@tickyw.bsky.social
Retired but still curious. Numbers, not waffle https://cityboykan.blogspot.com/
New book: 'The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century', LSE press, a really interesting read, you can download the book here: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
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A Brexiter writes...
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nothing but positivity for this idea
"Rachel Reeves plans Budget tax raid on expensive homes" on.ft.com/4hGi275
Progressive.
Better than a transactions tax, doesn't gum up the market.
Encourages downsizing.
Raises useful cash.
Even Osborne likes it.
Looking forward to paying it...
“There are Chamberlains in every generation...”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social’s takedown of anti-immigration pro-Reform activist Matt Goodwin
Given idiot boy is back on the "cognitive test" bandwagon, I'm bringing Sarah Cooper back out from the vault.
31.10.2025 05:20 — 👍 87 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 1Andy and Mandy.
Both goners.
Modern Britain: where everyone with talent, ambition, and luck can rise to the top.
Yeah. Right. Whatever.
Excellent news!
The crusty anachronisms that are the judges, the sentencing council, and other legal establishment figures, will be frothing at the mouth with rage at the insolence of a jury returning a Not Guilty verdict!
Seems like the UK's monarchy is subject to popular will, after all.
31.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The energy bill write off con.
Fuel poverty rising, debt £4.4bn. Ofgem says £500m could be written off.
It would be added to the bills of other customers. Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
No cut in their profit. Debt would be rebuilt
Nationalise energy. End profiteering
1. respect human rights 2. right to life 3. prohibition of torture 4. prohibition of slavery 5. right to liberty and security 6. right to a fair trial 7. no punishment without law 8. right to respect privacy and family life 9. freedom of thought, conscience and religion 10. freedom of expression 11. freedom of assembly and association 12. right to marry 13. right to an effective remedy (if your rights are violated) 14. prohibition of discrimination 15. derogation in time of emergency 16. restriction on political activity of non-nationals 17. prohibition of abuse of rights 18. limitation on use of restriction of rights
Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
But---I thought the USA under Trump was going to stand up to Putin.
Please wake up Europe--the USA will not defend you against Russia. www.reuters.com/world/us-wil...
I remember from my studies of yore something called "Equity Theory" which suggested that workers are not so much concerned with the absolute value of their remuneration as with the relative (to someone else's) value of remuneration.
29.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, the (artificial) obstacles to work erected by employers need to be scrapped. It should be much easier to find work
29.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Way to go!
29.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Martin Daubney doesn't like it up him!
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A broadly accurate account of my GB News interview with Martin Daubney 😉
“I’ve corrected you on this before, Martin, so let me do it again.” After he cited figures, Martin revealed they were out of time – and was forced to abruptly cut off the interview.
www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...
Privately educated toff, George Osborne, conceived and implemented a policy to damage the life chances of disadvantaged kids by making them even more disadvantaged.
#NotFitToGovern
Yup.
29.10.2025 08:43 — 👍 233 🔁 62 💬 9 📌 2Well, that's Putin told
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“There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t." zeteo.com/p/madness-ki...
28.10.2025 10:06 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Dear Ed Milliband, please cease pricing retail electricity based on the gas price.
Also, while you're at it, why not transfer the policy levies, imposed by govt, from the retail price of electricity to the retail price of gas? This would incentivise households to switch from gas to electricity
Employers: "We would like to pay our workers more but this damned NI contribution we are obliged to pay deters us from raising wages"
Employees: "We are prepared to exchange our labour for the current wage so why would employers want to pay more than we find acceptable?"
"If we assume that all employer NI is ultimately paid by workers, ..."
A pretty ridiculous assumption!
By what mechanism is an employer's NI liability paid by its employees?
