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Finding ways to maintain the appearance of sanity in an insane world. Values before intellect. Purpose before profit. Taler dansk 🇩🇰. Learning about China. 🇨🇳 Learning Mandarin. 学习普通话 Get fact-based research and analysis on https://99-percent.org/
Last week was the Budget; and this week has the US mid-terms. We have some powerful analysis and videos showing what the UK should do about both. sh1.sendinblue.com/mk/sc/6haEj1...
Why the Budget disappointed Burnham ...
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Would this not have always been the case for all motions past and present? If so, why is this particular one a problem?
Dr Ellie Chowns MP@elliechowns.bsky.social · last mo.I am deeply saddened that the "Zionism is Racism" motion has passed.
Having attended my first @greenparty.org.uk Conference and comparing it with policy-making in the Labour Party, I found GP policy-making far more deliberative and far less open to manipulation. The process starts long before the final vote with lots of opportunities for members to participate.
Water companies want to be rewarded for their failure with even more of your money. Ask your MP to email the Chancellor ahead of Wednesday's budget. Stop the bill hikes and let them go bust! weownit.org.uk/block-bills-...
Email your MP - block the bill hikes at the Autumn Budget
Tell Chancellor JOhn Healey - block the water bill hikes and bring Thames Water into special administration at the Autumn Budget
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"The media has shown in a brief glimpse of unity, that it can act decisively and in unity to hold a politician to account ... they have decided to come all guns blazing for Zack Polanski. Why? Because they are terrified of him"
Me too - former Labour MP, Labour member for 50 years. Burnham, to my great regret, won’t address what’s holding back the real needs of people and planet www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Exclusive: Greens' radical plan for the economy revealed
The party will vote on dropping the use of interest rates to control inflation
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Hope he makes a better Job of securring the seccession than last time! 🤞🏼💚
Ethical cleansing - what Zionist Israel does. Zionism is racism.
Issa Amro@issa-amro.bsky.social · 2w agoHEBRON IS UNDER SIEGE. FAMILIES ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES. Since yesterday, 250 families have been displaced in Hebron, including my own sister, Hayat, and her seven children. Homes and shops are being demolished by the Israeli military.
Try several varieties? I can’t grow tomatoes outside at 1500 feet but poor crop this year prob due to drought. Have to grow courgettes under cover too. Really poor harvest due to drought (cucumbers too). On the other hand, currently havesting beetroot, carrots, chard & spinach. BBs sowed in modules.
And he's right: a Prime Minister who lets the BBC undermine everything he stands for is suffering from learned helplessness. We can't afford that now. See the Elephant. 99-percent.org/the-frog-the...
The Frog, the Elephant and the Jellyfish - 99%
In late 2015, I began work on the book which was finally published in 2019 as 99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It. The book’s original working title […]
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Watch this important video. And make sure your MP sees it too.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last wk.Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, American democracy has been unwound at frightening speed. Analysis by the V-Dem Institute shows the rate of democratic backsliding in US is faster than we saw in Hungary, India, Russia or Serbia And if we don’t take urgent action it could happen here too
Exactly. The government absolutely has the power to deliver renewal. But it suffers from learned helplessness. 99-percent.org/the-paradox-...
The Paradox of Power - 99%
Does our Prime Minister have too much power or too little? In 1976, in a lecture on the BBC, Lord Hailsham criticised Harold Wilson’s government suggesting that we were close […]
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... and extremely dangerous. "This inequity is not just unfair; it is actively harmful. It harms the rest of the population, it harms the planet and it harms democracy." 99-percent.org/extreme-weal...
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Yes. It does. bsky.app/profile/pete...
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last wk.In the UK we are facing an unprecedented coalition of hostile states, enormously wealthy far-right individuals prepared to spend many hundreds of £millions to swing elections & a media & social media ecosystem which they almost entirely control - we are simply not ready youtu.be/8ap3DObeNEs?...
Yes, it is extremely worrying. And it could happen here, too. bsky.app/profile/pete...
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last wk.In the UK we are facing an unprecedented coalition of hostile states, enormously wealthy far-right individuals prepared to spend many hundreds of £millions to swing elections & a media & social media ecosystem which they almost entirely control - we are simply not ready youtu.be/8ap3DObeNEs?...
The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Radio 4 Extra
Radio 4 Extra is a fabulous showcase of the BBC's phenomenal archive of radio comedy and drama, fields in which the Corporation is an undoubted pioneer, with a reputation for quality rivals woud envy....
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(2/x) ... you still have to check the results very carefully. The results are not written in a way that human mathematicians find easy to understand. AI can try huge numbers of different approaches more quickly than us. If the answer is buried in the literature, AI will find it better than us ...
Thread (1/x) Yes, that is a good point: I have used the free version of ChatGPT in that example. When I hear the world's best mathematicians talk about their interactions with (presumably) much better models, there is some similarity ...
(3/x) ... so they could be very useful. But they could probably not (yet) do the job of a really expert mathematician.
He’s also killed Burnham’s promise to bring in the biggest changes in forty years to the way the economy is run. Healey's first Budget offers about £70 a year now & a squeeze pencilled into the next Parliament, which voters will be asked to endorse before they feel it. vincegomez.com/articles/new...
New Chancellor, old model
Andy Burnham entered Downing Street in July promising "the biggest changes in the last forty years" and "a new economic model".² John Healey's first Budget keeps the old one. Its fiscal rules are unch...
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I just signed a petition calling on the EU to defend the International Criminal Court against Trump’s attacks. The EU has a powerful tool that could protect international law - mass public pressure will force them to act. Join me and add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-10...
Defend the International Criminal Court, block Trump’s sanctions!
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Defend the International Criminal Court, block Trump’s sanctions!
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"If the objective was merely to buy some time without doing too much damage, the Budget has probably succeeded. If it was intended to start a radical change and put the UK economy back onto a growth path, the Budget has failed completely." Healey’s First Budget 99-percent.org/healeys-firs...
Healey’s First Budget - 99%
A Budget that holds firm, but for what? Labour was elected in 2024 on a promise to begin a decade of national renewal. After two years without much apparent […]
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A great message on Budget Day - about time the Chancellor heard it: leftfootforward.org/2026/10/mill... @patmillsuk.bsky.social @99organisation.bsky.social
Millionaires are ready to pay more – this Budget should let us
Patriotic Millionaires member Phil White explains why Andy Burnham must use the Budget to tax the super-rich
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Wouldn’t it be better to stop paying interest on their (secure) deposits in the Bank of England? & deal with the ridiculous situation of the “one club” mechanism of interest hikes the BoE has been mandated to use to “control” inflation -even when caused by factors unrelated to domestic consumption.
Taxing billionaires is not the real issue. It’s important for redistribution but not as important to transform the economy as the #FiscalReferees policy approved at GP Conference. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... Also see @99organisation.bsky.social
Exclusive: Greens' radical plan for the economy revealed
The party will vote on dropping the use of interest rates to control inflation
newstatesman.com