Kenneth Murdoch
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Kenneth Murdoch
@kam18.bsky.social
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”

Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The single-parent penalty: why do they get such a poor deal on family tickets?
The single-parent penalty: why do they get such a poor deal on family tickets?
Major attractions often don’t take lone-parent families into account in their pricing structures, making days out more expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"

Mark Kelly: "It seems to."

Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"

Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I mean it's not complicated. Twenty people who were there have confirmed that Nigel Farage said all of these things.

He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A radical budget requires a radical tax reform, and getting rid of our regressive national insurance charges, which are an absurd tax on jobs when jobs are what we want to promote, makes sense in that case. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 8: Abolishing national insurance
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Big Tech billionaires are counting on AI to make them even richer -- and they can’t have any regulatory protections getting in the way of that.

That's alarming news for the rest of us. Watch.vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks
Big Tech's AI Power-Grab
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The President of the United States is willing to see children go hungry to make a political point.

Despicable.
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Why the 1970s stagflation myth still misleads our politics youtu.be/OcrGuICZUWc?... In this video, I unpack what really caused stagflation — and why repeating those mistakes today risks another lost decade for Britain.
Why the 1970s stagflation myth still misleads our politics
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Trump illegally withheld $5.5 billion in SNAP funds, defying Congress & the courts.

He’d rather let 16 million kids go hungry than obey the law.

After threats & delays, the WH now says it will “comply" w/ a court order to fund SNAP.

This is chaos. No way to run the government.
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Some claim modern monetary theory (MMT) proves that tax doesn’t matter. They’re wrong. Tax is not about funding government spending—it’s about controlling inflation, managing the economy and sustaining democracy. In this video, I explain why without tax, MMT collapses.

youtu.be/raaj63WkGS0?...
Why modern monetary theory fails without tax
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Good morning with good news: "IRENA found that in 2024, the global average cost of electricity generated by solar PV was, on average, 41% lower than the least-cost new fossil fuel-fired power plant, as shown in the figure below."

Solar booms!
#energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
September 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.

This is not who we are nor who we should become.

Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.
September 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
September 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
September 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Opinion: The insistence on absurd and public flattery for the leader is a hallmark of authoritarianism. on.ft.com/4mJy69K
September 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM