Dave Cook

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

For 50% of the world’s population, it will take three years to match those ten days of emissions.

Wealth and carbon footprints go hand in hand - carbon policies and taxes should reflect this. The big polluters not only should but can afford to pay.

Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push Anonymised data could help develop treatments, drugs and diagnostic tools but potential misuse worries experts Ministers are considering allowing private companies to make profits from NHS data as part of a push to revolutionise the health service using…

Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push

Tax wealth.

Follow where the COVID furlough money went.

YouTube video by Garys Economics Is the UK government bankrupt?

Is the UK government bankrupt?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeH5...

Chart showing rapidly rising temperatures with 2024 the worst

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

Billionaires are holding record wealth.

Corporations are raking in record profits.

Working families are struggling to afford groceries, gas, rent, and healthcare.

And Trump's first priority is spending $5 trillion on tax breaks mostly benefiting billionaires and corporations.

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%.

That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

Or your very sudden interest in Grooming Gangs, because Elon Musk said so.

I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years.

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/l...

Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't just bend the knee to Trump, he throws himself prostrate on the floor in front of the throne.

Darkness falls.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say Mark Zuckerberg’s decision regarding Meta platforms condemned as ‘a full bending of the knee’ to Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch factcheckers on Facebook and “prioritise free speech” weeks before Donald Trump returns to power was…

Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

YouTube video by Garys Economics Everything You've Missed on the Economy

Everything you've missed on the economy – and what will happen in 2025.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QROp...

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Ann Telnaes deserves praise for sacrificing her job at the disgraced Washington Post in service of journalistic independence
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled.

He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off.

We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..”
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China demonstrating a prototype tailless next generation stealth fighter feels very much like a 'Sputnik Moment' because the US could have built something like this a long time ago but has chose other procurement strategies.
Without a tail it has some pretty complicated trailing edge control surface

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters

The secret talks are partly in anticipation of the return of Donald Trump, who in his first presidency threatened to take the US out of Nato if Europe did not spend more on defence. www.ft.com/content/c494...

There is a metaphor here somewhere

If you look back across history, you find that inequality is the norm. After the second world war that changed, and there was a period of rising equality acr... This Is Why The Rich Get Richer

This 10 minute explainer should be on national TV

@garyseconomics.bsky.social on Why The Rich Get Richer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMkW...