Danny Maxim
@dannymaxim.bsky.social
Ex protector and assessor with interests in politics, economics, social science, railways. Plus a bit of sport and music.
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*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
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Their aim is to bankrupt KCC and force a major sell off and convert KCC to a corporate governance region. Remove everything from goverment control. How very trumpian. I'd be scrutinizing every expense claim. I'd put money on the fact councillors & their cronies are lining their pockets. Just saying🤷♀️
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Their aim is to bankrupt KCC and force a major sell off and convert KCC to a corporate governance region. Remove everything from goverment control. How very trumpian. I'd be scrutinizing every expense claim. I'd put money on the fact councillors & their cronies are lining their pockets. Just saying🤷♀️
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Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
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We’re going to see more of this ridiculous “they’re cancelling Christmas” narrative.
It’s basically Rage-Bait LAW from the 12th November, just as soon as Poppy Rage is over.
Try not to get sucked in👍🏼
It’s not good for your blood pressure to get so angry about imaginary problems
12/15
It’s basically Rage-Bait LAW from the 12th November, just as soon as Poppy Rage is over.
Try not to get sucked in👍🏼
It’s not good for your blood pressure to get so angry about imaginary problems
12/15
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We’re going to see more of this ridiculous “they’re cancelling Christmas” narrative.
It’s basically Rage-Bait LAW from the 12th November, just as soon as Poppy Rage is over.
Try not to get sucked in👍🏼
It’s not good for your blood pressure to get so angry about imaginary problems
12/15
It’s basically Rage-Bait LAW from the 12th November, just as soon as Poppy Rage is over.
Try not to get sucked in👍🏼
It’s not good for your blood pressure to get so angry about imaginary problems
12/15
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Here’s a link to the fake news Torsten Bell story that the Times had to delete this week. A half-baked attempted hatchet job that was effectively copied from the Daily Mail. A rare chance for outsiders to see how the right-wing media sausage is made
Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts:
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Treasury minister leading budget plans spent £900 on desk
Torsten Bell, who is working with Rachel Reeves to fill a £30 billion hole in finances, also used his parliamentary expenses to claim £600 for three chairs
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Here’s a link to the fake news Torsten Bell story that the Times had to delete this week. A half-baked attempted hatchet job that was effectively copied from the Daily Mail. A rare chance for outsiders to see how the right-wing media sausage is made
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Unclear to me what some of Labour’s critics on here *want*. If you oppose further tax rises, you support the status quo OR further cuts. It’s just that simple.
Labour below the Lib Dems and Greens, here we come...
A difficult call, but I would be inclined to raise basic rate by 2p or even 3p not 1p if it meant I could avoid freezing thresholds all the way to the election:
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Unclear to me what some of Labour’s critics on here *want*. If you oppose further tax rises, you support the status quo OR further cuts. It’s just that simple.
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"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories."
Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social #Giftlink
Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social #Giftlink
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool
The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea
on.ft.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories."
Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social #Giftlink
Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social #Giftlink
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Between another quick trip to the Algarve and his latest court appearance on Monday, Tommy Robinson has been the guest on a luxury train owned by billionaire right-wing benefactor Jeremy Hosking.
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/tomm...
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/tomm...
'Tommy Robinson' takes a ride on far-right billionaire's train set | Searchlight
'Tommy Robinson' and Lawrence Fox aboard billionaire Jeremy Hosking's private luxury train Tommy Robinson is obviously making the most of his ...
searchlightmagazine.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Between another quick trip to the Algarve and his latest court appearance on Monday, Tommy Robinson has been the guest on a luxury train owned by billionaire right-wing benefactor Jeremy Hosking.
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/tomm...
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/tomm...
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If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
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Ms Rayner took advice, and it was wrong, it does happen, even Lawyers make mistakes. She should not even think of resigning, the trust was an extra layer of complication. @danneidle.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ms Rayner took advice, and it was wrong, it does happen, even Lawyers make mistakes. She should not even think of resigning, the trust was an extra layer of complication. @danneidle.bsky.social
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The Disappointer Sisters?
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Disappointer Sisters?
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There was a 2yr exercise that ran to 7 volumes, painstaking reviewing regulation & consulting industry & consumer bodies on changes that would be helpful .
Virtually nothing on close inspection.
Virtually nothing on close inspection.
July 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There was a 2yr exercise that ran to 7 volumes, painstaking reviewing regulation & consulting industry & consumer bodies on changes that would be helpful .
Virtually nothing on close inspection.
Virtually nothing on close inspection.
Agreed
Horrible and unnecessary post -disappointing when there’s so many issues here and abroad
June 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Agreed
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A symptom of petrol prices being too low? (Even!) Chaps riding motorbikes/driving cars with unlawfully-modified engines that generate noise in breach of noise limits. Many a sunny evening is ruined. 🤬🤬. Why are current enforcement measures so ineffective? No resources? Penalties not a deterrent?
Petrol prices are the lowest they’ve been since *2001*, after adjusting for inflation.
Excess supply and a strong pound have helped. But so too have 14 years of cuts to fuel duty. There’s just one problem: voters don’t seem to have noticed…
@thetimes.com
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Excess supply and a strong pound have helped. But so too have 14 years of cuts to fuel duty. There’s just one problem: voters don’t seem to have noticed…
@thetimes.com
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June 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A symptom of petrol prices being too low? (Even!) Chaps riding motorbikes/driving cars with unlawfully-modified engines that generate noise in breach of noise limits. Many a sunny evening is ruined. 🤬🤬. Why are current enforcement measures so ineffective? No resources? Penalties not a deterrent?
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I keep reading this from O'Brien and still can't believe it. The idea that Britain in 2025 must have a 'traditional majority culture' that is 'white British' is just so sad. O'Brien is my age, he grew up in a country with nonwhite comedians, sports stars, newscasters. But apparently they don't count
If a Reform MP argued as regularly and consistently as Neil O’Brien does that people who aren’t “white British” don’t count as properly British and are in fact just foreign, then they would lose the whip, let alone be on the frontbench.
June 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I keep reading this from O'Brien and still can't believe it. The idea that Britain in 2025 must have a 'traditional majority culture' that is 'white British' is just so sad. O'Brien is my age, he grew up in a country with nonwhite comedians, sports stars, newscasters. But apparently they don't count
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"Ultimately, every one of Farage's 'savings will ultimately COST taxpayers money in the long run."
Nigel Farage has been making some big populist promises.
But behind the soundbites lies not only a financial black hole, but tells us a lot about the future he sees for Britain:
Let’s take a closer look
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But behind the soundbites lies not only a financial black hole, but tells us a lot about the future he sees for Britain:
Let’s take a closer look
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June 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Ultimately, every one of Farage's 'savings will ultimately COST taxpayers money in the long run."
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The curse of the newspaper opinion columnist - the need to have a take on every subject, the growing need for hotter takes slowly radicalises them. The job needs term limits. Social media turned everybody into them.
May 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The curse of the newspaper opinion columnist - the need to have a take on every subject, the growing need for hotter takes slowly radicalises them. The job needs term limits. Social media turned everybody into them.
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This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨
Closer ties with the EU could deliver growth of up to 2.2%.
Clawing back up to half of the damage caused by Brexit.
Delivering double the impact of a UK-US trade deal, according to the govt's own analysis.
And all within Starmer's red lines.
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Closer ties with the EU could deliver growth of up to 2.2%.
Clawing back up to half of the damage caused by Brexit.
Delivering double the impact of a UK-US trade deal, according to the govt's own analysis.
And all within Starmer's red lines.
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.
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Yes. Sellner is talking about deporting non-white citizens. @rcolvile.bsky.social isn't saying that.
Powell, like @rcolvile.bsky.social, was talking about how to get rid of people who came here legally to work in health, social care, transport as well as of course their families and kids.
Powell, like @rcolvile.bsky.social, was talking about how to get rid of people who came here legally to work in health, social care, transport as well as of course their families and kids.
February 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Yes. Sellner is talking about deporting non-white citizens. @rcolvile.bsky.social isn't saying that.
Powell, like @rcolvile.bsky.social, was talking about how to get rid of people who came here legally to work in health, social care, transport as well as of course their families and kids.
Powell, like @rcolvile.bsky.social, was talking about how to get rid of people who came here legally to work in health, social care, transport as well as of course their families and kids.
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The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts? | Stephen McNair
Lies, damned lies and misrepresentation
The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts? | Stephen McNair
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Rise of Chris Philp tests the limits of the Peter principle
Rise of Chris Philp tests the limits of the Peter principle
With a knack for backing losers, the former enthusiastic supporter of Liz Truss became shadow home secretary
If Chris Philp didn’t exist, would it be possible to create him? Is such a feat of imagination even possible? Consider the complexities – the…
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Rise of Chris Philp tests the limits of the Peter principle
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people say the government haven’t achieved anything yet but they have made Isabel Oakeshott leave the country
January 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
people say the government haven’t achieved anything yet but they have made Isabel Oakeshott leave the country
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And I did not burn down a therapist's office. The implicit logic of the 'why weren't people told more sooner' is that had this attack been the thing it is 75 per cent of the time, some mob justice would have been A-OK!
January 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And I did not burn down a therapist's office. The implicit logic of the 'why weren't people told more sooner' is that had this attack been the thing it is 75 per cent of the time, some mob justice would have been A-OK!
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It’s more about the fragmentation of the media landscape, but yes: the breakdown of norms against this sort of rhetoric is imo one of the 2-3 most important societal shifts of the past couple of decades.
Hence my recommendation for best book of 2024!
Hence my recommendation for best book of 2024!
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s more about the fragmentation of the media landscape, but yes: the breakdown of norms against this sort of rhetoric is imo one of the 2-3 most important societal shifts of the past couple of decades.
Hence my recommendation for best book of 2024!
Hence my recommendation for best book of 2024!