omg, blink and you'll miss it but there I am at about 0:50!
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omg, blink and you'll miss it but there I am at about 0:50!
tbh this means that it is very hard to interpret the economic deprivation measures because it's clear that the salience of immigration has to be driven by the proportion of retired people in these regions rather than anything economic.
Think Tank established exclusively to lobby for lower oil prices suggests strategy to lower oil prices shock …
Sienna Rodgers @siennama... • 51m NEW: My interview with Green leader Zack Polanski X • He's been speaking to a "handful" of Labour MPs about defecting to the Greens • There is a "sensitive and nuanced conversation" around Zionism - but he won't disavow the "Zionism is racism" motion • Explains why he criticised Corbyn for Labour antisemitism but doesn't now: "I believed what I was reading" • Blames bots for the online abuse targeted at him • How his upbringing shaped his politics • Will run for a parliamentary seat - nothing outside London, and not the mayoralty - and confirms one plan is to succeed, not beat, Diane Abbott
“I believed what I was reading” is IMO perfectly reasonable for a whole hell of a lot of absolutely insane fraudulent shit in the late-Brexit era. Surely our political/media class wouldn’t unite in cynicism and/or idiocy to just foghorn drivel at the public, as if it was all real. That’s crazy!
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
All of these people made their choices. These are the consequences.
If we ever started admitting just how horrific this stuff has been for years and decades, well, where would it ever end? It’d be annihilating. Better to just lock it up, deny everything and go along with it all.
It didn’t help that Tony Blair - whose continued presence and high status is apparently non-negotiable - is an absolutely crazed Israel partisan and clash-of-civilisations wingnut, whether out of his deranged personal convictions or just for self-preservation.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
And it’s not like the guy from Chapo Trap House was wrong about what this always was, considered broadly.
(Sorry, that first tweet should’ve said “clear in the 2010s”. You could see all of these dorks were lining up on the same side, guns pointing in the same direction, no later than the Charlottesville torchlit Nazi rally. All these guys knew exactly what they were and what they were doing together)
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social • 12m The world we live in... The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal "Tommy Robinson." Following the Israeli government's increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond. = THEJERUSALEM POST Jerusalem Post / TOMMY ROBINSON TOMMY ROBINSON Tommy Robinson is a British patriot, street-level activist, and unapologetic truth-teller who has spent two decades exposing the rot in Britain's
I think it was pretty clear in the 2020s that fascism across the white-people world was an international movement, and that its adherents were far more closely aligned with each other than they were with their compatriots. Is this not the underlying point of the Trump-Putin stuff, after all?
Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'
Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.
I mean, what? We saw the largest far right mobilisation since before World War II on the streets of London last year, and our Sensible newspapers swarmed to instruct us we must respect the attendees. Our Sensible politicians went on TV to reassure everyone that they too love England flags. The end.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I would’ve said: What, even worse than the ones they’ve been actively promoting for about ten years?
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are. • Sunder Katwala (sun... @sunde... • 5h "There's a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by affiferent people that are not indigenous to this land" "I would love to know where you are planning to go when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before + will happen again"
The Times used its initial reporting on the abuse gangs in England as an excuse to declare war on liberalism, multiculturalism and the left broadly as a dire, immediate threat to Our Women, in 2011. And they have relentlessly pursued that war ever since at escalating intensity.
this is good journalism by the guardian, which will be ignored by their politics people - the ones who go on tv and the radio.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Particularly at the Guardian, where wild enthusiasm for the crank Labour right has long been acutely localised to management, the politics desk and a few of the arsier columnists.
Was it only the Labour Party that repeatedly and very belligerently insisted that this was excellent political strategy, and that the public would love it? And that this was so obviously correct, so clearly undeniable, that only stupid or crazy people would resist it.
Retreating to ethnonationalism marks, predominantly, the capitulation of the economic case of the political right. That’s not because e.g. free markets have been discredited but because the manner in which they governed concentrated power/wealth, protected incumbent moats and eroded state capacity.
Of course Sunder is correct. There is no logical/principled *argument* behind this hypocrisy.
But IMO there is indeed a logic to it.
The reason the Spectator/Telegraph want to crack down on antisemitism is not because they care about Jews, but because they want to legitimise anti-Muslim bigotry.
The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
https://www.europesays.com/2835175/
Jonathan Portes and John Springford share their new analysis that estimates how the number of foreign-born workers would…
Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny.
Fill-in-the-blank: If they made a stamp with ________ on it, I would order 50 sheets immediately. (Bonus points: choose the photo used for the design)
I’ll start: Thaddeus Stevens.
#history #skystorians
I don’t think the markets are rallying because they are sufficiently naive to think DJT is telling the truth, but small rally on the chance he’s TACO-ing again. Problem is, this time it’s not really in his control.
Pour one out for all those times in the last 20 years the Republican Party accused Democrats of being weak on foreign policy, apologizing to the rest of the world, & failing at everything in IR. Congrats to everyone who ate that up & made it a central point in the National Conversation™️. Well done.
There is a lot of chat about whether this will be "as bad" as 2022. From inflationary pov, unlikely. And CBs shouldn't be too worried about wage-price spirals, despite the endless overshoot. But my worry is that it tips labour markets over - and that risk is bigger than in 2022
put it this way, if this situation last long enough for central banks to hike, they'll end up hiking into a recession
Was he watching the clock until the markets closed to drop this?
Fox News apologized for airing archival video of a hatless President Donald Trump during coverage Sunday of his attendance at the dignified transfer ceremony for U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East war.
The 2022 oil shock macro playbook is not a good guide to the 2026 shock - and it’s going to trip a lot of people up