Americans really don't seem to think that non-Americans are humans do they? The six soldiers are a tragedy of course, but what about the school children?
06.03.2026 22:00
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Americans really don't seem to think that non-Americans are humans do they? The six soldiers are a tragedy of course, but what about the school children?
The U.S. has become a profoundly unserious country. That wouldn't matter particularly if it didn't have the largest military in the world.
Has he made a horcrux?
Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.
Definitely. It's a common misconception that Rentiers (i.e. landlords) are price makers who choose rents when in reality they're price takers who generally squeeze as much out tenants salaries that they can.
Well, minimum wage has gone up much faster than average wages too...
I voted for him to be leader. Still now he feels to me like someone who's a good man but who is a complete disaster at politics.
If he had shown contrition after the G&D by-election and stuck to his guns on Iran then I could see a save. Now I think he has to go.
Broken link... (for me)
Indeed, I can't quite remember the source but I think it's slightly worse than double.
I agree on not building enough homes but think that's only part of the housing problem. Financialisation thru the combination of a huge leverage injection from BTL and negative real interest rates also important.
Hmmm. How come gilt yields have risen so much if the bond markets isn't pricing in increased risk tho? Debt interest repayments have almost trebled against the 2010-2020 average. Seems to me that more borrowing = more expensive debt (both relatively and absolutely).
You think the Government is being overly paranoid re the sustainability of our debt levels and what the bond markets will tolerate?
Agreed. But the revenue raising measure that'll work will generally hit the Boomers or middle earners rather than billionaires no?
I guess it depends upon whether you consider the rich to be the billionaires or mere mortal (generally) older generations with big houses and final salary pensions.
I can see how policy change could extract wealth from the latter, less so the former. Will take a look at the link. Thanks.
We seem to be in a period of chickens coming home to roost following decades of underinvestment paired with a demographic crunch.
Saying popular things to get into power is one thing. Doing anything about it is another.
Seems to me that whoever comes in basically has to choose between:
a) Broad based tax rises on middle earners.
b) Cutting Boomer entitlements.
c) Massively upping immigration (and that still might not work).
The problem is no one knows how to do that and stay in.
Hmmm I felt a bit underwhelmed there. Isn't he just advocating that Labour also engage in populism.
From the commentary on here it seems that all the evidence suggests that "soaking the rich" isn't a viable economic strategy and that the real options involve painful zero sum trade-offs...
The messaging over Venezula were much better. I.e. we don't like the leader but international law is important.
Savage.
There's a weird belief that all views & opinions are equal. I kind of get that in a democratic 1 person 1 vote sense. But it's patently not true that all views/opinions are as well informed as each other. Bluesky might be an echo chamber but its audience is obvs more/better informed than those on X.
Do you think? I get that's the case with a lot of older Tories, but I'm essentially talking about the middle aged, middle class Grads who the likes of Cameron and Major would have appealed to. That said, I guess they ALREADY probably have that cohort.
Still feels to me that if the Lib Dems were to pivot to the right slightly on economic terms they cut off the Tories ability to recover entirely. There's probably more space for them in the Orange Booker, One Nation Tories than there is on the left atm.
It's striking to me that in both narrative AND tax/spending terms Labour's strat appears to be to insult/milk their own voters and to flatter/reward people who don't vote for them.
You can probably get away with one side of that equation, but not both.
Reading between the lines of your analysis a lot rests, I think, on whether they decide to focus on winning the intra block fight or if they continue down the hero vote route.
Feels to me like pivoting towards embracing their base with a we're the only sensible party on the left is their only hope.
turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right
It really does feel like Labour's strategists are w@nking off to Blair's third way triangulation narrative without realising that was 30 years ago and the fundamentals have changed.
Really great stuff Ben. Do any Labour MPs ever speak to you out of interest. Feels like folks like you are howling into the void sometimes. :)
Such a savage skeet @stephenkb.bsky.social.
I guess the other option would be to lower the repayment rate from 9%. That'd probably offer a middle ground between the two options in terms of beneficiaries, but theoretically could increase the total amount paid by richer grads...
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