Matt Savage
@savageplatoon.bsky.social
Aspiring liberal elite. Climate policy, finance and economics. Director - Oxford Consulting Partners. Trustee - Dialogue Earth. Hopeful but realistic.
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If you banned private schools, state schools would have to be better, because rich parents would make the government make them better, having no other recourse.
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you banned private schools, state schools would have to be better, because rich parents would make the government make them better, having no other recourse.
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
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Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Suburban dipshits, trapped in their boring houses & boring jobs & boring lives, dreaming about an opportunity to finally win their fathers' approval through redemptive violence. Just the saddest most pathetic humans on the planet.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
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Every jeweler I've ever dealt with has been an absolute con artist. It is a career built on convincing others the thing you're selling is worth more than you paid for it. Dishonesty comes as standard.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Every jeweler I've ever dealt with has been an absolute con artist. It is a career built on convincing others the thing you're selling is worth more than you paid for it. Dishonesty comes as standard.
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Parents - if your young teenage son suddenly for the first time ever wants to wash his own bedsheets, let him. Don't ask him why. Don't worry about him doing it wrong. Just get out of the way and let him.
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Parents - if your young teenage son suddenly for the first time ever wants to wash his own bedsheets, let him. Don't ask him why. Don't worry about him doing it wrong. Just get out of the way and let him.
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"Even with Britain’s high overall tax take, most people’s labour income is taxed lightly by international standards...Britain’s [labour tax] wedge in 2024 for a single average earner without children was 29.4%, the lowest in the G7"
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Even with Britain’s high overall tax take, most people’s labour income is taxed lightly by international standards...Britain’s [labour tax] wedge in 2024 for a single average earner without children was 29.4%, the lowest in the G7"
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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America has maybe 5 years left maximum before it collapses. That's why those in power don't care that you've noticed how corrupt they are. It's over. They're just stealing what they can before leaving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
America has maybe 5 years left maximum before it collapses. That's why those in power don't care that you've noticed how corrupt they are. It's over. They're just stealing what they can before leaving.
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Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
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Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
Hotel guests ask for congestion charge 'refund'
Guests staying at a luxury hotel in Oxford city centre have been asking for the congestion charge to be refunded from their bills
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
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Keir Starmer has effectively started a leadership challenge against himself. To have entered into this kind of madhouse Westminster squabbling so soon after an election is simply unforgivable.
inews.co.uk/opinion/back...
inews.co.uk/opinion/back...
I have always backed Starmer - until now
This kind of Westminster squabbling is unforgivable
inews.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Keir Starmer has effectively started a leadership challenge against himself. To have entered into this kind of madhouse Westminster squabbling so soon after an election is simply unforgivable.
inews.co.uk/opinion/back...
inews.co.uk/opinion/back...
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Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.
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The Millennium Falcon, the Tardis, the USS Enterprise and even Starbug must all bow to the Eagle from Space:1999, by FAR the best spaceship in science fiction. Anyone who says otherwise is either mad or crazy.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The Millennium Falcon, the Tardis, the USS Enterprise and even Starbug must all bow to the Eagle from Space:1999, by FAR the best spaceship in science fiction. Anyone who says otherwise is either mad or crazy.
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This game is getting silly now. Live Aid was closer to the end of WW2 than to the present day
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This game is getting silly now. Live Aid was closer to the end of WW2 than to the present day
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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Jeremy Mogford, Oxford hotelier and chairman of Oxford Business Action Group, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of his 100-year old mother Patricia Mogford. The 77-year old was charged together with 71-year old Sarah Pickering from Guildford.
October 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Jeremy Mogford, Oxford hotelier and chairman of Oxford Business Action Group, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of his 100-year old mother Patricia Mogford. The 77-year old was charged together with 71-year old Sarah Pickering from Guildford.
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A bus service every 7-8 minutes for Barton, every 7-8 minutes for Kidlington and Oxford Parkway, and every 5 minutes for Blackbird Leys will kick in from 30 November with a raft of timetable changes by Stagecoach. Night buses will operate on all these routes until 3.30am on Friday/Saturday.
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A bus service every 7-8 minutes for Barton, every 7-8 minutes for Kidlington and Oxford Parkway, and every 5 minutes for Blackbird Leys will kick in from 30 November with a raft of timetable changes by Stagecoach. Night buses will operate on all these routes until 3.30am on Friday/Saturday.