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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

fascinating development in the context of debates around AI, tech power & worker voice - meta (facebook) agrees trade union workplace access www.ft.com/content/f9dd... agree with @prospectunion.bsky.social that this is potentially the most transformative provision of the Employment Rights Act

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

the prospect of a vast proportion of the wealth generated being used by musk to fuel a race war across the globe would be a considerable negative externality. I wonder how UK investors have incorporated this into calculations of the value opportunity 🤔

headline from the Wall Street Journal reading "Elon Musk Trains His Political Chaos Machine on the UK"

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

brilliant Guardian editorial on the government's corporate reporting reforms - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "the question of what corporations are for is deeply political." Encouraging to see progressive media taking an interest in this topic.

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The Guardian view on the government’s corporate reforms: entrenching neoliberalism, not ending it | Editorial

Editorial: A recent consultation on corporate reporting prizes the interests of shareholders over society. It’s a step in the wrong direction

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

The Government is planning to abolish requirements for companies (including some of the UK's biggest employers) to publish CEO to worker pay gaps, & report on their pay & employment practices. Pretty vital info for unions & responsible investors. Surprising that a Labour govt is proposing this

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Government intends to appoint worker directors to the board of British Steel - questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat... possible 'straw in the wind' for democratisation of corporations and financial institutions more generally?

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

We have a new @shareaction.bsky.social essay by Catherine Howarth published today with @thefabians.bsky.social & foreword by @liambyrnemp.bsky.social arguing for stronger saver voice in pension fund governance

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Rather than being ideological, trusts & foundations are obsessed with evidence & impact (sometimes to the point of being quite bureaucratic/risk averse) His real gripe to is that the evidence tends to lead to policy solutions that would reduce the wealth & power of people like Brian Armstrong

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

‘School security industry’

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

contrarian World Cup take: Brazil still produce great players & play great football. Just had a rough draw/fine margins go against them 2 or 3 world cups in a row, which can happen to anyone

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

It says a lot that someone like Bernie Sanders, essentially a Euro-style social democrat, was almost a plausible US Presidential candidate (more so if elected on popular vote) How many Europeans would vote for US-style welfare/healthcare policies?

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford claims that Britain is the second most equal country in the world (as part of a LinkedIn rant about socialism) www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-d... source: a figure he found for UK 'gini coefficient' inserted into a table he read in a magazine.

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Lies, Damned Lies and Inequality

The unofficial Labour leadership campaign is now underway. The Makerfield by-election is an amuse-bouche ahead of the main event, which should occupy most of the summer.

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

Idk how effective this is: they keep saying Vance, Musk, Farage are interfering or whipping up division but don’t actually challenge the lies about two tier policing Perhaps that would give oxygen to the arguments but it feels a bit meek

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

the racism would be just as terrible if it could be compartmentalised, but it seems quite unlikely that someone this het up can run multiple large companies in a clear-headed and effective manner. Not a textbook example of board independence or shareholder stewardship...

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 30/03/2026

Nice piece on how boring the opening bits of the world cup will be. Unpopular opinion - they should have just expanded to 64 teams to maintain a sense of jeopardy in the group stage www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Drink in the jeopardy of the World Cup playoffs, it’s the last we’ll get for a while | Jonathan Wilson

The bloated nature of this summer’s 48-team tournament mean Tuesday’s games will be the best we see until the round of 16

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026

Could a UK/European leader carry on like Trump and still enjoy this much support? When I lived in US, anti-government zealotry, money in politics, & jingoism re: superpower status felt enormously culturally/politically influential in a way they're just not over here. Kind of under-discussed...

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026

one of many interesting things about this piece is the way 'more left wing' is taken to mean 'more taxing/spending' So much Labour could do on governance, ownership & corporate accountability in the name of a greener, more equal economy without affecting taxes or spending...

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

Suspect that what he rly means is not ‘no introspection’ but ‘no compassion’ - so no (or much less) welfare state, progressive taxation, civil & employment rights Just doesn’t have the minerals to say he’d prefer an economic model closer to feudalism, so says something intensely dumb instead

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

is it crazy to think that the economic damage this could do to Europe (to the possible benefit of far right parties) is part of the attraction of the Iran campaign for the US administration?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

One casualty of the racialisation of class: people fail to recognise that most Bangladeshi and Pakistani people in Britain are working class That they have the highest rates of poverty And that historically economic and related factors have been the key driver of their voting behavior

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

interesting regulatory priority, on the day Reform say that working conditions in Amazon warehouses and the standard of privately rented homes are, in fact, overly-regulated

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

This is fairly important context to the bullying over Greenland The UK and EU should ponder whether bowing to pressure from US corporations and government officials over our economic and business policies is really in our interest www.insurancejournal.com/news/interna...

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Europe Agrees to Drastic ESG Cuts After US Pressure Intensifies

The European Union reached a tentative deal to slash ESG requirements, as the bloc faces intensifying pressure from the US to rein in such rules amid

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

@specsaversuk.bsky.social great service from your team in Lewisham helping me replace some glasses that got nicked recently, particularly Belinda - above and beyond!

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...

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Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain's Poor

Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 08/12/2025

Some business lobby concerns about the Employment Rights Bill and the day one right to protection from dismissal were understandable, but the hysteria about very unimposing trade union rights embarrasses their entire argument

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

Surprising that the House of Lords was able to have such influence here - but always felt the most potentially important provision in the ERB in terms of addressing inequality was right for trade unions to access workplaces which seems to be retained

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

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Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

Just a quick note to say that I am leaving @highpaycentre.bsky.social this week Many fond memories of nearly 11 years(!) at HPC but narrating the the Liz Truss premiership was certainly a particuarly interesting time Am moving to @shareaction.bsky.social to work in the UK policy team

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

More likely the exact opposite of this US has big economic advantages (eg energy resource, younger population) leading to higher per capita wealth. But still has lower living standards - worse crime, health, poverty - because of extreme free market dogma & refusal to regulate/redistribute

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 24/09/2025

The most abominable recent innovation in football, divorcing the game from its purest form, is not VAR but the increased number of substitutions

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 23/09/2025

fascinating research from @theifs.bsky.social most people greatly underestimate wage inequality in their country. Accurate information generally has little impact on policy preferences, but makes far right voters significantly more supportive of redistributive measures ifs.org.uk/publications...

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Political polarization, wage inequality and preferences for redistribution | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Using nationally representative, randomized survey experiments, we investigate how beliefs about wage inequality impact preferences for redistribution

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025

V interesting to see Nick Clegg use the term "Vassal State" to describe US/UK economic relationship, echoing Angus Hanton's book of the same title www.theguardian.com/politics/202... guardianbookshop.com/vassal-state... such an under discussed issue in UK politics

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Nick Clegg: US-UK tech deal is ‘sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley’

Meta’s former president of global affairs says agreement will leave UK more reliant on US tech firms

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2025

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025

I wonder how many UK pension funds are invested in Tesla while the CEO uses the prominence/respectability deriving from his position at the company to call for racial violence in our country? It feels unlikely that this is consistent with a happy, comfortable retirement for pension savers…

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As far as the Anglo consensus is concerned, Spain's assertive centre-left government has done everything wrong: Keynesian, redistributive, socially open, net-zero-friendly, multilateralist, Trump-sceptical. Yet the governing PSOE just hit 33% in latest CIS poll, above even its 2023 election win.

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 12/09/2025

Barclays CEO paid £10.5m last year says teachers, nurses & local government workers shouldn't get a payrise www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 09/09/2025

interesting poll. would be kind of curious to understand more about the 17% still sticking with the Tories over Reform

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 04/09/2025

I was a guest on the 'anti social economics' podcast, supported by @jrf-uk.bsky.social & hosted by @wealtherty.bsky.social of @lseinequalities.bsky.social discussing limits to extreme wealth with Fernanda Balanta of @neweconomics.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1bFz...

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Episode 4: When does wealth become harmful? Should there be limits?

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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 18/08/2025

new High Pay Centre report on FTSE 100 CEO pay - Median CEO pay up 6.8% to £4.6 million, 122 x pay of the median UK worker - number of firms paying their CEO over £10 million increased by 30% - FTSE 100 firms spent £1bn on the pay of just 217 executives www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row

Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year

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