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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember wanting to leave the Labour party a year or so ago, then remembering I already had, over Starmer's stupid anti-migrant bollocks. I really wanted to leave the Green party today, then remembered I already had a few months ago, over exactly this kind of empty, dangerous sixth-form bullshit.

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Justin @jlentini09.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shared by a woman I would've used a steak knife

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Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This must count as one of the most moving things ever to be broadcast. Even thinking of it brings a tear to my eye.

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Ekithump @ericaceous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh dear Bluesky, I do hope you can buck up soon and start working again!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Putting your principles first.

In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Davy Jones was the original Broadway Artful Dodger in 1963. And it's all there with added psychedelic brilliance.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Biden had covid during the debate. He fumbled, and everyone said he had to go. Trump lied about 9/11 and crickets.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...

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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.

a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.

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Ekithump @ericaceous.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The govt needs to shout about this

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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I revere Dolly Parton much as I do Fred Rogers. They’re people who made it their life goal just to be gentle and kind to everyone that they met. They are prime examples of how we all should behave and live our lives.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Due to Dolly Parton’s kids reading program for local libraries, my home county in Ohio saw children’s reading rates skyrocket from one of the lowest in the state to the top I cannot think of a better way to be remembered than to inspire whole generations to seek imagination, empathy, and curiosity

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Ekithump @ericaceous.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yep, that’s just lovely. What a woman

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Timeline literally 100% united, many not even having to say her name. What a brilliant way to live your life. RIP

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah this is a huge issue. Doesn't have to be written exams, it can be vivas or presentations - but the status quo isn't viable.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From an essay on the 1970s I wrote a while back:

grew up north of San Francisco in an atmosphere where, once you were twelve or so, hippie dudes in their
thirties started to offer you drugs and neck rubs that were clearly only
the beginning— and it was immensely hard to refuse them. There were
no grounds. Sex was good; everyone should have it all the time; anything
could be construed as consent; and almost nothing meant no, including
“no.” Those who remember feminists as being angrily anti-sex during the
1980s don’t recall the huge task they undertook— and undertook successfully— of pointing out that, like everything else, sex involves power; power is distributed unequally; and unequal power not uncommonly deteriorates into exploitation.
It was the culture. Rock stars were open about their liaisons with un-
derage groupies, and forty-something Woody Allen had cast underage
Mariel Hemingway as his love interest in his film Manhattan (1977). In
1978, Louis Malle released Pretty Baby, in which a then-eleven-year-old
and sometimes unclothed Brooke Shields played a prostitute. (Two years
earlier, Playboy Press had published nude photographs by the aptly named Gary Gross of a painted, vamping Shields at the age of ten in a book titled Sugar and Spice. In 1978, British photographer David Hamilton published Young Girl, a collection of prettily prurient photographs of half-undressed pubescent girls; as Hamilton’s stock-in-trade for years, these images were everywhere as posters and books. On February 1, 1978, forty-four-year-old film director Roman Polanski decided to skip bail and headed for France after being charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl he had plied with champagne and Quaaludes. (His implied excuse was that everyone was doing it.) Some defended him on the grounds that the girl looked fourteen.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"but now that we've got the recipe...is there any reason for any more of them to stay?"

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Rowan Atkinson Immigration

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It remains likely that visible arrivals will be reported + that less visible trends will go under-reported on this major theme. There has yet to be a BBC online analysis piece on the key theme "why have small boat crossings fallen - by over a third/nearly half - and will it be sustained"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Laila Cunningham is just awful. Nothing about this is appealing

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It breaks my mind that Trump saying a deal is close with Iran still secures one of five news slots in a BBC radio bulletin. He's fucking said this for months guys. Months. None of it means anything.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Imagine being a trillionaire but still spending all your time trying to get people to like your posts.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Who was it who was responsible for the Belfast attacker being granted the right to stay in the UK on a 5 year visa? Answer: Suella Braverman as Tory Home Secretary & Robert Jenrick as Immigration minister. Who have now defected to Reform & are whipping up racism, hatred & othering immigrants.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A few people campaigning / focus grouping in Makerfield have told me that even Reform supporters have brought up that Farage going against the wishes of Nowak's family made them uneasy. So these statements are both brave and important.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Since the summer of 2024, Nigel Farage, convicted criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and billionaire racist Elon Musk have been *DIRECTLY* responsible for £tens, possibly hundreds of millions of damage to property and for the fracturing of UK society by means of inciting riot. 1/2

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