This is not good.
06.03.2026 13:40
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This is not good.
Quite an opening paragraph.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month and unemployment edges up to 4.4% with labor market under pressure.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Must read piece.
'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'
Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.
What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
chart showing Annualised growth in real household disposable income per person, by parliament: UK
Living standards growth is set to be weak by historical standards for the rest of the Parliament, at just 0.6 per cent a year on average.
This would make it the second worst parliament for living standards growth, better only than the last one.
Get our full analysis here ⤵️ buff.ly/DqulMy0
They say binge drinking is out of fashion, but I just made myself a black filter coffee with a double espresso chaser.
Because we are too busy fighting culture wars and have been for the best part of a decade...
Covid deaths by poverty of postcode from ONS, with dark blue bars the most deprived
Poverty was itself, in the parlance of that time, an “underlying condition”
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Bit late to be asking that question!
Not even for banter purposes?
Friends don't let friends overanalyse single council by-elections that are very likely outliers.
Unless it becomes part of a pattern, it is just a single datapoint, which cannot outweigh all other evidence without good reason.
Gerry Stoker and I were writing about this group in 2017! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...
Asked if we should be worried about Iranian attacks on U.S. soil, Trump said: “I guess…When you go to war, some people will die.”
What a shameless fool.
The sight of Matt Goodwin being sad has understandably galvanised the nation to make it happen some more
NEW: After Gorton & Denton, how should we understand the threat to Labour's left?
Big new @persuasionuk.bsky.social report out with @38degrees.bsky.social on 'progressive defectors' - Lab 2024 switchers to Greens, Plaid, SNP, Lib Dems.
Who are they, who are they not & what's moving them? 🧵
peepeepoopoo @DeepDishEnjoyer FOR THE LAST TIME HE CAN'T TACO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO THE REGION IS NOW FILLED WITH ESSENTIALLY INDEPENDENT WARLORDS WHO HAVE MISSLES AND DRONES AND THE HATE ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM 3:41 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 250 Views https://x.com/deepdishenjoyer/status/2029658607659192732
nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane
Was out the other day and heard this absolute banger playing - (scarily) released thirty years ago.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
What's also interesting is that whilst the YG surveys show respondents tend to think Starmer is handling the conflict badly, they seem to support his approach, perhaps because his unpopularity is so entrenched it colours responses when Qs are linked to him rather than to policies.
