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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 18h
you know who else seldom went to Church? (Jesus And Hitler And Danny Tommy)
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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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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Both started when Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die
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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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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I once got synchronised swimmer esther williams mixed up with R&b singer Esther Phillips on Toxteth Community Radio in the 80s. No licence fee, no problem
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The savings per hour here must Be minuscule. Martin Lewis has shown there’s a huge popular market for a consumer show. The BBC just isn’t innovative or outward looking.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we should all move to Monaco until he sorts this out.
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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
Was it your favourite post by him? can you list your top three.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Inform, Fornicate and Entertain"
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know a guy
the pied piper of Hamelin, from the 1957 film, and presumably before the idea of a grown man enticing a load of children to his lair under the mountain took on its modern, sinister meaning.  Or perhaps not.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They should give these lads a whirl.
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I'm The Captain Now Meme
ALT: I'm The Captain Now Meme
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exactly. It was the name of an ACTUAL BOAT that disappeared along with all crew on an 1845 mission to the unexplored regions of the earth. But hey, its also a noun so lets go with that....
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And True Detective but it gets a pass for boldness and excellent casting and world building.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Terror, which was an adaptation of a specific novel and great, and then became a generic catch all title for some lacklustre follow ups. A metaphor for what a lot of TV does now in the age of the streamer.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is less a job advert and more the plot of a Barbara Pym novel.
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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
yes, the deathless prose of Mr. Justice Caulfield at the 1987 trial
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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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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the best line associated with him is surely "has she not fragrance, has she not elegance" and he didnt even write it
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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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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wishing to understand all things by reason is, i believe, as much a heresy now as it was for Berengarius in the 11th Century.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Season of mists and Andy Goldsworthy
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
fewer calories...
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should chill out, relax with a Froe, yo.
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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 · 04/10/2026
I hope he doesnt reveal any of his influences. Who then go on to sue him for publishing rights.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stirring Stuff! I'm in!
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It gets closed down regularly, allegedly for overstepping the boundaries of what you can acceptably stuff, and how.
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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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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can meet you outside in the carpark now if that will help?
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
5.25 million vacant housing units. In the U.S. Census Bureau data compiled by LendingTree, these properties fall under the "Other Vacant" (or held off the market) category. Because they are not second homes, recreational rentals, or active inventory, they are completely stagnant
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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 · 02/10/2026
Is it about big sheep? I really hope its about a very big sheep.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
radiolento.podbean.com
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Radio Lento podcast | Hugh Huddy
Surround yourself with somewhere else. Captured quiet from natural places. Put the ”outside on” with headphones. Find us on Bluesky @RadioLento. Support the podcast on Ko-fi.
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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
if with friends in a restaurant, i will always answer 'hard work' on their behalf. And i never fight it.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Although, if we team up with Rockall, Ascension Island, South Georgia and Inaccessible island, that could form an economic powerhouse
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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 · 30/09/2026
not even Gavin Vernon?
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bankers are certain that there's NOTHING AI can't do cheaper, sorry, i mean better than a human...except er, banking. www.cityam.com/deloitte-uk-...
cityam.com
Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unisex me here....as Lady Macbeth originally said in the missing first folio
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
mutes thread. its easy to get into just reading stuff but i think i found this via your reccommendation and its some genuinely strange and lovely music that borders on lots of things i love and is yet, entirely itself....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNrRQiUdYsY
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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 · 29/09/2026
I enjoy your posts but Bluesky definitely has more folk who actively scorn or police 'reply guys'. Assuming thats the engagement you mean, rather than simple likes.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why has the Archers got so much worse lately?
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Its also the kind of thing that maybe the One Show or Broadcasting House on Radio 4 might be interested in as a story, and that could also involve digitising the tape for you.
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are lots of ex BBC folk who would have the expertise and the machinery and the respect for how precious recordings of such things are, to do this for you. A good start would be the BBC Alumni group on facebook and there are several other groups for eg wood norton and bbc sound dept.
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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 · 28/09/2026
Its time for the Marshes to reclaim the South. Open the barrier!
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gerard01.bsky.social @gerard01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Wile E. Coyote's Tunnel Illusion Fail
ALT: Wile E. Coyote's Tunnel Illusion Fail
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