Russ Cheshire
@russcheshire.bsky.social
Island dweller. Observer. Still learning.
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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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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
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Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
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November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I see Farage now hates emigration as well as immigration. The trouble is, he’s a big part of why people are emigrating. Brexit has made the U.K. a less attractive place for everyone.
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I see Farage now hates emigration as well as immigration. The trouble is, he’s a big part of why people are emigrating. Brexit has made the U.K. a less attractive place for everyone.
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Interested in how some of Attenborough's iconic series are filmed and produced? Check out Doug Anderson chatting on "The Incoming Tide" podcast. Full interview is available on both YouTube and Spotify
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Doug Anderson the Multi-Award winning cameraman & film maker features on "The Incoming Tide" podcast
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November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Interested in how some of Attenborough's iconic series are filmed and produced? Check out Doug Anderson chatting on "The Incoming Tide" podcast. Full interview is available on both YouTube and Spotify
youtu.be/vuCGxShjuGc
@arrancoast.bsky.social @ourseas-scot.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
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@arrancoast.bsky.social @ourseas-scot.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
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The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy youtu.be/WUy_Hl-sD6Q?...
The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy youtu.be/WUy_Hl-sD6Q?...
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Rachel Reeves says her budget delivers stability. The Office for Budget Responsibility's charts tell a very different story. High interest rates, low investment, falling profitability, rising unemployment and no improvement in household incomes.
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Rachel Reeves’ budget: a tale of disaster hidden in the detail
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Rachel Reeves says her budget delivers stability. The Office for Budget Responsibility's charts tell a very different story. High interest rates, low investment, falling profitability, rising unemployment and no improvement in household incomes.
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Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...
Why Rachel Reeves just failed the British public
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...
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But that would require Labour to be willing to tax the rich, which they clearly have no intention of ever doing.
Ending tax breaks on private jets could raise £2.7bn, new analysis reveals
Charity calls to bring taxes in line with economy class flights, with many private jet passengers currently paying minimal air passenger duty, no VAT and no fuel duty on polluting aviation fuel
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November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
But that would require Labour to be willing to tax the rich, which they clearly have no intention of ever doing.
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Why is so much of the left economically incompetent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Why is so much of the left economically incompetent?
LabourList published an article last week under the headline “Bond markets explained: How in hock are we – and can we break free?”
The article began with a question that should trouble anyone who care...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Why is so much of the left economically incompetent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long inflationary cycle without social and political rupture.
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Is Britain at the peak of a great financial wave?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long inflationary cycle without social and political rupture.
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Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get) www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get)
There is one thing that can be said for sure about Rachel Reeves’s Budget on Wednesday and that is that there will be remarkably few references to…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get) www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... My alternative budget is drawing towards its close.
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms
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 elsewhe...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... My alternative budget is drawing towards its close.
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Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.”
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
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We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
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How ultra-processed food became a corporate-engineered health crisis
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.”
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses
In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly and less equitably than those without...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.
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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
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...
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Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
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In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
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Why the government is nothing like a household
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
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Curse of Private Equity.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Regulator bares teeth as dentists earn £1.2bn
The gross profit figures for private equity-owned My Dentist, PortmanDentex and Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services rose by 20 per cent year-on-year between 2023 and 2024.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Curse of Private Equity.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
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Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care
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 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.
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For forty years, we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment failed. We import more than we export, our towns are hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than what we make..
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Why Britain no longer makes things — and how we rebuild
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November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For forty years, we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment failed. We import more than we export, our towns are hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than what we make..
youtu.be/mOqUoJ-NirM?...
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Farage spoke at the EU, making exactly the same comments as Nathan Gill.
Clearly, Farage has just covered his tracks better.
Farage has spoken of his admiration for Putin.
Putin who has no hesitation in killing children.
Anyone who uses their power to kill the innocent are dictators.
Clearly, Farage has just covered his tracks better.
Farage has spoken of his admiration for Putin.
Putin who has no hesitation in killing children.
Anyone who uses their power to kill the innocent are dictators.
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Farage spoke at the EU, making exactly the same comments as Nathan Gill.
Clearly, Farage has just covered his tracks better.
Farage has spoken of his admiration for Putin.
Putin who has no hesitation in killing children.
Anyone who uses their power to kill the innocent are dictators.
Clearly, Farage has just covered his tracks better.
Farage has spoken of his admiration for Putin.
Putin who has no hesitation in killing children.
Anyone who uses their power to kill the innocent are dictators.
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In the sixth part of my alternative budget, I tackle essential reforms in the mortgage market and social housing. When housing insecurity exists all around us, whilst prices are excessive on so many fronts, housing market and finance reforms are essential. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 6: Addressing issues in housing
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 elsewhe...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
In the sixth part of my alternative budget, I tackle essential reforms in the mortgage market and social housing. When housing insecurity exists all around us, whilst prices are excessive on so many fronts, housing market and finance reforms are essential. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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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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