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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is now facilitating Putin's attacks on Ukrainian civilians.

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 16h

Did they burn organic, GM-free Sage? It won't work if you don't do it right.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In Lord Keynes' 1930 essay on the economic problems of our grandchildren, he makes clear that a billionaires tax will eventually (as in right now) become essential to maintaining and safeguarding democracy because without it the descent into plutocracy will be stark and steep.

fortune.com

Millionaire tax that inspired Mamdani fuels $5.7 billion haul in Massachusetts | Fortune

In two years levying a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, it's funded bridge repairs, bolstered literacy programs and tackled a transportation deficit.

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

30,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed.

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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Of course there have never been any proven links between members of the Reform Party and Putin's Russia. Surely it would be a 'lie' to make such a suggestion. Oh.

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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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mad reactionaries would rather imagine shrinking the economy by a fifth and watching the country physically disintegrate than admit that the public sector is good and useful.

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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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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Water companies made £340mn last year accepting industrial wastewater they don't have the facilities to adequately treat. “Industrial pollution must not become a lucrative business for water companies" says Amy Fairman of @riveractionuk.bsky.social. Our report: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

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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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Often, when services such as health services are privatised/outsourced, it initially looks as if it’s cheaper. But what happens is that NHS in-house expertise is lost & private firms, having the NHS over a barrel, ramp up prices. Can see this too with Care Homes, almost all of which are privatised.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

608bn litres of industrial wastewater entered sewage plants last year. Sources include power stations, abattoirs, landfill, some with consents for chemicals such as mercury + cyanide - entering plants not designed to treat such waste. Our new report, out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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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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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s the mad Kremlin midget’s 74th birthday today. Either the butcher saved up missiles himself to murder Ukrainian families in their beds, or his sycophants leveled those apartment buildings as a birthday gift. At least 18 people are killed, including children, and the toll will keep

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is there a 'war on the countryside'? Yes - but it's the one being waged by the landowners who unleash 50 million pheasants each year... Step forward 'Lord' Christian Brighty to explain, in this devastating (and hilarious) video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFi8...

youtube.com

The Real Threat to Britain’s Countryside

YouTube video by Christian Brighty

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000

Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...

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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use

Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The money flowed around football. It made a lot of other clubs richer. It helped teams everywhere and especially in the Premier League." Seems a bit weird to build an entire piece around a Man City-friendly claim yet be unwilling or unable to cite anyone making it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

bbc.co.uk

Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?

BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This threat was made in public. How many such threats are made privately?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like the Institute of Economic Affairs were running events and writing articles advocating against football regulator last year Wonder who paid for these? 😱 iea.org.uk/films/is-a-f...

iea.org.uk

Is a football regulator necessary?

Is English football broken? Should government try to fix it? And are any of the proposals in the Fan-Led Review … Continue reading "Is a football regulator necessary?"

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friends, colleagues, let's all chip in, and I give you... The Centre for Extremely Leisurely Study of Anything We Feel Like...

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is this the cybetruck not designed by Homer Simpson?

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*pub chat when silvered mirrors became relatively affordable in the 19th century.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

irishtimes.com

Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'If emissions continue while we wait for complete evidence, the pollution does not wait with us. It may still be present decades later, when the science is much clearer.' Can we afford to let new forms of PFAS to build up, then find out later we shouldn't have? theconversation.com/high-levels-...

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High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in Lancashire residents’ blood – what I’ve learned from studying exposed communities for over a decade

Residents near a Lancashire chemical plant have high Pfas levels in their blood. A decade of research shows what that can and can’t tell us.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please note: Burnham keeps saying "public control" when talking about watercos, not public *ownership* These are not the same thing

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She was a researcher for Helen Whateley in 2017, which says it all really.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This. Exactly this. It's why they supported Brexit.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference

Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve been saying for a long time that this is likely a big part of the motivation for these companies— designing systems that can break the law without consequence

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Wayne Dickson @waynedickson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow!! Wasn't aware of the synchronicity!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those absolute head bangers have convinced themselves that Churchill, King Charles, Henry V and Brunel aren’t proper English. Robert the Bruce isn’t Scottish. They are modern phrenologists. They spend the weekend working out what George Best was.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...

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Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics

Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is Radio Svoboda interview with the volunteer working with Oleshky. Everyone should hear/read this! Iryna-Ester Vrataryova, volunteer: "People describe the horror, the total genocide. This famine has reached such a scale that,

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TONIGHT: 10pm, BBC + ITV News, + in The Times online We tested people living near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire for PFAS. Tune in to find out what we uncovered. More on the background to the situation in Thornton-Cleveleys via the link below: share.google/g2HJYCoTglTs...

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Thornton families' cancer fears in shadow of 'forever chemical' plant

People in Thorton in Lancashire had been advised not to eat locally-grown produce over contamination fears.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please share the information about Oleshky everywhere you can! Russia is starving residents of the town and nearby villages by denying food supplies and evacuation. People in Oleshky need help, or else they won't survive the winter!

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