Mark Robinson

@mr.place

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Aspiring urban fixer - was UK High Street Czar -think tank wonk - #ABI survivor - OSP student @lsepbs.bluesky.app

Writing about later life learning and being a padawan "pracademic" https://markisalwayslearning.substack.com .. more

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 12h

President Lee of South Korea just blasted the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry for spreading “fake news” about millionaires leaving the country.

Sound familiar? That’s because it was based on the same junk stats used to scare the UK public away from wealth taxes.

🧵1/5

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Tax Justice Network 🔜🔵UN tax talks @taxjustice.net · 14h

HUGE WIN💥

Korean President Lee has become the first head of state to call out the “millionaire exodus” myth, citing our research with @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social debunking it.

Korea's tax authority published data contradicting the myth. taxjustice.net/press/korean...

Korean president cites TJN takedown of millionaire exodus myth, demands end to anti-democratic “fake news” against wealth taxes - Tax Justice Network

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung condemned1 the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry over the weekend for spreading “fake news” about millionaires supposedly leaving South Korea due to inheritan...

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 19h

@davidolusoga.bsky.social I'm four episodes into the excellent Chernobyl podcast series and you have yet to reference the “Russian underpants”
joke.

Which, for our generation, was the first cultural reference that everyone remembers!

Is social/cultural rigour not important to you 🤷‍♂️🤣

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 1d

‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, wher...

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d

This guy is good, who is he!?

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d

ChatGPT: Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 1d

Richard Burgon.

Simple.

(that works on at least two levels)

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 1d

Even the bond vigilantes don’t like the fiscal rules.

Top UK government bond investors have urged Rachel Reeves to relax Treasury constraints on borrowing by development corporations in a bid to streamline big projects such as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and boost growth.
In a letter last month, companies including Legal & General and Aviva warned the chancellor that her self-imposed fiscal rules are making it harder to buy land and convert it into new towns and big housing schemes.

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d

Even allowing for @anandmenon.bsky.social reaction. Nope, I still can't support the USA.

Publically.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

Per @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk: 'Reform has gobbled up a large chunk of the right-leaning youth, this is reallocation within an already shrinking bloc [...] rather than a far-right surge, the youth vote in the UK shows a remarkable opposite trend: a surge of progressive voting, including among young men'

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d

We need to get Palantir the fuck out of all UK Gov systems, as much of a risk as Huawei.

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 2d

He’ll end up with Lowe on his current trajectory.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2d

It is terribly sad that the former PM feels the need to say this in the face of low life blowhards.

We cannot allow this to even be a question.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity

Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’

www.theguardian.com

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 3d

It was part of the qualification?

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 3d

Spot on.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it should.

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 4d

A cultural confession in my latest Substack - open.substack.com/pub/markisal...

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 4d

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 5d

“Blue Labour is more like Red Reform” - brilliant summation by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social on the latest @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 04/02/2026 · 1h 26m

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 5d

😂

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 5d

PS Jo Rigby is excellent in Balham Ward and a cycling nut👍

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 5d

I like Antonia, but you are 100% right in this Ranty.

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 6d

This is good @patmillsuk.bsky.social @suzannebold.bsky.social

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 6d

Reform UK says it would re-impose two-child benefit cap for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 6d

📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣

A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n

medium.com/@jamestplunk...

How to activate citizen agency

If communities have half the answer, what is the other half?

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Mark Robinson @mr.place · 7d

The promise of a meritocracy.

Mark Robinson @mr.place · 8d

I spoke at an event which was picketed by anti-15-minners (!?) I had a chat with them afterwards. What was clear and desperately sad was how broken and confused they seemed to be by a world that has not given them what they feel they deserve.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 9d

This story is fascinating & multifaceted. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
1. We wring hands about young being on phones all time but it's more elderly folks who are on Facebook, Nextdoor etc. visibly engaging in toxic online discussions, amplifying conspiracy theories.
2. Politicians & media...