Paul Stevens 🥀💚
@pauldstevens.bsky.social
Eeyorish curmudgeon. Ex-journalist. Ex-radio presenter. Ex-Labour. Lecturer. Academic. Bristolian. MMT
Pinned
Bond markets do not rule – governments do
James Carville, adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that if there were reincarnation, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then he could “intimidate everybody”.
The Financial Times ha...
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“Governments don’t borrow in the way households or companies do … when a government with its own central bank spends, it creates money … so-called ‘borrowing’ isn’t a necessity, it’s a policy choice … government never needs to issue bonds to fund spending”.
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So this is what immigrants refusing to integrate into society looks like.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So this is what immigrants refusing to integrate into society looks like.
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You will freeze, you will starve, and they will have lavish parties in Trump’s ballroom. Trump despises you. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/government-shutdown-threatens-delay-home-heating-aid-millions-127104760
Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low-income families
Millions of low-income families may face delays in receiving home heating aid due to the ongoing federal government shutdown
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November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
You will freeze, you will starve, and they will have lavish parties in Trump’s ballroom. Trump despises you. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/government-shutdown-threatens-delay-home-heating-aid-millions-127104760
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No smoking 🚭
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No smoking 🚭
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Hahaha!
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hahaha!
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Prince Andrew stepped back from public life after defending his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.
Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af
Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.
Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af
Tell your MP to strip Andrew of his dukedom
More than five years after Prince Andrew defended his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein on national TV, there are still questions over whether he took part in the abuse of young women. The prince has denied allegations in Virginia...
goodlaw.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Prince Andrew stepped back from public life after defending his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.
Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af
Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.
Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af
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Mike Graham tried to troll me once by pointing out to his numbskull acolytes that I use a pen name.
It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.
Hilarity ensued.
It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.
Hilarity ensued.
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mike Graham tried to troll me once by pointing out to his numbskull acolytes that I use a pen name.
It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.
Hilarity ensued.
It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.
Hilarity ensued.
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Edi Rama gets it. bsky.app/profile/grah...
“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
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Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage
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October 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Edi Rama gets it. bsky.app/profile/grah...
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“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage
www.mirror.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
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Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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October 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
The Conservatives have got a nerve branding English a “rip-off” degree, when they can’t even spell the name of the country we sacked them from governing.
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Conservatives have got a nerve branding English a “rip-off” degree, when they can’t even spell the name of the country we sacked them from governing.
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My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.
If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.
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If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.
If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Democrats need to wake up and realize tax payers do not create the national currency
The state creates the national currency
Euro using countries do, in fact, create the euro backed by the ECB
In fact this is how it works
But the ECB only reluctantly acts like it
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The state creates the national currency
Euro using countries do, in fact, create the euro backed by the ECB
In fact this is how it works
But the ECB only reluctantly acts like it
bsky.app/profile/defe...
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
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We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Democrats need to wake up and realize tax payers do not create the national currency
The state creates the national currency
Euro using countries do, in fact, create the euro backed by the ECB
In fact this is how it works
But the ECB only reluctantly acts like it
bsky.app/profile/defe...
The state creates the national currency
Euro using countries do, in fact, create the euro backed by the ECB
In fact this is how it works
But the ECB only reluctantly acts like it
bsky.app/profile/defe...
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Thatcher: Government has no money if its own. There’s only “tax payer money”.
Also Thatcher: I refuse to adopt the euro & give up my government’s ability to create its own currency
Also Thatcher: I refuse to adopt the euro & give up my government’s ability to create its own currency
October 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thatcher: Government has no money if its own. There’s only “tax payer money”.
Also Thatcher: I refuse to adopt the euro & give up my government’s ability to create its own currency
Also Thatcher: I refuse to adopt the euro & give up my government’s ability to create its own currency
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"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage
Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch
Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage
Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch
Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch
Labour is more Tory than the Tories. Leftism is out, Blairism is back. Thatcherism lives!
Labour is promising to accerate NHS privatisation and even enter into disastrous Public Private Initiatives (PFIs), contrary to its manifesto.
Not only does evidence show that privatisation is 1) more expensive and 2) worse for patient, but voters have never given permission for NHS privatisation.
Not only does evidence show that privatisation is 1) more expensive and 2) worse for patient, but voters have never given permission for NHS privatisation.
Some of us have to use private because even labour are fucking us. I'm probably going to have to emigrate and will have to get health insurance.
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Labour is more Tory than the Tories. Leftism is out, Blairism is back. Thatcherism lives!
I wonder what Starmer’s ulterior motive is for digital ID in the UK? 🤔
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October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I wonder what Starmer’s ulterior motive is for digital ID in the UK? 🤔
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This is an idea whose time has come in many countries. The clamour for young people to “learn a trade” instead of going to university is loud. But a “white collar” graduate career is arguably easier on the body. Who’s more likely to make it to 67 unscathed: a plumber or, say, a journalist?
Universal basic income - problem solved
Calls to lower retirement age as manual labourers stretch pensions
Retiree Petia would like to see the retirement age lowered after a life of heavy lifting has taken its toll on her body. She is having to manage on a JobSeeker payment after trying to pivot careers, a...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is an idea whose time has come in many countries. The clamour for young people to “learn a trade” instead of going to university is loud. But a “white collar” graduate career is arguably easier on the body. Who’s more likely to make it to 67 unscathed: a plumber or, say, a journalist?
“Despite making up just 7 per cent of the student population at age 16, the alumni of private fee-paying schools dominate elite professions.”
Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Despite making up just 7 per cent of the student population at age 16, the alumni of private fee-paying schools dominate elite professions.”
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🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership.
🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%
(Source: @YouGov)
🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%
(Source: @YouGov)
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership.
🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%
(Source: @YouGov)
🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%
(Source: @YouGov)
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New research shows how AI models default to Western-style directness, missing the cultural cues that govern everyday interactions for millions of Persian speakers worldwide — with the potential to derail negotiations, damage relationships, and reinforce stereotypes. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...
When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette
New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New research shows how AI models default to Western-style directness, missing the cultural cues that govern everyday interactions for millions of Persian speakers worldwide — with the potential to derail negotiations, damage relationships, and reinforce stereotypes. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...