The revolution I signed up for doesn’t have a spokesperson. Bitcoin is full of narcissistic fanatics obsessed with themselves, and they eliminate themselves just like a malicious node 👋
I'm politically homeless. Didn't vote in the last election, have never been the member of a party. Because I studied English at Cambridge just after @andyburnham and was a child of the Madchester scene 🙂, I am culturally closer to him than any PM we've ever had. But deep down,
Levels of Europhobia among American are frankly insane. You see it in Russia but only among the elites. In the US it’s the general public that feels this permanent need to put Europeans down. Most likely a coping mechanism but still unpleasant
Martin Wolf: “Labour does not believe incentives really matter. They do. Labour does not believe that higher spending means higher taxes. It does. Burnham himself seems to think that government intervention will easily accelerate growth. It will not” https://t.co/w1J2xnL3ts
Mick Lynch on Reform & Restore ‘they are all as despicable as each other to me & working class people should turn away from the hatred they spread … you believe in isolating people & taking advantage of poverty so you can divide them & make your friends even richer.’
#newsnight
This bizarre Leftist tendency to anthropomorphise the markets, to treat them as if they had preferences and prejudices. The bond markets don’t care whether you are Left or Right. They don’t even care whether your spending is high or low. All they care about is whether it is in balance.
If you want to borrow money, creditors will assess whether they will get it back, and will ask a premium to lend to risky prospects. That premium means that Britain is now spending £110 billion a year on servicing past debt – more than on education, and twice as much as on defence.
"We are never just one piece of legislation away from civilizational recovery... The challenge is how to live with virtue and technology when technology tends to erode virtue and place and human texture. Our response must.."
https://t.co/oaOJzMYXr4
Probably the single best explanation of why Britain’s economy is completely stagnant, by @cjsnowdon. Basically we have stopped being a market economy - we are now a ‘capitalist command economy’.
https://t.co/jgoWAAI2dH