@doctorow.pluralistic.net
Ooh just seen one of my photos on one of your articles. Reminds me I saw you and @aaronjbastani.bsky.social
Fancy a chat about people, place, planet and the enshittification of the British public house?
I wrote this www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-ma... about that
I’ll be talking about THE ASSET CLASS at @bookhaus.bsky.social in Bristol this coming Monday: tickets are available online www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Instead of telling the pope how to do his job, JD Vance shoukd be telling his boss how to do his job. But I guess Vance thinks he’s more knowledgeable about theology than he is about governing.
Good man. Doing it.
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
Meanwhile in NYC
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Who hired the idiot CEO?
Truth
Amazon warehouse workers have been trying to unionize for years, largely in response to the corporation's well-documented unsafe working conditions.
But Amazon continues to squash organizing.
Every worker deserves to be safe on the job.
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
Orbán is out! He has conceded defeat. May it be a harbinger for corrupt haters of democracy and the needs of the people like Donald Trump.
Big problem: Repubs don’t give a 💩 about the American people. They haven’t for a very long time. They care about power, money, & the control of all of it. Think about it - if they cared about us, we would’ve had universal healthcare long ago, instead of paying for Israel’s healthcare for decades.
It's not complicated. UKGovPlc picks up the cost of catastrophic damage hedge and private equity backed profit seeking SPVs do by running REAL businesses into the ground making REAL WORKERS redundant by aggressive asset stripping and offshoring social capital. A disaster WE MUST FIX TOGETHER
They're all, these bloated hubristic Ai behemoths, headed up by emotionally dysfunctional, power crazed, malignantly narcissistic sociopath man baby toddlers each of them believing they're the saviours of human civilisation.
After Trump's cabal they're the most dangerously deluded men on the planet
AI companies: still hilariously concerned about other people helping themselves to their work
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm reading this atm and I strongly recommend it - superb reporting on a very important subject
TOGETHER WE ARE THE SOLUTION
www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-ma...
Brilliant to see this Hettie O'Brien. Important book you've done. A lot of painstaking hard work. Looking forward to reading: I have no doubt it's VERY close to my experience of the #GreatBritishPubcoScam
TOGETHER WE ARE THE SOLUTION #SavingBritainsPubs
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Delighted to see that THE ASSET CLASS is currently no.1 in international finance on Amazon! Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy. For those of you in the US, it comes out on 23 June
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
IMPORTANT BOOK by Hettie O'Brien
Buy it. Try buying locally and see how important it really is.
IMPORTANT and very watchable film coming. Share and share
I have set up an account for the CAMRA Potteries branch, so please give them a follow if interested! @camrapotteries.bsky.social. #BeerSky
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
“…our nation (and the globe) faces increasingly grave danger by allowing this man to continue to control the levers of America’s awesome power…the responsibility resides not just with Republicans but with every member of Congress…to remove Trump from power.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
Presentation at the Vine, Pittshill
Presentation at the Golden Cup, Hanley.
Presentation at the Unicorn, Hanley.
Presentation at the Coachmakers Arm, Hanley.
A great day yesterday visiting some of our Heritage Pubs, including the Vine @ Pittshill, 2025 CAMRA Heritage Award winner. We also visited the Golden Cup, the Unicorn & the Coachmakers Arms, all in Hanley. Thanks @jmarkdodds.bsky.social for presenting, and good to see @6townsmart.bsky.social there.
Exterior view of red brick two storey pub the vine with locals standing outside in the sun and landlady holding the award
An exterior view of the vine without the people standing in front. It's a two storey red brick with an entrance to the right and a lantern over the doorway. The union flag and Irish tricolour are flying
A pint of bass with the handpump behind it and a metal bass pump clip with the red triangle on it
Is there a better way to celebrate National Bass Day than at The Vine, Pittshill, Tunstall (one of Stokes 6 Towns) with the presentation of CAMRA Heritage Award & National Inventory recognition by @jmarkdodds.bsky.social who braved W Coast Mainline engineering to present
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