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Matthew M @matthewdoktorz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good to see Richard Murphy and Guy Standing collaborating. I highly recommend Guy's books 'The Precariat' and 'A Precariat Charter'. youtu.be/2CX2wlTWFDk?...

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm with you this afternoon on @lbc.co.uk between 3 and 6pm. Lots to natter about, including whether Donald Trump's alliance with Putin is now formally starting to solidify. Call, text or just give us a listen live or on catch-up afterwards.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/10/2026

"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Meanwhile, the White House is convulsed by the revelation that two Trump political advisors, supposedly overseeing the Republican midterm campaign, were instead moonlighting to help pro-Russian politicians in the Balkans. In both cases, the taint is indelible. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Knives out for Blair and LaCivita

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You have been warned.

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Matthew M @matthewdoktorz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you sure Zionism doesn't aim for a demographic majority of Jews in a State of Israel, @mrjamesob.bsky.social? share.google/aimode/nwaI9...

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Sheridan Kates @sheridanvk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You deserve an economic system designed to restore our public services, fight the cost-of-living crisis, and truly address the climate crisis once and for all. Let’s stop believing politicians who hide behind “tough choices” and actually start building a better world.

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Exclusive: Greens' radical plan for the economy revealed

The party will vote on dropping the use of interest rates to control inflation

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 28/09/2026

This is why it's such nonsense for anyone to say that with UBI, people will lose meaning. First, jobs aren't any source of meaning for many people with jobs. Second, the jobs people can't say no to are in the way of a getting a lot of meaningful work done. And third, the rich seem to find meaning.

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Lauren Jordan @loremjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know so many people who want UBI so they can volunteer more. It’s not even that folks don’t want to work, they’ll literally do it for free, it just needs to MATTER. I pick up trash for fun and for free! I like it!!! I could do more of it if I didn’t have to scrounge for beans!!!!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Matthew M @matthewdoktorz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Thank you, James, for being the only voice in the entire broadcast media, our 'public service broadcaster' included, who has noticed that a child being encouraged to lead chants of 'let them drown' through a megaphone is a very serious matter.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This guy… BTW annual subscription is currently £20 (instead of £79.99). And you get the whole paper for that, not just me! Offer ends September 30th. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/477...

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Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe should keep Britain’s name out of his mouth

James O’Brien: The tax exile knows a thing or two about chemical companies – but that doesn’t mean his other opinions are valuable

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anything short of total and vocal condemnation of these far right thugs, and none of this bs about "understanding legitimate concerns" from Labour can at this stage only be seen as a tacit acceptance of their actions, which is exactly how the far right sees it and which ultimately emboldens them.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026

The take that UBI is bad because it would make us need government is bad. The same argument could be used against doing Social Security or Medicare if we didn't already have them. If everyone needs a government program, that's good for democracy and bad for politicians who threaten those programs.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve mentioned a Ghanaian energy economist a few times who said to me he’s very keen on renewables partly because they are much more resistant to corruption than oil and gas. Well, it seems that many of those in charge seem to prefer corruption, now they have a real choice.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 20/09/2026

With 3,000 reposts, this one certainly seemed to resonate.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will follow up with more details...

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/09/2026

New article from me where I propose a Pigovian automation tax to slow down the deployment of AI by companies in a way that also creates an incentive for them to embrace shorter workweeks, lower their prices, boost the incomes of displaced workers, and take a healthy step toward Medicare for All.

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A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There

How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm delighted to welcome Councillor Bushra Bi to the Green Party, who has defected from Labour to our growing Green team in Birmingham. birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/11/l...

Councillor bushra bi defecting from Labour to the greens.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good On You,Mayor Mamdani....👏🏻

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It would be no surprise if we saw more black clad far right thugs making threats this weekend. Likes of BBC actively giving them a prominent platform, and Labour Ministers and MPs spouting tripe about "legitimate concerns", is giving them what they want and helping "normalise" this racism. #r4today

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/09/2026

He's lying, but it's arguably one of the smarter things he has said. The opposition should lean in instead of calling him crazy. Call his bluff. Offer up a bill that would be a giant tariff rebate to everyone that would tax it from the companies that got the tariff rebates. Start talking about UBI.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/09/2026

The Trump Dividend is just another lie of course, but if he wants to help normalize a universal cash payment so that MAGA starts accepting UBI as capitalism instead of socialism or communism because it's treating citizens as stockholders, and that its cost doesn't matter, then okay. Normalize that.

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

I think we need to start referring to him as Roderick Spode.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My brother-in-law lives in a tiny flat and is on the minimum wage with no savings. He lives hand to mouth. He will have no way of storing extra supplies, let alone paying for them. The government has no conception of real poverty or the slightest care.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In fact the entire food system has moved from warehousing towards logistics, creating a global just-in-time model that helps destabilise the system and will greatly accelerate any collapse. All the more reason for government intervention. But neoliberalism has made intervention taboo.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Instead, not only does the government individuate responsibility for a systemic problem, but successive governments have also privatised the response. They've relied on supermarket warehousing to fill any gaps. But the supermarkets don't do that any more. They've switched from stocks to flows.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to emphasise, because I don't think anyone in government has ever mentioned it in public, that this isn't just about shortfalls and supply glitches. The food system is highly vulnerable to the kind of collapse that almost toppled the financial system in 2008. www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

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The Hunger Gap

A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

While a range of responses to the threat of short-term or long-term disruptions to our food supply is necessary, I've come to believe that government stockpiles, following the Swiss model, are an essential component of resilience. But ministers don't want to know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It fails to recognise that individualised stockpiling ahead of a major shortfall creates a monstrous inequality of outcomes. Some families would be fine, as long as they can protect their stores from looters. Most would not. Social breakdown would happen in days. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot

I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It underplays the scale of potential shocks to our food supply, which could include systemic failure. Good luck surviving on what the minister calls "a bit of food that can keep you going for a while before the emergency services can get to you" in that situation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same | George Monbiot

Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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