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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 11h
you know who else seldom went to Church? (Jesus And Hitler And Danny Tommy)
theguardian.com
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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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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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of it or just a boner part?
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Inform, Fornicate and Entertain"
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
nationaltrust.org.uk
Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Any excuse to repost Penny Rimbaud, as he became, meeting and upstaging John Lennon.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWbK...
observer.co.uk
Inside an open house in Epping founded on radical kindness
An anarchist punk legend opened his Essex farmhouse to strangers. Nearly 60 years later, the experiment is still alive
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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crying because Chewy just refunded me $200 for Loki’s veterinary diet food that was delivered the day before he died with their deepest condolences for losing him. They aren’t even making me return it. Going to donate it to a cat who needs it. 🥺
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No offence to whomever this Wall Street man is, but surely Omega is looming a lot larger on his horizon - not the watch, (he's wearing something much more expensive and dumber than that) - the last letter of the Greek alphabet. (Death, i mean death)
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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries
readingmuseum.org.uk
Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries
Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@harikunzru.bsky.social i read and enjoyed 'Blue Ruin', your novel set in the Art world. I'm assuming the reflective logo on the spine is an homage to seminal children's TV art show 'Vision on'
the logo for 70s TV art show 'vision on' which is those words reflected as if in a mirror and turned through 90 degrees to create a cute bug like character. the frontispiece of hari kunzru's novel 'blue ruin'
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A bunch more Asos style tracksuits, priced at £3500, should fix it.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He didn't get to where he is today by not getting executives to sign a document to change the name of 'artificial intelligence' to super intelligence'.
characters david and tony from 70s uk sitcom 'the fall and rise of reginald perrin'
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
London's collapsing bridges gives s perfect opportunity to rebuild the glories of Nonsuch House, and also to limit the traffic of vagabonds and thieves from the stews of Bermondsey (and, if its not a tautology, management consultants from Clapham)
nonsuch house in 1579, a glorious building straddling London Bridge across the River Thames
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I did wonder what she was up to
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🛰Satle #312 1/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ satle.ca Look upon my work oh mighty Zeus and tremble!
satle.ca
Satle - A daily geography puzzle
Satle is a Wordle-like geography game where you have 6 tries to guess the city based on satellite images. A new puzzle is available each day.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hats off to whomever at Goalhanger ensures that we can hear an email notification pinging up from one of the host's phones in every episode. Cementing the brand value that these are two old fogeys who don't know how to switch their 'phones off.
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Assuming the first of Tom's legitimate questions was 'How much?'
bbc.co.uk
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Lord Watson praises his new employers but says there are "legitimate questions" about big tech firms that "require answers".
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The original Creators - finally on Youtube www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcast-in...
broadcastnow.co.uk
The Wombles find new life on YouTube
US audience modelling company Chronicle seals partnership for classic UK family brand
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ive just sold one of my (3) copies of Prog House classic Tag Decor's 'Passion' for £90, and am spending the proceeds on a first edition of Philip Larkin's 'High Windows'. Another bond and gesture pushed to one side.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It really takes some doing to be the shiftiest looking man in a photo, when you're sharing it with Farage.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Deep burn on Amol Rajan from the BBC's Matt Chorley. Also, he's right "I spoke to the Radio Times about Newsnight moving to 7pm on Fridays, and how I find being at the BBC “weirdly freeing” rather than the exhausting process of rustling up hot new fresh takes for the podcast numbers."
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me, hearing about China Miéville's new 1200 page novel "Thanks for all that writing but me, im more of a reader"
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Even though he looks like the dodgy cop from 'Ludwig', he's not wrong.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A Republican supports Republicans
independent.ie
‘It would be a great thing’ – Donald Trump would ‘love to see’ a unified Ireland
President Connolly gifts Donald Trump set of poems including one titled ‘Ceasefire’
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 11/09/2026
Assistant Chief Gerald A. Barbara, head tilted back, taking in the burning towers. The frame is quiet. Whatever he was calculating, he finished the math and went in. He didn't come out. That's the whole story of that morning in one man, one glance, one decision most of us will never have to make.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wordle 1,910 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Its the least important thing, but UnderArmour is an absolutely snide choice for the Top Boy in any firm. Even for getting the early flight to Alicante.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the new Inbetweeners movie sounds great.. "When Terry comes back home after serving the army for several years, he finds out that Bob is going to marry his girlfriend Thelma. Will things get awkward between the three?"
bbc.co.uk
New Inbetweeners film confirmed by Netflix as lead stars return
Netflix has confirmed the original stars of the coming-of-age sitcom are set to reprise their roles for the film.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This might well be the closest thing we have to real magic in this world
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The Economist @economist.com · 05/09/2026
Last year teenage homicides in England’s capital fell to their joint lowest level (similar to 2012) in almost 30 years. Thank London’s mayor
bit.ly
London’s approach to knife crime is working
Sadiq Khan has mainstreamed a public-health approach that was previously fringe
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good Heavens. One of us is too old for this shit. Possibly both.
A picture of a man in his 40s launching his personal brand.  its Amol Rajan and god help us all.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Im going to build a pointlessly complicated shed, and theres not a thing you can do about it.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
John French Tania Mallet with Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames: Speedy Acquaye, Peter Coe, Bill Eyden, Georgie Fame & Glen Hughes London, 1960s
Fame stands next to the model, with his group, some with their instruments, standing around them
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
29 years ago today i was at Euston Station at dawn, watching a man destroy the postcard racks outside WH Smith, full of postcards of Diana and the Royals, because it was disrespectful to her memory. The train conductor insisted on a minutes silence before telling us that the buffet car was closed.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 30/08/2026
Larry Tucker Band - What You Won't Do For Love [US, Soul] (1979) -- superb cover of the Bobby Caldwell original on a '70s wedding party redd.it/2qx5mm youtu.be/ZEJ1ZDcxorY
youtu.be
Larry Tucker Band - What You Won't Do For Love [US, Soul] (1979) -- superb cover of the Bobby Caldwell original on a '70s wedding party
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ludwig is losing viewers, and its entirely because the character said 'quite unique' in episode two. Something that this character simply wouldn't do. I'm surprised that David Mitchell, the actor, said it. It's still to be seen what damage this will do to his personal brand.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I hope Faber have done some rigourous fact checking on Augustine's 'Confessions.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 24/08/2026
Britain's productivity revival is real, if it you measure it properly. Services are driving the pickup, after having fallen furthest in previous years ⤵️ buff.ly/2CT8pyE
chart showing Average within-industry contribution to four-quarter growth in GVA per job, by sector: UK, 2016 Q1-2019 Q4, 2022 Q3-2024 Q2 and 2024 Q3-2026 Q2
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Splendid news that Eyam Moor has been gifted to the nation by its owners. 600 acres will now be managed by @derbyswildlife.bsky.social.
derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust secures its largest landmark site with a massive 600-acre boost for nature in the Wild Peak | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
The Trust has secured its largest single land acquisition for nature and people to date with 600 acres at Eyam Moor. The site represents one of the most significant landscape-scale nature recovery opp...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Exclusive: Water companies responsible for 59 serious incidents in six months www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
channel4.com
Exclusive: Water companies responsible for 59 serious incidents in six months
Despite the lack of rainfall here, water monopolies in England are on course to record their worst ever year for pollution.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Home Office Secretary Chris Philp, in high-vis police jackets enjoy a photo opportunity.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/07/2026
‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban
theguardian.com
‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban
Allowing use of two neonicotinoids to combat crop-ruining disease will kill bees and reduce harvests, union says Beekeepers and environmentalists in France have reacted furiously after parliament approved a bill reauthorising two banned pesticides scientists say can poison bees. “There are no words to describe the frustration,” said Carolyn Bouguet, a beekeeper in Essonne, greater Paris. “Bee populations have already been badly compromised by climate change, new parasites and loss of habitat. And now this.” Continue reading...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
OMG I could spend weeks and months here!
peter-guillam123.github.io
PlotLines - the classics, mapped
Every journey in the book, played out on a genuine period map - out-of-copyright novels and plays, followed stop by stop from Frankenstein to Shakespeare.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Morning
Meme: a flooffy cat lying down and looking at camera, labelled ‘himalayan’. Below, the same breed of cat standing, labelled ‘himawalkin’. An extremely childish ‘joke’. It amuses me enormously
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