If speech is monetised and promoted, in what sense is it free?

A question, is a public square a public square if 90% of the people are wearing masks?

There's been a lot of talk about rising unemployment rates, but weren't the rise in interest rates literally a policy to cause unemployment? Andrew Bailey said so himself. There is around a 18m to 2 year lag in the affects of interest rates. So it's showing up now/

https://t.co/4G1SBYC7SG Stupid economic decision. Heat pumps are a good technology, the barrier in price is scale, so if we subsidise the initial rollout, we get production ramped up, which will make it affordable to all. We still need engineers to install the stuff.

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Kier Starmer is basically a charmless version of Alan Partridge

I think it’s pretty cool that almost every municipality in Norway now has “equipment libraries” where you can borrow gear for free — like footballs, tents, skis, bikes, helmets, kayaks, hammocks, etc.

To my 43.5k followers, I need your help to sign and share my petition on Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts. It was approved by the UK Govt and Parliament on 30th June 2025. Description To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance,

In an interview with the@Macro_Musings #podcast, @MkBlyth discusses his new book, Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, the concept of angrynomics, and new ways to look at price controls and demographic decline. https://t.co/s8GQDZcWwF

Should nursery's be allowed to charge punative late fees? Like banks were able to 20 years ago?

And if that is not enough here's me with Chris Lydon on @radioopensource on Trump, Tariffs, and inflation (plugging the new book obviously):

And also, I got to have a right good rant about pretty much everything from the likely geopolitics of MAGA to the US (not) going bankrupt on NPRs @onthemedia last week. If you like me in full effect and unfiltered, this is it:

Latest Rhodes Center Podcast went up over the weekend. In case you missed it, it's me and @CharlotteCavai1 and @BrankoMilan talking about why inequality never seems to become a dominant political issue. Great Chat:

@gem_ste And the result of thatchers dismantling of our economy was the lowest average gdp rise of any govt post war. The govts that followed since have been even worse. https://t.co/X5J88sjJx4

@JVoiceLabour Well done to all these folks, very good of you 👍👍. Also you can still watch it here https://t.co/eyhRLQqbri

There has been a huge gap in the economics media landscape: The absence of a progressive magazine. We have now set out to fill the void and map ways out of the gloomy status quo. Time to celebrate: The first issue of @surplusmagazin just reached mailboxes across Germany! 🥳

And here's me having a go at Europe's permanent austerity binge when their growth model (exports) is done and all the investments that they failed to make because of fiscal rules and other such nonsense has come home to roost. In Dutch - you can translate:

So, who gets to own all this nice new infrastructure?

This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop.

@SiOldridge