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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman/statuses/114819780911156259">Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 08:52:09 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman" title="urlyman@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/161114-48-20250126152727.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Jonathan Schofield" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Jonathan Schofield</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>My thanks to Sven – <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/114819445178105464" rel="nofollow">https://mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/114819445178105464</a> – for reconnecting me with this which I saw a while ago but had been unable to rediscover. </p><p>I now know, courtesy of a post on <a href="https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy">@RichardJMurphy</a>’s blog – <a href="https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/from-centre-right-to-hard-left/" rel="nofollow">https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/from-centre-right-to-hard-left/</a> – that it was a letter to The New Statesman in 2023 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukpol" rel="tag">#ukpol</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5323561#notice-10444306">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-07-09T08:52:09+09:00" title="Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 08:52:09 JST">about 5 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114819780911156259" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114819780911156259">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4908974">“In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.”Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/819/780/669/020/987/original/bcfbb1f69ce4c383.jpeg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/819/780/669/020/987/original/bcfbb1f69ce4c383.jpeg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: media.mathstodon.xyz</div><h5><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/114819445178105464">Σ(i³) = (Σi)² (@SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz)</a></h5><div> from <span>Σ(i³) = (Σi)²</span></div></header><div>Attached: 1 image@fatsam@mstdn.social</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.taxresearch.org.uk</div><h5><a href="https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/from-centre-right-to-hard-left/">From centre right to hard left</a></h5><div> from <span>Richard Murphy</span></div></header><div>This was drawn to my attention today by commentator John Boxall. It was in The New Statesman in 2023:
In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy,...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 08:52:09 JSTJonathan Schofield
- Richard Murphy
My thanks to Sven – https://mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/114819445178105464 – for reconnecting me with this which I saw a while ago but had been unable to rediscover.
I now know, courtesy of a post on @RichardJMurphy’s blog – https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/from-centre-right-to-hard-left/ – that it was a letter to The New Statesman in 2023
#ukpol
In conversationabout 5 months ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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1. “In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.” Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire.
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2. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: media.mathstodon.xyz
  Σ(i³) = (Σi)² (@SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz)
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  Attached: 1 image @fatsam@mstdn.social
3. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.taxresearch.org.uk
  From centre right to hard left
  from Richard Murphy
  This was drawn to my attention today by commentator John Boxall. It was in The New Statesman in 2023: In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy,...

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