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When was the last time Scotland were (consistently) this good?
No itβs not laissez-faire and what Iβve said doesnβt suggest that. Itβs about ideal norms of economic performativity - and about policy debates on what that requires (no doubt including for some a laissez-faire preference) - with the additional claim that economic rationality has primacy everywhere.
Ok but that is not what you say. You say (I think) that they want to remove contestation and deliberation from policy making. Thatβs different from championing contestation and deliberation that has its focus on what policy leads to optimal economic performance, efficiency, prosperity, growth, etc.
I donβt think thatβs quite right. Taken to its logical limit (as you propose us to consider) it would call for all contestation and deliberation over policy to be led by economic reason above everything else: the unlimited extension of economic reason to the whole of life.
Everyone is someone elseβs phony.
So: itβs not South Africaβ¦
Where I work my social science colleagues require their students to do the second for their dissertation. A sacred component. Every year I have to explain to my students that it is not actually required and I do not want them to write one (now: βwriteβ one). Get inside the literature- thatβs all.
The upshot of results is that either the West Indies or hosts India will be knocked out before the semis. Both are fragile (actually in T20 all are pretty vulnerable). Quite a match in prospect.
The author of a book on βmuddling throughβ definitely not taking his own research seriously enough in relation to Englandβs utterly bizarre progress (so far) in the T20 World Cup.
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A feature of the 2024 GE was a low three party (Lab/Con/LD) share. Something that has continued dramatically since and is perhaps the really important story not the rise of any one alternative but rather an electorate without binding party loyalties.
What I think UK politics needs (not only but) most of all is: not REF.
So this is a great result in typicalish βbetween GEβ conditions. In a GE (or other BEs) in different constituencies different voter configurations can bring about REF defeat. Each of those who came 3rd-5th might be 1st.
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I know the shit has hit the fan in a big way in the US - but Bluesky seems increasingly about nothing else. Even the bits that are not about the US are mostly about international responses to the US. I know, I know, itβs a massive world upheaval and really, really terrible, butβ¦hey ho.
Imagine thinking Farage is the alternative to old party politics & will somehow make your life better, when you canβt state any of his policies, Brexit was a disaster that made everything dearer, he wants to defund the NHS, has stuffed his party full of tories & taken Russian money! FFS
The link seems only to get to the Abstract. What do I need to do to read the paper?
Varun Chakaravarthy is my current favourite cricketer. He is 34 but has had a short international career. That is because he was an architect until he was 25. Like all great spin bowlers he is has a very idiosyncratic action. His googly is utterly brilliant. He also looks like a stoner.
Excellent, incisive analysis
According to Italy's former prime minister, the power games at play in todayβs world require Europe to make a qualitative leap in integration. A pragmatic leap. https://bit.ly/4a7jY4Q
Mary Creagh?
This is silly. A judgement βfrom the viewpoint of the planetβ would seem to me way more likely to embrace wanting us (or most of us) gone as soon as possible - donβt unnecessarily extend the stay of current humanity on their account.
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Not sure - I think Lyotard in the 1970s saw this already, as (from the right?) did Heidegger in the 1950s -and both before βneoliberalismβ came on the scene and appeared to play an explanatory role, a role it only seemed to have, I think, out of dubious nostalgia for a classic philosophy of history.
Iβm puzzled by the fact that an art exhibition today is basically indistinguishable from works in a museum. Is it: works of the clearly past and works of the nearly past?
Iβve talked for decades of a need for a Confederation of States of Europe
That is a stronger political alliance but one that allows each state some self-determination and to protect its own culture, language and ways (whatever the latter means)
A Federal state will only strengthen some
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I really like thinking about Toozeβs demand that we acknowledge the historically unprecedented character of whatever is happening. I also like thinking about his idea that you donβt know what shit youβre in when you are in it. I donβt think I agree though. www.theguardian.com/business/202...