@chrisbjohns.bsky.social
Economist, podcaster, journalist, curious.
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Can I ever forgive the BBC for this? No. But that doesnβt justify what is happening now.
12.11.2025 22:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Final acknowledgment that he once the coal ran out it would have been kinder to let the place die.
12.11.2025 21:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No, email queries.
12.11.2025 21:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have an accountant friend who says some routine queries are taking over a year to get an answer.
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Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
If they try and raise 20bn through 10 such taxes itβs quite likely it ends up being 12 or 15 instead and then we end up back here again raising taxes again next year.
08.11.2025 13:07 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0The easiest explanation of whatβs happening to the billionaires is that , while wealth cooks everyoneβs brains a little, unimaginable wealth deep fries your brain. And that social media has given us a front row seat to the process
07.11.2025 09:11 β π 153 π 30 π¬ 6 π 4This is such a good point from @conorsen.bsky.social. For the Greek statue avatar brigade this is when hubris meets nemesis.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
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The noise you hear is the collective swallowing of a thousand right whinge commentators' words www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I hope he is awarded the highest possible honour for saving lives.
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.β
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Irelandβs next attacking frontier? The counterattack
Why becoming a better transition team is imperative this November.
Analysis β¬οΈ
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Medieval ground rent extortion racket. Also known as leasehold. 10 investors with 1 million properties! No such thing as a risk free investment! Burn the freeholders. Nowhere else in the world does leaseholders
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Today, nine years since its launch, my (now fortnightly) Brexit & Brexitism Blog (as it's now called) had its 11 millionth visit. Many thanks to all who have visited, or who read posts via the email feed, and to those who have helped promote it. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
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Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...
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"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
24.10.2025 09:41 β π 704 π 296 π¬ 56 π 42Thanks!
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A reminder that any moment of Trump being βpro-Ukraineβ is rapidly corrected once Trump has had his latest instructions from the Kremlin. on.ft.com/4ooVl9l
20.10.2025 06:33 β π 546 π 155 π¬ 4 π 8Seven million patriots celebrated the real America today.
18.10.2025 20:57 β π 7247 π 1153 π¬ 124 π 45Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".
Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past
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very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler
15.10.2025 21:30 β π 7496 π 1605 π¬ 224 π 57Not directly for sure. But from a total cost of capital perspective? Regulatory removal of pension funds from stock market helped the decline of the βequity cultureβ which could have raised UKβs cost of capital?
15.10.2025 12:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It can also be true that Uk growth has been stymied by low equity & bank & vc finance.
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