Rick
@flipchartrick.bsky.social
Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
Well I’ve long thought @nyecominetti.bsky.social did some impressive stuff (economics, labour market analysis and all that) but this….
From last week. Climbing is fun! (This isn't a hard route but was hard for me)
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Well I’ve long thought @nyecominetti.bsky.social did some impressive stuff (economics, labour market analysis and all that) but this….
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UK unemployment rate rose more than expected to 5 per cent on.ft.com/49iGIjT
UK unemployment rate rose more than expected to 5 per cent
Figures also show wage growth slowed
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
UK unemployment rate rose more than expected to 5 per cent on.ft.com/49iGIjT
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Or presumably even a nominal award if a judge - plausibly - decided that any falsity didn’t actually damage his reputation (given that his role in the 6 January events is pretty well established eg by the Congressional inquiry).
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Or presumably even a nominal award if a judge - plausibly - decided that any falsity didn’t actually damage his reputation (given that his role in the 6 January events is pretty well established eg by the Congressional inquiry).
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(I’m not a defamation lawyer, but it seems pretty obvious that any case brought here would result in at best a modest award.)
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
(I’m not a defamation lawyer, but it seems pretty obvious that any case brought here would result in at best a modest award.)
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A question not asked by Joshua, but which seems quite important, is whether any judgment by a Florida court (assuming as Joshua does that it would assert jurisdiction) would be enforceable here. Any views?
Will President Trump sue the BBC for $1 billion? As the US president no doubt intended, it’s a figure that appears in almost every front-page newspaper headline today.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/will-trump...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/will-trump...
Will Trump sue?
Not if the BBC makes sufficient amends this week
rozenberg.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A question not asked by Joshua, but which seems quite important, is whether any judgment by a Florida court (assuming as Joshua does that it would assert jurisdiction) would be enforceable here. Any views?
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"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
Rachel Reeves signals she will break manifesto pledge with Budget tax rises
Chancellor hopes to win support from Labour MPs by lifting two-child benefit cap
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
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Works better if you imagine 10,000 angry Chris Giles's shouting it outside the ONS
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Works better if you imagine 10,000 angry Chris Giles's shouting it outside the ONS
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"A BBC edit was harsh to Trump so the people in charge there have been fired" is just such a bonkers story showing how much of the UK right is being colonized by Trump simps engaged in a culture war against their own country. An "issue" with close to zero resonance for the average British person.
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"A BBC edit was harsh to Trump so the people in charge there have been fired" is just such a bonkers story showing how much of the UK right is being colonized by Trump simps engaged in a culture war against their own country. An "issue" with close to zero resonance for the average British person.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here
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A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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If Trump does sue the BBC for $1bn it may leave some of his ideological fellow travellers here in a tricky situation. Do the Conservatives and Reform join in with BBC bashing? Or will doing so be seen as unpatriotic? After all, it would be the British public who would ultimately pay for any damages.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If Trump does sue the BBC for $1bn it may leave some of his ideological fellow travellers here in a tricky situation. Do the Conservatives and Reform join in with BBC bashing? Or will doing so be seen as unpatriotic? After all, it would be the British public who would ultimately pay for any damages.
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Boycott Checkatrade!!! #BoycottCheckatrade
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Boycott Checkatrade!!! #BoycottCheckatrade
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It's rubbish anyway.
Know a couple of builders who are "checked" and wouldn't trust them to sweep my drive.
Know a couple of builders who are "checked" and wouldn't trust them to sweep my drive.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's rubbish anyway.
Know a couple of builders who are "checked" and wouldn't trust them to sweep my drive.
Know a couple of builders who are "checked" and wouldn't trust them to sweep my drive.
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It’s going to be interesting to watch what impact this has on a consumer facing business that ties itself so closely to Farage and Reform.
Will it achieve the Tesla effect?
Will it achieve the Tesla effect?
I’m just about to delete my Checkatrader app.
@stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s going to be interesting to watch what impact this has on a consumer facing business that ties itself so closely to Farage and Reform.
Will it achieve the Tesla effect?
Will it achieve the Tesla effect?
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
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Grimly depressing that someone so directly and obviously connected with the spread of misinformation has so far succeeded in pushing claims about 'bias' at the BBC -- and that you have to really work hard reading the news reports to extract this crucial piece of information.
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Grimly depressing that someone so directly and obviously connected with the spread of misinformation has so far succeeded in pushing claims about 'bias' at the BBC -- and that you have to really work hard reading the news reports to extract this crucial piece of information.
Isn’t the answer to this for the Scottish government to increase the income tax rate too?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Isn’t the answer to this for the Scottish government to increase the income tax rate too?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER).
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER).
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
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Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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Can’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Can’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!
Summed up my thread on one sentence.
The story of the west & China is one moral bankruptcy followed by literal bankruptcy
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Summed up my thread on one sentence.
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The story of the west & China is one moral bankruptcy followed by literal bankruptcy
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The story of the west & China is one moral bankruptcy followed by literal bankruptcy