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Simon De Cogan

@psymon1.bsky.social
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English Psychotherapist/Psychologist living in Scotland, interested in everything & working for a better world. "Remember your humanity, and forget the rest"

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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 2h
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 2h
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All the signs say another financial crisis is coming. Here’s why we need to prepare for it now | Larry Elliott
War, AI disruption and markets in turmoil: the warnings are all there. But lessons from the 2008 crash could help us, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 3h
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John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis
A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich Hayek
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 11h
🚨 The simplest and fairest way to put money into the pockets of those on middle and lower incomes is to take excess wealth off the rich and give it to people as a #COLA (Cost of Living Allowance, or UBI if you prefer)... #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget
Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 5h
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 18h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What we face. I talk to Oli Dugmore for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social podcast about extreme weather, tipping points and the potential for systemic collapse of the global food system. Then: how we confront these threats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPz...
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Extreme weather will batter our food supplies | George Monbiot | The Exchange
YouTube video by The Exchange
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13h
Nigel Farage is paid by billionaires to promote the policy of yet more privatisation which will make the super-rich £millions wealthier and leave the rest of us with worse services costing more ... meme via The UK Against Hate
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15h
‘Mob rule’ is also, of course, an insulting way of referring to democracy.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h
Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h
Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.
Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal… 


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Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from PutinTrump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.


Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
Britain' over dinner
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...
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Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure
Some disparate thoughts on a terrible week for the Greens.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...
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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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SOS MEDITERRANEE @sosmediterranee.org · 09/10/2026
All 99 survivors, including 29 minors and 27 women, have safely disembarked in #Naples. Three days ago, #OceanViking teams rescued 101 people from two rubber boats in distress after days and nights at sea. A pregnant woman was evacuated to Lampedusa, accompanied by her husband.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial/commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works. Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Investment neglected. Practices are mostly unregulated.
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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £11bn – almost twice the advertised price taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...
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Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stop saying "Former Prince Andrew". He's still Prince Andrew. He's still eighth in line to the throne. And remains so until there's an act of parliament... Or a republic.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
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Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...
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The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch
Why does she have the best press in politics?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what Christo-fascism looked like — specifically the Romanian fascism of the 1930s. Hegseth is a Christo-fascist. (1/3)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £11bn – almost twice the advertised price taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...
taxpolicy.org.uk
Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Crazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year
The official petition to end the mandatory
fortification of white flour with folic acid
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It helps me take the fight to the
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"..Badenoch notes that “as an engineer”, she is used to correctly diagnosing issues so they can be addressed."🔽 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just sent Sainsbury’s a message demanding accountability for their plastic packaging commitments. It only takes a minute — you can do the same here: everydayplastic.eaction.org.uk/sainsburyssaga
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The Sainsbury's Saga
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Zia is right - Robert Jenrick should never again be allowed anywhere near power.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 08/10/2026
Debunking Israel’s latest list of ‘terrorist’ journalists in Gaza The evidence against the 170 media workers named in ‘The Press Files’ includes empty pages, clearly edited documents, and unverifiable snippets. Analysis by Muhammad Shehada www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
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Debunking Israel’s latest list of ‘terrorist’ journalists in Gaza
The evidence against the 170 media workers named in ‘The Press Files’ includes empty pages, clearly edited documents, and unverifiable snippets.
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Simon De Cogan @psymon1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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