BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...
If the crux of anyone's argument is "We aren't spending enough on defence because there's too much welfare", you know to immediately disregard their argument as economically illiterate, reactionary conservatism, rather than simply self-serving.
How can you work in public policy for over a decade and not recognise the extent to which decisions are governed by prevailing ideology?
The fragility of a food system reliant on synthetic, industrially-produced inputs for export-driven production again laid bare. Yet another reason to expedite our transition away from fossil fuels, and from our destructive, unjust global agricultural system.
Gangsterism as geopolitics.
Absolutely. Not only would they have won in '07, but growth had returned by 2010, Osborne wouldn't have has the chance to go on his spree of destruction, he & DC would've been out the door as the Tories returned to nativism, & Labour may have even eeked out another win in 2012 post-Olympics. Hey-ho.
It wasn't the bigoted woman, it was his decision not to call an election in the summer of '07. Totally legitimate, but ultimately catastrophic.
And that's just the cabinet.
I know it's only one of many, many issues, but getting rid of the snot-nosed, bullyboy whip system would be a great way to start changing both the current culture and the type of person who wants to get involved.
Israel's flagrantly racist death penalty law for Palestinians in the West Bank is simply legislating to finish any job left incomplete by police or settlers.
It's the natural progression of a state given total impunity to commit genocide by the 'international community'.
Interestingly, studies show you're actually 11% more likely to die in an SUV than a regular sized car, and a large part of that is driving with a false sense of security. People are dying because they don't care about others.
Lots of people take issue with the size and weight of EVs. It's those in the industry who are desperate to convince us they're better.
If you're just gonna ignore verifiable evidence because you like meat too much, I'm moving on.
We really need to do away with the 'hardship' defence when dealing with dangerous thugs acting with total impunity in their vehicles.
Its only considered acceptable because, ultimately, vehicular crime isn't treated with the same seriousness as any other violent offence.
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
"People don't want to work anymore" and "Work used to pay you enough to live." Indistinguishable arguments, clearly.
Net zero embeds capitalist growth but represents some redress of the balance towards a livable planet, and it's *still* not enough for the fossil fuels industry or their lackeys on the populist and far right. What does this tell us about them?
Red and white meat is considered a class 2 carcinogen by the WHO, and everything else (sausages, bacon, all the processed meat consumed most often) is a class 1. Far worse than any "processed" vegetables for humans, and far worse for the environment. (2/2)
"Garbage meat" is the overwhelming majority of the market. Grass-fed, hand-reared meat can't be produced in anything like the quantities meat is consumed, globally, on a daily basis. (1/2)
Debussy isn't one of the largest contributors to anthropogenic climate change, and no animal product is good enough to justify that or the rapacious, green-washing interference run by the people making billions out of human and non-human animal misery.
99% of meat consumed globally could fall under the label "ultra-processed" in that it's factory farmed slop, produced on a monstrous scale with the use of industrially created inputs whilst destroying the climate and biodiversity. Every non-animal product (that isn't animal feed) is an improvement.
How can you examine the position of someone's foot down to the centimetre when you don't know the point at which the ball hit the hair on the defender's head? Why this pretense of precision?
Even if there was an answer to the question, "What could someone possibly do to earn that much?", in her case the answer would be "Destroy the planet."
Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.
On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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"Where’s the soul searching about why voters might have defected to a challenger from the left? Why, in God’s name, did anyone think it was a good idea to imply a large chunk of Labour’s coalition is, in fact, stupid?"
Newsletter out. Bit angry.
I imagine most work harder at their primary job than he does.
Arsenal aren't people's rose-tinted memory of the invincibles, who were, in reality, regularly dour and a grind to watch. It's just how titles are often won.
The government of Venezuela wasn't overthrown either. The world's mafia just controls their oil.
And actually even into the 00s if you ignore the inevitable losses and busts that come with privatisation and hitching your wagon to the City.
It's also worth keeping in mind that there was a time, not that long ago, when through public spending and fair taxation, we did adequately fund public services and things were, generationally, getting better. This until the financialisation of the economy in the 80s and prioritising private profit.