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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman/statuses/113888348945105770">Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 21:27:59 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><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113888326128676594" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>…as Nicholas Shaxson and others like <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic">@pluralistic</a> cogently point out, the Amazon tech feudalist mindset is now embedded into the UK’s Competitions and Mergers Authority (CMA), thanks to Labour’s appointment of Doug Gurr. </p><p>And here is Shaxson from 2018 on the UK’s finance curse <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-curse-how-the-outsized-power-of-the-city-of-london-makes-britain-poorer" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-curse-how-the-outsized-power-of-the-city-of-london-makes-britain-poorer</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4445547#notice-8699373">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-25T21:27:59+09:00" title="Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 21:27:59 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113888348945105770" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113888348945105770">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: i.guim.co.uk</div><h5><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-curse-how-the-outsized-power-of-the-city-of-london-makes-britain-poorer">The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer</a></h5><div> from <span>https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nicholas-shaxson</span></div></header><div>The long read: The City of London and the services it sells around the world are hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as the financial sector blooms, everything else withers</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 21:27:59 JSTJonathan Schofield
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…as Nicholas Shaxson and others like @pluralistic cogently point out, the Amazon tech feudalist mindset is now embedded into the UK’s Competitions and Mergers Authority (CMA), thanks to Labour’s appointment of Doug Gurr.
And here is Shaxson from 2018 on the UK’s finance curse https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-curse-how-the-outsized-power-of-the-city-of-london-makes-britain-poorer
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  The long read: The City of London and the services it sells around the world are hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as the financial sector blooms, everything else withers

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