Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the world’s worst economist who inspired Keir Starmer’s “missions”, has been extremely busy.

When she’s not flying for work, attending events with Ed Miliband or running the Soros-funded UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, she is also a “member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council”, as documented on the UN website.

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Yesterday the activist group “People Against Genocide” broke into an Israeli drone factory in Leicester.

Footage of the break-in was posted on the Instagram feed of something called The Aftershock, which describes itself as “a publisher and media distributor of global actions for Palestine.” It wrote:

“BREAKING: 'People Against Genocide' have abseiled through the roof of Elbit's Israeli drone factory in Leicester.

“Once they descended, they began to break through the clean room used to assemble necessary components for Israeli military drones.

“Contaminating a clean room can put it out of use for several months.

Perhaps the most disturbing part of this post was its end line:

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Today it was announced that David Lammy will be speaking at the “Global Progressive Mobilisation” conference in Barcelona, taking place on April 17-18th.

He’ll be joined by Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, who thinks that the UK owes $24tn in reparations to 14 countries affected by transatlantic slavery - and that Barbados is owed $4.9tn (£3.9tn) in total by slave-owning nations.

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Yesterday you may have spotted Sadiq Khan complaining about London facing a “dark blizzard of disinformation”, a claim that is complete BS to anyone who has eyes, ears and no agenda.

Khan had been speaking at the “Cambridge Disinformation Summit”, a conference I had never heard of before, but turns out to be very ghastly indeed.

Last year, for instance, it was frequented by Marianna Spring of BBC Verify:

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Many thanks to Liz for having me on; I really enjoyed the conversation!

Have you heard of “BetterPoints”?

It’s a “digital currency” app that’s been rolled out across a number of UK councils. It rewards locals for “positive behaviour” such as walking, cycling and running.

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Left-wing politicians often like to complain about foreign billionaires interfering in British democracy, especially when it comes to Elon Musk:

Clearly the same rules don’t apply to them, though, otherwise why would Keir Starmer have met with US billionaire Mike Bloomberg this week, never mind allow him to run a new “training and leadership program” for UK mayors?

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I had to do a double take when I spotted that Jeremy Vine hosted yesterday’s “British Journalism Awards”.

This is the same Jeremy Vine who blocks anyone at the mildest form of criticism on X (I have been twice blocked by the man).

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Readers may know that I’m not a great fan of All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), which I believe are magnets for interference, foreign and otherwise, in our democracy:

Case in point, I have found multiple examples of APPGs being linked to or funded by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), “an American grantmaking network founded by billionaire business magnate George Soros”.

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Yesterday while trawling through UKRI grants, I discovered that the EU has funded research at an organisation called Tax Justice Network (TJN), which is a central pillar of the wealth tax lobby, along with Patriotic Millionaires (PM) and its sister organisation Tax Justice UK (TJU). You can see the grant below:

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As readers may know, I regularly write about The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) - an organisation that prepares left-wing activists for TV and other opportunities via its “Spokesperson Network”.

Its funders have included George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Quaker foundations (the Friends Provident, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Barrow Cadbury) and Paul Hamlyn Foundation (which received £1.4 million from taxpayers from 2020 to 2023) among others.

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Last week Ben & Jerry’s held an exhibition in Shoreditch, London to demonstrate how terrible UK asylum accommodation is:

Posting on social media, it wrote:

“Yesterday we invited people into the ‘No Escape Room’ - exposing the reality of temporary asylum accommodation.”

“Co-created with Conversation Over Borders and people who’ve lived it, to show what needs to change.”

Below you can see a man with “lived experience” of the asylum system taking a posh lass (just listen to her voice) on a tour of the “No Escape Room”:

The exhibition even recreates the Far Right (complete with Union Jack flags) outside his window:

Another video of the No Escape Room was posted by a social media influencer, along with the caption “No one could ever convince me that this is luxury” and haunting music:

She appears especially distressed by the fake mould in the exhibition:

I’ve got to say, I’ve seen worse accommodation flat-hunting in London (with price tags of well over £1,000 per month!)

Those horrified by the exhibition are encouraged to email their MP, as you can see from this quote by Mathilda Della-Torre, the UK Social Mission Manager at Ben & Jerry’s:

“The Government is making crucial decisions about accommodation for people seeking asylum right now. This is our chance to ensure adults, children and families aren’t left in prison-like accommodation for exercising their fundamental human right to seek protection. We ask our fans to join us in calling for an end to dangerous accommodation and ask their MP to support safe and humane accommodation by signing Conversation Over Border’s petition. ”

Anyway…

What has any of this got to do with an American ice cream company?

Unfortunately it isn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last, Ben & Jerry’s interferes in UK democracy.

What a lovely trip Sadiq Khan’s visit to the Brazil - to attend the C40 World Mayors Summit - is turning out to be!

The Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, has joined him for the proceedings.

There’s also Shirley Rodrigues, previously London’s Deputy Mayor for Environment - who’s famous for “‘colluding to quash research’ on the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez)” (and now sits on the board of C40 Cities).

And her successor, Mete Coban MBE, who’s on a salary of £151,465 per year.

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I don’t know about you, but I had no idea that Rio de Janeiro was in West Yorkshire!

I mean, you have to wonder why Tracy Brabin, the Mayor of West Yorkshire, is out in Brazil…

Turns out she has been invited to the C40 World Mayors Summit, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Sadiq Khan, the Co-Chair of C40 Cities, is heading up the conference (it’s not like he has anything else to worry about).

Here he is with the other Co-Chair, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, the Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone:

According to C40 Cities, over 300 mayors will come together for the Summit, and "share how they are rapidly cutting emissions whilst delivering good green jobs, affordable housing, cleaner air, and safer places to live.”

Clearly “rapidly cutting emissions” begins with a flight to Rio de Janeiro! (which is 5,760 miles away from London).

Hopefully these beautiful words from Brabin will inspire everyone there…

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Has Christmas come early?!

Today I discovered that “award-winning LBC Presenter” James O’Brien is to sit down with Gary Lineker in the new year for “a Special Live Episode of [O’Brien’s] Chart-Topping Podcast, Full Disclosure”.

The event takes place on February 19th 2026, and you can even buy tickets for a photo opportunity with James & signed poster. Incredible value at £99.50 per ticket:

All proceeds go to Global’s charity “Make Some Noise”. Here are some photos of the charity/ Global presenters at the House of Lords in April:

Others to have been on Full Disclosure include Ed Miliband, Tony Blair, Gary Stevenson, Sayeeda Warsi, Bernie Sanders, Humza Yousaf, Ed Davey, Dale Vince, Polly Toynbee, Alastair Campbell, Terry Christian, Emily Maitlis, John Cleese, Chris Bryant, The Secret Barrister, Eddie Marsan, Jonathan Pie, Keir Starmer, Feargal Sharkey, Stewart Lee, Kim Leadbeater, Joylon Maugham, Joe Lycett, Peter Oborne, Owen Jones, Nish Kumar, Billy Bragg and Nick Lowles…

… all very wonderful people, I’m sure you will agree.

I can’t wait to buy my tickets for Gary Lineker.

Last night “Economist and author” Faiza Shaheen appeared on BBC Question Time to reject the “idea that somehow we should be scared of all asylum seekers” and to advocate for a wealth tax.

It’s fairly predictable that Shaheen made these points when you know about her training at The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), which is effectively a media school for left-wing activists:

It’s clear NEON staff regard her as one of their star pupils, her professional relationship with NEON lasting from at least 2018…

… to the present…

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Shaheen is not NEON’s only “star pupil”:

NEON trained, among many others, Zoe Gardner and Grace Blakeley, as well as Labour MPs Dr Jeevun Sandher (a big proponent of the Assisted Dying Bill) and Miatta Fahnbulleh (the Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities). Fahnbulleh is pictured below in “hostile panel” practice with Ash Sarkar:

NEON is very well funded, as you can see in my previous article.

It has received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations:

With its handsome funding NEON has created enormous resources to train activists. These include scripts to tell them what to say. Here are some examples:

How to talk about Wealth Tax

How to talk about unsafe asylum sites in the UK

Offshore detention

As I have written before, some of the talking points in the wealth tax guide are in one of Shaheen’s articles for The Guardian:

Furthermore, earlier this year Shaheen became the Executive Director of Tax Justice UK, whose advice features in the wealth tax messaging guide:

Interestingly, Tax Justice UK is a partner of, and shares the same registered address as, Tax Justice Network - though it makes clear it’s independent from this organisation:

Tax Justice Network is yet another outfit that has received plenty of funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation’s:

Long story short, there’s a lot of funding and organising going into the wealth tax lobby, fronted by the likes of Faiza Shaheen and Gary Stevenson - who NEON has also been very keen to promote (suggesting he went to their school too):

Here’s a nice clip of him picking his nose:

The idea that any of these activists made their own way onto BBC Question Time is utterly laughable.

Unfortunately their Soros-funded talking points are all over our TV screens.

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This week Parliament was graced with a special visitor; Lenny Henry, who thinks that the UK owes £18 trillion in slavery reparations:

Henry was hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations…

… a group that receives funding from Rockefeller Philanthropy and Friends House…

… the latter of which is the central offices of Quakers in Britain, which recently hosted the APPG’s UK Reparations Conference 2025:

There the APPG’s Chair and Registered Contact Bell Ribeiro-Addy discussed the need for reparations:

She explained that “Loads of people like to point to money solely which I think is a wrong way of looking at it. No one’s saying that financial reparations would never be paid but we actually have to look at total repair.”

Let’s hope £18 trillion is a good place to start:

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