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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.

Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.

Times up.

Merry Christmas!

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December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Stephanie Kelton: The big myth of government deficits | TED
YouTube video by TED
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December 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The push for wealth taxes has been one of the defining economic debates of 2025. The question now is how to create policies that work.

If we are serious about justice, democracy and effective government, this is the path we should take.

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If we want tax justice in 2026, this is the way to tax wealth
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.
December 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro has been wound up without repaying the £122m it owes for ripping off the NHS. But luckily, she gets to keep the private jet and the superyacht.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?

The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Lord Rothermere's wife has donated £50,000 to Reform UK. I wonder which party the Daily Mail will endorse at the next election.
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.

Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.

Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Predictable & thankfully irrelavent "Learn orthadox economics that is failing globally or you're not serious" Centrists get angry at the concept that ecnomics can fundamentally change because "You're not keeping track of the number that tracks with my stock portfolio"
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Austerity Rory FAILS to libsplain economics to Zack Polanski
YouTube video by No Justice
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Yes another post about this woman - because her economics could literally change the UK! In a great way! #MMT

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Mostly Economics Podcast #1 - What do we really know about MMT with Stephanie Kelton
YouTube video by Center for Economic and Policy Research
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December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...
Rachel Reeves’ budget: Who really governs Britain?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.

The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."

Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?

When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.

A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."

Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Don’t forget, no matter how much Nigel Farage tries to shape Reform UK’s economic policy to win votes, at heart he’s a disaster capitalist.

#Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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That awkward moment when your star columnist was responsible... and you have to write headlines around the Boris shaped elephant in the newsroom
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.

Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.

Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter.
We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans.

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Why Rachel Reeves’s first budget cannot survive the coming financial meltdown
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM