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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think there is more to say about the way that refugees are welcomed, prepared and economically integrated and a comparison to make with successful integration policies in other countries. But above all, welcoming refugees is a question of humanity, and the lack of it is shameful.

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Neither did it mention the context of an ageing population in the UK, the associated economic impact on working capacity and the shortages in care and future cost of a care service. We need migration.

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BBCR4's More Or Less last week featured a piece on refugees that confused the cost to the Exchequer with the cost/benefit to the economy as a whole, and also failed to consider the long run impact, as opposed to short term issues and costs. #refugees #migration #economics

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But what if, as the only major economy still doing so, he stopped the UK paying banks so much (un-tiered) interest on reserves? And made investments during a period of weak demand and poor productivity through deficit financing? And used smart taxation to control inflation?

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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 · 25/09/2026

Sadly, I think the greater *political* concern is the toxicity of a significant number of nationalists who remain ignorant of, and forever disengaged from, the European project. No re-integration without education... Or devolution?

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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

Basically, simulation and conventional testing isn't good enough for up front verification of safety-critical code whose correctness depends on millisecond-scale interleavings of events. Or are we back to the IT Crowd and 'just turn it off and on again?'

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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 · 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 · 10/09/2026

Part III Public Order Act 1986: "...a person who publishes or distributes written material that is "threatening, abusive or insulting" commits an offence where either: they intend to stir up racial hatred, or considering all the circumstances, racial hatred is likely to be stirred up.".

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We should instead ask what we can tax without suppressing useful production, and which taxes do the opposite. Let's tax land/location value, natural-resource rents, monopoly rents and excess corporate profits. #tax

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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

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, you mean? Aka: Andrew McMaster Paul Harris Wayne King Stephen Lennon ...and all the associated accounts and finances? ....no wonder it took a year!

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yep. Bring it on, and if settlers and their allies remain deaf to Miliband's appeal for a credible two state solution and an end to the ethnic cleansing, then bring on a UK consumer boycott of all goods and services provided under the corrupt Bibi Neten regime.

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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

Bad Boys Burgers probably won't mind, but maybe that other US movie franchise will object to having the stain of three corrupt grifters right there in their typeface?

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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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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thank for this succinct phrasing. I have used it as the basis of a letter to my MP demanding that these people are identified and charged. Or is it simply time for us pull on our balaclavas and Antifa shirts?

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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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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The deal-breaker was fishing. Nige was the UK's EU rep on the European parliament fisheries committee. Over three years, he did nothing for UK small fisheries, turning up to one of 42 meetings, while his big fleet chums got all the cod quota, including a share of the EU Icelandic quota.

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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

@aiannucci.bsky.social: great that this is still funny and relevant in a crazy world. There's a thing now called 'sense-making' that has always annoyed me. I am SO GLAD that the power of your 'nonsense-making' still triumphs.

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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

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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Mutineering (@mutineering341644)

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 · 21/08/2026

Networks of producer coops in Ireland and France have long understood co-operation between co-ops. The state has actively supported them. In the UK, the state has actively disadvantaged them. #coops #economics

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you want high street shops to flourish, take VAT OFF high street sales and put more ON digital retailing and out of town mega stores. Have town plans for a decent MIX of high street retailing. Go to NL to see this in action. It's not that hard.

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Without serious co-operative ecosystem reform, individual place-based coop businesses will simply fail, out-competed by the same digital and out-of-town retail corporates that killed the high street. It's the business model, not the governance that pays the bills. Coops must fight together. #coops

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Mutineering @mutineering.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The UK co-operative sector needs to play its part and prepare for scale. It must reform co-operative identity, and start to practise principle 6, co-operation between co-ops, with digital identity, customer base cross-selling and loyalty schemes to fight corporate retail hegemony. #coops #economics

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