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Not that it solves all the problems of a wealth tax, but… Worth noting that the key contemporary destination for tax-fleeing UK emigres - the Gulf bloc - enjoys taxpayer-funded security commitments from major Western powers, the UK (expensively) included. 1/3

Worth repeating: the richest 1% pay a far higher share of the total tax take than in 1980 ***BECAUSE THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL INCOME HAS INCREASED INORDINATELY*** Stop putting the cart before the horse. High earners aren't overpaying because we've constructed a

No sportswashing at Saudi state owned Newcastle United - nothing to see here..... 1. Adam Pearson "Get yourselves over to the Boulevard Road in Riyadh. A chance to learn a lot more about the background of Newcastle United" (!) 👇🏾 x.com/SnoopDoogyDoog…

It seems like our politics is designed to make us fearful at every turn. | iai.tv/articles/the-p… Nicolai Gellwitzki and Charlie Price argue that fear is so dominant because we lack a clear positive political vision, to move forward we must utilise and transform our fear in the

🚨New publication🚨 Why do political actors label micro-political events as driven by fear or hate? In my new International Political Sociology article, I argue these labels are key to the politics of emotion & (de)securitisation dynamics🔗 academic.oup.com/ips/article/19… Department of Politics and International Relations 🧵👇

The kids are cooked

It isn’t. It’s a class coalition but it’s one in which the lower middle classes are the main pillar. It’s Thatcherism 2.0. Plus good luck getting a technocratic, PMC led governing party to pivot to anti-statist populism lol. It’s tried producerism already but came off as phoney!

Happy to be back writing for UK in a Changing Europe with Ben Wellings. Labor and the Liberals largely avoided foreign and security policy during the election—but there were still clues about their vision. We unpack what it means for 🇦🇺’s role in the world.

We did it our way ❤️

Said I’d write this three years ago, but better late than never. Come to read about Alistair Campbell asking Paul Keating to teach Blair how to hate, or Morgan McSweeney starting to talk like a senior Australian Labor figure, stay for the Kylie reference. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/starme…

Stupendously idiotic stuff here from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

One of the reason why social orders decline, with all the attendant consequence, is the erosion of confidence in its institutions. It’s hard not to see how the endless, craven, obscene lying and hypocrisy in contemporary politics, the ever more cynical attempts to stage-manage

he says "put aside the gaza issue for a moment." everything is just an abstract little intellectual game to these guys. to call them morally bankrupt is an understatement

You can't have nice things folks. Meanwhile politicians get literal free tickets to sporting and music events galore (this is why).

A large portion of people in Britain think that they should be able to pass on huge unearned wealth accrued through surging property prices without paying any tax on it. It's a massive problem for a society where property ownership has become the defining feature of wealth.

This is really outrageous. The intolerance by this Labour leadership to any diversity of thought within the party is disgraceful. The intense sensitivity to even mild to moderate criticism is pathetic. This will not end well.

The dethroning of the West can hardly be dismissed by such hand waving. Recall Mokyr: “Britain taught Europe and Europe taught the world how the miracles of technological progress, free enterprise, and efficient management can break the shackles of poverty and want.” The left

Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP Kit Malthouse MP correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague

My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in Politics as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…