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Pen name of author and journalist Andrew Scott.

Represented by Pew Literary

Books include Fake History, Fake Heroes and NOTORIOUS ! Links here:

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Andrew John Scott is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at London Business School, known for his work on longevity and macroeconomics. Previously he was a lecturer at Oxford University, a visiting professor at Harvard University and a researcher at the London School of Economics. .. more

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28d
Some mind-blowingly kind reviews for my latest book NOTORIOUS.

I don't know who you all are, but genuine, heartfelt thanks from the bottom of my heart.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27m
Ha ha ha oh dear, that's very funny!

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30m
"Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation."

Professor Carlo M. Cipolla
The 5 Basic Laws of Stupidity
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform

Reposted by Andrew Scott

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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 1h
Robbie shouting into a megaphone: "Apparently the law says we can't protest here! Well, what idiots passed that law!?!"

*An aide has a quick whisper in his ear*

Robbie gets back on the megaphone: "Eer, best not look into that too much. Let's go protest somewhere else instead, guys!"

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h
I've checked and Robbie voted in favour at every stage of the Public Order Act 2023 passage through parliament.

Maybe he didn't read it.

Maybe he thought it wouldn't apply to farmers.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h
Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..

Reposted by Andrew Scott

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform

Reposted by Andrew Scott

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2h
Farage keeps saying that only one person (Ettedgui) has directly accused him of abuse. That's not the case. Asked by ITV if he would like to apologise to Ettedgui, Farage says: "“If they feel they were hurt then I am very sorry.”

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Ewan McGaughey

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h
In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
X is not above the law
goodlaw.social

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h
LONG article in the Daily Mail about some older person living in a home worth north of £2million and how they won't be able to eat or heat it any more

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h
Let's get in early here.

IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A £5 million home YOU ARE RICH

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h
Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨

"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."

Reposted by Andrew Scott

bestforbritain.org
Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨

"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h
Sked also claimed that Farage "wanted ex-National Front candidates to run" on the UKIP ticket.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h
Important to stress that Farage denied that, too. Just as he denies he used racist language at school.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.

He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.

Farage would have been about 33 at time.

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
Oh I disagree. Sked claimed Farage said racist things as an adult Farage was an Enoch Powell mega fan

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
And as for "it was childhood banter" - no it wasn't. That sort of thing isn't "banter" it's ugly persistent racism.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
It's not going away

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
Such a super chap

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
If you've ever been bullied, you will know that you never forget the bully or what they did and said. These memories tend to be vivid.

Reposted by Andrew Scott

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 9h
Telling that no classmates or even any friends from his younger days have come out to defend him

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
Former classmate insists Farage repeatedly told him "Hitler was right" and "gas them" when they were teenagers at Dulwich College - and that the Reform leader's denials are dishonest.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
Oh more than one system can work. Just because this system works it's not necessarily casting shade on other countries and their systems. Who thinks that?

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
Sure other opinions are available and won't be sharing any details but it felt like justice was delivered very fairly each time.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
I've done more than my fair share of jury service - 4 cases in total - and am in favour of it as a direct result of that experience. It works. Feels like an important democratic check (not least) on the power of judges - who, through no fault of their own - must inevitably get jaded by experience.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
Oh definitely

Reposted by Andrew Scott

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Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social · 21h
Powell supporting Alan Sked at Newbury by-election in 1993 in the Anti-Federalist League days before they became UKIP. Farage had joined the AFL in 1992.

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Lesley A. Hall, John Hogan , and 1 more

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22h
Juries are not perfect.

Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.

But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.

They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

ottoenglish.bsky.social
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h
A neighbour of mine insists that he once met Farage at a Dulwich College reunion and that the then UKIP leader turned up in his actual school blazer... not the old boy blazer... his ACTUAL school blazer... which is just pure Tim Nice But Dim territory.