Patrick Osgood
@patrickosgood.bsky.social
MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Also, couldn’t someone just open a stocks and shares ISA for the full tax exemption, then just stick the cash into a money market fund?
Reeves’s plan to cut cash Isa limit could raise mortgage rates, say finance bosses
Reeves’s plan to cut cash Isa limit could raise mortgage rates, say finance bosses
Building societies fear consumers will be put off from saving if chancellor’s budget announces a 40% reduction
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Rachel Reeves’s plan to slash the annual cash Isa limit by 40% could lead to higher mortgage rates and deter consumers from saving, finance bosses have said.
The chancellor is expected to cut the maximum amount people can put into tax-efficient cash individual savings accounts from £20,000 a year to £12,000 in Wednesday’s budget. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Also, couldn’t someone just open a stocks and shares ISA for the full tax exemption, then just stick the cash into a money market fund?
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One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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at the Jewish Leadership Conference promoting Dana Loesch, now to take a big swig of wine and do a quick google.
www.imdb.com/news/ni61941...
www.imdb.com/news/ni61941...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
at the Jewish Leadership Conference promoting Dana Loesch, now to take a big swig of wine and do a quick google.
www.imdb.com/news/ni61941...
www.imdb.com/news/ni61941...
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What a rotten state of affairs that a teenage girl had thrust upon her the responsibility of being the only adult in the room because actual grown adults refused to recognise her either as a child or, more importantly, as a human being. A sad indictment of a pitiful society.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What a rotten state of affairs that a teenage girl had thrust upon her the responsibility of being the only adult in the room because actual grown adults refused to recognise her either as a child or, more importantly, as a human being. A sad indictment of a pitiful society.
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Failures by Tory ministers and welfare officials led to carer’s allowance crisis, review finds
Failures by Tory ministers and welfare officials led to carer’s allowance crisis, review finds
Unpaid carers were pushed into debt and distress and hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money wasted
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Repeated failures by Tory ministers and top welfare officials pushed hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt and distress, and led to hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being wasted, a devastating review has concluded.
The independent review of carer’s allowance benefit overpayments identified “systemic issues” at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and said carers could not be blamed for falling foul of unclear and confusing benefit rules. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Failures by Tory ministers and welfare officials led to carer’s allowance crisis, review finds
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Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
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The UK must remove the pension triple lock on.ft.com/49AbdBV | opinion
The UK must remove the pension triple lock
With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The UK must remove the pension triple lock on.ft.com/49AbdBV | opinion
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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 9:26 AM
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
Oh cool, a bullying app for shitheads
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh cool, a bullying app for shitheads
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Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.
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 8:03 PM
Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
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Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Ooooh, he did that shit, and he knows very well he did. And he looks like a frightened fool, all the smarm drained away, trying to wriggle off the hook. Needs to be confronted with it again and again and again
“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
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Ooooh, he did that shit, and he knows very well he did. And he looks like a frightened fool, all the smarm drained away, trying to wriggle off the hook. Needs to be confronted with it again and again and again
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journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this
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When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
They’re all like this
Ryan Bridge - the driving force behind the 'Raise the Flags' campaign of a few months ago - is wanted by Spain, in connection with a holiday compensation fraud
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Flag campaign chief praised by Tommy Robinson facing jail over ‘holiday scam’
Ryan Bridge, ringleader of the Raise the Colours movement heralded by ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson, is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain
www.mirror.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
They’re all like this
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After Iraq, I wondered if there was *anything* a conservative administration could do to really lose the popular mantle of "pro-military." It appears Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are engaged in a long-term experiment to find a definitive answer
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
After Iraq, I wondered if there was *anything* a conservative administration could do to really lose the popular mantle of "pro-military." It appears Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are engaged in a long-term experiment to find a definitive answer
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Yeah that’s not a defense, is it
Lib Dem MP Cameron Thomas at DCMS committee: "Somebody you've described as a friend [Robbie Gibb] had a role in your appointment. You don't think that's unusual?"
Prescott: "If you operate in this country in the sphere of politics/media etc it's not that unusual to come across people that you know"
Prescott: "If you operate in this country in the sphere of politics/media etc it's not that unusual to come across people that you know"
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah that’s not a defense, is it