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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s the conventional view, yes. It supports the ‘We British don’t do fascism and Mosley was never any real danger’ narrative. There is evidence that Mosley was on the up in 1939. www.jstor.org/stable/260327

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good news on GDP from the ONS this morning. Bad news that we still have to look on X to see it.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Though I still reckon there is a bit of room for manoeuvre here. If you cut employee NI and raised income tax by the same amount, most employees wouldn’t pay any more. When I tried it on the @theifs.bsky.social gizmo, I shifted 5p and got £15bn extra.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In which @robertshrimsley.bsky.social puts into words that nagging feeling I’ve been having. www.ft.com/content/122a...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These mind-blowing shocker stories just keep coming.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sunset across @warrenfarmnr.bsky.social and @brentriverpark.bsky.social. Boat moored up on the Grand Union full of people speaking Spanish and playing Euro-techno. We could almost be on holiday.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I still like this @mattwhittaker.bsky.social chart showing how deep the recessions were and how long it took us to recover.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This bit made me chuckle. (Larry Elliott was, and still is, a Brexiter.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is bang on. I have little confidence our new PM will break the pattern.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some good news on the economy, though every month I find myself wondering why the hell the government is still on X.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So AI may cause massive transformational disruption in organisations (and in the wider society) while still not delivering the leap in aggregate productivity we have been hoping for.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another paper by Marleen on how Gen AI is eroding the social fabric of organisations. If you've seen The Odyssey recently, you'll probably find the idea of 'GenAI Sirens' scarily amusing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’d recommend reading the whole paper. It’s not long and it’s not full of academic gobbledygook. But for those short of time, 3 things:

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It may not even break down silos. It creates different silos instead. Rather than people communicating across silos, they are communicating with AI and not talking to their colleagues.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fascinating piece this. You might not be interested in crime but crime is interested in you.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When they do, I hope they ask ‘WTF happened in the 2000s?’

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Of course it would eventually hurt the US but that’s never stopped Trump before.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Power-crazed dictators do this sort of thing.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.”

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I love it when somebody points out something “bleedin’ obvious” that nobody has noticed. Good piece by @pollymackenzie.bsky.social on saving the the high street. www.ft.com/content/f438...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s not due to AI, or to reallocation of labour from low productivity sectors. The recovery is broad based. No evidence that it’s down to AI either. “It’s hard to tell what is causing faster productivity growth – but that is a good problem to have.”

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There may, at long last, be a productivity revival underway, says @resolutionfoundation.org www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I hope he’s right about this though.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There is a tendency within conservatism to be more afraid of a government a little bit more left-wing than usual than they are of fascism. Fascists have never taken power anywhere without the collusion of at least some mainstream conservatives.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In Britain, the ‘good chaps’ theory of government died when Boris Johnson took office. We have been warned.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Interesting to see where the recent increase is coming from too.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is misleading too. He means we haven’t achieved that turn-of the century productivity growth since. But that was a bit of a blip even then.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Same is true for all Reform MPs. (It would be interesting to see how many constituencies this applies to generally.)

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They’ve changed it now but it’s not that much better. Still implies it’s achievable.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this for real though? A new level of corporate crap!

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So it wasn't an act. John Cleese WAS Basil Fawlty all along.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What…? You mean they went out…? Damn…..

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

About time. If ever a team deserved it….

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The establishment is not some woke ‘lanyard class’. The real establishment is rarely criticised because it can shut criticism down. It is immensely rich and powerful and you only realise it’s there when you challenge it. And Farage is right in the middle of it.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Rutland is being incorporated into what's left of Leicestershire again. I can't see that going down well either. Perhaps we should ask one of Rutland's foremost Marxist economists for comment. @chrisdillow.bsky.social www.rutland.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“What he doesn’t realise is that no one takes him seriously any more.”

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m not watching the nobody-gives-a-toss game on Saturday. UEFA abolished the 3rd place playoff after 1980 because they realised that nobody gave a toss.