How Expatriation Affects U.S. Social Security Benefits – A Podcast With Virginia La Torre Jeker
Introduction and purpose ... Entitlement to U.S. Social Security (including spousal and survivor benefits) after expatriation has always been a difficult. During the months of January and February 2026…
Last year I wrote a short film, two screenplays and three sitcom scripts. Are there any production companies out there who’d like to read any of them? Let me know. Thanks!
May 2nd Rattus bring the music of the Stranglers live to London!
Plaudits to Joni Mitchell for rhyming “see them” with “museum.” How many times have I heard Big Yellow Taxi and never noticed?
It’s a new day in New York City, and Zohran Mamdani is asking a fundamental question that everyone else across the country should also be asking:
Who should our government work for?
Calling London Ladies (and Gentlemen). If you’re in the area of intersection and are free Saturday night get down to the Water Rats, Kings Cross. Rattus are playing the music of the Stranglers live from 9pm.
Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first
Trump has halted or dropped enforcement actions against 160+ corporations, including:
-42 consumer protection cases at CFPB
-20 foreign bribery cases at DOJ
-6 employment discrimination cases at EEOC
-7 crypto cases at SEC
It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.
I expect many people will disagree with me, and be happy to increase the burden on gamblers to fund anti-poverty programmes...
The IPPR has proposed large increases in gambling taxes, to raise £3bn to "lift around half a million children out of poverty overnight".
I'm torn. It's a good tax to raise. But £3bn may be optimistic. And it will mostly be gamblers paying the tax.
‘The City of London Corporation should not give planning permission to the application now in front of it’
@rowanmoore.bsky.social on Liverpool Street Station and the ‘never-ending battle between heritage and development’. Time for a third way?
observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
There is a detailed analysis behind each of the claims in this thread. All set out in full here, with links to the spreadsheet and GitHub with the workings: taxpolicy.org.uk/henley-partn...
Tomorrow I’m doing my first ever radio interview for the BBC. I’ll be talking about my band’s gig playing the music of the Stranglers at the Star Inn Guildford this Saturday night. Anyone got any tip tips?
Out of Catherine Rampell's 11 tips for being a columnist - this has long been a hard rule at the FT www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Went on Radio Surrey this morning to discuss the #Stranglers, their links with Guildford and Rattus Inheritus's gig at the Star Inn on Saturday night (with our guest of honour, Ava Rave). Starts 1 hour 50 mins into James Cannon’s show. Enjoy/dure.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My column: I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...
Good to see my work used. I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...
Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.
Elon Musk has called for Amtrak and the Postal Service to be privatized.
Be warned: this is a call to gut essential public services to pad corporate profits.
Here are my 5 rules of thumb for when public services should NOT be privatized.
In @thetimes.com today, Dr Gerhold cuts to the critical question: why here?
#HolocaustMemorial #Westminster #London #DanielFinkelstein #VictoriaTowerGardens
Sir Trevor is not the only leading Jewish philanthropist to have questioned the current UK Holocaust Memorial proposal.
#DameVivienDuffield #philanthropy
After Trump embraced crypto, Coinbase gave millions to PACs backing pro-Trump candidates.
After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin.
Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase.
See how this works?
Smart Clay Bennett cartoon.
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We broke story after story about Trump skullduggery, published Dr. Bandy Lee, when no one else would, & alerted readers to what DC journalists ignore.
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I refuse to use a self-service till… as should everyone…! People need those jobs, and the machines are ALWAYS going to mess up… as they do online, when you don’t have any alternative…
