Alex Scott-Samuel
@dralexss.bsky.social
☮Politics as if people mattered☮
70 years ago… Doo Wop at its best  youtu.be/cjhRVoIyvkE?...
A Casual Look
YouTube video by The Six Teens - Topic
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"Fake news" is all around us. The University of Edinburgh was commissioned by the Government to publish a rapid evidence review of false and misleading information & its implications for policy and practice usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-...
False and Misleading Information: An Evidence Summary and Map for Policy and Practice | Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) | Usher Institute
Dr Harriet Baird and colleagues at the University of Sheffield have published a new evidence review of false and misleading information.
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Fiscal rules are political theatre frapacioli.substack.com/p/fiscal-rul...
Fiscal Rules Are for Sensible Fools
Fiscal rules are political theatre. They’re announced as financial disciplines, evidence that the grown-ups are in charge – but gamed when inconvenient and abandoned when reality intrudes.
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www.levyinstitute.org/blog/15805 @bankofengland.bsky.social @hmtreasury.bsky.social
Whatever It Takes: How Neoliberalism Hijacked the Public Purse – Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Originally appeared on Levy-affiliated project, the Economic Democracy Initiative. The spectacular government spending post-2008 and post-2020 appeared to upend the neoliberal logic of the past decade...
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See attachment: Larry Elliott saves his most important comment to the final sentences. Here you'll find the truth about the 50 year neoliberal con trick to which he's referring: mmtaction.com/media/papers... #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey
#AndyBurnham: you don't ask a bunch of neoliberals to solve the problems caused by neoliberalism. This noblesse oblige Cabinet won't change the world
Let's hope the new foreign secretary inherited an intact Y chromosome
#AndyBurnham has asked #JohnHealey to cure the neoliberal addiction to the bond markets. All you need is here, John: frapacioli.substack.com/p/the-self-f... @HMTreasury.bsky.social @BankofEngland.bsky.social #MMT
The Self-Financing State
A Layperson's Summary
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#AndyBurnham has asked how to cure the neoliberal addiction to the bond markets. All you need is here, Andy: frapacioli.substack.com/p/the-self-f... @HMTreasury.bsky.social @BankofEngland.bsky.social #MMT
The Self-Financing State
A Layperson's Summary
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Hey #andyburnham: it's great news that you reject neoliberal economics. But don't let @HMTreasury.bsky.social & @BankofEngland.bsky.social pull the wool over your eyes. 1 Check out the truth about public money creation. 2 Do your productive resources audits. 3 Then, get spending! Guidance below
Hey Shabana Mahmood: don't let @HMTreasury.bsky.social & @BankofEngland.bsky.social pull the wool over your eyes. 1 Check the truth about public money creation 2 Do your productive resources audits 3 Get spending! frapacioli.substack.com/p/the-self-f... www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07...
The Self-Financing State
A Layperson's Summary
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🚨BREAKING: With over 80 other MPs and Lords, I have written to the Foreign Secretary calling for comprehensive sanctions on Israel. The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal - and Governments must act now to end it!
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
This was my favourite Bonnie Tyler song. Rest in peace Bonnie youtu.be/gK-SVR86ThY?...
Bonnie Tyler - Lost In France (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Bonnie Tyler
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@premnsikka.bsky.social Kindly refer to an email I've sent to your Essex University address
I can deal with commodity fetishism, but eyelashes? #MMT yes; mascara, no Andy Burnham Says He's Never Worn Mascara, Questions Daily Mail's 'Obsession' With His Eyelashes | HuffPost UK Politics www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/30/a...
Andy Burnham: I Have Never Worn Mascara
Andy Burnham: I Have Never Worn Mascara
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Act now: oppose a new threat to US federally funded work
The global medical and public health community needs to be aware of a dire threat—and of the opportunities to challenge it—posed by a new rule proposed on May 29, 2026, by the second Trump administrat...
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