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Simon Caulkin @nikluac

Management for the rest of us

Joined June 2009
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Great Run@Great_Run
14 Aug 2025
🏅 A Medal Masterpiece Unveiling the 2025 AJ Bell Great North Run medal - and it’s a real work of art. Greatness awaits… 🎨 Howard Lee #GreatNorthRun | #WeAreTheGNR
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@NewStatesman
12 Jul 2025
The widely cited figure claimed an estimated 9,500 high-net-worth had left Britain in 2024. As Tax Justice UK pointed out, 9,500 represents only 0.3% of the UK’s millionaire population. The British “wealth exodus” is a big fat myth. newstatesman.com/politics/20…

The British “wealth exodus” is a big, fat myth

Rachel Reeves is not responsible for chasing millionaires away from UK PLC.

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
25 Apr 2025
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment fastcompany.com/91321143/bot…

Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
25 Apr 2025
As I was saying... simoncaulkin.co.uk/2025/04/1…

Adtech’s chamber of horrors

For most people advertising was generally just a minor nuisance. But that was before ad technology turned it into a nightmare of creepiness, political manipulation and crime.

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
11 Feb 2025
FFS Trump wants to dismantle the agency that provides weather forecasts. It will make your life worse fastcompany.com/91274927/tru…

Trump wants to dismantle the agency that provides weather forecasts. It will make your life worse

The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions.

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Well, well. Trump goes where Rachel Reeves fears to tread, despite Labour manifesto pledge. How about it Rachel? simoncaulkin.co.uk/2024/11/1… Donald Trump seeks to close tax loophole enjoyed by private equity groups ft.com/content/3487e2b5-d18e… via @ft

Has private equity become too rich to tax?

Taxing private equity properly should be a Labour no-brainer. PE adds little social or economic value, and the only ‘outsize returns’ it reliably generates are for its own insatiable ma…

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John Seddon@JohnWSeddon
15 Jan 2025
Kier Starmer wants public-sector productivity to improve. I sent my manifesto. It explains how regulation impedes productivity and how to change regulation to drive productivity up. No reply. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3hw9h3s2

Rethinking Regulation: a Manifesto

Read or listen to John Seddon’s 2024 manifesto on ‘Rethinking Regulation’.   John outlines how the current regulation regime sub-optimises public sector performance and explains a much-needed alter…

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stefanstern@stefanstern
21 Dec 2024
Excellent piece on Charles Handy here, starts at 7 mins 40 secs in. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00262…

Last Word - Baroness Wilkins, Charles Handy, Renee Bornstein, Tony Brignull - BBC Sounds

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a philosopher, a holocaust survivor and a copywriter.

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
12 Dec 2024
Good to see former colleagues on the picket line at King’s Place #observer
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Q for James Harding: why would you want to take over an organisation whose employees have acitively rejected working for you?
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Hadley Freeman@HadleyFreeman
4 Dec 2024
Full solidarity with my friends and former colleagues at The Observer who are on strike today. Whatever you think about The Guardian shedding its Sunday paper, it’s undeniable that Guardian management has handled this whole thing appallingly (1/?)
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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
16 Sep 2024
Many consumers don’t know they are stealthily being charged higher prices through surveillance pricing. Good @RanaForoohar in the FT ft.com/content/6237d8e7-b983…

Google, Apple and the antitrust tipping point

Major competition victories suggest Big Tech is reaching a reckoning

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
16 Sep 2024
And here’s what I wrote about it simoncaulkin.co.uk/2024/08/0…

Every person has their price. Literally

We’re used to targeted ads – though most people hate them. The next step: with the aid of surveillance and smartphones, companies are now beginning to personalise what we pay.

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Simon Caulkin@nikluac
14 Sep 2024
Everything you didn't want to believe about finance – brilliant and utterly chilling John Lanchester For Every Winner a Loser lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/…

John Lanchester · For Every Winner a Loser: What is finance for?

In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...

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George Caulkin@GeorgeCaulkin
6 Sep 2024
I’m running the Great North Run for @SBRFoundation as part of Sir Bobby’s Team - writers who admired, loved or worked with the great man, wearing football style tops. Hope he would be tickled by that. Cancer can do one. Donations v gratefully received! justgiving.com/campaign/sirb…
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Cross about dynamic pricing? Get used to it, it’ll soon be be everywhere. Much creepier is surveillance pricing - and it’s already here. Every person has their price. Literally simoncaulkin.co.uk/2024/08/0…

Every person has their price. Literally

We’re used to targeted ads – though most people hate them. The next step: with the aid of surveillance and smartphones, companies are now beginning to personalise what we pay.

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stefanstern@stefanstern
7 Aug 2024
Very pleased with this kind write-up in The Observer by Emma Beddington. (Buy the book here! amazon.co.uk/Fair-Foul-Macbe…
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Newcastle City Council@NewcastleCC
7 Aug 2024
We are so proud of our city 🖤 There was a lot of concern across the city that we would experience disorder and violence tonight. Instead we saw a Newcastle united by love, hope and pride in our city. This is our City. A City of Sanctuary 🤝 chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Night of unity as thousands turn out in Newcastle to make stand against riots

A huge crowd gathered on Westgate Road on Wednesday evening in a show of solidarity against the far right, proclaiming: 'Geordies are of all colours'

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The price we’re paying for the ‘free’ internet - first targeted ads, now surveillance pricing Every person has their price. Literally simoncaulkin.co.uk/2024/08/0…

Every person has their price. Literally

We’re used to targeted ads – though most people hate them. The next step: with the aid of surveillance and smartphones, companies are now beginning to personalise what we pay.

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It’s impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble The dangerous weirdness of the very rich simoncaulkin.co.uk/2023/09/2…

The dangerous weirdness of the very rich

Extreme wealth is bad for one’s health – and increasingly for that of the rest of us too

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