Paul Stevens 🥀💚

It’s ridiculous. And a political/ideological choice, not an economic/financial one.

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Tell your MP to strip Andrew of his dukedom More than five years after Prince Andrew defended his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein on national TV, there are still questions over whether he took part in the abuse of young women. The prince has denied allegations in Virginia...

Prince Andrew stepped back from public life after defending his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.

Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af

Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.

“…the British press’s most unhinged fanzine dedicated to privilege and power” is winning at wordsmithery. Chapeau! 👏 👏 👏

Mike Graham tried to troll me once by pointing out to his numbskull acolytes that I use a pen name.

It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.

Hilarity ensued.

MMT doesn’t view government spending as “unlimited”.

Because right wing economics and authoritarianism can’t be seen to fail?

Edi Rama gets it. bsky.app/profile/grah...

Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics' Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage

“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

That’s the long game, yes.

That’s the bigger picture and one of the real rationales behind it. The “Britain’s full” narrative is just a Trojan horse.

The government still insists tax funds government spending – and it doesn’t There was a fundamental flaw in the first line of the Executive Summary of HM Revenue & Customs' Transformation Roadmap, published, like many other government documents, just before the summer recess ...

It is. Especially when one considers that taxes aren’t a “contribution” to anything.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

Reform voters won’t like what they get if they get what they think they want.

It would be helpful if the Labour Party changed direction. Back to the Labour Party. But it isn’t going to. Few socialists remain. None in senior positions. It’s now neoliberal. It’s a lost cause.

And so it begins.

Surprised it took him so long.

I do feel sorry for the staff. But the bigger picture is that gambling does more harm than good, and our high streets - as well as our country - would be better off without it.

A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris

A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris

Just another needless obstacle modern Britain puts in the way of having children. We bemoan the falling birthrate, while doing little to make having a family an attractive and realistic proposition. Having a family is mostly a lifestyle choice: and fewer people are choosing it. Who can blame them?

The Conservatives have got a nerve branding English a “rip-off” degree, when they can’t even spell the name of the country we sacked them from governing.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

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Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Democrats need to wake up and realize tax payers do not create the national currency

The state creates the national currency

Euro using countries do, in fact, create the euro backed by the ECB

In fact this is how it works

But the ECB only reluctantly acts like it

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Thatcher: Government has no money if its own. There’s only “tax payer money”.

Also Thatcher: I refuse to adopt the euro & give up my government’s ability to create its own currency

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch