Murali Veeraiyan
@muralive.bsky.social
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
Tech / Product Mgmt, Politics & Philosophy
Tech / Product Mgmt, Politics & Philosophy
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Another lurch towards Emerging Markets behaviour. Trump fires BLS head after weak jobs report, baselessly claims data was rigged. Fed governor quits early — raising fears of politicised economic data and a compliant central bank. Dollar drops as markets brace for more disruption on.ft.com/4l26N8N
Donald Trump fires US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report
President claims July employment figures were ‘rigged’ in latest assault on economic institutions
on.ft.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Another lurch towards Emerging Markets behaviour. Trump fires BLS head after weak jobs report, baselessly claims data was rigged. Fed governor quits early — raising fears of politicised economic data and a compliant central bank. Dollar drops as markets brace for more disruption on.ft.com/4l26N8N
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🚨 NEW: Reform UK intends to cut Capital Gains Tax on crypto from 24% to 10%.
Not content with up to £80 billion in unfunded promises, Nigel Farage is now planning more uncosted tax cuts.
Farage's plans are Liz Truss 2.0.
Farage will put up every mortgage in the country. Don’t risk it.
Not content with up to £80 billion in unfunded promises, Nigel Farage is now planning more uncosted tax cuts.
Farage's plans are Liz Truss 2.0.
Farage will put up every mortgage in the country. Don’t risk it.
May 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🚨 NEW: Reform UK intends to cut Capital Gains Tax on crypto from 24% to 10%.
Not content with up to £80 billion in unfunded promises, Nigel Farage is now planning more uncosted tax cuts.
Farage's plans are Liz Truss 2.0.
Farage will put up every mortgage in the country. Don’t risk it.
Not content with up to £80 billion in unfunded promises, Nigel Farage is now planning more uncosted tax cuts.
Farage's plans are Liz Truss 2.0.
Farage will put up every mortgage in the country. Don’t risk it.
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"In the 21st century, we really ought to feel welcome in our countryside"
Had a great chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday about the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping & the need for a new Right to Roam Act:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDR... (at 02:23:59)
Had a great chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday about the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping & the need for a new Right to Roam Act:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDR... (at 02:23:59)
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"In the 21st century, we really ought to feel welcome in our countryside"
Had a great chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday about the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping & the need for a new Right to Roam Act:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDR... (at 02:23:59)
Had a great chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday about the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping & the need for a new Right to Roam Act:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDR... (at 02:23:59)
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Wrote about return of Johnson and dark, under-discussed element of rise of Reform
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Wrote about return of Johnson and dark, under-discussed element of rise of Reform
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
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Keir Starmer U-turns on winter fuel payment cut.
Will change threshold, make more pensioners eligible.
Welcome but won't reduce admin costs.
Restore universality. Adjust taxes at the top end to ensure the rich won't benefit.
Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts too.
Will change threshold, make more pensioners eligible.
Welcome but won't reduce admin costs.
Restore universality. Adjust taxes at the top end to ensure the rich won't benefit.
Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts too.
Keir Starmer confirms U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts
Government to loosen eligibility rules for pensioners in face of backlash against decision to means test benefit
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Keir Starmer U-turns on winter fuel payment cut.
Will change threshold, make more pensioners eligible.
Welcome but won't reduce admin costs.
Restore universality. Adjust taxes at the top end to ensure the rich won't benefit.
Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts too.
Will change threshold, make more pensioners eligible.
Welcome but won't reduce admin costs.
Restore universality. Adjust taxes at the top end to ensure the rich won't benefit.
Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts too.
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Leaked memo reveals UK Deputy PM Rayner called for tax rises.
No reason to tax capital gains and dividends at lower rates than wages, handing tax subsidies to pensions for the rich.
Tax perks of the rich must be eliminated for a more equitable society.
No reason to tax capital gains and dividends at lower rates than wages, handing tax subsidies to pensions for the rich.
Tax perks of the rich must be eliminated for a more equitable society.
Leaked memo reveals Angela Rayner called for tax rises
The deputy prime minister's department sent the note before the Spring Statement.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Leaked memo reveals UK Deputy PM Rayner called for tax rises.
No reason to tax capital gains and dividends at lower rates than wages, handing tax subsidies to pensions for the rich.
Tax perks of the rich must be eliminated for a more equitable society.
No reason to tax capital gains and dividends at lower rates than wages, handing tax subsidies to pensions for the rich.
Tax perks of the rich must be eliminated for a more equitable society.
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@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."
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“These Border Control Posts will stand as Ozymandian monuments to the height of Brexit.”
Scoop: the govt is looking to off-load 1,300-truck Brexit border facility at Sevington as a vet deal with EU looms.
on.ft.com/3H76DPg UK seeks to sell Brexit checkpoint made redundant by EU reset deal
Scoop: the govt is looking to off-load 1,300-truck Brexit border facility at Sevington as a vet deal with EU looms.
on.ft.com/3H76DPg UK seeks to sell Brexit checkpoint made redundant by EU reset deal
UK seeks to sell Brexit checkpoint made redundant by EU reset deal
[FREE TO READ] Site in Kent was built to carry out food checks that will no longer be needed
on.ft.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
“These Border Control Posts will stand as Ozymandian monuments to the height of Brexit.”
Scoop: the govt is looking to off-load 1,300-truck Brexit border facility at Sevington as a vet deal with EU looms.
on.ft.com/3H76DPg UK seeks to sell Brexit checkpoint made redundant by EU reset deal
Scoop: the govt is looking to off-load 1,300-truck Brexit border facility at Sevington as a vet deal with EU looms.
on.ft.com/3H76DPg UK seeks to sell Brexit checkpoint made redundant by EU reset deal
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Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024.
Steel industry is in constant crisis due to high energy/water costs.
Jingye, Tata, Liberty want subsidies. Govts don't own anything in return.
Nationalisation of strategic industries is the way forward.
Steel industry is in constant crisis due to high energy/water costs.
Jingye, Tata, Liberty want subsidies. Govts don't own anything in return.
Nationalisation of strategic industries is the way forward.
Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024
Lack of work at Rotherham and Motherwell sites highlights financial crisis at UK’s third-biggest steel producer
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024.
Steel industry is in constant crisis due to high energy/water costs.
Jingye, Tata, Liberty want subsidies. Govts don't own anything in return.
Nationalisation of strategic industries is the way forward.
Steel industry is in constant crisis due to high energy/water costs.
Jingye, Tata, Liberty want subsidies. Govts don't own anything in return.
Nationalisation of strategic industries is the way forward.
Good idea. Labour needs to keep the progressive voters on their side to ward off the far-right coalition threat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour could review other benefit cuts after winter fuel U-turn, sources say
Sources say improved economic landscape may lead to two-child benefit cap and health and disability cuts being revisited
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Good idea. Labour needs to keep the progressive voters on their side to ward off the far-right coalition threat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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But hey ho "he's not a Nazi, I definitely don't believe Elon Musk is a Nazi".
Someone should compile a list of the Nazi adjacent things he's done since he came onto the scene.
Someone should compile a list of the Nazi adjacent things he's done since he came onto the scene.
May 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
But hey ho "he's not a Nazi, I definitely don't believe Elon Musk is a Nazi".
Someone should compile a list of the Nazi adjacent things he's done since he came onto the scene.
Someone should compile a list of the Nazi adjacent things he's done since he came onto the scene.
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Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.
May 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.
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Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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£5bn disability benefits cut will stop welfare state collapsing, says Kendall.
Ridiculous.
Benefit cuts = squalor, pressure on public services.
Total govt planned spend £1,335bn in 2025-26
£500bn - £1,400bn tax not collected since 2010.
Tax the rich. Let people live with dignity.
Ridiculous.
Benefit cuts = squalor, pressure on public services.
Total govt planned spend £1,335bn in 2025-26
£500bn - £1,400bn tax not collected since 2010.
Tax the rich. Let people live with dignity.
Our £5bn disability benefits cut will stop welfare state collapsing, says Kendall
Exclusive: Work and pensions secretary to double down on changes despite growing pressure within Labour
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
£5bn disability benefits cut will stop welfare state collapsing, says Kendall.
Ridiculous.
Benefit cuts = squalor, pressure on public services.
Total govt planned spend £1,335bn in 2025-26
£500bn - £1,400bn tax not collected since 2010.
Tax the rich. Let people live with dignity.
Ridiculous.
Benefit cuts = squalor, pressure on public services.
Total govt planned spend £1,335bn in 2025-26
£500bn - £1,400bn tax not collected since 2010.
Tax the rich. Let people live with dignity.
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It’s time for spring cleaning. But before you decided to buy new shelves for your garage to organize your piles o’ stuff, you might want to revisit this piece by Leidy Klotz from our archive about how we overlook subtraction when we want to make things better.
behavioralscientist.org/subtract-why...
behavioralscientist.org/subtract-why...
Subtract: Why Getting to Less Can Mean Thinking More - Behavioral Scientist
In striving to improve our lives, our work, and our society, we overwhelmingly add, overlooking another powerful option—subtraction.
behavioralscientist.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s time for spring cleaning. But before you decided to buy new shelves for your garage to organize your piles o’ stuff, you might want to revisit this piece by Leidy Klotz from our archive about how we overlook subtraction when we want to make things better.
behavioralscientist.org/subtract-why...
behavioralscientist.org/subtract-why...
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For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned
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Public exhaustion and return to Brexit rows, desire mean if EU deal is seen as reopening all that govt will pay price, but if (as seems far more likely) it’s seen as pragmatic friction reducing changes that meet desire for better relationship govt stands to win & Tories/Reform look like relitigating
With talk of a new UK-EU deal what does our polling say about public attitudes to Europe? Firstly the idea of a closer relationship with Europe appeals to a majority of the public. People broadly want our relationship to work better & there’s little appetite for more divergence
May 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Public exhaustion and return to Brexit rows, desire mean if EU deal is seen as reopening all that govt will pay price, but if (as seems far more likely) it’s seen as pragmatic friction reducing changes that meet desire for better relationship govt stands to win & Tories/Reform look like relitigating
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This is the key point. The majority of people don’t want another debate about “sovereignty”. They want cheaper food and less hassle when they go on holiday.
If No10 are able to demonstrate that’s what the deal does, they stand to benefit politically.
If No10 are able to demonstrate that’s what the deal does, they stand to benefit politically.
Public exhaustion and return to Brexit rows, desire mean if EU deal is seen as reopening all that govt will pay price, but if (as seems far more likely) it’s seen as pragmatic friction reducing changes that meet desire for better relationship govt stands to win & Tories/Reform look like relitigating
With talk of a new UK-EU deal what does our polling say about public attitudes to Europe? Firstly the idea of a closer relationship with Europe appeals to a majority of the public. People broadly want our relationship to work better & there’s little appetite for more divergence
May 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is the key point. The majority of people don’t want another debate about “sovereignty”. They want cheaper food and less hassle when they go on holiday.
If No10 are able to demonstrate that’s what the deal does, they stand to benefit politically.
If No10 are able to demonstrate that’s what the deal does, they stand to benefit politically.
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Pollsters should ask voters what Brexit freedoms they've noticed.
Morning.
Morning.
May 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Pollsters should ask voters what Brexit freedoms they've noticed.
Morning.
Morning.
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If anyone sees Nigel Farage spouting off about fishing rights again could you ask him to read this excellent explainer
and then maybe he’ll shut the fuck up 🤞🤞https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/07/fishing-brexit-uk-fleetwood/amp/
and then maybe he’ll shut the fuck up 🤞🤞https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/07/fishing-brexit-uk-fleetwood/amp/
Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity
The decline of British fishing drove coastal support for leaving the EU, but many of the industry’s problems have an origin closer to home
unearthed.greenpeace.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If anyone sees Nigel Farage spouting off about fishing rights again could you ask him to read this excellent explainer
and then maybe he’ll shut the fuck up 🤞🤞https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/07/fishing-brexit-uk-fleetwood/amp/
and then maybe he’ll shut the fuck up 🤞🤞https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/07/fishing-brexit-uk-fleetwood/amp/
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hope anyone interviewing Nigel Farage about fishing rights today brings up his hopeless attendance record at fisheries meetings when he was an MEP
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
hope anyone interviewing Nigel Farage about fishing rights today brings up his hopeless attendance record at fisheries meetings when he was an MEP
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Reminder that the level of EU access to UK fishing waters, now being called an act of capitulation, will remain exactly the same as under the terms negotiated by Boris Johnson ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/e...
May 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reminder that the level of EU access to UK fishing waters, now being called an act of capitulation, will remain exactly the same as under the terms negotiated by Boris Johnson ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/e...
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Labour can win every one of these arguments: on trade, on fish (sigh), on youth mobility. It has the public on its side.
May 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Labour can win every one of these arguments: on trade, on fish (sigh), on youth mobility. It has the public on its side.
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Echoes of Huawei 5G / Network concerns extended to Chinese solar products.
Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms:
Hidden cellular radios could be activated remotely to cripple power grids in the event of a confrontation between China and the West
apple.news/AoB4XefrLS0m...
Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms:
Hidden cellular radios could be activated remotely to cripple power grids in the event of a confrontation between China and the West
apple.news/AoB4XefrLS0m...
Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms — The Times and The Sunday Times
Chinese “kill switches” that could allow Beijing to cripple power grids and trigger blackouts across the West have been found in equipment at US solar farms. The rogue devices, including cellular radi...
apple.news
May 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Echoes of Huawei 5G / Network concerns extended to Chinese solar products.
Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms:
Hidden cellular radios could be activated remotely to cripple power grids in the event of a confrontation between China and the West
apple.news/AoB4XefrLS0m...
Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms:
Hidden cellular radios could be activated remotely to cripple power grids in the event of a confrontation between China and the West
apple.news/AoB4XefrLS0m...