Monday 19th January 2026
Re: Monday 19th January 2026
OUCH !
I listened to WATO, ED Stourton interviewing Mandy the Weasel , more proof of the UK's sovereign status as ER Airstrip One !
Small lol on opening bluesky --
"" The other main trick that the spin doctors pulled was to compare two individual financial years that were five years apart, i.e. 2024-25 (the last funding settlement determined by the Tories) and 2029-30.
This meant a degree of cherry picking and using a previous figure rather as a comparator, rather than what would have been spent. ""
So the spinners compared the last year budgeted by the Tories to a future Labour year AFTER several years of increments !
I listened to WATO, ED Stourton interviewing Mandy the Weasel , more proof of the UK's sovereign status as ER Airstrip One !
Small lol on opening bluesky --
"" The other main trick that the spin doctors pulled was to compare two individual financial years that were five years apart, i.e. 2024-25 (the last funding settlement determined by the Tories) and 2029-30.
This meant a degree of cherry picking and using a previous figure rather as a comparator, rather than what would have been spent. ""
So the spinners compared the last year budgeted by the Tories to a future Labour year AFTER several years of increments !
Re: Monday 19th January 2026
Important piece yesterday by Heather Stewart ---
"" as Adair Turner, then chair of the Financial Services Authority, pithily put it in 2009, when the memory of the financial crisis was still fresh, much of the activity that goes on in the City is “socially useless”. ""
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... davos-2026
"" as Adair Turner, then chair of the Financial Services Authority, pithily put it in 2009, when the memory of the financial crisis was still fresh, much of the activity that goes on in the City is “socially useless”. ""
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... davos-2026