Nash Veland
@nasovela.bsky.social
Fight inequality, injustice, oppression. Avoid climate collapse 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Has privately educated wealthy white person Sarah Pochin condemned the over-representation of privately educated wealthy white people among Reform UK MPs yet?
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Has privately educated wealthy white person Sarah Pochin condemned the over-representation of privately educated wealthy white people among Reform UK MPs yet?
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Why Coventry South needs a new MP: Zarah Sultana has betrayed every principle she stood for election on - and is undermining UK national security open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Coventry South needs a by-election soon
Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Why Coventry South needs a new MP: Zarah Sultana has betrayed every principle she stood for election on - and is undermining UK national security open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
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New Saving the World from Bad Ideas 🎙️
With @mliebreich.bsky.social
I tackle Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!” 💧
Hydrogen hype ≠ climate strategy. We break down why it’s overblown, where it might fit, and why pragmatism wins.
🎧 savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com/p/bad-idea-2...
With @mliebreich.bsky.social
I tackle Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!” 💧
Hydrogen hype ≠ climate strategy. We break down why it’s overblown, where it might fit, and why pragmatism wins.
🎧 savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com/p/bad-idea-2...
Bad Idea #24 "We’ll just use Hydrogen!" with Michael Liebreich
Listen now | 🔍 Episode Summary:
savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
New Saving the World from Bad Ideas 🎙️
With @mliebreich.bsky.social
I tackle Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!” 💧
Hydrogen hype ≠ climate strategy. We break down why it’s overblown, where it might fit, and why pragmatism wins.
🎧 savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com/p/bad-idea-2...
With @mliebreich.bsky.social
I tackle Bad Idea #24: “We’ll just use Hydrogen!” 💧
Hydrogen hype ≠ climate strategy. We break down why it’s overblown, where it might fit, and why pragmatism wins.
🎧 savingtheworldfrombadideas.substack.com/p/bad-idea-2...
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
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It’s normal to be scared of scary things.
September 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It’s normal to be scared of scary things.
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In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
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“Massive nonlinear events in the global environment give rise to massive nonlinear societal events.”
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
September 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Massive nonlinear events in the global environment give rise to massive nonlinear societal events.”
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
We still fail to incorporate this reality in our thinking.
The climate crisis is the context in which everything else is happening.
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
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Starmer said high net immigration had caused 'incalculable damage' to society. That was fascist scapegoating.
Yes it has negative effects if not carefully managed, but also strong positive effects, e.g. being able to afford to pay Baby Boomers' state pension.
Yes it has negative effects if not carefully managed, but also strong positive effects, e.g. being able to afford to pay Baby Boomers' state pension.
July 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Starmer said high net immigration had caused 'incalculable damage' to society. That was fascist scapegoating.
Yes it has negative effects if not carefully managed, but also strong positive effects, e.g. being able to afford to pay Baby Boomers' state pension.
Yes it has negative effects if not carefully managed, but also strong positive effects, e.g. being able to afford to pay Baby Boomers' state pension.
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Y'days post: Delusions on the Left and Labour Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/delu...
In which I will upset nearly everyone by arguing that the Labour Party only works if it is a broad church that spans left to right, but only if the left does not have control.
In which I will upset nearly everyone by arguing that the Labour Party only works if it is a broad church that spans left to right, but only if the left does not have control.
Delusions on the Left and Labour Right
I had it with writing about internal Labour party politics at the end of the 2010s, and have written very little on the subject since. Wri...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Y'days post: Delusions on the Left and Labour Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/delu...
In which I will upset nearly everyone by arguing that the Labour Party only works if it is a broad church that spans left to right, but only if the left does not have control.
In which I will upset nearly everyone by arguing that the Labour Party only works if it is a broad church that spans left to right, but only if the left does not have control.
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Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza and systematically starving children. Now is the time to act, otherwise what on earth is the point of having *any influence* on Israel? If not now, *when*? Full sanctions on Israel is the least the UK must do.
July 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza and systematically starving children. Now is the time to act, otherwise what on earth is the point of having *any influence* on Israel? If not now, *when*? Full sanctions on Israel is the least the UK must do.
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It wasn’t just that Hunt didn’t set out any credible plans to pay for his patently unaffordable tax cuts.
It was that he spent two years hiding expenses and ducking spending decisions to construct the fictitious narrative that they were affordable. The Tories simply stopped governing
It was that he spent two years hiding expenses and ducking spending decisions to construct the fictitious narrative that they were affordable. The Tories simply stopped governing
July 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It wasn’t just that Hunt didn’t set out any credible plans to pay for his patently unaffordable tax cuts.
It was that he spent two years hiding expenses and ducking spending decisions to construct the fictitious narrative that they were affordable. The Tories simply stopped governing
It was that he spent two years hiding expenses and ducking spending decisions to construct the fictitious narrative that they were affordable. The Tories simply stopped governing
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He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in ICE custody.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in ICE custody.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Some definitely workable ways to tax the rich:
* Tax unearned income at (at least) the same rates as earnings
* Have a new highest income tax bracket
* Have a land value tax
* Have a financial transaction (Tobin) tax which is a tiny fraction of 1% (which also helps to stabilise markets)
* Tax unearned income at (at least) the same rates as earnings
* Have a new highest income tax bracket
* Have a land value tax
* Have a financial transaction (Tobin) tax which is a tiny fraction of 1% (which also helps to stabilise markets)
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Some definitely workable ways to tax the rich:
* Tax unearned income at (at least) the same rates as earnings
* Have a new highest income tax bracket
* Have a land value tax
* Have a financial transaction (Tobin) tax which is a tiny fraction of 1% (which also helps to stabilise markets)
* Tax unearned income at (at least) the same rates as earnings
* Have a new highest income tax bracket
* Have a land value tax
* Have a financial transaction (Tobin) tax which is a tiny fraction of 1% (which also helps to stabilise markets)
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“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.”
Via @theguardian.com.
Via @theguardian.com.
How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.”
Via @theguardian.com.
Via @theguardian.com.
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Is this with or without societal collapse?
25 percent drop in global GDP and 2 billion dead for 2C rise by 2050 - UK Institute & Faculty of Actuaries
Limits to Growth update - societal collapse as soon as 2040
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
25 percent drop in global GDP and 2 billion dead for 2C rise by 2050 - UK Institute & Faculty of Actuaries
Limits to Growth update - societal collapse as soon as 2040
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists
Worst-case scenario of 4.3C of warming could result in fiftyfold rise in heat-related deaths, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Is this with or without societal collapse?
25 percent drop in global GDP and 2 billion dead for 2C rise by 2050 - UK Institute & Faculty of Actuaries
Limits to Growth update - societal collapse as soon as 2040
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
25 percent drop in global GDP and 2 billion dead for 2C rise by 2050 - UK Institute & Faculty of Actuaries
Limits to Growth update - societal collapse as soon as 2040
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If markets were crashing, we’d also see:
• Pound slumping (it’s near a 4-year high vs dollar)
• Mortgage rates surging (they’re trending down)
• Credit default swaps leaping (also falling)
So please don’t be drawn in by people who don’t understand basic financial concepts!
• Pound slumping (it’s near a 4-year high vs dollar)
• Mortgage rates surging (they’re trending down)
• Credit default swaps leaping (also falling)
So please don’t be drawn in by people who don’t understand basic financial concepts!
July 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If markets were crashing, we’d also see:
• Pound slumping (it’s near a 4-year high vs dollar)
• Mortgage rates surging (they’re trending down)
• Credit default swaps leaping (also falling)
So please don’t be drawn in by people who don’t understand basic financial concepts!
• Pound slumping (it’s near a 4-year high vs dollar)
• Mortgage rates surging (they’re trending down)
• Credit default swaps leaping (also falling)
So please don’t be drawn in by people who don’t understand basic financial concepts!