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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 19h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the Tory conference, having watched most of it on GB News:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...

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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 2d

Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation

@willdunn.bsky.social: "If only real crimes were taken this seriously"

Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation

If only real crimes were taken this seriously

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 2d

With the greatest respect to our Nation's Fallen Vegetable King, 38 police officers seems like a lot

www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8d

Enjoy putting together mad pairings of places for the imaginary but generic conference speech I’d write. From Falmouth to Falkirk, Aldeburgh to Aberystwyth, Weymouth to Wick, Plymouth to Peterhead, Lerwick to the Lizard, Brighton to Bo’ness, Mile End to Ealing, Brixton to Bounds Green, Reading to Le

Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🚨🚨Secret formula for political speechwriting EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 8d

From the government's "Pepsi strategy" to speechwriting by committee, this is a brilliant sketch of Labour conference by @willdunn.bsky.social:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

At Labour conference, the main character was Farage

Labour MPs couldn’t stop talking about the absent Reform leader

www.newstatesman.com

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🚨🚨Secret formula for political speechwriting EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 10d

I know this isn't as compelling as the question of whether or not the Prime Minister gave his parents the use of a donkey field. But it could be argued that it's more important!

Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 11d

New: Headteachers tell us they will have to cut activities or even staff to top up their (already inadequate) meals budgets. Expanding free school meals is great - but who's paying for it?

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

www.newstatesman.com

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 11d

New: Headteachers tell us they will have to cut activities or even staff to top up their (already inadequate) meals budgets. Expanding free school meals is great - but who's paying for it?

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

www.newstatesman.com

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Andy Jolley @andyjolley.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve been saying this for years

Schools should not be subsidising school meals

Credit to @livinghealthy007.bsky.social for linking the issue to the FSM expansion

Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 11d

New: Headteachers tell us they will have to cut activities or even staff to top up their (already inadequate) meals budgets. Expanding free school meals is great - but who's paying for it?

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

www.newstatesman.com

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 11d

New: Headteachers tell us they will have to cut activities or even staff to top up their (already inadequate) meals budgets. Expanding free school meals is great - but who's paying for it?

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

www.newstatesman.com

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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 11d

Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

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Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets

Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools

www.newstatesman.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.

Ex-Reform leader pleads guilty to Pro-Russia bribery charges

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to numerous bribery charges relating to pro-Russian statements.

caerphilly.observer

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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 13d

My feature in this week's agenda-setting
New Statesman about the growing threat to Labour from the left. Pick up a copy at Labour Conference this weekend!

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 13d

"You'll be safe as long as you're not paying tax." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No pensioner deportations under Reform, says Kruger

The MP for East Wiltshire was responding to concerns about scrapping indefinite leave to remain.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14d

Brutal and enjoyable piece from @willdunn.bsky.social on Clegg's return from Silicon Valley with Views to Share on standing up to the US and how to save the internet (errr) www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: “I’m not going back into politics”, Nick Clegg tells an audience of political party members, before espousing detailed political views, at a political party conference, while promoting his book about politics.
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Nick Clegg saves the internet

He’s not the hero we want, or the hero we deserve. Not a hero at all actually

www.newstatesman.com

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 16d

What if she has a point?

Really great interview revising the Liz Truss legacy by @willdunn.bsky.social:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Liz Truss is still at war with the Deep State

Truss says she was the victim of “deliberate sabotage”. What if she’s right?

www.newstatesman.com

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Ethan Croft @ethangcroft.bsky.social · 16d

Three years on from the Mini-Budget, @willdunn.bsky.social persuaded Liz Truss to talk to the New Statesman and it's worth reading. In which she:

- Suggests Bank governor Andrew Bailey may have financially benefitted from her downfall
- Restates her praise of Tommy Robinson

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 16d

New: does Liz Truss still have a lesson for the UK? Within the cloud of grudges and paranoia in her thinking, is there a real point about who holds power?

I spoke to the former PM about why she failed, and what she believes

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...