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Walks, Cycles. Enthusiast for Geology. Perpetually learning modern Greek.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A calm and devastating critique
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck
He was angry, mainly, at all the attention that has been given to the highly unusual sources of his now-considerable wealth. But don't worry, hes definitely earned it.
"Going back to the Nineties, I was in the commodity markets and I had a very, very good, high-earning career," he explained. "I gave that up at a huge cost. Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years cost me a huge amount of money." Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years earned Nigel Farage about two or three million euros. He also, as luck would have it, will be 63 next year and so eligible for a nice little £80,000 a year pension for his dedicated service to Brussels.
Since then, he has, he explained,
"had the equivalent of a lottery win".
This lottery win is the f5m that appeared in his bank one morning, shortly betore he became an MP, and which he didn't think it would be necessary to declare to anyone.
The standards commissioner is investigating this matter so we don't wish to pre-empt his findings, but if he does conclude it was the
"equivalent of a lottery win", then the matter will surely be declared over. Until now, it hadn't been known that millions of other people had bought tickets from the Thai-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and one lucky man, called Nigel Farage, had been randomly chosen as the winner.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Worth a read. "Reform’s success should be read as a signal, not a sentence. It tells us that growth concentrated in London, credentials-dependent, invisible to millions of working people, is not working. People have now found a vehicle for saying so at scale and they should be heard."
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Reform’s rise is a productivity warning, not a culture war victory | LSE British Politics
Reform’s wins at the local elections have attributed to identity and culture wars. But Grace Lordan argues that it’s economics that explains the results.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 04/03/2026
What if AI just makes us work harder? as.ft.com/r/8481a3a6-8...
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What if AI just makes us work harder?
[FREE TO READ] Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do
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