Big news that the man most known for his rudeness and disdain failed to reach a diplomatic agreement on peace.

I'm guessing they might be too busy to "find you"...perhaps we should all try and be a little less prideful and a bit more helpful?

Or.....it was a different context....

If you are so underwhelmed by these statements, you could always volunteer to help out 🙂.

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Still doesn't explain the fury. What's wrong with making a statement of passion?

I simply don't read the quote in the same way you do (speaking as someone with a similarly long intellectual history as yours, albeit in human geography and now environmental science).

I think Hannah's doing fine.

She didn't say that, not even in the quote you copied to me.

Have no idea why this article aggravates you so much. It's just 800 words about inequality. Your comments seem quite intemperate. Something to reflect on perhaps...

And even if she was saying that, as doughnut economics shows, there is a trade off between social and environmental justice so long as it's within planetary boundaries.

There are many ways to stop energy bills rising without a subsidy of fossil fuels e.g. decoupling electricity from gas. I simply don't read into the article what you do. I do not see that she's saying subsidise oil. It's focus is on inequality anyway, in the main.

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What's with the *me* thing?

I read it that he'd been told not to intervene on previous occasions but lost control. I feel for the guy but the number one rule of work is don't make yourself a liability.

Still not getting the real impact of inequality she's talking about I see, and the lack of action on it.

I personally think they are channeling their secret hatred of working-class women....

Nope.

I don't know why you find this hard. We know that there are consequences as a result of this war. The question is, is there a class of people who will have no impacts, because they are constantly insulated from crises and even benefit from it? While the rest of us bear the brunt.

Sorry, but that's an absurd comment. Satire?

Perhaps get to grips with the point of the article. Again, it's about inequality. She says people shouldn't have to pay for the war with Iran. I agree with that. And perhaps you try and create a full economic theory in 800 works....

Where does she say subsidise oil usage? It could mean decoupling gas from electricity, speeding up the energy transition, putting a cap on oil company profits etc. DE actually does balance social and environmental justice in uncomfortable ways - ending growth agenda only for West, for example.

The 'oil crisis' has been around for three weeks. What about the other 40 odd years of growing inequality, plummeting living standards and declining neighbourhoods - is it really out of government hands? Of course it isn't.

I think our current crop of public intellectuals have a deep loathing of working-class people. The intention in this article is not to espouse an economic policy. She was given 800 words to make a statement about inequality. That's all. Her voice is authentic and needs to be heard.

Equality is juvenile?

Yes they do, clearly in the article.

It's called balancing social and environmental justice, consistent with doughnut economics - look it up.

It's not meant to be an exposition of economic policy. It's about political will.

I'm unclear what you find so confusing. She's making the point that people are stretched and that the affluent, in which category many MPs might be included, don't really understand that. If they did, they might have more empathy and be willing to tackle big companies who are ripping us off more.

Particularly when there are so few pt and flexible jobs, making the odds stacked against those with disabilities amid a very stretched job market anyway.

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“Ministers justify cutting help for people too disabled to work by arguing it will remove the “perverse incentives” for benefits, as if a 25 year old bedbound with ME just needs incentivising to get back to the office.”

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Let alone how hard it is for people in their late 50s and 60s to get work, as they are considered too old. Find yourself out of work, and you may face a decade of plummeting living standards.

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