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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 4h

Because the establishment media is only interested in attacking the left, and in this case, the strongest angle of attack available is to attack @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens for not winning the seat.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The breakfast cereal should have been called wokey wakey flakes.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The actual solutions include a) Increasing economic capacity, as you suggested b) Increasing competition to reduce market power. c) Empowering unions to balance employer market power in labour markets (a subset of b). d) Windfall profit taxes e) Weber suggests short term price controls 5/5

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Using monetary policy to reduce cost push or sellers inflation a) risks damaging the economy, by deflating an economy that already has insufficient demand and b) is ineffective. johnmenadue.com/post/2023/07... 4/?

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not aware of anywhere in the world currently experiencing demand pull inflation. The cost of living crises being experienced in many countries are due to supply shocks related to wars, and market concentration allowing sellers inflation. 3/?

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reducing demand via increasing interest rates only safely addresses demand pull inflation. As the first link explains 'The problem with using higher interest rates is that although it will reduce inflation it could lead to a big fall in GDP.' 2/?

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is only partially true. There are two type of inflation, demand pull and cost push. www.economicshelp.org/blog/2006/ec... Cost push has a related subset of sellers inflation. www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/... 1/?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026

I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...

dmitryopines.substack.com

On Legitimate Concerns

Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The problem is that the author uses left and Labor left interchangeably, when they are two different things.

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We need to start treating these claims by Farage as 'Farage cries wolf again'.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a UK article, but applies equally to Oz. Using monetary policy to address cost push inflation risks doing more harm than good to the wider economy in the long term. bsky.app/profile/jomi... @jomichell.bsky.social

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Rather than merely wanting to hold fascism at bay, Weber wants to marshal a whole-of-society effort to stamp out the conditions that enable it in the first place." 📚A thoughtful review of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis in The Sling.

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It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The Sling

Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 21/09/2026

The far right is winning because people are scared for the future. The left has to combat this fear head on by showing that decline is not inevitable. Another world is possible - but only if we can take on the power of capital. Me for @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/opinion/econ...

euractiv.com

Economic hardship doesn't create the far right. But it wins them supporters | Euractiv

It is the fear of loss – not the experience of it – that activates the authoritarian reflex. That sense of decline has become pervasive

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The council is paying around 3 times what it would cost to employ the security guards directly. Who are they paying that to? 2/2

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There could be another explanation. Who is supplying the security guards? £150000 for a 3 month trial works out at £600,000 a year for 6 security guards, so they cost £100,000 a year each. An online check of security guard salaries in Colchester shows £30 - 38k. 1/2

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 12/09/2026

In the U.K. some of the most coherent political points are being made by a bin whilst our PM still seems to have his microphone muted.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UK govts don't lack resources to improve the quality of life. Even if it does not embrace modern monetary theory, borrow, or hike taxes, it can harvest billions by eliminating tax, legal and fiscal policy anomalies. Some suggestions are in the linked article. Poverty is a political choice.

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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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mikedugdale.bsky.social @mikedugdale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He invites someone from the Mail to come out and talk and generously offers that they can stand behind the police officers so that they feel safe. Is he admitting that his gang of thugs are threatening?

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You're clearly not having a good faith discussion. Bye bye

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As you seem to be more concerned with the messenger than the message, I'll try a different messenger - Doctors Association UK. 'these are just two of many examples. 'UK–grown consortium put in an alternative bid.' The UK already has alternatives to Palantir. 2/2 unredacted.uk/downloadPDF....

Superior alternatives lie within the
NHS’s grasp.

There are recent, extremely encouraging
examples of successful NHS projects
which have been developed along these
lines.

OpenSAFELY is a Trusted Research
Environment developed through
collaboration between the Bennett
Institute for Applied Data Science at the
University of Oxford, the LSHTM EHR
research group, TPP and EMIS, and NHS
England/NHSX. It’s secure, open–source,
transparent, and has delivered major
contributions to public health during the
COVID–19 pandemic. Although designed
for research, openSafely’s architecture is
a national model that is worth expanding
and replicating. But instead it is
reportedly struggling to secure onward
funding – perhaps because the £480m to
Palantir would usurp its functionality.

OneLondon has created a shared data
environment for healthcare services
covering some 9 million Londoners, which
underpins the London Care Record which
enables a range of health and care staff to
access the latest details about a patient
when they need it.

The new study from Imperial College
London also highlights that these are just
two of many examples. While there is
certainly a job to do in tidying up flows
and improving consent, as the study
shows, there are extensive data flows
and data assets in the NHS. In this sense
Palantir’s system will largely duplicate –
sit on top of – data flows which already
exist.

Even within the flawed, over–centralised
framework of the FDP, a UK–grown
consortium put in an alternative bid. The
consortium included companies such as
Voror Health Technologies, Eclipse and
Black Pear with a much more extensive
track record of working with health
data, and with the NHS, than Palantir.
This consortium fell at the first hurdle
– perhaps inevitably given Palantir’s
incumbent advantage, well–resourced
lobbying operation, and well–placed
cheerleaders within government.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An article with links to supporting documents. 'Leaked internal NHS documents have revealed that Palantir software is 10 times slower than alternative tools.' 1/2

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You asked why there aren't UK competitors, I showed you that there are UK competitors.

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy had an article from @doctorow.pluralistic.net yesterday talking how dominant businesses maintain their lead by making it hard for customers to leave, rather than providing better products. pluralistic.net/2026/09/06/h...

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Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here @stephenkb.bsky.social seeks to remind the Labour government, old & new, that the point + purpose of recognising "legitimate concerns" about immigration was to understand how to differentiate these from *illegitimate concerns* rooted in intimidation + xenophobia www.ft.com/content/2279...

ft.com

Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery

A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse

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iclee3.bsky.social @iclee3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's also astonishing that the people who want asylum seekers to go away never ask themselves 'what makes people leave generally warm, sunny countries to go to what is known as a cold, rainy country? Maybe if we fixed that, they would stop coming.'

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In which I name the guilty men & their determination to use 'blackshirts' & the far right to destroy democratic demands for wealth taxes and other forms of financial regulation. annpettifor.substack.com/p/the-guilty...