Conservatism
The bones of working class kids crackling on the fire…
Just listen… Sorry, Tamsin (Supertans) is not subtle, but she’s visceral and – for me at least, absolutely right…... Read more
Making politicians more boring…
This is a very intriguing article from the FT about the Swiss/Italian novelist and political advisor, Giuliano da Empoli, who states: … In Russia, power is a big beast. In Switzerland power is a kitten, and it’s been domesticated. Through history, it’s been diluted, distributed, at local level and through referendums. Swiss politicians are boring.... Read more
A government not worthy of the name
The FT reports that two thirds of the housing infrastructure fund remains unspent because of, basically, inflation. This meant that the budget constraints would not allow developments to proceed because the money allocated would be insufficient. Meanwhile: The cost of living crisis and housing shortage have left more than 300,000 people homeless in England, with... Read more
Neoliberalism’s idea is to shift costs to people while underinvesting and ignoring that government creates money
I think that this might be a good working definition of neoliberalism. It goes together with the idea that – so personally inadequate, uncertain and unconfident are the supposedly best people in society – that they consider, in spite of their power and wealth, that they can be safely certain of flourishing only when both... Read more
Message for Labour
This clip – just one minute – from a Zoe Gardner interview on LBC is distinctly informative and highlights Labour’s stupidity in yet again following the Conservative narrative: It is even suggested that Labour would choose to export to truly democratic Tanzania rather than dictatorial Rwanda. I agree with Zoe’s idea that some people will... Read more
The immigration argument goes round and round…
And the way it is controlled enshrines people trafficking just because the Conservative government is either completely incompetent – or, more probably, likes it that way… This is all powerfully and clearly explained in just over two minutes by immigration researcher and expert, Zoe Gardner:... Read more
Class lessons
I almost missed this very good piece in the Guardian, which was critical of what I also found to be the rather poor current Reith Lectures by Professor Ben Ansell. The learned prof is of the view that politics is basically about the clash between the individual and the collective. This is really a Thatcherite... Read more
Tories’ disgraced PR firm resorts to paying others to augment their attacks
There is regrettably, no real surprise there but it is undertaken in such an overt and egregious way, that it is quite shocking. In this instance it is the Good Law Project under fire: Emails and a secret briefing document reveal a paid-for campaign to attack Good Law Project on social media. Influencers are asked... Read more
British values..
When Sunak says ‘delivering for the British people’ these seem to be exactly the British values that he is delivering on…... Read more
‘Climateflation’ and Culling
So called ‘climateflation’ is a christening given to the consequences of climate warming on the economy – in particular food prices where, as the ‘i’ reports: Drought, for example, has reduced UK onion yields by 30 per cent while an autumn of heavy rain has left farmers struggling with one of the lowest potato harvests... Read more