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Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy"
Today's links - Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy": Regulatory capture, right there out in the open. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Firing the guy who is making all this happening and replacing him with Amazon's UK boss is a breathtaking display of regulatory capture by Starmer, his business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves. That means that Amazon is now both the official and the unofficial central planner of the UK economy, with a free hand to raise prices, lower quality, and destroy British businesses, while hiding its profits in Luxembourg and starving the exchequer of taxes. Picks and Shovels: a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books, February 2025 Unauthorized Bread: a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2025
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