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Political Economist. Director, PRIME Economics

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Am in a deeply Conservative area.. the officer at the polling station told me they’ve been busy .. “very busy...lots of young people”...Get out and vote... I am voting Labour - for a Green New Deal.

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Proud to have worked with the new Director General of the WTO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and her team in 2005 to write off $18bn of Nigeria's debt and clear another $12bn. Here we are at a Trafalgar Square demonstration in 2012 where we breifly met Nelson Mandela.

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"At current levels, the UK will be poorer than Poland in a decade, and will have a lower median real income than Slovenia by 2024. Many provincial areas already have lower GDPs than Eastern Europe." HT ⁦ @DanielaGabor ⁩

Britain Is Dead

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Why is occupation in quotes?

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Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer condemns 'occupation' in Oscars speech

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Privatised water companies "which were sold off with no debt and handed £1.5bn — have borrowed £53bn, the equivalent of around £2,000 per household. Much of that has been used not for new investment but to pay £72bn in dividends." @FT

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Thread: This budget represents a putsch by the undemocratic extreme right wing of the Tory Party...Truss and co have no electoral mandate.

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Darren McCarthy: "why did Robert Peston describe Corbyn as waging a class war, when no one argued that George Osborne's austerity programme was class war - never described as that?"

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Keynes (after 2 world wars): "We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved."

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Just to remind: Johnson wants UK to align with US on workers rights. Workers in the US lack rights to paid holidays, Min wage fixed 10 yrs ago, there are NO maternity leave rights for women etc... This is the real imperative of #Brexit .

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I’ve been leaked a recent Dexeu document setting out in black & white how UK plans to diverge from EU on regulations despite Johnson assurances on workers rights etc Read it here on @FT

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Jonathan Portes, prof of economics at King’s College London, said claim was “laughable”. “..an absurd way of talking about policymaking,” he told The Independent. “Talking about there being no money left is the economics of the kindergarten.”

Keir Starmer hits back at Labour critics of child benefit U-turn

‘Talk of no money left is the economics of the kindergarten’ says economist

www.independent.co.uk

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Oh no you don’t! You stand side by side with racists and anti-immigrants - like Steve Bannon & Nigel Farage - fuelling division and hatred. Your hypocrisy sickens me.

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All our thoughts and prayers are today with the people of New Zealand. We already know in our hearts what this was: a sickening and cowardly terrorist attack that was driven by nothing but hatred. We will always stand together against those who are intent on terror and hate

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@DrJFTFernandes Thank you for your kindness and dignity.

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The rich don’t live from income - in the sense we understand - ie wages, salaries. They get rich on rent - from assets - loans, bonds, stocks, property... so income inequality doesn’t capture wealth inequality.

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Barring a change in how the federal government collects wage data on top earners, we’ll continue to know less and less about what’s happening among some of the country’s richest people.

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There's no question: this is genius, carefully co-ordinated PR...in the service of those willing to harm, starve and kill children and other unarmed citizens...

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3 months

BREAKING: UK to temporarily pause funding to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza after claims staff were involved in 7 October attack. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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On a train with young people playing loud music on their phones. Asked politely for quiet. When they continued I stood up with my phone playing Bach's Concerto in Gmajor.. loudly. Stood over them and asked if they'd like to listen to mine. Silence ensued. @greateranglia

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How many people know that David Graeber was one of the architects of Occupy - for which he paid a heavy academic price...?

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I am no political strategist, but striking that Right of the Labour Party choose to attack their leader at the very time Tories are in greatest disarray. Previously it was day after referendum.

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Its known as the multiplier. It has been understood for more than 80 years; and its impact - that public investment pays for itself - recently confirmed again by the IMF.

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The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says debt incurred by borrowing to increase productivity would "pay for itself" over the long-term #r4today

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IPPR: "average net weekly pay for the bottom 20 per cent of earners is £59 a week less than the UK living wage..In-work poverty rose to a new high of more than one in six workers before pandemic." This govt aint 'levelling up'.

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Banks did not "allow" criminals to move dirty money- the law did - on the advice of economists & their friends in the City. The law is deliberately designed to "allow" money to be moved across borders, dodging regulation and taxes. Banks just obeyed the law.

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Leaked documents reveal some of the world’s biggest banks allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world

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I was on Kate Osamor’s International Development task force & was mightily impressed by her professionalism & her strong strategic vision for the role of DFID on the world stage. A sound, humane politician of principle. And there ain’t many like that.

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This feels like the anti war in Iraq march...It's Huge. AND it's a LOVE March...

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You mean like when PM Blair & other leaders listened to one million British women & men marching against war with Iraq?

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Proud to join the 100,000+ people on the #PeoplesVoteMarch asking for a say on the final #Brexit deal. Time for Leaders to listen!

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George Osborne's legacy...

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In all the years of covering rough sleeping, I’ve never seen anything like I saw last week. #homeless ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩

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Never trust a man that gives "categorical assurance"...

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"I'm going to give you absolute categorical assurance that I will keep @sajidjavid as my Chancellor." @BorisJohnson says Sajid Javid is a "great guy" and doing a "fantastic job". #GE2019 Follow live updates 👉

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As Keynes famously said: "You can't balance the nation's books by cutting the nation's income." Public sector pay has fallen by nearly 6%. Private sector pay down by 2.2% over the past year...no wonder there are vacancies in health and social services.

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Diane Abbott is an old friend @DavidLammy . Decades ago we joined together to fight for stronger representation of women & black people in Labour. At the time PLP was overwhelmingly white and male. You & the party benefitted electorally & owe her a huge debt & support.

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John McDonnell is so cooooool......Well done @johnmcdonnellMP Don't let the failed economic orthodoxy floor you...

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This is brilliant from @johnmcdonnellMP on #Marr Nails the arguments on bringing Royal Mail and other industries back into public hands Please share

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As someone who has known Jeremy Corbyn for many, many years...I find this assertion both wrong and bizarre. Shows how out of touch @BBCNews journalists are.

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The Deputy Politcal Editor of the BBC calls Jeremy Corbyn “a Marxist” live on BBC1. BBC journos aren’t reporters they are the spokespeople for the right wing establishment and we’re forced by law to pay for this.

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Ken Clarke warned in 2003:

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Dear God... help us.

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As Labour drops its pledge to spend £28bn a year on green investments, Sir Keir blamed the party's major U-turn on the Conservatives' 'reckless' plans to 'max out on the government credit card' after doing 'terrible damage to our economy'

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75% of press coverage misrepresents Corbyn. We can’t ignore the media bias against Jeremy Corbyn anymore

We can’t ignore the media bias against Jeremy Corbyn anymore

We all want and need a strong and a critical media, but maybe we do not need an attack dog that kills off anyone who challenges the status quo

www.independent.co.uk

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Bill Gates buying up the nation’s farmland and turning farmers into renters; Blackrock buying up the nation’s homes, and turning the middle class into renters…This, friends, is globalised, rentier capitalism…

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Thread. Blackrock is buying every single family house they can find, paying 20-50% above asking price and outbidding normal home buyers. Why are corporations, pension funds and property investment groups buying...

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IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece' | via @telegraph

IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece

The International Monetary Fund’s top staff misled their own board, made a series of calamitous misjudgments in Greece, became euphoric cheerleaders for the euro project, ignored warning signs of...

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The answer to “how will we pay for this?” Is - economic recovery will pay for this. Investment in well-paid, skilled, full employment - will pay for this.

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Just to remind the BBC's board.

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"Our values today... "do not allow us to return" stolen goods.

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#C4News Should we return the Benin Bronzes? Dowden: They properly reside in the UK, but we can share them C4News: They were stolen, shouldn't they reside with the owners? Dowden: Our values today do not allow us to return them

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This is the consequence of making ordinary people pay the cost of a crisis inflicted by the City of London & Wall St.

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While the BBC's attention has been on Texas....

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While the world's attention is on Texas, floods in Bangladesh, India and Nepal have killed 1,200 people and affected 16 million others

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This woman is just extraordinary. And inspiring.

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‘The only way we are going to get out of this situation is by choosing to be courageous.’ — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Wow! This is wonderful. At last a journalist has a grasp of both macroeconomics and monetary policy...and can talk about it in accessible language... Three cheers to @andyverity

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This feels like a moment, to be honest...

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Its not just vaccines: "The 3 largest makers of N95 respirator masks, 3M, Honeywell & Kimberly-Clark, have tightly held multiple patents on masks. Critical shortages of PPE & ventilators partly due to exclusive rights that IP confers."

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Phillip Hammond is wrong. Britain CAN afford a pay rise of 3% for 5 million public sector workers, by me.

Can Britain afford a pay rise of 3% for 5 million public sector workers? - Prime

If all five million public sector workers were granted a pay rise of 3%, the EXTRA cost to the Treasury - over and above the government's already-promised 1% - would be just over £3 billion a year....

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Lord Deben; We have released in this country attitudes of hate. “The Daily Mail one of the most wicked influences” on our society.

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Once again: house prices have risen 10% over the year, not because of shortages of supply, but because more money (stamp duty cuts/subsidies) has deliberately been aimed by the Treasury at residential property - deliberately inflating prices.

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Shaxson: Britain owes its pre-eminence as a financial centre to the combination of a strong legal system, which stops people stealing your money, with a weak regulatory one, which allows you to steal other people’s,” From Sunday Times review..

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Let me be clear: a chaotic Brexit process could have a devastating economic impact. However, the evidence shows that—to date—it is austerity, not Brexit, that has had the most negative long-term impact on the British economy.

Britain’s flagging economy: is Brexit to blame?

Departure from Europe has created problems and austerity has made them worse

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Have I just heard a shadow Treasury minister mutter "Maxing out the credit card" in relation to the public finances... ?

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Grace Blakeley: we can no longer treat economics and politics as separate spheres. Economics is political - and represents class interests. Currently our economy serves capital’s interests. Corbynism changes that. #DerbyTransformed

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Would a Labour government be irresponsible to borrow more at this time? NO, say 22 economists in answer to John McDonnell's critics. @SamCoatesTimes @Peston @Kevin_Maguire @pollytoynbee @albrummer

The Shadow Chancellor and the government’s debt interest payments - Prime

The following is a statement in response to recent media comment on the public finances, signed by 37 economists as at 30th November, 2017. It has been updated since first posted on 26th November...

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Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament is an affront to democracy | Financial Times

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Courteous Thomas Piketty corrects anti-Corbyn media spin, in @guardian & @Independent

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Oh dear... a Labour MP quotes Mrs Thatcher approvingly: "there is no such thing as public money. There's only taxpayer's money."

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Uhoh @Siobhain_Mc has just handed @RishiSunak his arse on a plate....

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When will they get that Milton Friedman's monetary radicalism paired with fiscal conservatism has caused ten years of stagnation..and has not fixed anything?

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TELEGRAPH BUSINESS: ‘Helicopter money’ may be needed to stop a slump #TomorrowsPapersToday

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On Thursday, openDemocracy revealed that more than 600 apparently British companies set up in the last year were actually being controlled from Russia. | openDemocracy

UK is ‘top destination’ for Russians looking to hide dirty money in property

Former deputy prime minister sanctioned by EU among those who own multi-million-pound London properties

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Oh dear. This is so disappointing. Back to Square One, just when Labour's stance vs Finance is strong, a shadow minister gets back down on his knees. "Labour party embarks on charm offensive with banks and fund managers" via @financialtimes

Labour party embarks on charm offensive with banks and fund managers

Shadow minister Pat McFadden moves to repair bridges with fund managers after Corbyn era

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FFS: @BBCRadio4 @BBCPolitics . Government has NOT “maxed out its credit card”. Otherwise how could it afford to finance the £3bn transfer of weapons to Ukraine? Please stop parroting the failed ideology of George Osborne. Swot up on economics.

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Me, in the Guardian ...The beauty of a Green New Deal is that it would pay for itself | Ann Pettifor

The beauty of a Green New Deal is that it would pay for itself | Ann Pettifor

Governments around the world don’t need to raise taxes in order to transform their economies and avert climate disaster, says economist Ann Pettifor

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In Britain the far right - the fascistic right - are offering Britons radical solutions to today's crises. What is striking is the sound of silence on radical solutions offered by the Left of the political spectrum. A silence that makes the far right's appeal resonate far…

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"Once you pay your £3m, you get your peerage,” one former Conservative party chair said...Boris Johnson is planning to..legitimise bribery | Gordon Brown | The Guardian

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The British people, rightly, demand change. But that change is not "global Britain" and Brexit. The rejection of Thatcherite economics & austerity is the change/transformatioin we need.

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Today I lost a good friend, a mentor & a courageous political comrade: Prof John Weeks. His death leaves vacant an important intellectual leadership role in macroeconomics. My deepest sympathy to his wife Liz & his children.

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Roosevelt’s four freedoms - so different from neoliberal ‘freedoms’: 1) of speech 2) of worship 3) freedom from want (!) 4) freedom from fear. Let’s take back those freedoms.

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That is wrong @bbcnickrobinson . Almost every week of the year governments pay for spending by issuing gilts. Tax revenues are a consequence of spending not a source of finance & are used to pay for & balance loan-financed spending.

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Governments can only pay for increasing spending by raising taxes, increasing borrowing or cutting other spending. “Dividends” are what politicians talk about when they don’t want to spell out which of those they are going to do

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Can one dare to hope after this financial & economic debacle that the @iealondon and its so-called 'economists' will no longer be given platforms by the public broadcaster @BBCRadio4 @BBCBusiness @BBCNewsnight @bbcquestiontime @BBC Jeremy Vine show ...?

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This man is a huge threat. Wake up everybody! This is not about Brexit. This is not about the EU. This is a fascistic coup. No one should be fooled, or go along with this attack on democratic representatives. @bbclaurak @BBCNews

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Far right thugs are organising pro-Boris Johnson protests in central London in which they chant for their opponents to be hanged. When Johnson is challenged about his rhetoric, he calls it “humbug” and Jacob Rees Mogg smirks. Fucking disgusting.

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I fear Netanyahu is to Starmer what George Bush was to Blair. Blair paid the price and was removed from office.

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We have to do more than just taxing the rich. We have to change the system. Now. Urgently.

Andrea Junker

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2 years

Wealth of Elon Musk 2011: $2,000,000,000 2021: $265,400,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2011: $18,100,000,000 2021: $198,300,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2011: $17,500,000,000 2021: $118,900,000,000 U.S. Minimum Wage 2011: $7.25 2021: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

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"By concentrating on frequent fliers, big yacht and private jet owners, “we could bring down emissions massively, very quickly” and make the rest of us feel this was a fair solution."

Ann Pettifor on why the rich must be first to pay for the climate crisis

The economist and author of the Green New Deal talks money, men and malpractice.

www.newstatesman.com

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BBC should fact-check David Gauke's assertions on Question Time re: interest on UK debt. #bbcqt He is misleading public.

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Politicians will be blamed for #GlenfellTower . But economists share responsibility 4 flawed austerity policies that led to ghastly tragedy

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Don't be naive @BBCNews & fall for Wall St propaganda. JP Morgan is not providing a $3.5bn "grant". It is providing a "debt-financing deal amortised over 23 years against future broadcasting rights" ( @FT ) to heavily indebted clubs...

Super League: Why have the plans collapsed?

Backers for a European Super League have admitted that the plan cannot go ahead.

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Never enough money for education, the police etc. But the Treasury found £1,000 billion to bail out bankers. And they did not do it by shaking tax collection tins!

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Now that a right-wing and blatantly corrupt government has been replaced by a left-wing party..”concerns are being raised’...

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Concerns are being raised over the Spains already high public debt burden as the ECB is set to end its bond-buying program and increase rates this year. Read more:

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Economic systems are man-made.(And I mean man-made). We the people, can change an economic system that creates $70 trillion of wealth for the few, the world’s richest. We just need the will.

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The world's richest people are getting richer.

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"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world,” Graeber once wrote, “is that it is something that we make, & could just as easily make differently.” The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left's most influential thinker. Terrific from ⁦ @JeromeRoos ⁩

The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left’s most influential thinker

The anthropologist and best-selling author will be remembered for a life spent fighting for a freer, more joyous and egalitarian world.

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Labour is playing with political fire by threatening to emulate the Tories & by bowing to Wall St Private Equity firms who want to 'privatise' ie extract even more wealth from our ill- health & the NHS.

NHS Nurses

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🚨 We know that the majority of people support the NHS and don't want to see it privatised Together we can fight to save the NHS from the politicians who seek to sell it off bit by bit Please RT if you agree with the message below #SocialistSunday

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Say after me: "The economy determines the public finances, not the other way around. The economy determines the public finances, not the other way around."

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Ann Pettifor

@AnnPettifor

10 months

Beautiful, moving letter from Rupert Read on the origins of the term 'tree hugger'. Starmer should apologise.

Rupert Read 🌍

@GreenRupertRead

10 months

"It's worth remembering the history of violence these tree-huggers endured and that right was on their side." My letter in The Times today regarding Keir Starmer's alleged hatred of "tree-huggers".

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There is no magic money tree..but there are valuable, endless income streams from the public ownership of Water, Energy and Rail....which means the investment pays for itself... Its not rocket science.

James Meadway

@meadwaj

1 year

There is no magic money tree. There *are* some very wealthy institutions and individuals that are seriously undertaxed.

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Ann Pettifor

@AnnPettifor

5 years

Proud & defiant...

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@AnnPettifor

8 months

Rubbish. All things are not equal ...simplistic theory of supply and demand takes no account of 'wall of money' aimed at finite asset - ie land. Land is not a commodity....via @FT

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@AnnPettifor

2 months

Never mind: Israeli lies served a propaganda purpose - to distract western leaders from ICJ decision - while depriving Palestinians of life-saving food and drink.

Naks Bilal

@NaksBilal

2 months

The UK is set to restore funding to UNRWA after being led down the garden path by Israel’s deceitful attempt to have the aid agency destroyed. @David_Cameron apparently recognised the decision was “too hasty”. Let this be a lesson not to trust Israel.

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@AnnPettifor

6 years

Proud to be in the company of a group of distinguished economists in this letter calling on the Chancellor to end austerity - which has punished an entire generation.

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@AnnPettifor

6 months

These arrests are corrupting the British police force...and bringing shame on the British political class.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

6 months

🧡 25 MOTHERS ARRESTED FOR MARCHING ⛓️ Yesterday, @metpoliceuk arrested 25 peaceful mothers as they marched for their children's futures. 🖋️ Mothers are refusing to stand by while our government's policies lead to the deaths of millions. Join them —

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@AnnPettifor

5 years

Labour MPs that vote for this will vote to sell off the #NHS . That is the point of #Brexit : to re-orient UK towards US economic model of domination by one capitalist empire, Big Pharma & Wall St & away from welfare, regulation embedded in EU model.

‘Left Grassroots

@LeftGrassroots

5 years

Keir Starmer confirms that this deal is a politically wrong direction of travel - towards a deregulated U.S. style economy that will trample our rights, our protections and cost us jobs

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@AnnPettifor

6 months

Wow. Just wow.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

6 months

“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

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Ann Pettifor

@AnnPettifor

3 years

I just signed up to hear more from @goodlawproject . You can subscribe to receive their email updates here:

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@AnnPettifor

5 years

Since 1979, when Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street, approximately 2 million hectares of land — or 10 per cent of Britain — has disappeared from public hands, via @FinancialTimes

The collapse in public ownership of land

www.ft.com

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@AnnPettifor

6 years

Lost for words....

Prime Economics

@primeeconomics

6 years

We're so proud that our director @AnnPettifor is to be awarded the prestigious 2018 Hannah Arendt Prize, selected by an international jury, under the auspices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation @boell_stiftung . Award ceremony in Bremen in December

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@AnnPettifor

1 month

Britain - a nation in rapid decline.

Teemu Taira

@TeemuTaira

2 months

Terrible news from the University of Kent: "we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies"

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@AnnPettifor

3 years

They are not 'protesters' engaged in 'scuffles' @BBCPolitics . They are rioters engaged in a seditious coup...

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@AnnPettifor

4 years

"The excesses of the capitalist system". Attenborough gets it - at last. BBC News - Attenborough: 'Curb excess capitalism' to save nature

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@AnnPettifor

4 years

Because this is a crisis about the collapse of income, why not give nurses, care workers and hospital support staff a 20% pay rise, @RishiSunak ? That'll inject more income into the economy..and help the recovery. @hmtreasury

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@AnnPettifor

5 years

A gaggle of gals striking for the climate...

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@AnnPettifor

6 years

"This is something that economists must finally and honestly acknowledge: economic theorising is driven by class interests.” By me.

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@AnnPettifor

4 years

It takes a strong woman. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has launched a revolution - a historic moment/tipping point.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

4 years

Think Amsterdam was always a city of bikes? Decades ago it wasn’t. Think Copenhagen was always a city of bikes? Decades ago it wasn’t. Think central PARIS was always a city of bikes? LAST YEAR it wasn’t. Rue de Rivoli via @mozilette HT @Anne_Hidalgo

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@AnnPettifor

6 years

On the @BBCRadio4 & @BBCNews the Right of the Labour Party are ‘moderates’ and those on the Left are ‘hard left’. #notsosubtlebias

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@AnnPettifor

1 month

Netanyahu can do this because he has rendered both the gutless European Union and the 'mighty' United States impotent and ineffectual. A humiliation of historic proportions...

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

@FranceskAlbs

1 month

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed @WCKitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity. Sanctions now. Indictements now.

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@AnnPettifor

9 years

Not only did bankrupt Germany get debt relief in 1953, it got the Marshall Plan - free money that did not have to be paid back. #Greece

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