@alison-23.bsky.social
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.
Breaking News: The White House is said to be planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from public media, including NPR and PBS.
White House to Ask Congress to Rescind Funding From NPR and PBS
The Trump administration plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some funding for public media in the United States...
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.
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This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
#RBOTurandot phenomenal. Love the choreography and the lighting and the voices are superb. Live cinema relay are such a brilliant idea.
April 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#RBOTurandot phenomenal. Love the choreography and the lighting and the voices are superb. Live cinema relay are such a brilliant idea.
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It’s getting very authoritarian in the US very fast
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
March 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s getting very authoritarian in the US very fast
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
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CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.
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Supressing a woman’s right to vote. They’re just a white Christian version of the Taliban.
February 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Supressing a woman’s right to vote. They’re just a white Christian version of the Taliban.
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An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
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Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024.
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024
Voter ID, as made compulsory by the Tory Government in 2023, prevented a lot of people from being able to vote
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024.
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
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A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Despite the progress that's been made in the aviation sector to make it more sustainable, I’m simply not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights at Heathrow every year without a hugely damaging impact on our environment.
January 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Despite the progress that's been made in the aviation sector to make it more sustainable, I’m simply not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights at Heathrow every year without a hugely damaging impact on our environment.
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At @goodlawproject.bsky.social we are already dusting off our plans, formulated with a leading environmental Silk, to challenge Heathrow expansion. If Government abides by its Net Zero obligations, which other bit of the economy will take the hit?
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
At @goodlawproject.bsky.social we are already dusting off our plans, formulated with a leading environmental Silk, to challenge Heathrow expansion. If Government abides by its Net Zero obligations, which other bit of the economy will take the hit?
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A third runway at #Heathrow in the midst of a climate emergency is a vile act of vandalism. Rachel Reeves is happy to burn the planet for a tiny (probably elusive) increment of GDP. How does this benefit us?
Article coming later today.
Article coming later today.
January 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A third runway at #Heathrow in the midst of a climate emergency is a vile act of vandalism. Rachel Reeves is happy to burn the planet for a tiny (probably elusive) increment of GDP. How does this benefit us?
Article coming later today.
Article coming later today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have #Labour lost their minds? They seem determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump.
Airport expansion plans bad enough. Going to lose shedloads of voters if they carry on like this.
Have #Labour lost their minds? They seem determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump.
Airport expansion plans bad enough. Going to lose shedloads of voters if they carry on like this.
Labour’s decision to muzzle regulators in the name of ‘growth’ will backfire horribly | Nicolas Shaxson
The Competition and Markets Authority is the strongest line of defence against monopolies, so its change in leadership really matters, writes the journalist Nicholas Shaxson
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have #Labour lost their minds? They seem determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump.
Airport expansion plans bad enough. Going to lose shedloads of voters if they carry on like this.
Have #Labour lost their minds? They seem determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump.
Airport expansion plans bad enough. Going to lose shedloads of voters if they carry on like this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are Labour determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Trump?
They will quickly shed even lifelong voters if they carry on like this.
#labour #Reeves
Are Labour determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Trump?
They will quickly shed even lifelong voters if they carry on like this.
#labour #Reeves
Labour’s decision to muzzle regulators in the name of ‘growth’ will backfire horribly | Nicolas Shaxson
The Competition and Markets Authority is the strongest line of defence against monopolies, so its change in leadership really matters, writes the journalist Nicholas Shaxson
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are Labour determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Trump?
They will quickly shed even lifelong voters if they carry on like this.
#labour #Reeves
Are Labour determined to deliver us up to Bezos/Musk/Trump?
They will quickly shed even lifelong voters if they carry on like this.
#labour #Reeves
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1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵
January 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵