Will Dunn

Will Dunn

@willdunn.bsky.social

Political sketch writer at the New Statesman.

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Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

🚨Some personal news: I'm honoured and humbled to have been asked to take over running the Jumbo Profiterole and XXL Eclair Factory. It's a dream job, but I've got some big choux to fill

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

At the emergency relief centre, the queue of Guardian readers continued to grow. "We decided that stockpiling was inequitable", they said. "And really the government should have done it. Are none of these ration packs vegan?"

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advisesBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state

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Iñaki Aldasoro
@aldasoro.bsky.social

If alchemy is not a peak signal, I don’t know what is

Euronews@euronews.com

Turning mercury into gold? A US start-up says it has just done it ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/EccQ

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Dan Neidle
@danneidle.bsky.social

This is a very silly story. There is no "plot" and no "raid". Just a hysterical misunderstanding of a technical consultation. There *is* a real issue - but it's likely unintended and I expect it will fixed in the legislation. A 🧵 on what's really going on

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Andy Bruce (Reuters)
@bruceandy.bsky.social

Inclined not to put too much weight on IMF forecasting the UK having biggest deficit reduction in the G7, despite the headlines. 1. It's derived from OBR's March forecast which itself was finalised just as the Iran war kicked off. It's not a bottom-up analysis from the IMF.

Chris Jones@chrisjones1.bsky.social

Christ alive, that US deficit

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

As a crossword fan I'll just note that "Cris Tolomia" is an anagram of "I, Mr Lo-Cost AI"

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk

The Quartz website now mainly produced by one reporter writing 50+ stories per day. Digital marketing expert Cris Tolomia appears to be making heavy use of AI. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

pressgazette.co.ukQuartz website mainly produced by one AI-assisted reporter writing 50+ stories per dayDigital marketing expert Cris Tolomia appears to be making heavy use of AI.

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TaxWatch
@taxwatch.bsky.social

The story that Britain's 2nd-richest person “recently” fled UK taxes for Monaco -- which this week we showed is incorrect -- seems have been repeated everywhere. Including by a website whose offshore tax advice we scrutinised in a recent report: tinyurl.com/4wh78u8t 🧵

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Dan Neidle
@danneidle.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Paul J Davies
@pauljdavies.bsky.social

Still believe that HMRC getting inspectors to ensure the super rich are actually paying the taxes that they should will have a far more chilling effect on the billionaires than flag-flying about potential tax changes www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comUK Billionaires Push Back After HMRC Seeks Tax InformationSome billionaires with UK tax obligations are pushing back against sweeping requests for information from local authorities seeking to map out their wealth and financial structures.
Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

Page 203 of Green Party's 2026 conference agenda describes the "forces aligned against our vision": "a global network" of collaborators in politics, business and the media, working on a "multi-decade strategy" to re-run the fascism of the 20th century.

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

My family's claim to fame is that my uncle, who was a painter, did artwork for Iron Maiden. (Mostly stage sets I think; he also did sets for the Chippendales, and was told off for dancing along to their music during rehearsals.) Anyway, I think he would have liked this cover.

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

Are the doom-laden prophecies of AI experts sincere? Or are they a helpful distraction from the bad things AI companies are doing now? If AI companies believe in this risk, why can't they stop? Thank you to the 20+ people who helped me explore these questions for this week's New Statesman

The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social

WILL AI KILL US ALL? by @willdunn.bsky.social There has never been so much money in the apocalypse business. Read the cover story: www.newstatesman.com/busine...

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

You may have noticed an embarrassing error in my previous post. Sorry! The top prize in the National Watershit Prize is only enough to pay the salary of Thames Water CEO Chris Weston for just over 3 days.

Will Dunn@willdunn.bsky.social

Lobbyists for the water industry have just announced a new 'National Watershit Prize', which will award a whopping £15,000 to the best research into stopping sewage pollution. That's enough to pay the salary of Thames Water CEO Chris Weston for almost five days!

Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social

Lobbyists for the water industry have just announced a new 'National Watershit Prize', which will award a whopping £15,000 to the best research into stopping sewage pollution. That's enough to pay the salary of Thames Water CEO Chris Weston for almost five days!