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As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere.
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The ancient word that explains 2025
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere.
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The FT’s analysis of autism and ADHD prevalence is deeply worrying www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
The FT’s analysis of autism and ADHD prevalence is deeply worrying
I have, for a while, thought that John Burn-Murdoch, who works for the Financial Times, is one of the best statistical journalists in the business. I had, in fact, grown accustomed to accepting his da...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The FT’s analysis of autism and ADHD prevalence is deeply worrying www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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When will Labour tell Trump where to go? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
As the Guardian has reported this morning:
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the US Capitol in 2021...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
When will Labour tell Trump where to go? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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Why economic policy matters for the Greens www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
Why economic policy matters for the Greens
As readers here will be aware, I have been tackling those who are seeking to drive the Greens in what they might describe as a Marxist direction, but which does, in reality, do two things.
The first i...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Why economic policy matters for the Greens www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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@houserepublicans.bsky.social
@senatorjohnthune.bsky.social
This is your “leader” that you would do anything for including had over America so he can BANKRUPT just like he has other businesses. This is the GOP party perfect picture of you ALL.
@senatorjohnthune.bsky.social
This is your “leader” that you would do anything for including had over America so he can BANKRUPT just like he has other businesses. This is the GOP party perfect picture of you ALL.
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
@senatorjohnthune.bsky.social
This is your “leader” that you would do anything for including had over America so he can BANKRUPT just like he has other businesses. This is the GOP party perfect picture of you ALL.
@senatorjohnthune.bsky.social
This is your “leader” that you would do anything for including had over America so he can BANKRUPT just like he has other businesses. This is the GOP party perfect picture of you ALL.
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Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
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December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
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The Chancellor’s Budget promise of £150 off energy bills will almost disappear by 2031 as bills rise to pay for the extra £90bn @ofgem yesterday allowed network providers to spend to upgrade pipes and wires bit.ly/4iNHAzG no sign of Miliband’s £300 election promise cut
New levies will wipe out most of Rachel Reeves’s energy bill cut
Households face paying an extra £116 a year by 2030 to fund power grid and pipeline upgrades despite the government’s promised £150 discount
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December 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The Chancellor’s Budget promise of £150 off energy bills will almost disappear by 2031 as bills rise to pay for the extra £90bn @ofgem yesterday allowed network providers to spend to upgrade pipes and wires bit.ly/4iNHAzG no sign of Miliband’s £300 election promise cut
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Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
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Equal parts provocative, compelling, strange, baroque and challenging. Took me all week to wade through this dark vision, but it was worth it. I think. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #cyberpunk
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I Read the Most Disturbing Cyberpunk Novel of the 90s!
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
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December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Equal parts provocative, compelling, strange, baroque and challenging. Took me all week to wade through this dark vision, but it was worth it. I think. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #cyberpunk
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Because he's impressionable like a fucking toddler, FIFA actually awarded Trump a fake peace prize to make him happy. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Because he's impressionable like a fucking toddler, FIFA actually awarded Trump a fake peace prize to make him happy. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk environment has deteriorated sharply. A systemic crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
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The Bank of England is warning a financial crash is coming
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk environment has deteriorated sharply. A systemic crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
youtu.be/NMDdkEZhNbI?...
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Questions to ask a left-wing critic of MMT
Some on the Marxist left of politics, including those of that persuasion who have now entered the Greens in England and Wales with the clear aim of pushing it in a Marxist, class warfare-based directi...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...
Rachel Reeves’ budget: Who really governs Britain?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...
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#nowextendedplaying "Heart Addicts In Make Up."
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#nowextendedplaying "Heart Addicts In Make Up."
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Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter.
We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans.
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We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans.
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Why Rachel Reeves’s first budget cannot survive the coming financial meltdown
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter.
We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans.
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We're facing a financial crisis, and that is not in her plans.
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In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
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One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
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Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty. And we accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard. youtu.be/Nt-_qzKRI2Y?...
The magic money sword: Why money works like honours
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty. And we accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard. youtu.be/Nt-_qzKRI2Y?...
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Listen. Just fucking listen. 🎯🎯🎯👇
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Listen. Just fucking listen. 🎯🎯🎯👇
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How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... You cannot deliver a credible Budget from a government that has already lost its coherence, as this one would appear to have done
How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing?
According to The Guardian and many other media sources, based on briefings from 10 Downing Street, senior members of the Labour Party have already been manoeuvring for position in anticipation of Keir...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
How can Rachel Reeves deliver a Budget when the government is collapsing? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... You cannot deliver a credible Budget from a government that has already lost its coherence, as this one would appear to have done
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I take a look at the many works of Chris Beckett, award winning author of Dark Eden and The Turing Test among others. Minimum rockets, maximum humanity. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting
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The Human Side of Science Fiction - Why You Should Be Reading Chris Beckett
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I take a look at the many works of Chris Beckett, award winning author of Dark Eden and The Turing Test among others. Minimum rockets, maximum humanity. 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #bookcollecting
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.