Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis.
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Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
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there's an oudolf garden in detroit too but I think march is the only bad month of the year to see an oudolf garden. he designs them to look good in winter but everything gets chopped down in february to make for spring
if you're driving through detroit there's a big bookstore that looks cool
www.johnkingbooksdetroit.com
I have only one place in ohio starred on google maps but sadly it's closed for renovations
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Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE
Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me.
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hannah spencer (the recently elected green mp in the uk) is also an owner-proprietor and sounds pretty similar to this
youtube has given this class a ton of cultural clout so it's probably worth leaning into it
Did the petrostate’s trigger-happy oligarchy read our paper and conclude “Oil price shocks are good and easy to engineer”? We’ll never know. But we know where the profits go. 👇
yeah I think zero anti-trump republicans have survived the following primary
it was like this 20 years ago too
weak
I know it's not the main issue, but what's the FIFA protocol for when a host nation for a world cup attacks or declares war against a participating nation in the run up to the competition? especially when the head of the host nation is in receipt of your inaugural peace prize?
Teruhide Kato (1936-2005)
The 1000 Torii at Kyoto's Fushima Inari Shrine
#japanese #woodblock
not so much voters as party membership (driving the corbyn supporters out)
seems like starmer is mostly mad at the voters
he might have had a monopoly because it seems like everyone was in the files
haha I’m not going to argue with you, but in my neighborhood it’s street parking (nobody minds the new group home because they don’t have cars)
it’s almost always about street parking
what is this awful car?!
at some level I think they’re just seeking attention
you see a lot more palestine flags around dsa than american flags
it’s also an instance where reflexive anti-americanism works
it’s excellent
“no presidents” is good
this is what the president of mexico does on tv every day now
it’ll cost that much to replace the trident missiles the uk rents from america
the audio quality is better than records made now
(about the northwest salmon)
“King of Fish” by David Montgomery is excellent
