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Anti-austerity, anti-fascist. Mostly social science. Send me data.

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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Writing off their assets & simultaneously writing off an equal debt destroys that money. You'd just shrink the money supply. Is that what you intended? Surely better to spend the money doing something they'd hate. Fund social programs, perhaps?
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Money is created by bank lending and/or government spending. Therefore government can create money. It doesn't have to be inflationary (tho it can be). "There's no money for..." usually means "I don't support creating money for..."
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
OK, I'll bite. What inconsistencies?
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Replace "Republicans" with "ruling class" and you've got a pretty bulletproof social theory.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
With respect, I'd like to see this figure confirmed from a more objective source.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
And this is the book the Times are reporting on.
orbooks.com
The Fraud
Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir St...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2025
The UK doesn’t have First Amendment free speech protections, but the Brits don’t GAF‼️
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Highly sus Yankee behavior has freaked out sensible and cautious Finns… who now save 7.3% of their income! This is a nation that fears the future.
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Petition: Higher tax on income of £400,000, and exit tax if they move to another country petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... Deadline 6 November
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Tax wealth, increase wages & benefits - economy boosted Give money to wealthy, disappears off-shore - economy fails "TUC hits back at banking boss who suggested public-sector pay should be curbed because the economy falling" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/its-...
morningstaronline.co.uk
‘It’s time for a grown-up conversation about taxing wealth’
UNIONS called for a “grown-up conversation” about taxing wealth, banks and gambling companies today, after data showed Britain’s economy has flatlined.The TUC also hit back at a banking boss for sugge...
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yelling at you, in fact.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I'd like to hear GS & RM in dialogue. RM needs to tell GS about MMT & GS needs to point out some of the hurdles that have to be jumped before MMT can change UK policy. Of course, both of them might consider the Chicago Plan, full-reserve banking, everlasting tokens & 'debt-free' money...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We live in the age of Rancid Capitalism where you are charged more and more for services that don't work because the same people own them all and there is no choice. There is only one solution destroy the system and get rid of the parasites in charge.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Link broken.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sign the @divideclass open letter demanding action on education and inequality in Brighton & Hove: www.classdivide.co.uk/take-action-...
classdivide.co.uk
Support our open letter on education inequity — Class Divide
Sign our open letter calling for urgent action to address education inequality in Brighton & Hove. Add your name and stand for change.
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Stop School Cuts @schoolcuts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her funding plans for schools through to 2029.  And thanks to you -- we won back billions for schools.  There's a long way to go. But today, we're celebrating a win for schools.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
My only problem with Bluesky is that, as a UK resident who mostly follows UK accounts, I nevertheless get deluged with US posts. I can't bear Trump, but I have a limited appetite for being told over & over what a bellend he is.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#China’s share of USTs outstanding is at a 20y low, chart @MorganStanley
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Can anyone tell me what this article argues? I can't get round the paywall. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Do you think she'll offer parents some kind of bung to help them out? All I anticipate is that she'll pretend there's WEF plot to replace British kids with woke kids from China...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This was a conscious, deliberate project by Osborne and Cameron, not for any real reason but because it struck them as the type of things Tories should do. The political/media class jointly crushed and annihilated the anti-austerity movement that grew organically to resist it, working hand in hand.
Can't tell you how often I hear versions of what Vicky said here "I don't live now. I just survive"
-consistently since the pandemic phrase like "I just live to work and work to live" or "there's nothing left over for the fun stuff in life" & it's a key driver of national misery
Luke Tryl @LukeTryl•22h
Many we spoke to were deeply unhappy with the status quo, particularly the cost of living which they felt wasn't getting better. Vicky explained "The way we're living now, it's ridiculous. I'm getting up at my age still at half past four in the morni... Show more
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The most disillusioned are often those, who are keeping their head above water, they can (literally) keep the lights and heating on - but have to tell their kids to put treats back in the supermarket or can't go on a day trip.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Well it would sure help if there was literally any economic incentive for people to have kids.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Bank chiefs to Reeves: Ditch ring-fencing to boost UK economy. Speculative part of banking was ring-fenced from retail after the 2007-08 crash to contain crashes. Most post-crash reforms now reversed, govts push deregulation. Playing with fire. People will bear the cost of reckless practices.
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Bank chiefs to Reeves: Ditch ring-fencing to boost UK economy
The bosses of HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander UK have told the chancellor the moment has come to abolish bank ring-fencing in an explosive letter obtained by Sky News.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It's perfectly clear. They were cheesed off about THEIR OWN kids having to mask up. They don't give a stuff about SOMEONE ELSE'S kids being deported. "Tragedy is when I cut my little finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." Mel Brooks
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Dame Rainbow Warrior @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The #dollars that flow abroad in trade do not disappear. They are used in cross-border trade or to purchase US financial assets such as UST, corporate #equities and #bonds and foreign direct investments, chart (pivotal) @NordeaMarkets
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Truly mad that this is not more widely understood. Inflation is not just about tariffs and interest rates. Climate change is also driving inflation - and it is not going away. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli
As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
And it shows...
thecanary.co
Labour has had FOUR times the private healthcare donations of every other party
Evidently, the private healthcare sector thinks Labour is the right horse to back for advancing its interests, namely NHS privatisation
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Starmer is exactly the same over here. Promise nothing, deliver nothing - or less.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Nice. Great price tag.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Andy Burnham, "The country took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s" "It's left people in a situation where the essentials of life, water, homes, electricity, buses, rail, these are way expensive compared to everywhere else in Europe" "It's about fixing that and turning it around"
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Fine. The data is useful, thanks.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
He'd also cheer his finance pal profiteers shorting steel firms or pvt equity mates asset-stripping them. The idea he has any idea how to run steel manufacturing competently is just absurd.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Just checking, but the chart doesn't show the US$ share of FX reserves, just the value of the $ relative to some key currencies.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Manufactured mistrust, paving the way for dismantling government & freeing oligarchy to own everyone.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
If the investors were American, DD would be singing a different tune.
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barney farmer @barneyfarmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s just like Twitter in the early days, only everyone is middle-aged or just plain old, and exhausted.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
After all that effort to bring down used-car prices — and #CPI along with it. Auto insurance should be fun, too. 🤡 @steventdennis.bsky.social @cargurus.bsky.social www.cargurus.com/research/pri...
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#Austerity was always about crushing the spirits of the working class, to dispel the fear they cd demand real change after the GFC blew up any remaining logic left in finance capitalism.
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