It is also the height of the politics without politics that the Labour right practices. Politics without any theory of power, or who should have it, or how to distribute it. This is why they will always lose: the proper right wing have a theory of power. They think they should have it all!
I'd like to see a documentary on Sue Grey and how the Sensibles found a fairly well respected civil servant and decided that she would be the sole architect of their entire political project and how everyone in the press agreed that it was a masterstroke.
More and more I see ‘economic growth’ pitched by major health & science players as an ultimate outcome & population health as a vehicle to achieve it. This is ideology. Specifically capitalist ideology. You may agree or disagree but it’s important to acknowledge this is an ideological standpoint.
Now we have a situation where the young middle class has lost a massive amount of wealth (buying a house, running a car and having 4 kids was possible on a single wage - impossible now). But billionaires are household names. that’s what people are angry about
Growth has been generated by boosting assets and creating money by issuing mortgages. This has the advantage of not empowering labour but it’s led to a kind of breaking point where wages aren’t adequate to ie service rents for asset holders
Abolish the Home Office. I'm not even saying we don't need a government department that handles visas but a) also being the Cops Department creates a certain culture, b) the current department is irredeemably stupid and evil, you can't reform this.
It probably helps that he is in coalition with parties further to the left than his
What a refreshing campaign to see
Political establishment: why aren't the Greens focusing on green issues.
Greens: *lead the charge in denouncing the stupidity of drilling more in the North Sea*
Political Establishment: *crickets*
Ah, so you did just want to go back to ignoring the Greens. Thanks for confirming that.
The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability
The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
It is maddening and scary to live in a time when leftists get accused of antisemitism constantly, including many Jewish people, but I have never heard a peep from the same denouncers about Musk, X and those who use it apparently without noticing what is happening there.
They have a Handsome Furs vibe. Fun music and they put on a good show but people might struggle to remember their name in a few years.
Love it. Which pub?
Our school systems are part of why democracy is failing and we need to radically overhaul them to teach people how to live and act together.
A good read if you've thought of mindfulness as too wishy washy. www.changeinmind.uk/blog/mindful...
Renters are paying for the home they live in, plus their landlord's (unearned) profit
These room rents are obscene
Time to abolish landlordism
We need a govt that sees affordable housing as its responsibility, not leave it to a deeply dysfunctional market
I'm glad they're paying attention to this, if ten years too late.
I'm not always sympathetic to rants against 'ultraleftism', but as I see the need to build broad coalitions in the society - against wars, for a just transition, to tax the wealthy - I think we're in a moment when compromise with normies is important.
"SDS was [...] asking coalitions of people who agreed on one thing — that the war had to stop — to first adopt a comprehensive analysis of imperialism, capitalism, and racism as a package before they could march together. Far from deepening the movement, that just erected barriers to entry."
Lucrative directorships and consultancy work, just like the Tories
ALAB but some more than others
The British state getting into bed with Palantir is just incredibly blackpilling, especially since it is being done by a Labour government who are composed of the exact sort of people that Palantir's owners and operators openly say they wish to drive from power forever! Inept self-loathing fools.
It's been going around for ages now, but basically everything said about the economy by the government and newspapers makes way more sense if you substitute the words 'rich people's yacht money'.
Useful blog from @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social talking through some of the many reasons that councils that want to address social inequality and that care about reducing road danger use low traffic networks of streets.
An indiscriminate bombing campaign in South East Asia one assumes
It's crazy this hasn't been shown before. I'm being silly in my boasting because the dynamics of this have been clear to many people who've thought about it. Too much money at the top drives out the money of ordinary people.
This is the housing study I've been waiting for. Inequality drives housing unaffordability, and I, a humble tenant union researcher rather than economist, called it in my book www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Amazing that migrant rights, abortion rights, disability rights, trans rights charities across the UK have 0 money coming in and funders giving short-term project based funding, and then there is this. No wonder the far-right are miles ahead of us. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Polanski: "We know that rent controls can work...Rent controls are an established part of private renting in 16 European countries...
"If we had frozen rents in autumn 2022, households in Britain would be saving over £3,300 per year on average.
"Instead? [It goes] straight into landlords’ pockets"
