And it won't help social cohesion. Once you start casually dropping your new micro fact based knowledge into conversations, you'll soon have no-one to talk to.
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And it won't help social cohesion. Once you start casually dropping your new micro fact based knowledge into conversations, you'll soon have no-one to talk to.
Moreover, it really doesn't matter. What representative democracy is, how our institutions deliver it, how it evolved and why. These are useful citizenship things to know.
habeas corpus - sounds a bit foreign.
That would have been my first guess. Or Tom Baker.
Someone told me a question they had on the test was "according to a recent survey who is the greatest Briton?"
They are basically gathering up Christmas cracker trivia and turning it into a random fact generator.
God is too.
I once advised Joey Barton to stop reading Nietzsche on Twitter. He ignored it and here we are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Basically, when it comes to social cohesion you need a policy and politics that puts integration first. Instead, we have a politics that puts immigration first and then tries to pretend that is also integration and social cohesion policy.
This is often done via marginal cases of lack of cohesion.
What do I mean by immigration policy ≠ integration policy? Even if the premise of "reduce migration, improve integration" were true (questionable), a politics of forever questioning the contribution of migrants severely undermines integration. The policies that flow from that do too.
Overall though, a lot better than it would have been a year ago. Proper thought and engagement taking place.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
People should feel confident celebrating national pride – flying flags, wearing colours, and marking our festivals, successes, and commemorations. Celebrating what we share helps bring people from different communities and cultures together.
1. Not in the right place on social media regulation yet. Getting there slowly.
2. Immigration policy ≠ integration policy. No matter how many times it's asserted. Toxic politics beats policy every time.
3. Some silliness like this about flags. Come on- context matters. Surely we've learned that?
Government's social cohesion strategy published. Lots of good stuff.
1. It exists.
2. Doesn't either-or antisemitism or anti-Muslim hate. Confronts both.
3. Lots of sensible ideas.
Less good.....
I will do anything for growth but I won't do that (the most obvious bleeding thing).
Yep, MAGA brain without the reserves.
Yes, we have to relentlessly change our choice architecture on energy. The problem with the North Sea drilling argument is that it doesn't do that- shifts it only marginally. This is a 25 year mission. At pace.
It is quite possible to see the Trump presidency entirely through the prism of market manipulation for private gain.
Forgive me if I don't hang off every word from Trump and instead observe his deeds.....
As you've said in response to @samfr.bsky.social - your idea was one that would ramp up gas in five years' time. By which point we will be a lot further along the electricity decarbonisation journey.
So I think my idea is a good one.....
Yes, very much agree. And the highlights given in the piece on manifestations of early Labour social conservativism are things it was completely right to disrupt. Eg we all know what a "family wage" meant in reality- embedded inequality and gendered division of labour.
Yes, and social democrats and social liberals also tend towards reform rather than revolution. And also believe in family, community etc. They just tend to see social rights and agency as important alongside "stability"- and see potential oppression from some "traditions". Rightly, in my view.
In fairness, the author does defend the Equality Act and diversity.
But equally, we are told the Attlee government "conservative in their ends: the health, dignity, and stability of British families."
Excuse me, but when were "health, dignity and stability" signature "conservative" ends?
And the Blue Labour claim to be the only Labour tradition that cares about family, community, relationships, ethics, dignity at work, is frankly political gaslighting.
Progressives don't care about family, locality, dignity at work, relationships or morality. Only Blue Labour does.
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Lessons in leadership.
Think about the future moment not just your impulse in the moment.
And this is going to get worse and worse for those who leapt in with little to no thought for the likely outcomes
I started reading this earlier then got distracted and forgot all about it.
Luckily it's just my brain doing its thing.....
And the "relationships" this tradition celebrates are unequal ones:
- between husband and wife
- between moral custodian and ordinary person.
- between employer and worker (the former taking advantage of the latter's "vocation").
- between the wealthy and those whose social mobility is denied.
Their primary concern was the protection of the "moral economy." This included: The sanctity of the home: Early unions fought for a "family wage" specifically so that the domestic sphere could be protected from the industrial machine. Communal discipline: The movement was rooted in self-improvement, temperance, and a strict ethical code. Localism: The focus was on the parish and the branch, not a borderless global utopia.
And this illustrates the romantic nostalgia of the Labour vividly.
Terribly inconvenient that progressives disrupted the "moral economy" of gendered division of labour, "moral" rules on things like having a pint, and widened perspectives beyond the parochial.
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
One of Blair's great strengths (1997 vintage) was taking society as is as his starting point.
I'd guess that we are not even talking 20% of workers who could reasonably be defined as working class.
