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Mary Corcoran

@marycorcoran.bsky.social

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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice. ‘Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine’: The people live in each other’s shadows. .. more

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7

TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
#streetart

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 2d

Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth

The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target

www.thirdsector.co.uk/debra-allcoc...

Debra Allcock Tyler: Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth

The Home Secretary’s proposal to link volunteering to migration status doesn’t just miss the mark – it sets fire to the whole target

www.thirdsector.co.uk

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is trying to cause chaos in American cities before invoking Insurrection Act, governor in his crosshairs warns

President has not ruled out invoking Insurrection Act www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Trump is causing ‘chaos’ as pretext for invoking Insurrection Act, JB Pritzker says

President has not ruled out invoking Insurrection Act but ‘so far it hasn't been necessary’

www.the-independent.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5d

More like dumping down, really 🤔

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5d

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

The taxation of labour vs. capital income

This working paper presents novel analysis comparing in a consistent way the tax treatment of labour and capital income across OECD countries, through stylised effective tax rates (ETRs). It shows tha...

www.oecd.org

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5d

I’m talking share portfolios; second+properties, savings/pensions, land etc held as investments ifamagazine.com/tax-rises-ar... (read the panicked tone) based on: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
among other studies showing

Tax rises are coming — and UK asset holders must act now - IFA Magazine

The question is no longer if taxes will rise in the UK, but how quickly and how sharply, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5d

Do they have the ‘challenge helmet’ where pregnant women can ask to pee in their helmets in an 🆘? Or how about ‘challenge tampons’ - now that woukd be useful!

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5d

Depends on who ‘our’ is: if you’re an asset owner, you’re laughing; if you pay on work earnings m, you’ll pay proportionally more. Many swallowed the low-tax, small state for decades and now crying about 💩 in rivers, NHS queues, struggling schools , no social care, etc. The bill always arrives.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 6d

Closing our eyes; blaming the poor; talking about meritocracy; privatising public assets; deregulating environmental protection… we can keep doing this until all public services collapse. Our tolerance for degraded infrastructure is high go as long as it saves a few quid on tax.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 8d

Ain’t gonna learn; don’t want to learn; just want to vent.

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 9d

Rip-off firm must repay £122mn over unusable PPE Covid gear but it has gone into administration bit.ly/3IKsuNI lawyers now face the hard task of showing personal liability of Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman. £8m cost of storing and destroying gear falls on taxpayers

Michelle Mone-linked firm must pay £122m for breaking PPE contract

PPE Medpro, run by Baroness Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman, has two weeks to pay compensation for ‘faulty’ gowns

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 10d

Hysterical, indeed. Wonder where in the ‘Middle East’ these threats derive?

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 11d

👏 Andy Burnham at #LabourConference

💬 “I hope in my lifetime I see this country rejoin [the EU].”
💬 “We should call out Brexit for the disaster it is.”
💬 “We overtax work and undertax wealth and assets.”
💬 Digital ID? “Not now.”

Bring it on, #Andy4PM
#Rejoin
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Burnham says he hopes UK rejoins EU as he hits back at Reeves and Starmer on economy

Greater Manchester mayor denied he would be ‘hopeless’ on the economy as he tried to play down speculation over his political ambitions

www.independent.co.uk

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 12d

Watching ‘The Hack’ #thehack on @itvnews.bsky.social and reminded once again what vile scum #Murdoch, #RebekahBrooks, #AndyCoulson and cronies are. Cruelty was their motive. Forerunners of today’s media slaughterhouses.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 12d

Farmers will be farmers: see Brexit in U.K., which shut off their biggest non-tariffed agricultural export market. This led to 3rd country trade deals with Australia, New Zealand and soon to be 🇺🇸, all of which were adverse for farming & food safety. Sigh! 🚜

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 13d

Around £75m of assets linked to Mone and her husband have been frozen or restrained by court order so far.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 13d

The high street should be a point of pride for any community.

Labour is giving unprecedented powers and record funding to local people so they can revitalise their high streets.

👉 *Read more:* shorturl.at/0UvQQ

Communities to seize control over high streets and restore pride

Local communities will be handed new powers to revitalise their high streets and restore pride in their towns.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 13d

The place i work has a tv that only plays old tv shows.every so often i look up and theres someone whos been dead for 10 years doing an old celebrity who wants to be a millionaire. Vibe is that i am in a waiting room in british hell

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 13d

📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Despite the brutality of their police, people in Berlin continue to gather by the tens of thousands in solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 13d

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 14d

45,000+ people voted for this is the Mayoral Elections for the West of England. North #somerset loves a hardliner. Their MP was Reese Mogg.

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PetuniaWolf @petuniawolf.bsky.social · 14d

WEAR the PEACE- 9/26
SUMUD FLOTILLA to GAZA
FROM GREECE- 6 more join the already 40 plus ships to GAZA.
🇬🇷🇵🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
youtube.com/shorts/alQsJ...

6 ships from Greece join the 40 ships of the international Global Sumud Flotilla #gaza #shorts

YouTube video by Wear The Peace

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15d

6/ Project 2025 isn’t theory. It’s been tested abroad. It creates poverty, collapse, and insolvency. The rich cash out, the people are crushed. That’s Milei’s Argentina today. That’s Orbán’s Hungary. And that’s Trump’s America if we let it happen. #GOPGreed

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 16d

Three Shades of Beige.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Irish presidential election candidates confirmed as three-way race begins

Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin and leftwing independent Catherine Connolly in running for job

www.theguardian.com

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 16d

Get Hollywood on it (or better, Bollywood).

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 16d

I was thinking of the Welsh & Scottish assembly elections & locals in England, too.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 16d

Classic MIGA - fail to get nominated and start screeching ‘elitism’ and ‘undemocratic behaviour’. Is this how she’d represent Ireland? What a classy act!

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GG @ct-yankee.bsky.social · 16d

Passing this would go a long way toward getting our.national house in order. Having laws that prevent wealthy people/corporations from buying elections would put those elections back in the hands of the people

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