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Immunopolitics

@immunopolitics.bsky.social
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UK-Based Immunology academic interested in Anti-vaccine movements, pseudoscience, misinformation and their impacts on politics and economics.

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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Currently we are going absolutely exponential in our buildout of renewables and storage due to marginal pricing. Unlinking them slows down the transition massively and is unfair on renewables operators, if you producing 1 mW of electricity, you should be able to sell it at the market rate of 1mW.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This has been their campaign material, it's pure populism.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is also some of their campaign material. Hannah Spencer has also said they will be lowering energy bills by nationalising energy and water. Absolute fantasy populist lies
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Nope, but saying Sanchez is some electoral hero when he will likely be replaced by a far right spanish coalition is disingenuous
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It was on purpose, Jon Van Reenen who advises HMT has written about increasing the cost of labour to boost productivity for a while, and that appears to have happened.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Polls tighten in the UK and there's 3 years to go. Politics pre 2022 was easy mode, either a table situation or an external enemy to tackle with COVID and gigantic fiscal stimulus. Everyone is suffering now unless they have an external threat to galvanise people around like Canada.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
And yet Sanchez is suffering in the polls and the next Spanish government looks to be very right wing.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Nearly every single one of those has become policy. Do yourself a favour and use an LLM as a search engine, put in "has Labour worked on any of these, find me sources"
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hi Tom, really loved The Death of Expertise and have put it on the reading lists for one of my modules! As a forpol expert, what do you think of these predictions I made at the start of Trump’s 2nd term? I'm curious how obvious these were, or if I should play the lottery! Ty bsky.app/profile/immu...
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
8) Good chance of significant instability in South America during his presidency, Venezuela has designs on Guyana, Argentina still experimental changes, etc. I mostly see him clash with Maduro, but Lula also. Elon will have his ear on this.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
7) He will try to buy Greenland again, and threaten Denmark with Tarriffs or maybe threaten Ozempic sales or production. RFK et al. Will have his ear on this.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
6) On Trumps “peace” plan, Putin will see the enjoy the offer of accepting his land grab and spending 4 years rebuilding his army capability to fully go for Ukraine and then Moldova. The Ukrainians rightfully won’t accept it and Trump will laud them and the EU as warmongers.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
5) Antifa” labelled a domestic terrorist group, this legislation is then used to go after left wing groups and paint a domestic enemy within. Destroying “Antifa” will be the number one priority for the administration at some points.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Unfortunately, Greens also collaborate with particular fascist groups, especially those in east Donbass where members have bisited before to meet "Comrades in the struggle against capitalism". And also blamed Ukraine and NATO for their own invasion
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Why? Greens economic policy makes no sense and they are deeply unpopular with most of the electorate with an abysmal foreign policy
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Scotland runs 12% deficits thanks to the fiscal transfers it gets back. One of the highest deficits in the world. You're welcome to that going if you want.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're on track to vote in Farage....
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Well not cost of capital so much as making the conditions for business investment in capital easier, alongside public sector capital investment which has been increased. Already early signs of productivity boost, task now is getting the labour capacity into new roles. www.ft.com/content/734f...
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UK records rare burst of productivity growth, think-tank says
Resolution Foundation estimates output per hour worked rose 1.6% over past year
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I think this was somewhat anticipated within government though, as John Van Reenen had spoke about raising the cost of employment but loosening the cost of capital as a productivity boost. See this from Jan 2025 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
On a one man mission to do this for my bioscience students. I get students to model average returns of index funds vs cash savings rates over many years as part of their microbial growth curves seminars to learn exponentials and R. A not so subtle hint is given towards S+S ISAs 😁
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It's a nation where the landed gentry were the upper class, and property ownership is seen as the way to financial success. Thatchers right to buy scheme, financial deregulation and low housebuilding rates cemented this as gospel truth in our largest and most politically powerful generation
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hi James, some interesting pre-budget polling from More In Common today. The public view the Winter Fuel Allownace being means tested as a worse scandal than Partygate and the Mini Budget. The majority of people also believe we're in a recession and that the Cost of Living crisis is permanent.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thr public view Winter Fuel Allowance being means tested as a worse political scandal than Partygate and the Mini-Budget.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yeah, that and the infrastructure spending uplift are so worth it for me. It's the single biggest growth policy introduced in decades.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It's the electorate that votes that is pretty bigoted tbh. More of the electorate think illegal immigration is higher than legal immigration.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
But they cut the muscle, in the form of infrastructure spending, education etc., whilst increasing the fat of pension spending and healthcare which is increasingly an economic blackhole of spending resources keeping non-working people alive to spend even more resources keeping them alive later.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Where she complains about immigration into Britain from muslim countries as she chose to live under Sharia Law 😂
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What do you mean by democratic values? There's plenty policy overlap between Lib Dem and Labour where they can work together. Lib Dems would be much closer to Labour than the Greens in policy.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Why? They're a liberal party that believes in a smaller state. If anything they're closer to Labour than the Greens, and sit between Labour and the Tories.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Ignored the demand and curtailment prevention argument completely. It is a superb tool for intermittent demand and balancing the grid.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Not really, carbon capture is CapEx that was included in revised fiscal rules and provides jobs as companies can offset carbon directly via funding capture. It's biggest use is as an intermittent demand tool to prevent curtailment of renewables and economically capture power surges.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Wrote about the deficit-populism doom loop. Imagine you are the finance minister of a European country. You lie awake at night worrying about bondholders. Your colleagues fret about the electoral success of the hard right. What are your options? www.economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com
Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Budapest memorandum 2.0. Will be adhered to as much as the last one.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I think that during the Corbyn years, neither faction had to deal with policy failure, just political failures. The centre right has been tarnished as completely failed after 14 years, so the hard right wins out much more easily.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
It is increasingly impossible for good things to happen for people who are very online, as social media works on feeding misery and anger to drive engagement. These people, on the left and the right, want to have their anxiety and misery validated, so good things cause visceral reactions and pessism
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Yes mate, there's a really easy "join EU" lever that immediately fixes things they won't pull because they are actually evil and deliberately want to harm us for all the support Labour currently get from right wing newspapers.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14/06/2025
A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
How to destroy the rental market with this one SIMPLE trick LANDLORDs (and economists, the treasury and tenants who will be evicted en masse) HATE.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
To stupid demands.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
An American lecturing others on healthcare 😭😭 Go back to raising money on your GoFundMe for your treatments. Your daddy Trump just gutted MedicAid 😂😂
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We currently invest far, far more of our economic output into healthcare spending and investment than when Atlee was overseeing ethnic detention camps in colonies and created the NHS. We literally spend well over double the % of GDP on healthcare 😂😂🤣 Such a giga brained economist you are.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
10th percentile is the lowest earners, 90th the highest.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great, we just need the Marshall plan and a vast dying empire to squeeze the last bits of resources from.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We also announced £25.6 billion uplift in extra healthcare spending at the autumn budget.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
No one knows how local and national government works so Reform will just blame Labour.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
About the giga brain take I expect given their support for what they must think is Putin's revolutionary war against the evil Nazi Ukrainian-US axis. Also very pro CCP, because worker's rights or something?
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The real fun is looking how much it is going down in other currencies 😁. So much winning!
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A good step, but unfortunately an American intelligence service could have the deepest, most profound psychological profile, know every move, wish, purchase and connection of any politician or diplomat who has used American tech. Every European government is deeply reliant on Microsoft tech.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
When the RMT is led by a Brexity pro-Russian anti-european who cozies up to fascists in the Donbass it's no wonder they find kindred spirits... www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-1...
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Eddie Dempsey and the misogynistic warlord
I want to add something to the crucial points Becky Crocker made about Eddie Dempsey in Solidarity 519. The photo, from 2015, is Dempsey visiting Aleksey Mozgovoy, uber-misogynistic paramilitary leade...
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As a lowly paid academic, it is incredible how catastrophically stupid a lot of big money was up to the inauguration. Pricing in that Trump was going to just do tax cuts and not be completely unhinged, even when his cabinet picks were coming in like Navaro and he was no stop going on about tariffs.
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