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@mutineering.bsky.social
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Ex-architect/engineer/economist turned co-operator. Platforms, human-centric identity and governance. Not a fan of hierarchies. Open source. Open borders. Brighton, UK.. Maker in metal, wood and code, working on small edge-tech and boaty-things.

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm always amazed at the BBC's persistence with the household income metaphor for government borrowing and spending. Yes it's simple to set out but... simplistic. Bank reserves? Interest paid to banks on bank reserves? That's something to cut from the 'housekeeping'! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government borrowing, bonds and yields explained
You may have heard about government borrowing costs going up and then down again. Here's a quick guide on government borrowing, bonds and yields.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Defence of GPS is overdue, given that we ignored it with Brexit, losing our £1Bn+ stake in EU's Galileo. The UK started, and then abandoned, its own costly satellite navigation system. It seems we now rely on the US? But we do have an office and some principles: www.gov.uk/guidance/pos...
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Positioning, Navigation and Timing: Overview
Guidance on Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), why it matters and the government framework for Greater PNT Resilience.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sustainable farming? Under the EU scheme there was standardisation, multi-year consistency, and rigorous digital surveillance. Post Brexit, in the UK, SFI is now a shitshow: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farmers' race for £233m funding like 'scramble for Oasis tickets'
Farmers fear they may not be able to carry out environmental work because they lost out on funding.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
martinfowler.com/articles/red... @thoughtworks.com 'whiteboard before keyboard' is even more important in managing spurious AI-spawned or harvested context. But sometimes a whiteboard isn't enough to filter and check for the crap. It's useful to drop into eg obsidian to shape and refine first.
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Design-First Collaboration
Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am an old nerd who worries that #NATS testing may not be using the right #mathematics to tackle what looks like a complex 'interleaving' problem in concurrency. Can they formally identify and trap these errors? Have they heard of the process calculi? Maybe this will come up in the inquiry?
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social well done for your intent to end, or at least 'tier', bank interest on reserves. Massive saving. BoE to relearn fiscal, rather than purely monetary control of inflation. #economics
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just brilliant. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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The trollers v the scrollers: Edith Pritchett’s Bayeux tapestry for the modern age
Didn’t manage to get tickets to the exhibition of the 11th-century artwork at the British Museum in London? Don’t worry, our cartoonist has got you covered, capturing the many battles of our times in ...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please read this, @BBCR4 Nick Robinson, and know that cutting public spending makes much less sense as long as private consumption continues to increase.. #economics
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I watched Schlesinger's movie of 'The Day of the Locust' in 1975 and it gave me nightmares. Nightmares that I hoped were contained in 1930's Hollywood. Now, in my later years I see them engulfing the world, again and again. God help us. adamipsmith.com/2015/02/16/t...
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The Day of the Locust and the Rise of the Right
When I went there, I thought that Alta Loma terrace, in Hollywood, CA, was a pretty, rather enviable place to live. Unusually for any residential street in America the houses are arranged on either…
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Get land out of the hands of the major house and retail builders. Left to them, desolation of UK towns and city centres will continue. The Dutch do this so much better, as Andy Burnham's missus knows very well. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #planning #housing #politics
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Land value capture for place quality: how do land policy strategies and planning systems determine outcomes?
In response to public spending chal­lenges, as well as an increasing cognisance of the magnitude of asset wealth invested in land, land value capture has come to the fore as a topic of planning res...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BBC R4 Nick Robinson aired Dr Laffer's unsupported claim that reducing taxes will increase tax revenue in the UK. That's as laughable as Liz Truss herself the last time they tried it. #economics #bbcr4 #dumbingdown
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In retrospect, dependence on distant partners for our national cyber infrastructure and security rather than on our European neighbours was very unwise.... www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Top British companies seek cyber solutions from Israel in battle against hackers
Top UK banks, insurers and telecom companies seek cyber security solutions from Israel, to protect companies and institutions from cyber attacks.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BBC News again gets basic monetary #economics wrong in talk of "balancing the books" and "multi-billion pound gaps caused by rising borrowing costs". It's not a household. Deficit spend increases banking reserves, but long term investment doesn't need bond cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chancellor John Healey to say UK economy 'turning a corner' despite debt concerns
John Healey will detail plans to spread growth more widely across the UK, ahead of his first Budget.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
With apologies to badboyburgers of Brighton, I have cheekily adapted (with AI) their free T-shirt for a greater purpose:
A picture of a BAD BOYS T-Shirt with modifies text Drumpf, Bibi Neten, Nige the Fash.  GO TO JAIL
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Masked Stop the Boats thugs besiege Dover and no arrests made by Kent Police. If it had been a Palestine Action protest it would have been rather different I think. There should be some questioning among the ranks of Kent Police. #politics #protest #resistance
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maybe it is time for a Cybersyn reboot, this time on co-operative principles, true to its original purposes of efficient public sector economic governance? We have more compute power, AI and data available to us now than Stafford Beer could ever have dreamed of. magis.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
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Lessons from Cybersyn
What I learned from running a DaaS startup for two years.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing that the investment and private debt AI bubble has now resulted in an intervention by BoE warning of a 'disorderly correction'. Venture capitalism is a systemic disaster. Fast money is bad money. When will we learn? #ai www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Advanced AI threatens global financial stability, says Bank of England boss
Andrew Bailey warns G20 members about risk of cyber-disruption spreading ‘across jurisdictions’
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Andy Burnham needs to look at a co-operative, locally owned, democratic and truly accountable structure for governance of these soon to be bankrupted companies. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
It’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. That’s why more than 319,000 of us have signed the petition demanding an end to the sewage scandal. We’re...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
niesr.ac.uk/blog/instead... There is still room to move, despite the daft declining debt as a percentage of GDP fiscal rule.
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Instead of Tightening, Could Burnham Front-Load a Fiscal Stimulus? - NIESR
Responding to a blog from David Aikman, this piece suggests the Prime Minister considers a front-loaded fiscal stimulus package to drive economic growth.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What does youth rebellion and resistance look like today? Despite the rain at Shambala 'Hope Over Fear' it's cheerful... But I long to see more acts of digital resistance in the music industry.... Read more: substack.com/profile/2031... #shambala @zackpolanski.bsky.social #streaming @mirlo.space
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Youth activism and rebellion at a Music Festival We're at Shambala, a 'nice' small music event, focused on youth, activism, environment and resistance to fascism, establishment constructs of youth an...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Burnham's premiership needs to consider "the type of industrial policy, rather than whether there should be an industrial policy at all. It is about the best way the public can regain control over natural monopolies, which may or may not include ownership." @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #economics
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... AirBnB sinks to a new low in curation and stewardship. I wish we had the collective goodwill to make alternatives like fairbnb.coop a success. www.thenews.coop/co-op-soluti... ...but solidarity is in short supply. Give the alternatives a regulatory hand up!
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Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says
Flexible short-term bookings used to store and pack drugs and stash weapons and cash, says Ine Van Wymersch
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social reminds us what serious economic reform *should* look like mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... and why the UK boomers would probably block it. Labour isn't serious about it. #economics
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The political barriers to radical tax reform
Want more public services, help with the cost of living, a simplified tax system and a reduction in the public sector deficit? It sounds l...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
dgwbirch.substack.com/p/the-next-b... A nice piece by @dgwbirch.bsky.social on a plausible future for post-quantum digital currency. But what if we used new tech to revive new networks of local currencies and mutual credit? Is this for @andyburnham.bsky.social #localism #money #credit #lewespound
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The Next Bitcoin
There will be a Bitcoin 2.0, but how will it work?here
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil... Get rid of the fiscal rule requiring a declining debt to GDP ratio
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Fetishising fiscal rules
The government can game its fiscal rules but it cannot game the inflation constraint.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#communitysolar government and its regulator needs to press the grid operators to absorb 'excess' solar and drop the consumer price when energy co-ops can supply: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I loved the little moment of politeness and decency when the Iranian player taking the corner kick apologised as he walked backwards into an official or photographer, who was in the wrong place. Courtesy amid chaos.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op... ....how long can a bubble last? #AI
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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Bridget's excellent trailer: www.instagram.com/reel/DZcaM5n...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil... Excellent post by Chris Dillow. Such a welcome contrast to BBC tittle-tattle. #ecomomics
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What bond market constraint?
Yes, bond markets are a constraint upon a leftist government - but maybe not the biggest one.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
blog.thestateofme.com/2026/06/05/m... Chris Swan reminds us that the free ride is over, and that token budgets, and their allocation, is suddenly in the hands of the CxO mobsters. We are on the brink of a very worrying 'multiplier' effect where greed for returns outstrips innovation for good. #AI
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Miell’s Law and Token Budgets
TL;DR Conway’s Law tells us that organisations create systems that mirror their communication systems. Jamie Dobson coin’s ‘Miell’s Law’ in a post about the work of ou…
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@timharford.ft.com your moreorless piece on R4 this morning didn't explain old and new govt debt and the timing of govt int payments. Fixed coupon? When renewing? By how much... materiality? It's at the margin. Nor did it mention the interest on reserves that we pay to the bankers. Why so much?
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
On Leadership in the Labour and Cooperative party: What about followership, or solidarity, that distinguishes us from the neoliberal rats-in-a-sack. The core issue is the economic constraint. Keir needs to challenge Reeves to take on the banks and the BoE's Andrew Bailey, who needs to GO. #economy
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“"Kali365 lowers the barrier of entry, providing less-technical attackers access to AI-generated phishing lures, automated campaign templates, real-time targeted individual/entity tracking dashboards, and OAuth token capture capabilities," the FBI said” www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/...
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FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale
MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M365
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GDP Dynamics @gdpdynamics.com · 20/05/2026
"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods." -John Maynard Keynes
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery
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How have English councils’ funding and spending changed? 2010 to 2024 | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Increases in council funding over the last parliament have not reversed big cuts made during the 2010s, with spending on many services still down 40%.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you are interested in a different, kinder way of accessing new music, try Mirlo (and its federated friends) Interview with the amazing LLK here diyconspiracy.net/mirlo-interv... #music #streaming #coops
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SuperJS check
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ok, so, a scenario no one in macro is talking about re oil and Iran is: what if consumers aren’t stupid and front run the expected shock. Then we will see a spike in saving, loss of consumption, and a classic General Theory type demand led recession.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
BBC Radio 4 Today package on the bond market was a disaster. It hasn't explained the primary and secondary markets for bonds. It hasn't explained how money has been created. It hasn't explained the fiscal rules properly. It hasn't explained WHEN bond interest kicks in and by how much....
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Spare parts pricing practices could do with a look as well. At least the EU and UK are ahead on these rights.. dysfunction in US, again.
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@wabrandsma.eurosky.social on Bluesky
Tech Companies Fail To Kill Colorado’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/11/tech-companies-fail-to-kill-colorados-right-to-repair-law/ Like many similar efforts, tech companies falsely tried to convince lawmakers that making things cheaper and easier to repair would pose entirely new privacy and security risks.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#economics What has happened to Labour's reforming zeal for cutting the payments made on banking reserves? Gordon Brown was on the money in 2024: www.itv.com/news/2024-03...
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Gordon Brown says the government can raise billions of pounds from banks | ITV News
The longest serving chancellor since the nineteenth century has suggested a plan of action to raise funds. | ITV National News
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I just watched a Matalan ad with a background track that sounded like Jungle. To me, it reeks of AI. Did Jungle get any revenue or credit? uk.themedialeader.com/matalan-roll...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wealth taxes - fake news from millionaires: taxjustice.net/press/korean...
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Korean president cites TJN takedown of millionaire exodus myth, demands end to anti-democratic “fake news” against wealth taxes - Tax Justice Network
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung condemned1 the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry over the weekend for spreading “fake news” about millionaires supposedly leaving South Korea due to inheritance taxes after the Chamber cited in a press release the widely discredited Henley & Partners report. The President cited the Tax Justice Network’s 2025 debunking2 […]
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Peter Frankopan reminds us that the US signed the Hague Convention in October 1907 and ratified it in Congress on 27 November 1909.... and has never withdrawn from it.
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
There's opportunity for Europe.... Original post: climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116...
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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#bbcradio4 Please can we talk about about the market appetite for UK securities and the 'bond vigilanties that you don't wanna test too much'? If these folks are the de-facto arbiters of policy in our democracy, then I think I need to know more about them. The Liz Truss event told us a little.
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