The UK is about to have its 6th prime minister in 7 years because after 47 years of Thatcherism, nothing works any more. We're going to be stuck in an endless cycle of prime ministerial resignations until the failed neoliberal model is overturned.
"The poor are killing industries by not having money" is a very creative way to avoid saying it's actually billionaires who are killing industries by hoarding wealth and privatizing everything.
Sociology regularly reveals this paradox: that people will vote for rightwing disruptors not because they share their politics but because they are fed up with the system. It's almost as if the system generates its own opposition in a guise that ensures no actual disruption.
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
It is grimly hilarious to see this guy ripping up decades of American soft power projects while going “Wow!” and “Gawrsh!” at stuff he doesn’t understand. God only knows what the Russians or Iranians are making of the CIA getting absolutely hosed in public by an imbecile.
rachel reeves isn’t stupid. she *knows* a huge number of people are either too physically or mentally ill to meet the demands of work. she *knows* disability benefit fraud is a minuscule sum, effectively 0%. she’s just a scapegoat-seeking sadist happy to kill off disabled people
Your semi regular reminder that Liz Kendall is talking about tightening up a system that was called 'a punitive affront to human dignity' by the UN in 2018, a system so awful that the special rapporteur Philip Alston suggested it violated the UK's human rights obligations.