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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Budget: The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Baroness Hale: On Law
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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Everything you ever wanted to know about pensions (but were afraid to ask)... My colleague (and former Pensions Minister) @stevewebb1.bsky.social now has his own YouTube channel - a free searchable library of 3-minute explainer videos on pension topics. www.youtube.com/@stevewebbexplains
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Truly inspirational. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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312. Frank Gardner
Podcast Episode · Iain Dale All Talk · 23/04/2025 · 1h 2m
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Really enjoyed this. So much enthusiasm and honesty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Vx...
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Frank Gardner | Full Q&A | Oxford Union Web Series
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Former Head of MI6: How The Ukraine War Will End & What If China Invades Taiwan? (Sir Alex Younger)
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Having woken us at 0515 #sophiefromromania is now shattered
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I think the Yips maybe spreading. Is that called contagion?
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs
The move comes after concerns that tech prices could skyrocket, as many gadgets are made in China.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Michigan numbers are brutal. But one amazing thing: Republicans still think Trump will magically end inflation. From Goldman Sachs:
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Trump tariffs live updates: Global markets in flux as Trump says US 'doing really well' on tariffs policy
The US stock exchange opens flat hours after China retaliated with 125% tariffs on US goods.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Look at the inflation rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
bbc.co.uk
Trump tariffs live updates: Global markets in flux as Trump says US 'doing really well' on tariffs policy
The US stock exchange opens flat hours after China retaliated with 125% tariffs on US goods.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10/04/2025
Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Trump says he has not seen Thursday’s stock market drop www.ft.com/content/4bad... via @ft
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Markets live: US stocks and dollar tumble as Trump fails to soothe economic fears
Investors warn 145% duties on US imports from China to hit growth even as president rolls back other levies
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” James Carville
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Trump tariffs live updates: Trump's 'explosive' global tariffs take effect, including 104% rate on China
European and Asian markets slump again as the US president's taxes on goods from 60
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My explainer for US News on what Trump doesn't get about tariffs. (A lot, it turns out.) www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Financial Times: Trump poised to ignite global trade war with steepest tariffs in a century #TomorrowsPapersToday
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/04/2025
"I don't think the US is ready to take the sort of pain Donald Trump is about to inflict on the American people." As Trump's tariff war with China escalates, has the president underestimated the economic resilience of his rival?
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Trump vs China: 'It is a blood sport'
Trump is furious, again. This time, it’s China that’s incurred his wrath by daring to subject the US to the same 34% tariff its own exports are now facing. What does the escalation between the superpo...
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/04/2025
“Brits don’t want Starmer to blow everything up and make things worse - but they also don't want to be the poodle that goes along with everything.” 51% of Brits favour retaliatory measures against the US, even if it means increased inflation at home.
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‘Brits don’t want to be seen as pushovers’: Two-thirds support retaliatory tariffs against US
New polling shows two-thirds of Brits are worried about the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on the UK. With support for the "special relationship" waning, how does the public rate Keir Starmer’s…
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Billionaire Trump backer warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs
Bill Ackman says the US president should pause his planned import taxes - or risk shattering investors' confidence.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Who knew technocrat central banker Mark Carney was going to turn out so imaginative and bold (in a good way) as a politician? His book on Value is pretty good.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market rout escalates: Live updates
Trump posted on Saturday to Truth Social for people to "hang tough" and that this was an "economic revolution."
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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A Danish Supermarket Hits Back at US Tariffs
As anti-American sentiment grows across Europe, one retailer is giving shoppers a way to avoid products made in the US.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"What we saw with President Reagan, when he brought down the great inflation and we got past the Carter malaise, that there was some choppiness at that time, but he held the course, and we're going to hold the course." See thread for how the chop could play out! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
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Trump tariffs latest: More than 50 countries contact US in bid to negotiate, official says
Israel's Netanyahu is heading to the US for trade talks, while Vietnam has asked for a 46-day delay.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Two months into Trump's term, there's been another vibe shift
Some of America’s strongest allies are rethinking their relationship as Donald Trump’s isolationism threatens to entirely remake the West.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Trump is taking US-Russia relations on a rollercoaster ride
Trying to follow each twist between the US president and Moscow can leave you giddy, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.
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faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
LONG READ From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory. Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going…. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The strange story of ZLX - a Glasgow tax firm with no tax qualifications, promising clients they can claim tax relief for fridges and vegan doughnut recipes, suing clients who complain, and threatening its critics with lawsuits. buff.ly/GZ0TDjf
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@amnesty calls for an independent investigation into the deaths of 15 medical and rescue workers in Gaza. Israel maintains that six of the 15 were Hamas members, but that wouldn’t be an acceptable defence in court. The deliberate killing of medics and paramedics is a war crime.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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'Hands Off': Anti-Trump protests held in cities across the US
Thousands of protesters gathered for the most visible opposition movement of Trump's second term.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 02/04/2025
📢 Happening tomorrow We will be hosting a book launch for Diane Coyle's 'The Measure of Progress' Join @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @teraallas.bsky.social and @ruthcurtice.bsky.social as they discuss Grab one of the last in-person tickets while you can: buff.ly/KVhlgR6
Event advert for The metrics that really matter: How can we better measure economic and societal change?
Speakers: Diane Coyle
Author, Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy; Tera Allas
Economist, author and Chair of Pro Bono Economics; Ruth Curtice
Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation (Chair)
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Untaxing - 1. The Napkin That Changed the World - BBC Sounds
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Why would any self respecting lawyer want to work for this firm - which has a big London office - now it’s bent the knee to the gangster trying to end the rule of law?
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Lawyer goes scorched earth on former employer in viral LinkedIn post
‘As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,’ former Skadden attorney Brenna Trout Frey declared Saturday
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Measure of Progress
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Untaxing - 1. The Napkin That Changed the World - BBC Sounds
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Thanks @pkrugman.bsky.social I found this very interesting. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/worthwhile...
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Worthwhile Canadian Observations
About a “boring” country that definitely isn’t
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"US Vice-President JD Vance has accused Denmark of leaving Greenland vulnerable to alleged incursions by China and Russia, as he asked its people to "cut a deal" with the US." Wouldn't Putin respect the omnipotent Trump? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip
Denmark's prime minister said the visit by the US VP and other top officials  showed a
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The US is trashing its reputation as a leader in science
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It’s today! I’ve been looking forward to this.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW PODCAST: Spring Statement 2025 @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, Tom Waters and @benzaranko.bsky.social summarise yesterday's Spring Statement, analysing the Chancellor's decisions and trade-offs and looking at the implications. 🎧 Listen here:
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Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In | Institute for Fiscal Studies
What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy Annual Conference 2025
Join experts to explore public policy solutions for a turbulent world. Tickets are available to attend in person or online.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/03/2025
I think it's important not to underestimate how brave Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic are being at this moment. It's easier to think 'this fell into his lap and he's a journalist, of course he's running with it' but... 1/2
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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The Today Podcast - JD Vance: does Trump’s VP really hate Europe? - BBC Sounds
Nick and Amol ask a friend of the vice president.
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Neil Herbert @neilherbert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/03/2025
The OBR is forecasting this to be one of the worst Parliaments on record for household income growth, even with double the pace of growth of the previous one.
Chart showing Annualised growth in average Real Household Disposable Income per person, by
Parliament: UK
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