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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Possibly the greatest case of nominative determinism ever

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There is football and with British interest as well. Go on the Nomads

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"All they want is to be Irish" This mural is literally painted on Shankhill Road where the riots took place...

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Replace the worked "hacked" with the word "gifted"and you're about there

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think the biggest question mark around Arteta is, will he ever catch Captain Scarlet?

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Theres more than one kindly old man with a big fluffy beard who gives presents to the poor...

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

If you play Ultimate Team, this card dropped today...

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just a reminder of why they were banned: a long history of violence and racism and unprovoked attacks on civilians in Amsterdam.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

At the end of the Soviet Union, everyone knew that the government routinely lied to them but no one could envision a different system. Western leaders were convinced that Stlainism would last forever. Then a stiff breeze caused it all to collapse in a matter of months. Take comfort from that.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Oh really? Perhaps you should try reading your own newspaper.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Spot on, it's cultural hegemony writ large.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Relentlessly kicking working people is not a hard choice, it's a fucking cowards choice. In terms of tax, before you even raise one penny of income tax there is £46.8 billion of uncollected tax every single year so there is lots of money lying about to be collected from 'dodgers'

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's reminiscent of the Simpsons episode in which Professor Frink says issues this prediction

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Hapoel fans are definitely "the wrong type of Jews"

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Just to be clear, it's a ban on far right hooligans who attacked taxis, spouted racist slogans burned Palestine flags & then got a deserved kicking after the game in Amsterdam. Oh & they have a long history of racist abuse including of their own players & political violence Cry me a fucking river.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Maccabi are noted, even amongst Israeli ultras, for their violence and racism, to the extent that they have racially abused their clubs own African and Arab players. They turned up in Amsterdam, chanted racist slogans, burned Palestine flags and attacked taxis. It was even reported by the Mail FFS

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are notorious for their racism, abuse of their own Arab players and violence. They turned up in Amsterdam, attacked taxis, burned Palestine flag and changed racist slogans. Then after the match they got a hiding. Siri, is this what "chat shit get banged looks like"

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Very true. And a lot of companies are already very disappointed at the returns on their investment in generative AI, per MIT

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Much like Trump, Machado took part in the 2002 coup attempt to overthrow Hugo Chavez (who had won a landslide victory in the 2000 election) and replace him with a military junta, signing the notorious Carmona Declaration in the process. But he it's Venezuela and he was an evil Commie so no-one cares

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I refer you to a recent MIT study on the benefits (or otherwise) of generative AI.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So it turns out that the Nobel Peace Prize committee saw fit to give the award to a person that played an active part in an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government. It wasn't Trump though....

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The Bank of England is worried that AI stocks are entering speculative bubble territory. Not really surprising when you consider that a large amount of passes for generative AI is essentially glorified search engines. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

That's what happens when you sack off building council houses

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On a similar note, something that rarely gets mentioned is the astonishing rise in the most regressive tax of all, Council Tax. Council tax has gone up by 57% in 20 years, yet still doesn't cover the cuts to Councils from central government.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Remember when Elon did a similar thing to Grok and it started referring to itself as "MechaHitler"?

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

That chainsaw really worked a charm on reducing Argentinas indebtedness and reliance on foreign financial institutions didn't it?

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Especially when that "investment" largely involves hitching our wagon to the US tech bro oligarchy for a generation, and the building of huge data centres which may well prove to be power hungry white elephants which don't provide many jobs, according to er... the government.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Spot on. It only existed insomuch as we were prepared to turn a blind eye to America's repeated interfering in foreign countries to back the worst, most brutal right wing dictatorships over and over and over again.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You know it's what she would have wanted.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Whilst crime in DC maybe decreasing, crimes we know nothing about have increased exponentially"

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What Danny Kruger and the rest of his ilk would do well to remember is that Britain is one of the most atheist countries in the world. Unlike their beloved middle America, that right wing evangelical Christian bullshit doesn't cut it over here.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

For the record, "influencer" is not a job.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I think you've forgotten about crimes we know nothing about. These have increased exponentially.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

At least they got the colour of the uniforms right.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I was looking forward to reading to this but was greeted by this slightly odd message

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

See also: Attitudes to homosexuality in Britain 1983-2015

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

They can always get on the phone to Martin Prince

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Its probably worth saying that the drops in the last couple of days, while substantial, are fairly small in the context of the last few years. I cant bring myself to get too excited just yet.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Unruly Quaker left wing activism, Edwardian edition:

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tariffs dont just raise the prices of imports, but they also raise the price of domestic goods. If foreign competitors are suddenly uncompetitive because of tariff related price hikes, why on earth wouldn't domestic producers raise their prices as well? This is what happened to US steel in 2018

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It won't be. The Resolution Foundation reckons there are a million more people in work than the ONS says because the Labour Force Survey is so inaccurate that it can no longer be classified as official data. Its replacement is way behind schedule and may not be implemented for 2 years.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Economic commentary like this in the Guardian drives me mad. Workers in the UK are not "30% less productive" than US workers because productivity just means GDP divided by hours worked. It's not some grand time and motion study of every worker. Totally misleading #econsky

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Smoot Hawley Act of 1930 introduced tariffs that, while initially celebrated as a success, eventually caused a sharp economic decline that led to the great depression. Here's some of the highlights.

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Working Mans Economics @workingmansecon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Heres the most recent breakdown of the UK benefits bill I could find. Note the vast sums of money paid to keep landlords in the style they've become accustomed to and to keep private business from spending their profits on paying a decent wage.

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