Tom Pinch

Anti-imperalism, class struggle, climate breakdown, and flowers

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@AaronBastani Recoommend @StephanieKelton @ProfSteveKeen @RichardJMurphy. Neither taxes nor bond markets "finance" government spending. Government spends money into existce, removes it via taxes. Issuing bonds equal to deficit is convention/narrative. Even within that BoE is buyer of l. resort

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@afneil @joerichlaw It's only convention government sells bonds equal to the deficit. It provides a service to the financial sector in the form of a risk free, liquid asset. Government spending creates the money. Price in the secondary market should be irrelevant @RichardJMurphy @ProfSteveKeen

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@alexmassie Sovereign governments are not constrained by a lack of money. They spend money into existence, and tax it out of existence. Real resources are the constraint, and we're nowhere near full capacity.

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@ABarrosCurtis @campbellclaret More neoclassical economic nonsense, treating a country like a household, and the IFS as some independent objective org @PatriciaNPino @ProfSteveKeen

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@YouGov @OliverKamm That's how a propaganda blitz works.

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@LordJohnMann Sorry what?

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty Same playbook used to destroy Corbyn. As soon as the greens start to capitulate, they've lost.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

How did this pan out?

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

I'll be supporting @Keir_Starmer in the Labour leadership election. Here's 10 reasons why: 1/ We need a leader from the left with the personal attributes of integrity, professionalism and leadership. If you think character doesn't matter, you weren't on the doorstep...

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@medialens And the same journalists will do exactly the same with Jack Polanski. Join the propaganda blitz, ask no questions when it really matters.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@owenjonesjourno @martinrw @EmilyThornberry do you think we've forgotten your tacit support for the genocide in Gaza? You might try and distance yourself from Starmer now he is toast, but you went along with cutting off food and water, supplying weapons to Israel, operating spy flights for Israel.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@ejhchess Marina Hyde just lines up with the establishment. It's safe to criticise Starmer now, but not when it would have mattered. She confuses her writing style for bravery.

She piled into Julian Assange when he was being framed. Ignore the whole lot of them.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@ZackPolanski @owenjonesjourno There was a time when I respected Private Eye: Paul Foot's Lockerbie reporting was hard hitting, quality investigative journalism. Now it's for centrists to feel intellectually superior without changing anything. Alternative media has moved on, and Private Eye isn't part of it.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

Labour Friends of Israel should be a proscribed organisation.

[Labour Friends of Israel @_LFI]

Today, Israel marks 78 years since the declaration of the Jewish state, one of the most remarkable achievements in modern history.

Born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, Israel has grown into a vibrant democracy and a world leader in science and technology.

This year, Israelis celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut for the first time since the return of all hostages. But the threats Israel faces: from Iran, from Hezbollah, from the Houthis, remain real. We stand with Israel and with all those Israelis striving for peace, security and a better future.

יום העצמאות שמח - Happy Independence Day.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@MichaelRosenYes @jodymcintyre_ And as ever, they won't ask themselves "why did we not ask these questions at the time?"

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@ProfSteveKeen It wasn't profitable even before the energy crisis. AI companies were burning money, subscriptions nowhere close to covering costs. All kinds of BS proposals for new data centres with their own nuclear plants etc.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@JohnSimpsonNews To tweet this out without even mentioning US & Israel attacks and murders during previous negotiations reveals a great deal about your worldview.

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@LeonSimons8 I wonder what the impact could be in combination with a fertiliser shortage...

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@ejmalrai Israel will violate any ceasefire agreement

[Tom Pinch @tom_pinch]

@FT @Concreteisland2 I bet they do.