Howard Barrett
@howardbarrett.bsky.social
If more nations governed for the 95%, the world would be a happier and more sustainable place.
Sterling up, stocks up- the global markets like Reeve’s budget, or are not strongly against it. Maybe Vine’s cries of horror and the faux anger of Mr. Farage are more aimed at small business owners who loathe the concept of a suggested minimum wage and who typically underinvest in productivity.
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sterling up, stocks up- the global markets like Reeve’s budget, or are not strongly against it. Maybe Vine’s cries of horror and the faux anger of Mr. Farage are more aimed at small business owners who loathe the concept of a suggested minimum wage and who typically underinvest in productivity.
The FTSE 100 at an all time high, mainly driven by record corporate earnings. Inequality grows every year. Don’t say we can’t implement a wealth tax, equalise rates on capital gains and income, and put an exit tax on those fleeing offshore like Australia, Japan, Canada, the US, France and Germany.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The FTSE 100 at an all time high, mainly driven by record corporate earnings. Inequality grows every year. Don’t say we can’t implement a wealth tax, equalise rates on capital gains and income, and put an exit tax on those fleeing offshore like Australia, Japan, Canada, the US, France and Germany.
The Treasury should calculate the massive hole in the British economy that will get dramatically worse for every year we spend outside of the EU? These results are (should be) sufficiently shocking to force a parliamentary debate on this report. The need for tax increases is directly tied to Brexit.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Treasury should calculate the massive hole in the British economy that will get dramatically worse for every year we spend outside of the EU? These results are (should be) sufficiently shocking to force a parliamentary debate on this report. The need for tax increases is directly tied to Brexit.
The primary role of a BBC Board Member is to act in the best interests of his employer, not blow the bloody doors off. Gibb must go.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The primary role of a BBC Board Member is to act in the best interests of his employer, not blow the bloody doors off. Gibb must go.
Who’s going to break the news to Trump, Farage, the Daily Bile and the Daily Harmsworth. They will be shocked!
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Who’s going to break the news to Trump, Farage, the Daily Bile and the Daily Harmsworth. They will be shocked!
Oh dear Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Lord Feldman, Lord Agnew, Lord Deighton and friends: this is corruption on an epic scale during a national emergency. Read this book and you’ll know why the Conservative brand is dead.
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Oh dear Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Lord Feldman, Lord Agnew, Lord Deighton and friends: this is corruption on an epic scale during a national emergency. Read this book and you’ll know why the Conservative brand is dead.
The Daily Bile: never knowingly praises anything good about the UK. Maybe their journalists should all emigrate to Trumpland and discover for themselves the horrendous cost of US healthcare, declining mortality rates and ubiquitous ultra processed food which drives high obesity levels.
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Daily Bile: never knowingly praises anything good about the UK. Maybe their journalists should all emigrate to Trumpland and discover for themselves the horrendous cost of US healthcare, declining mortality rates and ubiquitous ultra processed food which drives high obesity levels.
The best show I have seen in a long time: outrageously funny and the whole cast shines. A magnificent tribute to the great Mel Brooks. Get yourself along to The Garrick and enjoy!
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The best show I have seen in a long time: outrageously funny and the whole cast shines. A magnificent tribute to the great Mel Brooks. Get yourself along to The Garrick and enjoy!
Labour holding water cos to account after their greedy shareholders ran riot over their finances and trashed our waterways. Along with privatisation and selling off council housing (a political master stroke but economic calamity) then austerity, Tories and their Reform pals have no right to govern.
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Labour holding water cos to account after their greedy shareholders ran riot over their finances and trashed our waterways. Along with privatisation and selling off council housing (a political master stroke but economic calamity) then austerity, Tories and their Reform pals have no right to govern.
Ah yes, the European Coal and Steel Community agreement signed in 1951. Who would have thought such collaborative treaties would have endured for 3/4 of a century - and now the U.K. realises that 80% of our steel exports go there and cries wolf. Johnson/Farage’s “cake and eat it” was always a myth.
October 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Ah yes, the European Coal and Steel Community agreement signed in 1951. Who would have thought such collaborative treaties would have endured for 3/4 of a century - and now the U.K. realises that 80% of our steel exports go there and cries wolf. Johnson/Farage’s “cake and eat it” was always a myth.
Sickening incitement from the gutter press at a time when everyone is pulling together to prevent a reoccurrence of this dreadful attack. Harmsworth/Verity wringing every last drop of bad blood and ill gotten profit from such a terrible tragedy.
October 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sickening incitement from the gutter press at a time when everyone is pulling together to prevent a reoccurrence of this dreadful attack. Harmsworth/Verity wringing every last drop of bad blood and ill gotten profit from such a terrible tragedy.
Facebook algorithms, explicitly designed to spread highly contentious content, often with no basis in fact, whips up racism. Their response? “It doesn’t cross our guidelines for unacceptable political hate”. And trust in politicians is at an all time low? Wake up and legislate to remove this cancer.
September 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Facebook algorithms, explicitly designed to spread highly contentious content, often with no basis in fact, whips up racism. Their response? “It doesn’t cross our guidelines for unacceptable political hate”. And trust in politicians is at an all time low? Wake up and legislate to remove this cancer.
Of course he’s going to push back against (necessary) regulatory guardrails but this is medieval language. Just where is the US headed?
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Of course he’s going to push back against (necessary) regulatory guardrails but this is medieval language. Just where is the US headed?
Mr. Netanyahu thinks a social media campaign is going to whitewash his far right government’s destruction of Palestine? Words fail.
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Mr. Netanyahu thinks a social media campaign is going to whitewash his far right government’s destruction of Palestine? Words fail.
From today’s FT
September 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
From today’s FT
The fourth estate have completely failed to hold Farage to account over Brexit, his party’s obscure foreign funding and now, with the notable exception of the Mirror, are providing front page coverage to his unworkable deportation “plan”. He really is Britain’s Trump- all “me”, no real solutions.
August 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The fourth estate have completely failed to hold Farage to account over Brexit, his party’s obscure foreign funding and now, with the notable exception of the Mirror, are providing front page coverage to his unworkable deportation “plan”. He really is Britain’s Trump- all “me”, no real solutions.
Amazed Gove has the entitled brass neck to appear in public to opine on such a serious matter after his support for BoJo, the least qualified PM ever and Brexit, the most injurious self harm act by a British government since the Corn laws. Oh and he’s a Trump fan.
August 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Amazed Gove has the entitled brass neck to appear in public to opine on such a serious matter after his support for BoJo, the least qualified PM ever and Brexit, the most injurious self harm act by a British government since the Corn laws. Oh and he’s a Trump fan.
I’m a Labour supporter but this makes our government look frankly stupid. The cost in policing, legal representation and prison costs alone, when public resources are stretched to the wire, quite apart from the righteous outrage over Netanyahu’s war crimes, should force a rethink.
August 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I’m a Labour supporter but this makes our government look frankly stupid. The cost in policing, legal representation and prison costs alone, when public resources are stretched to the wire, quite apart from the righteous outrage over Netanyahu’s war crimes, should force a rethink.
Providing eventually a single gateway to myriad public services, tracking illegals and rogue employers, possibly ending the need for a census- what’s not to like? Cheap as chips too and will save on paper based bureaucracy. Wait till the antis discover Meta already has digital id for 3.2b people!
August 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Providing eventually a single gateway to myriad public services, tracking illegals and rogue employers, possibly ending the need for a census- what’s not to like? Cheap as chips too and will save on paper based bureaucracy. Wait till the antis discover Meta already has digital id for 3.2b people!
Telegraph irony: faux outrage and then juxtaposing these 2 stories. Media and political conflation of antisemitism with Israeli genocide is designed to make legitimate protest over Palestinian massacres appear to be somehow morally wrong. It really isn’t.
July 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Telegraph irony: faux outrage and then juxtaposing these 2 stories. Media and political conflation of antisemitism with Israeli genocide is designed to make legitimate protest over Palestinian massacres appear to be somehow morally wrong. It really isn’t.
Truly a wealth of practical evidence based information on how to change your diet to enjoy a better life. This should be mandatory reading for everyone involved in primary healthcare. Indeed a cradle to grave health education strategy with massive economic upside could be based around this book.
July 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Truly a wealth of practical evidence based information on how to change your diet to enjoy a better life. This should be mandatory reading for everyone involved in primary healthcare. Indeed a cradle to grave health education strategy with massive economic upside could be based around this book.
Where there’s muck there’s brass
May 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Where there’s muck there’s brass
It must be so depressing as a Telegraph or Mail journalist waking up every morning and thinking “what story can I find and spin to rubbish the Labour government’s every decision?” It must be mentally exhausting, doesn’t add any value to British society and seems a massive waste of talent and time.
May 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It must be so depressing as a Telegraph or Mail journalist waking up every morning and thinking “what story can I find and spin to rubbish the Labour government’s every decision?” It must be mentally exhausting, doesn’t add any value to British society and seems a massive waste of talent and time.
What a sensational clearance by Micky vdV! This was the moment Man Utd knew they’d lost to Spurs in the Europa League Final.
May 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What a sensational clearance by Micky vdV! This was the moment Man Utd knew they’d lost to Spurs in the Europa League Final.
An interesting agenda for financial reform to build on Labour’s industrial strategy to grow the economy. Big strategic investments, eg nuclear modular reactors w RR, could generate decades of returns for British companies and well paid jobs.
May 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
An interesting agenda for financial reform to build on Labour’s industrial strategy to grow the economy. Big strategic investments, eg nuclear modular reactors w RR, could generate decades of returns for British companies and well paid jobs.