Tory led government passing the social value act to embed social and environmental considerations into procurement to this sort of stuff in about 14 years

Think a lot of the glowing reviews from right wing journalists come from a place of wanting to help, but that general lack of scrutiny has led to mistakes like this becoming common and that has fed into their policies

There are also presumably costs associated with not achieving net-zero which I imagine have not been taken into account

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It's her attention to detail that I admire most

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Looks like a by-election where everyone can claim a win Labour hold on comfortably, Greens significantly increase their vote share, and the Tories keep their deposit which is basically a win under their new assessment framework

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Credit to whoever is responsible for sourcing props for the traitors, not even 3 episodes in and we have Hannah Fry playing with an abacus

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It's why I've found the main parties going along with suggestions we had an open border policy or we lost control so frustrating, because it wasn't true, the UK made conscious decisions which led to immigration being slightly higher for a few years, and those decisions should have been defended

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Find the accusation the government "smuggled" in Afghans so nauseating, there were very pressing moral and diplomatic reasons why the UK had to act, and omitting that context for cheap political points is gross

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First US president to meet the leader of North Korea and American Juche is on the cards

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The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about pensioner property values

More time for programmes where the host can earnestly question whether beloved national icons are actually English or not

Would be good if there were closer markets we could sell to where the UK enjoys a competitive advantage producing lamb

This reminded me of the time Boris Johnson questioned why we were not selling more lamb to China than New Zealand when Wales is geographically closer to Beijing, seemingly unaware that sea freights from the UK are not able to travel in a straight line

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Another event beyond our control requiring a scrambled response because we have eroded the tax base and weakened state capacity Multiple opportunities to at least partially fix this have been missed in the last couple of years and I hope that changes with this budget

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Can't be throwing fictional bears around as insults when your guy is Rupert

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Anyways, am glad Badenoch has rejected and challenged those who are trying to narrow the definition of who is English, not least because my son has only one grandparent born on these Isles and they are Scottish, and after the loss to Slovenia I just don't want him to suffer like me

For all the talk of adapting to change, the tories seem to deeply resent the path Boris Johnson put them on with its greater focus on a proactive state to support specific industries and regions and have reverted to pretty crude Thatcher era rhetoric with pretty bland policy ideas

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Sure the inheritance tax cut might only help a small minority of the wealthiest people, but look at the proposal to cut interest rates on student loans that will only help a small minority of those on the highest incomes

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I mean she's right but for the completely wrong reason

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Wonder if any other electoral results from the past 2 years will make it into the speech

Also there are still plenty of people aged above 24 who work in jobs that might now go to younger workers if there was a substantial cost incentive for businesses to shift, which would further reduce the imaginary savings from the welfare budget the opposition thinks will be paying for everything

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Youth unemployment might have risen a bit, but it's not exclusively down to NICs and rates for this group are always a bit higher than the national average, so that is a lot of people who will see their incomes cut by these proposals and that will mean poverty or family spreading incomes more thinly