Graham Evans
mars164.bsky.social
Graham Evans
@mars164.bsky.social
Retired HR manager who's followed, and often participated in, party politics since my early teenage years.
It's fiscally and monetarily conservative. This is usually an indication of the economic right. Cutting govt expenditure - Tory - and raising taxes - Labour - are just two sides of a discredited approach that damages growth.
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It may affect individual depts differently, but in aggregate it's money out and money back in. The proportion of civil servants on the NLW is probably a single figure percentage but probably higher in local govt and the NHS. For the private sector organisations it's just money out.
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I know nothing about Dodds, so why do you say that?
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The hike in the NLW was exactly the sort of thing Osborne did as Chancellor. It costs the Treasury nothing (at least in the short term), and allows govt minister to claim wages are going.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Graham Evans
They are steadily recreating the insider/outsider divide of continental labour markets that has been one of their worst structural features and massively inhibited young people for decades. Spain eventually fixed theirs in the EZ debt crisis reforms and this happened
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Even if Trump were to succeed in the Florida court it's extremely unlikely the court would be able to enforce the decision in the UK. Moreover,Trump usually loses or withdraws his defamation suits. It's all political posturing, but being lapped up by the right wing media.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I had asked ChatGBT about this, and it had already confirmed what you're saying. As anyone can have access to this AI tool it seems the financial threat to the BBC has been blown up out of all proportion.

I gather even in the US Trump has either lost or withdrawn nearly all defamation lawsuits.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
BBC assets in the US are held in subsidiaries that have few tangible assets.
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
There's a good exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea about the "forgotten" armies that served in Burma. The exhibition focuses on the remarkable mix of British, Indian, Burmese and African troops who served there.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Given the collapse in support for the Danish Social Democrats according to the latest opinion polls, I wonder if Starmer’s behind the curve on this issue.
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is a Brexit benefit - to asylum seekers if not to the UK govt..
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The latest opinion polls suggest this strategy is coming unstuck, as the Social Democrats lose support and the Socialists gain support. The Liberal Alliance (libertarian) is also on the up.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The big losers were Venstre, economically centre right, socially moderately conservative, losing 10pp. The big winners were the Liberal Alliance (libertarian) up 5.7pp, and the Moderates, a new centrist party that scored 9.3%. 2/
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Let's get the so-called success of the Danish Social Democtrats into perspective.Their vote in 2022 was 27.5%, so they only put on 1.9pp compared to the previous election. Populist, anti-immigration parties between them also put on 1.9pp. 1/
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM