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Pam Hardy

@pamhardy.bsky.social
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Believer in social and climate justice. Want a world fit for our grandchildren. Avid reader, gardener, traveller. Retired academic. Never too old for an adventure. No DMs.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.
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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
President #Zelenskyy summary (Warsaw Security Forum): russia violated Trump's announced energy ceasefire. Overnight, a "Shahed" drone hit a Ukrainian gas production facility, and more russian drones attacked a civilian petrol station, while fresh drone waves continued over Kyiv this morning.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is what Trump/Republicans choose to ignore & don’t care about. If they purchase Russian oil from Putin, this is what they’re buying… Completely & humanely unacceptable!🗳️💙 “In the autumn, we will definitely die,”one resident wrote this summer. “I am already dying. I am getting weaker each day.”
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off
theguardian.com
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “We learned about Trump's energy ceasefire from the media.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
Riyadh airport hit again after deadly Houthi missile attack, Saudi authorities say
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Riyadh airport hit again after deadly Houthi missile attack, Saudi authorities say
Unidentified projectile strikes King Khalid airport as escalating attacks threaten to draw more countries into Yemen conflict * Middle East crisis live – latest updates * Analysis: attack will force rethink of Trump strategy A projectile hit a passenger terminal at the airport in Riyadh on Sunday, the day after a deadly missile attack on the facility carried out by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group killed 13 people. An unidentified projectile hit terminal 4 at King Khalid international airport, starting a fire and causing injuries, according to Saudi authorities. Air defences also intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of the airport. It was the latest of several attacks on the airport in the past week. Continue reading...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The cancerous 'patriots' ... " ... city’s biggest annual cancer fundraiser postponed ..." because "Bristol Rises, a local far-right group aligned with Danny Tommo’s wider Patriot Platform network, refused police requests to change the time, date or location of its protest." via Truth Against Hate
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"James Sawkins is a Reform councillor in Waltham, here posing with Richard Tice. Queue Tice saying he has never met him. Why? ... [Sawkins is accused of] "supplying an unauthorised medical product and possession of Class A drugs" www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Lower the Flags
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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Trump is free now. His heart can sing the song he has always wanted to sing, and the American people can no longer deny that the USA is run by a Russian useful idiot or agent of influence. Personally I prefer agent of influence, because vast sums of money are also involved."
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Pam Hardy @pamhardy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But where are they!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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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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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The FDA is proposing to expand a loophole allowing some of the world’s most toxic chemicals such as hormone disruptors linked to brain damage and reproductive harm in children to be added directly to food without a safety review. MAHA IS RFK JR'S TOXIC LIE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 10/10/2026
Trump, Zelensky clash over diesel deal as Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 21, including children
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Trump, Zelensky clash over diesel deal as Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 21, including children
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Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
…, a Greek tanker was loading sanctioned Russian diesel in St Petersburg’s Peterburgskiy Neftyanoy Terminal. It sailed for the US on September 23rd and will arrive to the East Coast in one week, likely the Port of Wilmington
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Pam Hardy @pamhardy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I rang my daughter to tell her about the the hotels’s ghostly reputation. She assured me our room wasn’t a problem. Next morning I discovered she had lied. It was the epicentre of a bloody murder……
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Pam Hardy @pamhardy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On a trip to New Zealand we had a room that kept me awake all night with a keen sense of dread. It was large and creepy with a 1950’s style bathroom and 1930’s furnishings.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
bristolpost.co.uk
Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
Per Russian media, “Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory.”
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 10/10/2026
Here is your assignment for today: Go to this link and buy a coffee for @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social: buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv She has been keeping us all informed from Kharkiv for years now—in English. Follow and support her please.
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Hi, my name is Kate. I live in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Trying to keep the world informed about Ukrainian perspective of war, tell the world how war feels for a regular citizen in a city that gets mercilessl
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Corrado Andriani @andricor.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
So Trump agrees with Putin that Russia can sell more diesel while the civilised world is trying to stop Russia from selling anything. The world is in a very bad state right now and I’m sooooooo thankful that we live in Europe where normality is still a thing.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m feeling sick! ​Today, our supposed allies decided to give the mad goblin in the Kremlin more money to keep killing us, and blamed us for it in the process! We made them buy russian oil, you see? By defending ourselves. Freaking circus. ​Donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2026
Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia kills seven, governor says reut.rs/4hWra7X
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Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia kills seven, governor says
Seven people were ​killed by ‌a Russian attack on the ​southern Ukrainian ​city of Zaporizhzhia ⁠on Saturday ​morning, the regional ​governor said, as rescuers searched for ​more ​people under the rubble.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/10/2026
"He shouldn't really be involved in this at all. But when he does get involved, his sympathy is for the men." Trump has spoken about the Cornell University rape case – but made it all about himself... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why is Donald Trump now involved in the Cornell gang rape case? | The News Agents
In 2024, a female student consented to a threesome with two men, but claims she was gang raped by several others invited by those involved. The case has sparked outcry on campus, and resulted in…
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Funny how tweets - and memes - always come around to being relevant again!
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 10/10/2026
👺 Putin rejects idea of ending war with Ukraine in call with Trump
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Putin rejects idea of ending war with Ukraine in call with Trump
Vladimir Putin has told Donald Trump that Russia will continue its war against Ukraine until it has achieved all its stated objectives, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. The account of the call ...
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 10/10/2026
‘So safe you could drink it’: Scientists and pesticide victims fear an EU rollback
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‘So safe you could drink it’: Scientists and pesticide victims fear an EU rollback
For decades, French farmers sprayed pesticides they were told were harmless. Many have since fallen ill, grappling with cancers and other diseases caused by exposure. As the EU prepares to vote on a package that would end regular safety reviews of most pesticides, victims, doctors and scientists warn it could keep harmful products on the market for longer.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
What does the health of the soil beneath our feet have to do with the price of food on our supermarket shelves? Quite a lot, actually, writes Martin Lines. After a summer of extreme drought, the case for farming that works with nature has rarely been stronger.
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Food security and resilience vital after extreme summer drought
After this summer, the climate crisis is impossible to ignore. We need major changes to how we farm if our food system is to remain resilient
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💔 A mother sits beside the body of her son, killed in Kremenchuk. No mother should ever have to bury her child like that… This is russian terror
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Pam Hardy @pamhardy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crazy policy. An easy win for the climate and bills!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Air passengers flying into Moscow from Irkutsk where a lab technician died of the plague are now being given mandatory temperature checks by masked staff before they’re allowed to disembark.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Reform UK is using the Trump handbook ⬇️ "The ban essentially means that Reform UK, through withdrawn engagement, cannot be questioned on their statements and actions. I can continue reporting and attending meetings, but I am not allowed to scrutinise elected officials wearing turquoise rosettes."
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Reform blacklisted me for doing my job as a local reporter
Eddie Bisknell, a local democracy reporter for Reform-led Derbyshire county council was told it would no longer engage w
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