The UK should not step in to rescue Mr Gupta, and should not facilitate Blackrock's increasing bridgehead into the economy. Without addressing energy costs, regulation, and self-destructive sanctions, UK steelmaking is finished. ht/ Ian Proud nytimes.com/2025/08/22/bus…

Evergrande delisted as China attempts to move from land speculation to alternative forms of rent extraction in the renewable energy sector. Until we see the need to curtail rentseeking in any and all natural resource sectors, the result will be worsening 18-year boom-bust cycles.

IMF-prescribed 'Shock Therapy' (selling off land and natural resource rent-yielding assets) created the post-USSR oligarchies. Now we find "businessmen" carving up or threatening to carve up the planet as they compete to capture our land and natural resource rent.

Ouch!

Basic Income UK You are ignoring the root cause of poverty — land monopoly.

The capitalist vs. worker dichotomy is false. It's land vs. everything else. Returns to housing (mostly land) have been going up, while returns to capital (excluding housing) and labour have been going down.

If “someone triggered you,” you’re wrong. If you “didn’t have a choice,” you’re wrong. If someone “made you feel a certain way,” you’re wrong. No matter what you say, you are always in charge of your actions. This is axiomatic. No matter how much money, political freedom, or

More based and land pilled research from Mr Doucet of the Center for Land Economics. Property tax hatred is a psy op by large landowners to appear populist. You know what property tax abolitionists DON'T tell you? That they support raising income taxes on workers.

Kind and tolerant

My current views on the next global property crash: youtube.com/watch?v=IS2n5W…

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When you approve natural resource #RentSeeking it makes little difference whether it's in old oil or new rare earth mining: all the benefits distill in Rent which, when unpaid to the community, accrues to speculators. Hence UK public service poverty.

Britain needs a wealth tax on property ft.com/content/bb4e75… via @ft Hopefully Rachel Reeves (or her advisors) are regularly checking the FT...

Work, trade and capital investment produce wealth. Speculating to collect location and natural resource rent produces nothing. If only the PM had made the distinction at his 'international investment summit'. The speech was an invitation to rent-seek. gov.uk/government/spe…

Interesting that no one ever complains about foreigners buying up industrial machinery, computers, or building materials. I wonder what’s so special about real estate and farmland

This is the most Aussie story you will ever hear! 😮 👏🙏

Cornish MP Perran Moon stands up in Parliament and declares “I am Cornish, not English”

This is brilliant.

The Auld Enemy is the current foe. Sara Salyers on Perfidious Albion at Oban Grassroots audio via Independence Live Liberation Scotland Salvo.Scot Liberate Scotland Sara Salyers John Brown Colette Walker Independents4independence ALBA Party ISP - Independence for Scotland Party

"What if they have no skin?"