‘Jobs for workers’ is a slogan that capitalists can get behind. ‘Jobs for capitalists’ is what they worry about.
John Rendel
@john-rendel.bsky.social
International Education and Philanthropy Founder of www.peas.org.uk Trustee at Palladian Academy Trust Non-Exec at ImpactEd Rural family life, Bath, UK
Unofficial right now, but my initial instinct looks to be right. This is said to be the site of a Russian missile, downed INSIDE Poland. This is so big, and no wonder Poland hasn't confirmed it yet.
1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Compulsory voting on the table as Burnham ponders electoral reform
Proposals seen by the prime minister’s advisers suggest a £10 fine for those who do not cast a ballot, with a ‘none of the above’ option to be included
thetimes.com
Rivers are right up there in the list of things I value most in life. One of the reasons I go fishing is to buy access to spend time in or near them. Public access to rivers really should be a basic right. There’s enough river out there to share but far too much is off-limits.
Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2w agoREVEALED: Almost three-quarters of riverbanks in England have no public access - new analysis by @righttoroam.bsky.social @lewis-winks.bsky.social As heatwaves get worse we need a right to responsibly access rivers @angelaeagle1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’m really excited about this: we’re increasing our support for GiveWell recs this year from $175M to $1B to help pave the way for an expected surge in funding from others. coefficientgiving.org/research/in...
Increasing Our 2026 Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations to $1 Billion
coefficientgiving.org
🇬🇧 "The capital’s homicide rate has fallen to the lowest level in recorded history on a per capita basis. It’s now lower than that in Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Paris – and every US state." London is not lawless. It is a myth used to sow fear about multiculturalism and diversity.
If you’ve heard that London is dystopian and dangerous – read this. It just isn’t | Sadiq Khan
Britain’s capital has faced social media, press and political attacks designed to make residents and tourists feel unsaf
theguardian.com
Is it fair to say that Burnham is the most Lib Dem-aligned Labour leader in our lifetime? PR, Lords reform, Land Value Tax, incentivising electrification, shifting power to regions have all been flagged. What else?
Excited to share that FLIGHT was officially launched at #FLEX2026 — a powerful step toward building durable, government-led foundational learning reform at scale. FLIGHT empowers governments with catalytic funding, helping them unlock the bottlenecks that slow progress. Learn more: flightafrica.org
The US government stopped giving life-saving tax dollars to the most vulnerable people in the world and instead is giving it to the most entitled right-wing blowhards in the world.
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 3w agoOh good grief. And what’s the evidence that the U.K. is in worse trouble than the US? Is it that we give airtime to Jacob Rees Mogg and Toby Young? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
GOP lawmakers have seemingly discovered the concept of negative externalities when it comes to climate, but not a sense of irony. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
‘Sovereignty comes with responsibility:’ U.S. lawmakers to Canada on wildfires - National | Globalnews.ca
As wildfire smoke blankets parts of the country, and spills into the United States, some U.S. lawmakers are calling on Canada to do more.
globalnews.ca
US state department offers $3mn grants to Maga-aligned groups in Europe ft.trib.al/sjYHKHE
US state department offers $3mn grants to Maga-aligned groups in Europe
Agency seeks to repurpose foreign aid funds to help organisations that support Trump administration policies
ft.trib.al
The case for a tax on self-driving cars, which could eventually raise up to £100bn. www.arguably.uk/p/a-growth-m...
Charities and funders … Do you sometimes experience frustration with the ‘other side’ of the impact market? Has that frustration turned into a creeping cynicism? My new piece is about what causes these frustrations.
Why are Impact Markets so Dysfunctional?
Part 3 – Who’s to blame? Everyone and no one …
open.substack.com
My latest Substack is on information asymmetry in the market for impact.
Why are Impact Markets so Dysfunctional?
Part 3 – Who’s to blame? Everyone and no one …
open.substack.com
As the right wing predicted! A foreigner!
M@@mattfromlondon.bsky.social · 4w agoI stumbled across Count Binface with his visor up, and this is the shocking truth
Labour’s declining share of gdp is the defining economic trend of our time. And this is before the AI years have even got going … Democracy particularly protects the interests of those without capital, which is why some of those with capital want to undermine it.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w agoEGAN-JONES: “.. when the divergence between capital and labor becomes politically intolerable, policy turns toward redistribution and toward the regulation of capital. .. “.. it is that adjustment for which investors would do well to prepare now.”
The suggestion — from the BBC chairman and the new DG — that the BBC licence fee should be replaced with a compulsory levy on broadband and mobile bills is not creative enough. It would be attacked in the same way the licence fee is now. We should all be shareholders in the BBC…
It's worth stressing that we have rules around political funding to protect our entire democracy. The voters of one constituency might be fine with their MP breaking those rules. But they can't release their MP from them, because a single MP on the take is a danger to the whole system.
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 4w agoCalling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
The other parties should refuse to stand against him. Make him run on his own against the usual cast of comedy candidates.
The anti-Farage campaign should be built around: 'The people versus corruption'
Farage: Disingenuity off the scale throughout his defence. Allied with a pathetic victim complex. He has just locked in weeks of his corruption being front page news, whatever the voters of Clacton choose to do.
Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care www.ft.com/content/7567...
Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care
Josh MacAlister urges Andy Burnham to make children in care his personal mission
ft.com
Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care ft.trib.al/Nzs0ITS
Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care
Josh MacAlister urges Andy Burnham to make children in care his personal mission
ft.trib.al
David Miliband as foreign Secretary would be the best possible news for the future of UK development spending.
2/2 Ukraine's President lays partial blame for today's deaths, at the door of the Trump administration and NATO. Zelenskyy reveals they've been asking "for a long time" for a license to make Patriot missiles & points out NATO left Europe with no defence against ballistics.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “No society has ever advanced by building walls between people who share the same future. “Societies move forward by expanding rights, strengthening coexistence, and committing to integration.”
On UK defence spending. There seems to be a widespread Bluesky consensus that it needs to rise due to the threat from Russia. Perhaps, but given Russian military power is severely depleted and the Russian population is increasingly unsupportive of war, is the risk being exaggerated?
Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood
