Philip Taylor
@philipjtaylor.bsky.social
Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
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Philip Taylor
@philipjtaylor.bsky.social
· Jan 26
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
YouTube video by Louis Price
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It was prophesied. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui youtu.be/_AJQlRmJvLA?... via @YouTube
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Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused.
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused.
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
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Which begs the question: if even the cheerleaders for Brexit can see the damage it's causing, why can't Labour?
(If Labour were utterly honest about Brexit's impacts they wouldn't be fiddling around the edges of our EU deal making microscopic adjustments that won't make a shred of real difference.)
(If Labour were utterly honest about Brexit's impacts they wouldn't be fiddling around the edges of our EU deal making microscopic adjustments that won't make a shred of real difference.)
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Which begs the question: if even the cheerleaders for Brexit can see the damage it's causing, why can't Labour?
(If Labour were utterly honest about Brexit's impacts they wouldn't be fiddling around the edges of our EU deal making microscopic adjustments that won't make a shred of real difference.)
(If Labour were utterly honest about Brexit's impacts they wouldn't be fiddling around the edges of our EU deal making microscopic adjustments that won't make a shred of real difference.)
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A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Carney loses Cabinet minister over pipeline push
Trudeau-era climate minister says Alberta energy deal betrays “environmental issues.”
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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He lives in a French chateau, it seems. The Gaul of these people is breathtaking.
David Coburn, former leader of UKIP Scotland & mentioned in WhatsApp messages sent between Gill and his handler answers "no" when a journalist asks him if he took money to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
He lives in a French chateau, it seems. The Gaul of these people is breathtaking.
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Saint Nicholas church in Hérémence, Switzerland by architect Walter Maria Förderer (1962-1971) r/brutalism
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Saint Nicholas church in Hérémence, Switzerland by architect Walter Maria Förderer (1962-1971) r/brutalism
I'm sure anyone 👀ing Project 2025 "developments" across the Atlantic is eagerly anticipating them being replicated here. 🤡😨😱
Nigel Farage's 'Project 2029': The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Nigel Farage's 'Project 2029': The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage's meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agen...
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm sure anyone 👀ing Project 2025 "developments" across the Atlantic is eagerly anticipating them being replicated here. 🤡😨😱
Had a huge arcing railway curve to enable trains from Scarborough and (before it closed in 1965) Hull to run North up the East Coast Main Line instead of just South. The curve was already severed by the construction of the York Power Signal Box. @garethdennis.uk
York Central aerial view. One of the largest regeneration projects in the UK. Former railway land around Leeman Road, Bishopfields & the old York Depot.
Developer: Homes England & Network Rail, with City of York Council. National Railway Museum on left.
#YorkCentral #York #Aerial
Developer: Homes England & Network Rail, with City of York Council. National Railway Museum on left.
#YorkCentral #York #Aerial
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Had a huge arcing railway curve to enable trains from Scarborough and (before it closed in 1965) Hull to run North up the East Coast Main Line instead of just South. The curve was already severed by the construction of the York Power Signal Box. @garethdennis.uk
Husband of one of someone I know scores 7.5 on the Gleeson scale. A surgeon has warned him of the draconian consequences of having his prostate out. It's a last resort for men strong enough to withstand the operation. He was apparently told he'd face the rest of his life incontinent and in a nappy.
Why men with cancer worries should pay more attention to Angelina Jolie
Why men with cancer worries should pay more attention to Angelina Jolie
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Husband of one of someone I know scores 7.5 on the Gleeson scale. A surgeon has warned him of the draconian consequences of having his prostate out. It's a last resort for men strong enough to withstand the operation. He was apparently told he'd face the rest of his life incontinent and in a nappy.
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Millions of middle-aged men will be denied routine prostate cancer checks, with a new NHS screening programme instead focusing on 30,000 with a cancer-causing mutation
Millions miss out on prostate screening while most at-risk get checks
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Millions of middle-aged men will be denied routine prostate cancer checks, with a new NHS screening programme instead focusing on 30,000 with a cancer-causing mutation
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Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for
Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for
Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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The new 3p per mile electric vehicle tax has lots of details still to be worked out bit.ly/3Koku5P and it could end up an even bigger mess than the provision of fast, cheap, clearly priced charging points
Electric cars will need annual checks under Reeves’s new rules
Under the chancellor’s pay-per-mile scheme motorists would have to have mileage officially verified each year
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The new 3p per mile electric vehicle tax has lots of details still to be worked out bit.ly/3Koku5P and it could end up an even bigger mess than the provision of fast, cheap, clearly priced charging points
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'The manifesto said no increase in National Insurance. This is an increase in National Insurance.'
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
'The manifesto said no increase in National Insurance. This is an increase in National Insurance.'
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
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New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country
"The country"
"The country" often does not mean the whole of the people.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country
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This looks v awkward for Reeves - or at least for the narrative created by HMT: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
OBR challenges claims Reeves dropped income tax rise due to rosier forecasts
Official forecaster’s chair says chancellor knew about revised predictions well before her budget change of heart
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This looks v awkward for Reeves - or at least for the narrative created by HMT: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I always find it interesting how changes/future changes in the City's skyline can tell you a lot about changes in the City itself about politics, regulation and the economics of finance 👇
www.ft.com/content/6fe3...
www.ft.com/content/6fe3...
JPMorgan’s Dimon approved London tower after UK assurances
Keir Starmer’s business envoy visited US bank boss in New York last week
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I always find it interesting how changes/future changes in the City's skyline can tell you a lot about changes in the City itself about politics, regulation and the economics of finance 👇
www.ft.com/content/6fe3...
www.ft.com/content/6fe3...
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The King’s brother, Prince Edward, enjoys his Surrey mansion at a peppercorn rent, it can be revealed, after The Times forced the disclosure of documents held by the Crown Estate.
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion
Campaigners have questioned whether the royal family can justify Edward’s occupation of Bagshot Park, which could otherwise be leased for taxpayer benefit
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The King’s brother, Prince Edward, enjoys his Surrey mansion at a peppercorn rent, it can be revealed, after The Times forced the disclosure of documents held by the Crown Estate.
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
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Quiet Piggy.
"I think he just took a detour off the sanity highway."
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Quiet Piggy.
No asbestos risk from all that boiler lagging I'm sure. 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
No asbestos risk from all that boiler lagging I'm sure. 🤔
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No tears should be shed for the OBR but interesting it has decided to expose the lie of Reeves' ridiculous claim that "I have a hole" because my fiscal rules say so... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
OBR challenges claims Reeves dropped income tax rise due to rosier forecasts
Official forecaster’s chair says chancellor knew about revised predictions well before her budget change of heart
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
No tears should be shed for the OBR but interesting it has decided to expose the lie of Reeves' ridiculous claim that "I have a hole" because my fiscal rules say so... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Templars played a pivotal part in this. I rather like the concept of warrior monks.
My contributor's copy has arrived!
Publishers' details at: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-thi...
Publishers' details at: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-thi...
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Templars played a pivotal part in this. I rather like the concept of warrior monks.
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Grade 2 listed Sheffield's Old Town Hall, a former council & courthouse building at Waingate which has been empty since 1995 fails to sell at auction after being marketed for sale at £498,000. 👇
BBC News - Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction
The Grade II listed building did not meet its reserve price of £498,000.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Grade 2 listed Sheffield's Old Town Hall, a former council & courthouse building at Waingate which has been empty since 1995 fails to sell at auction after being marketed for sale at £498,000. 👇
BBC News - Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread