NickMalago
@nickbridge.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
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That'll teach him not to ask Robert Jenrick for information about football.
I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
That'll teach him not to ask Robert Jenrick for information about football.
Choosing to stand with the far-right foreign football hooligan against the local police force: this, apparently, is what British patriotism looks like in 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Choosing to stand with the far-right foreign football hooligan against the local police force: this, apparently, is what British patriotism looks like in 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Florence Nightingale was seen by the Florentines as a daughter of the city who gave her name lustre abroad.
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“Florence Nightingale was seen by the Florentines as a daughter of the city who gave her name lustre abroad.
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”
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If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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September 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today
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It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.
September 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.
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Recall Trump and his daughter being asked what they had in common. Trump replied "sex" Ivanka "golf". Both weird answers.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.
July 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Recall Trump and his daughter being asked what they had in common. Trump replied "sex" Ivanka "golf". Both weird answers.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
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“I said I just know how the constitution works” 🔥
Coach intervened as Trump’s Gestapo showed up in NYC… at a kids baseball practice 😳
Coach intervened as Trump’s Gestapo showed up in NYC… at a kids baseball practice 😳
July 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Twenty bloody years ago this weekend at Glastonbury and all I’m saying is I was ahead of the curve.
June 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Twenty bloody years ago this weekend at Glastonbury and all I’m saying is I was ahead of the curve.
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It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think.
But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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June 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think.
But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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One lesson from volunteering at a Foodbank is that we are indeed an island of strangers.
The division is not ethnicity but wealth. Just like I don't know any wealthy landowners our clients don't know people who own their homes or enjoy a regular decent income.
The division is not ethnicity but wealth. Just like I don't know any wealthy landowners our clients don't know people who own their homes or enjoy a regular decent income.
May 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One lesson from volunteering at a Foodbank is that we are indeed an island of strangers.
The division is not ethnicity but wealth. Just like I don't know any wealthy landowners our clients don't know people who own their homes or enjoy a regular decent income.
The division is not ethnicity but wealth. Just like I don't know any wealthy landowners our clients don't know people who own their homes or enjoy a regular decent income.
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He’s a real threat from deep
April 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
He’s a real threat from deep
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Hands down my fabourite thing I’ve read this week. I laughed, I cried a bit (I lost my own dad recently), I will be quoting this next time someone says something pompous about what it means to be British. Enjoy your eccentric parents while you still have them substack.com/@tomcox/note...
Tom Cox on Substack
Some Notes About My Dad That I Have Made In My Notebooks:
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is ...
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April 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hands down my fabourite thing I’ve read this week. I laughed, I cried a bit (I lost my own dad recently), I will be quoting this next time someone says something pompous about what it means to be British. Enjoy your eccentric parents while you still have them substack.com/@tomcox/note...
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Delays at the border (1972)
‘The Customs Officer’
Artist: John Berry
‘The Customs Officer’
Artist: John Berry
March 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Delays at the border (1972)
‘The Customs Officer’
Artist: John Berry
‘The Customs Officer’
Artist: John Berry
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Just seen on Facebook. Presented without comment.
March 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just seen on Facebook. Presented without comment.
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absolutely love this letter to today’s FT
![Gill Plimmer's article "How a glass of recycled sewage helps on water shortages" reminded me of the mind-boggling proposal from the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (Special Reports, March 21). He declared: "Every cup [of water] that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world's water supply holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc."
David Coombs
Corby, Northamptonshire, UK](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqka4tmwebdtqdtt63jbnx4v/bafkreiajxqpbt6mwi3umt3bssi6v3owtnnvkec53nji5htkg767npdko24@jpeg)
March 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
absolutely love this letter to today’s FT
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If I consistently boycotted every business run by arseholes, I’d have to spend my time hanging out at Timpson and never going online
March 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If I consistently boycotted every business run by arseholes, I’d have to spend my time hanging out at Timpson and never going online
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this has to be the least inspiring advert I’ve ever seen
March 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
this has to be the least inspiring advert I’ve ever seen
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Doesn't need $ms to get this photo, a ticket for the away section at St James Park in Newcastle gets the same view.
Parts of #Engeland, #Scotland, and #NorthernIreland in this image taken by astronaut Nick Hague on 6 February 2025 from space station #ISS. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Enhanced. @daveatcogs.bsky.social @suerob7.bsky.social @sjbastro.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Doesn't need $ms to get this photo, a ticket for the away section at St James Park in Newcastle gets the same view.
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I dislike the slippery language of "concerns". The key question is: is the concern justified? A concern without evidence is a prejudice.
February 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I dislike the slippery language of "concerns". The key question is: is the concern justified? A concern without evidence is a prejudice.