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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 7h

spotted on eBay.

Anybody know what NCW&W stood for? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25696584...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 7h

What, this Richard Tice? Surely not. bsky.app/profile/flip...

Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 7d

This outburst by Tice should have more publicity. He made up a quote from Starmer’s speech, saying the PM had called on people to ‘take up arms’ against Reform.

4 minutes in.

www.youtube.com/live/7OMe2iC...

Reform UK accuses Keir Starmer of inciting violence against Nigel Farage

YouTube video by Sky News

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sure financial journalists can correct me if I'm wrong, but it also seems reminiscent of how very large risky assets were concentrated in the balance sheet of a handful of too-big-to-fail institutions.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 8h

Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10h

I find it strangely comforting that the Tories are still turning out young fogeys.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12h

Bakerloo line, Victoria line, Metropolitan line, Northern line

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 14h

I have often wondered if there were deficiencies in the course, but my guess was just that the skill set it developed was particularly useful to ambitious amoral climbers.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 14h

That surprised me!

She certainly gave a good impression of somebody who knew sod all about economics.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23h

I thought we already had ‘24 hour drinking’ if the pubs wanted to open late.
Many pubs don’t even open for all the hours they are allowed. If they can’t get the customers, they shut early.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

www.theguardian.com

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23h

At least you’ll have some interesting conversations on the wing.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going to come up with garbage, at least make it fresh garbage.

flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/w...

Welfare delusions

A report by the IFS earlier this week found that the government’s social security cuts had saved nowhere near the amount it expected. The £19bn it had hoped to save turned out to be only £2.5…

flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

Using welfare cuts to reduce the deficit.

Now where have we heard that before?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Badenoch unveils ‘golden rule’ to use half of spending cuts to reduce deficit

Conservative leader aims to rebuild party’s economic credibility after it was torched by her predecessors

www.theguardian.com

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of them are being built on this side of London. I’m told it’s due to proximity to cabling coming in from the US. In this wireless world it seems that wires are still important!

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmmmm. I'm certainly with Adam Tooze on the idea that central banks are ultimately (and should be) tools of the state. But the idea that QT/QE is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems is one of the great mistruths of our era.

www.ft.com/content/7615...

Britain needs a ‘whatever it takes’ moment

The Bank of England must acknowledge the priority of reviving investment-led growth and stop quantitative tightening

www.ft.com

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 2d

I was wondering why the Shadow Chancellor was addressing a fringe meeting - then I realised it wasn’t a fringe meeting.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...