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@swatidhingra.bsky.social touched on this last week in Sheffield - why the "puzzle" of weak UK consumption vs (on the face of it) robust incomes growth isn't such a puzzle once you include the stuff that isn't in the CPI basket
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@swatidhingra.bsky.social touched on this last week in Sheffield - why the "puzzle" of weak UK consumption vs (on the face of it) robust incomes growth isn't such a puzzle once you include the stuff that isn't in the CPI basket
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...
Robbie Gibb wins again.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Robbie Gibb wins again.
I’m just at sea with how delusional he is. Did you not hear about Windrush Trevor? Do you think British ICE will not approach you on the street?
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I’m just at sea with how delusional he is. Did you not hear about Windrush Trevor? Do you think British ICE will not approach you on the street?
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Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Why do the ‘difficult choices’ this government takes so rarely relate to things they think Reform voters will object to?
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I continue to be amazed every time I think about this.
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I am now curious if there is some linguistic theory as to why adverbs specifically are the worst drifters
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I am now curious if there is some linguistic theory as to why adverbs specifically are the worst drifters
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"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
This is a good reminder that while the professional structures of self regulation of lawyers in the US legal system has partly resisted the authoritarian march, ours will actively enable it.
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is a good reminder that while the professional structures of self regulation of lawyers in the US legal system has partly resisted the authoritarian march, ours will actively enable it.
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Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
Some times the Pitchbot is just art.
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Some times the Pitchbot is just art.
We have a "it's just bantz" out in the wild. 😞
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We have a "it's just bantz" out in the wild. 😞
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
cc @okwonga.bsky.social
If this isn't evidence that Gibb doesn't have the quality of judgement to be in his current position of influence, what would it take?
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If this isn't evidence that Gibb doesn't have the quality of judgement to be in his current position of influence, what would it take?
Much like Angela Rayner got DOS'd by having to respond to every scandal of the Tory government, there's a danger I'll overload @dsquareddigest.bsky.social - but EDF, fish etc. - have you heard anything reliable about this?
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Much like Angela Rayner got DOS'd by having to respond to every scandal of the Tory government, there's a danger I'll overload @dsquareddigest.bsky.social - but EDF, fish etc. - have you heard anything reliable about this?
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Perhaps the way to achieve real leftist politics in UK & Europe might be to just pay a few guys in Sri Lanka to constantly and continually post extracts from Kapital
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Perhaps the way to achieve real leftist politics in UK & Europe might be to just pay a few guys in Sri Lanka to constantly and continually post extracts from Kapital
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So many people in govt trying to work out what's happening, so many people outside of govt trying to press for meaningful scrutiny on a fundamentally jumbled set of proposals that shouldn't have been announced till someone *knew what they were doing* and why.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
So many people in govt trying to work out what's happening, so many people outside of govt trying to press for meaningful scrutiny on a fundamentally jumbled set of proposals that shouldn't have been announced till someone *knew what they were doing* and why.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult
Random question on the London housing thing - do we have good figures on the AirBnB situation?
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Random question on the London housing thing - do we have good figures on the AirBnB situation?
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Convinced Elon shut it down because it was too embarrassing to admit that non white people are better at being racist than their white counterparts
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Convinced Elon shut it down because it was too embarrassing to admit that non white people are better at being racist than their white counterparts
I’m drifting to “when Labour show you who they are, believe them” 😞
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m drifting to “when Labour show you who they are, believe them” 😞
A reminder that all the “careful management of Trump” so promulgated in the UK commentariat has bought us a few months, but only that.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A reminder that all the “careful management of Trump” so promulgated in the UK commentariat has bought us a few months, but only that.
The interesting bit is that it should be just as damaging to him that he believed this stuff (while Gill only said it for the money) but somehow, as so often, it doesn't. If we want a better country, we have to work this disparity out (not just regarding Farage, either.)
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The interesting bit is that it should be just as damaging to him that he believed this stuff (while Gill only said it for the money) but somehow, as so often, it doesn't. If we want a better country, we have to work this disparity out (not just regarding Farage, either.)
The really interesting placemaking strategy would be to move the Bank of England out of London.
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The really interesting placemaking strategy would be to move the Bank of England out of London.