amazed you've read FT piece/concluded no need to apologise, or blame FT, for making you sound entirely negative about migration. I called this Farage-lite because that's exactly how you come across.
'I only sound like Farage when I talk about Green migration politics' is whitewashing Reform
bizarre hatchet job on @greenparty.org.uk economic policies, with quotes from a bond vigilante scaremongering Geoff Hodgson who should stay in his 'institutions matter' lane and a Farage-lite IPPR guy who should be ashamed of himself
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oh look, price targets!
market maker of last resort now activated, as the fallout from the US/Israel illegal war spreads uncontrollably
not only a monstrous, illegal war, but also profoundly stupid self-own unless your only goal is to distract from the Epstein files
still my very excited heart
excellent Note by ISRF Director @cnewf.bsky.social on our Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice project, in preparation for workshop on Coercing Finance, where we explore the macrofinance/political economy of credit and sketch futures of socialised investment
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New levels of cruelty in this Labour government's pointless pursuit of Reform votes
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
two weeks from now, I will join EU Tax Symposium of European Commission/European Parliament to talk about Savings and Investment Union,
curious how the 'love capital markets like Americans do' consensus in European capitals holds if Iran continues to wreak havoc on world economy/soon US stocks
Text excerpt from NYT article linked in second skeet saying: “Most of the profits are flowing to the very affluent Americans, who are not subject to this cost-of-living crisis anyway because they’re so rich. They’re getting richer, and everyone else is dealing with inflation,” said Gregor Semieniuk, associate professor of University of Massachusetts Amherst who led the study. The United Kingdom responded to fossil fuel companies’ bumper year by adding a windfall tax designed to capture some of the excess profits and use the money to ease the burden on households facing higher bills. Semieniuk’s team calculated what would have happened if the U.S. government redistributed the portion of the fossil fuel industry’s 2022 profits that exceeded its 2021 returns. They found that the move would send $1,715 to every American household, which, they argued, could have helped ease the burden of inflation on lower-income households.
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The wealthiest 1 per cent of the US population eventually received more than 50 per cent of energy companies’ windfall from that particular surge in prices, according to a paper published in September 2025.
“If anything [the US has] become a more powerful exporter and producer of fossil fuels since 2022. And of course, their oil majors are active globally. So I think [US shareholders] are poised to take advantage even more [now],” said Gregor Semieniuk, a professor at the University of Massachusetts who was one of the authors of the research. “Wealth distributions don’t change overnight.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zzkt72yllokx7rstuph6rlrw/bafkreigrlauo2i24owltmckxgpdt4gyzzwwu6hvotpslz57hqdbodogxba)
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Who stands to profit as energy prices are rising due to the escalating war in the Middle East? NYT and FT quoting our research on the 2022 energy crisis! Spoiler: in the West it's mainly affluent shareholders.
High time to dust off the discussions on excess profit taxes & strategic price controls.
allow me to be excited, even if this looks like more pension capital for Blackstone, in fact this Labour government is paving the way for the @greenparty.org.uk to do credit policy, a necessary ingredient of any Big State project
The Greens are now the number 1 pick for all voting age groups under 50 in this poll.
the Green party @zackpolanski.bsky.social should be looking at this graph, the 30% rise in gas prices, and set out its Big State economic playbook, which should include price controls and nationalisation of gas companies.
Clearly ai;dr
Gas prices are up 50 (!) percent 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺. Do we have a public @lse-ei.bsky.social lecture on fossil fuel profits scheduled for 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸? Yes.
And will our speaker @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social be joined by @mazzucatom.bsky.social as discussant? Also yes!
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oh look, it's possible to not be a European war monger
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contrarian in me thinks that last time an economic paradigm - price controls Keynesianism - died, it was a fossil price shock that killed it.
silver lining may be that dying hegemon chaos will slay some neoliberal dragons, like central bank independence/pearl clutching around price controls.
We set out the case for removing gas plants from the market as part of a plan to lower bills and deliver genuine energy security. 👇
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I know it's hard to get timings right but:
1. Starmer chose escalation on day 1, when he refused to condemn, like Spain did, an illegal, unilateral attack and instead 'warned' Iran.
2. The attack on the Cyprus base came AFTER Starmer escalated again, allowing US access
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The manufacturing of consent on BBC4 is quite remarkable.
At least Tony Blair and Bush worked hard to fabricate an excuse for invading Iraq
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So Israel and US launch an illegal war and the UK joins the illegal bombing handwaving about 'defense'?
Yet again, Starmer the warmonger.
She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work
politicians ambitious to solve crises of affordability with transformative public spending/investment always get hit by 'how do we pay for it?'
some of us have said, for a long time, this is the ultimate neoliberal shackle, a Trojan horse for 'you cannot do it'
Oh look, Trump has found a way to accelerate the renewables revolution, and solve China's excess solar capacity problem.
Dont know why you keep calling him a petrostate authoritarian.
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Ahem
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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Given that US empire uses Claude for its murderous wars, and every time you use Claude you train it, wonder how many of the people who left X/Twitter are gonna do the same now?
