Rick
@flipchartrick.bsky.social
Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
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...
I cheered the people trying to grab the Olympic torch in 2008 but few people really understood why they were doing it. Our supine media failed to see the long-term risk.
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I cheered the people trying to grab the Olympic torch in 2008 but few people really understood why they were doing it. Our supine media failed to see the long-term risk.
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/t...
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/t...
If you can afford it, buy the folk at @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social a drink.
Take out a subs or bung them a donation.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/content/imag...
Take out a subs or bung them a donation.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/content/imag...
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you can afford it, buy the folk at @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social a drink.
Take out a subs or bung them a donation.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/content/imag...
Take out a subs or bung them a donation.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/content/imag...
The world needs more people like this.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The world needs more people like this.
Defamation actions are terrifying and those who abuse the law know it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Defamation actions are terrifying and those who abuse the law know it.
Interesting Spectator piece on when it all went wrong.
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th...
This bit is priceless!
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th...
This bit is priceless!
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Interesting Spectator piece on when it all went wrong.
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th...
This bit is priceless!
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th...
This bit is priceless!
How can somebody, with comments like this from a judge against him, still be allowed to practice law?
@davidallengreen.bsky.social, @goodlawproject.org, @stephenstroud.bsky.social,
…. Anybody????
@davidallengreen.bsky.social, @goodlawproject.org, @stephenstroud.bsky.social,
…. Anybody????
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
How can somebody, with comments like this from a judge against him, still be allowed to practice law?
@davidallengreen.bsky.social, @goodlawproject.org, @stephenstroud.bsky.social,
…. Anybody????
@davidallengreen.bsky.social, @goodlawproject.org, @stephenstroud.bsky.social,
…. Anybody????
As my wife calls him, ‘The Royal formerly known as Prince.’
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As my wife calls him, ‘The Royal formerly known as Prince.’
This really is an excellent piece. You’d think this would be obvious but there is a woeful lack of organisation-wide analysis on this subject. www.ft.com/content/2480...
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This really is an excellent piece. You’d think this would be obvious but there is a woeful lack of organisation-wide analysis on this subject. www.ft.com/content/2480...
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As you were saying.
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
As you were saying.
Scottish football gets interesting for the first time in 40 years.
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Scottish football gets interesting for the first time in 40 years.
Trawling through my blog posts to find something when I came across this. I’d completely forgotten I wrote it.
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Trawling through my blog posts to find something when I came across this. I’d completely forgotten I wrote it.
We don’t give our threadbare state nearly enough credit for the fact that things kept running throughout the pandemic.
I remind people of this when they are complaining about Ealing Council.
I remind people of this when they are complaining about Ealing Council.
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
We don’t give our threadbare state nearly enough credit for the fact that things kept running throughout the pandemic.
I remind people of this when they are complaining about Ealing Council.
I remind people of this when they are complaining about Ealing Council.
Sometimes stuff on BlueSky falls just right.
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sometimes stuff on BlueSky falls just right.
He suggests some decisiveness and stability might help.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
He suggests some decisiveness and stability might help.
With some important caveats.
Of course.
Of course.
October 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
With some important caveats.
Of course.
Of course.
I think this is a first. @resfoundation.bsky.social being (slightly) more upbeat about productivity than the OBR.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I think this is a first. @resfoundation.bsky.social being (slightly) more upbeat about productivity than the OBR.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Chart from @theifs.bsky.social Green Budget showing the sharp rise in the Corporation Tax gap.
“HMRC random audits suggest that 53% of small businesses submitting a corporation tax return under-declared their tax liability in 2021–22 – up from just 15% in 2017–18.”
ifs.org.uk/publications...
“HMRC random audits suggest that 53% of small businesses submitting a corporation tax return under-declared their tax liability in 2021–22 – up from just 15% in 2017–18.”
ifs.org.uk/publications...
October 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Chart from @theifs.bsky.social Green Budget showing the sharp rise in the Corporation Tax gap.
“HMRC random audits suggest that 53% of small businesses submitting a corporation tax return under-declared their tax liability in 2021–22 – up from just 15% in 2017–18.”
ifs.org.uk/publications...
“HMRC random audits suggest that 53% of small businesses submitting a corporation tax return under-declared their tax liability in 2021–22 – up from just 15% in 2017–18.”
ifs.org.uk/publications...
We have a society which still holds late 20th century assumptions about what the state should do, how living standards should improve, when people should retire, when they should buy a house and so on.
Alas, we don’t have late 20th century growth.
Alas, we don’t have late 20th century growth.
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We have a society which still holds late 20th century assumptions about what the state should do, how living standards should improve, when people should retire, when they should buy a house and so on.
Alas, we don’t have late 20th century growth.
Alas, we don’t have late 20th century growth.
I came across the term ‘cognitive debt’ just yesterday.
medium.com/design-bootc...
Spot-on quote here:
medium.com/design-bootc...
Spot-on quote here:
October 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I came across the term ‘cognitive debt’ just yesterday.
medium.com/design-bootc...
Spot-on quote here:
medium.com/design-bootc...
Spot-on quote here:
October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There is very little mileage in going after Reform voters.
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There is very little mileage in going after Reform voters.
Liar liar with your pants on fire,
Green birds hangin' on the telephone wire…
Green birds hangin' on the telephone wire…
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Liar liar with your pants on fire,
Green birds hangin' on the telephone wire…
Green birds hangin' on the telephone wire…
This is not a short-term crisis, it’s a long-term geopolitical shift.
Europe was warned in 2016 but put its faith in ‘things getting back to normal’ in 2020. It must not make the same mistake again.
Europe was warned in 2016 but put its faith in ‘things getting back to normal’ in 2020. It must not make the same mistake again.
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is not a short-term crisis, it’s a long-term geopolitical shift.
Europe was warned in 2016 but put its faith in ‘things getting back to normal’ in 2020. It must not make the same mistake again.
Europe was warned in 2016 but put its faith in ‘things getting back to normal’ in 2020. It must not make the same mistake again.