labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Age yourself with a childhood crush (you say crush I say first love)static.klipy.comDallas Bobby EwingALT: Dallas Bobby Ewing 020
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...theguardian.com‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already leftTaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus 23353136
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 07/10/20261307 emails so far but no donate button. Perhaps you have to click through to that 120
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“His authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comZack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael BehrA toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr 000
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We can argue about the perverse incentives of cliff edges or whether £100k is actually that high a salary now. But fundamentally there is a disconnect. Universal benefits for the elderly, regardless of how many millions they may have in assets. No universal benefits for working parents 4395
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 431774674
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And no mention on R4 of the woman who he paid for sex and was publicly traduced. She died before being vindicated in his trial but said that he ruined her life. Her name was Monica Coughlan 030
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I lost friends over antisemitism in Labour. I tried to argue that the fact that people on the right were trying to use antisemitism as a weapon against Labour (and they were, in bad faith) did not mean that antisemitism did not exist in Labour (it did). This argument still echoes. 2245155
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In the simplest and most reductive way, the Uk political class seems to have resolved to pay 4% of gdp a year to investors to avoid raising taxes by 2% if gdp a year. It sounds mental when you put it like that but that’s actually the situation. 15513
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialSteven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The death penalty is barbaric and has no place in civilized society. 3928
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comJewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagoguesThe Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism 1615541
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 231354486
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialRob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@jamesomalley.co.uk The 'democratic control' over social housing is almost certainly about housing associations. They have a huge chunk of housing stock - are completely unaccountable (because they are legally charities) and are effectively feral companies. Knocking on doors in London there's... 274
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialmacbeth lines bot @macbeth-quotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Alas, poor country! / Almost afraid to know itself. (Ross, Act 4 - Scene 3) 021
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why do levels of immigration have anything to do with racism against people like me? This argument is totally nonsensical. I know she believes it but didn't live the 1980's here in places with few immigrants and loads of racism. It is a choice to allow racism under cover of "legitimate concerns" 020
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Most things she says are silly in most contexts 000
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is quite funny to be making big noises about changes to Vets to make the bills less expensive and then expel a bunch of Vets. How will this help the cost of living crisis? 010
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lying about the value before you put it on the market. So agent says the value is £300k, then you pay for home report which is £250k then agent intervenes to get it moved to £270k... it is mad! and of course £250 is much nearer the true value.. at which you wouldn't have tried to sell! Out £2k 000
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I get that but as seller you are massively out of pocket if lied to by the agent. Haven't lived in Scotland for 25 yrs and was caught by the changes. When I bought you got survey and confirmed funds as offer was considered binding. Couldn't pull out ten days before completion as happened to me! 111
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don't think so. I put a flat on the market in Edinburgh last year and was shocked at how corrupt the home report system was. Estate agents ringing up surveyors to increase value in home report by 20k! And then the seller has spent 2k to sell a flat on just as shonky a valuation as you get in England 120
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The good news is he won't have to pay any capital gains tax 120
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I look forward to this. @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s book is excellent and everyone should read it 010
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8 5296111
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights". 28461180
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It is not my normal reading material which is why it stood out. But it is pretty obvious why Jewish people would be alive to the dangers of having your citizenship removed because you theoretically have access to another nationality 130
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Totally! The reason I had lots of mates there is because I went to private school! And although pretty classist it is the place where my friends actually met and became friends with state educated people.. The Americans were a whole other thing though! 000
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They was a whole editorial in the Jewish Chronicle, I think by Stephen Pollard, about why it was bad. I think many Jews understood the danger of the precedent it set. 130
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was at Dundee 91-95 with lots of pals at St Andrews and there quite often! I was baffled then by the number of Americans. There were loads! And you should have heard what they said about Dundee and Dundee students to my face.. 100
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialKirsti M @heritage-meisie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trying to get a surgery with my MP to explain to her that the exemption for care workers won’t help me (she keeps sending me the same response saying she supports care workers) & am being ignored…I don’t think they understand in the slightest. 2648
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But most people told they had 10-15 year path to settlement would lose their legal status by 2030-31. Mahmood's draft policy was remigration by stealth for about a million people - by accident? By design? Just exempting care workers would be a Burnham remigration by stealth plan for 250k people. 45719
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialDavid Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No-one in the mainstream of Labour whether they would be described as more on the right like me or more on the soft left describes people as medicalised layabouts. For once fuck off and join the toriies is an appropriate response 3215
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If the government is offering 30 hours of free childcare why do these nurseries need £1.1 million of local gov subsidy? Could it be because the government doesn't pay the actual cost of the care? 000
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialPhilip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One day everyone is going to realise that Heathrow is never, ever, going to have a third runway and at last begin a useful discussion about Britain's airports.. www.ft.com/content/0206...ft.com 118516
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, we've apparently lifted the ban on right wing hooliganism so what's the point keeping the stable door bolted I guess 1024260
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is good but I would really like someone with this opinion to tell me what popular programs they think we should cut. I totally respect the argument that the state should do less (I don't agree with it) but no one ever clearly articulates what the things it should stop doing are. 020
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Braverman should be asked if she rejects Ed Miliband being English (Jewish European parents). It would be highly racialised to say "no, Jews can't be Englieh for 5-6 generations" which is her logic. But perhaos even more racist to say "Miliband yes, Sunak no" (on visible skin colour, not ancestry) 4628087
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.bbc.co.ukMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west. 1633079
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/20264/23 The distinction matters. A person does not stop being a person in distress because somebody believes they entered the sea illegally. Search and rescue is not an immigration hearing conducted offshore. The legal status of the person can be dealt with afterwards. First, you stop them dying. 338461
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialNick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI 301472413
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialthebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Feral lawless scum raising the next generation of lawless scum. 151
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialInstitute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 21/09/2026Both left and right agree that Capital Gains Tax (CGT) can be reformed to raise revenue while supporting investment and growth. It was Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson who first equalised CGT rates with income tax in the first place. 1/2 1105
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think this is broadly good but the defence of Rwanda spoils it. But the comments btl in the Times.. my word 000
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026Dario Amodei's biggest PR success might just have been convincing a huge portion of usually sceptical observers that he is a materially different character than Sam Altman. I wonder how much of their antipathy stems from their similarities, rather than their supposed differences? 4247
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has. 651940446
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialsianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I have a lot of thoughts about this terrible policy suggestion of criminalising parents for their children’s crimes. We need to be honest, it will disproportionately impact MOTHERS not parents - see similar offences such as truancy. And it therefore goes against repeated commitments to reduce 18722
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is what corruption looks like. And it is this kind of thing that makes people like my 84 year old, former Tory Dad say they are all in it for themselves. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comPalantir hires Tom Watson to fight left-wing campaign against US firmThe tech giant, which holds several public sector contracts, hopes that hiring the former Labour deputy leader will buy it a hearing in the Burnham government 010
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is fascism and no amount of language policing can change that. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... 26016
Reposted by @labcoatjoe.bsky.socialLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible 24865571
labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well Wandsworth are going to raise it by 94% so it is defacto removed for areas with the biggest cuts..This needed to happen but will be a bit painful all in one go. But we have been getting away with it in Wandsworth for ever so need to pay our fair share 100
