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Emeritus Professor of Economics.

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Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

26.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 1186    🔁 548    💬 61    📌 53
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Open letter to Steve Reed MP: who has been controlling our water industry? Dear Rt Hon Steve Reed MP,I am writing on behalf of members of the public who are deeply concerned by the recent revelations about Peter Mandelson.

🚨NEW: Peter Mandelson's lobbying company worked for Water UK, the body representing the private water industry.

At the same time, Labour's review of the water industry refused to even consider public ownership as an option.

In our open letter to Steve Reed MP, we ask: 1/2

24.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 111    🔁 84    💬 5    📌 6
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Well, this does raise *a lot* more questions about both the Cabinet Office's 'inquiry' into Labour Together and now Starmer's ethic advisor's investigation into Josh Simons

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 113    🔁 53    💬 8    📌 6

Omg. Genocide stablecoin, issued by Trump's World Liberty Financial.

23.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 57    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 1

Without post-1997 immigration, fewer Christians + higher no religion share + fewer Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs.

2001-2021: overall down 11 million

2001-11: + 1.2 million foreign-born Christians as UK-born Christians down 5 million
2011-21: + 1.9 million foreign-born Christians, as UK-born fell

23.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0

Totally normal 🤦🏽‍♂️

23.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 648    🔁 70    💬 121    📌 10

Bizarre since this deportation program *is* extreme right ethno-nationalism.

23.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 52    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0
Letter to Sir Laurie Magnus. Full text available in accessible form from me on request.

Letter to Sir Laurie Magnus. Full text available in accessible form from me on request.

Letter to Sir Laurie Magnus. Full text available in accessible form from me on request.

Letter to Sir Laurie Magnus. Full text available in accessible form from me on request.

I have today written to Sir Laurie Magnus, Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards, requesting consideration of whether public statements made by Josh Simons MP on 6 February 2026 constitute a breach of the Ministerial Code.

Letter attached.

21.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 23    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 4

This is absolute gold

21.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 1527    🔁 372    💬 87    📌 22
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UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain

👉NEW -- UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister

by John McEvoy

Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...

16.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 65    🔁 55    💬 5    📌 6
Photo: Steve Bannon and Matt Goodwin shaking hands and grinning together. 
Quote from Steve Bannon: "Darkness is good... Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
- Steve Bannon, convicted fraudster, enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, friend of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin

Photo: Steve Bannon and Matt Goodwin shaking hands and grinning together. Quote from Steve Bannon: "Darkness is good... Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." - Steve Bannon, convicted fraudster, enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, friend of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin

Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.

14.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 117    🔁 90    💬 5    📌 4
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 10:26 — 👍 4171    🔁 1903    💬 117    📌 86
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📅 Deadline approaching: Call for Applications 📢

We are organizing the 10th Summer School "Keynesian Macroeconomics and European Economic Policies".

From 24th - 29th August 2026 in Berlin
Deadline for applications: 28th February 2026

Website and application:
www.imk-boeckler.de/de/aktuelle-...
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13.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a Labour government doing this. They're fully on board with pushing trans people out of public life and bringing back policies even worse than section 28.

12.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 287    🔁 43    💬 7    📌 1

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein.

He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse.

Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million.

Both men are alive.

How come they've never been asked to testify?

10.02.2026 05:58 — 👍 12483    🔁 3980    💬 324    📌 160

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been calling foreign countries' justice departments all weekend threatening and begging them to drop their Epstein investigations, and stop subpoenaing the emails and testimony of Epstein accomplices who could implicate him...

09.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 2772    🔁 889    💬 232    📌 114
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Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.

09.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 15277    🔁 6581    💬 620    📌 453
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Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.

Well, this is interesting!

The U.S. Attorney’s Office had a draft statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” dated August 9, 2019.

He didn’t die until August 10.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

08.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 2590    🔁 1195    💬 155    📌 94
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Trump named in explosive tip regarding Epstein’s death: ‘Authorized murder’ President Donald Trump was named in an explosive tip to the FBI regarding the 2019 death of Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department’s recent release of around 3.5 million files has revealed.“Pretty ma...

A tip to the FBI:

“Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in his jail cell. I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe [president] trump authorized [his] murder.”

~ Mark Epstein
(Jeffrey's brother)

08.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 2772    🔁 966    💬 124    📌 47
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Left: Jeffrey Epstein on a leopard print chair forcing himself onto a girl, with one of his hands down her pants

Right: Peter Mandelson on the same leopard print chair having a foot massage from what looks to be the same girl

07.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 70    🔁 41    💬 7    📌 0

Good question!

04.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Mandelson wants the BBC to report that he denies everything, but for some reason does not want to go on the record denying everything.

Mandelson wants the BBC to report that he denies everything, but for some reason does not want to go on the record denying everything.

Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.

04.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 1058    🔁 246    💬 48    📌 12
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21 March 2020 … at the beginning of the pandemic.

03.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 142    🔁 51    💬 9    📌 2

Warsh says QE encouraged budget deficits. My experience at HM treasury in 2010 was the opposite. QE was cover for pursuing austerity

02.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 8    📌 0

BREAKING: Gordon Brown says he has asked Cabinet Secretary to investigate disclosure of "confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein.

Former PM says he first asked CS to do this in September but biz department found no records.

02.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 218    🔁 60    💬 8    📌 3
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Bannon in Epstein files on 'Tommy Robinson' - 'cheap at any price' Steve Bannon caught in Epstein files saying that Tommy Robinson can be cheaply bought for 'any price' - what, our Tommy?!

Steve Bannon caught in Epstein files saying that Tommy Robinson can be cheaply bought for 'any price' - what, our Tommy?!

By @skwawkbox.org

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

02.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 52    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 3

Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:

1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens

2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar

3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

29.01.2026 02:52 — 👍 5078    🔁 1562    💬 83    📌 58

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