A sickening society is clear in these statistics
So why is it not in the news?
Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Happy birthday to us @shirvill.bsky.social (and all who celebrate).
Those hippies you keep punching...
I'm genuinely having a moment of wondering what Iran's 'unconditional surrender' actually looks like? I *think* it's that Trump has veto power on the country's next leader per Venezuela. As you suggest, this sort of demand has not ended well, historically.
Iran and Ukraine should join the Commonwealth? Mate...
Support for grammar schools implies support for secondary moderns doesn't it? A few poorer kids get a better opportunity, the rest get concentrated in worse schools.
I recall there was at some point an 'e-champion' and I couldn't resist saying it in a Yorkshire accent.
Huge respect for those skills. My real target is the mild hypocrisy of a British elite composed of humanities and social science grads saying everyone else's kids should do STEM.
The dirty secret of almost every politician who tells you to do STEM is that they didn't. Eng Lit rocks.
What I read in OP was a faint echo of my stance on Iraq. I felt my colleagues at The Guardian were being mealy mouthed when they said they supported the Iraqi people but weren't prepared to back military action.
And again, the idea that boomers are dramatically more liberal on women's rights doesn't pass the sniff test. People born in the 40s are more progressive on gender than people born in the 00s? Really?
As I suspected, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and a few others are doing the work on the 'obey' question. The finding doesn't make much sense without cohort data - maybe today's Gen Z is more liberal that millennials were at the same age?
Having flashbacks to Iraq. I felt passionately that we'd failed the Iraqi people and should intervene on their side. Not an easy position to hold as a Guardian journalist, and one that turned out to be utterly wrong.
37% of 18-24 year olds say they're voting Green and only about 20% are voting for parties of the right. This doesn't scream 'get back in the kitchen' now does it? The boring truth is that young people remain stubbornly progressive.
Yes Indonesia and Malaysia are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Changes in social attitudes that are this dramatic - and counter to prevailing trends - don't just come out of nowhere. If there really was a mass return to kinder, kirche, kuche, I don't think it would take a poll to tell us that.
This doesn't pass the sniff test, does it? And it's interesting that @ipsosgroup.bsky.social seem to have taken it off their website.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I'm sorry but what's going on with the Lib Dem and Green voters who think Reform and the Tories should be in charge?
I think the best way of understanding this is 'people want to pay less tax' rather than 'people want less public services'.
I understand it perfectly well. My argument is with the principle that we must always focus on need, because I think middle and higher earners need a stake in the public sector too.
Not unreasonably. Taxation isn't just charitable giving with menaces.
The whole point of at least some public services being universal is to ensure widespread support. If middle income people don't see any benefit from higher taxes, eventually they will vote against paying them.
If you account for housing costs then median income inequaliy flattens out a lot. Maybe fine for homeowners as building wealth, but London is a hard place to buy.
Picture of a social/supportive housing project in the Yaletown community in downtown Vancouver. Text says “if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.” Logo of the urban truth collective in the corner.
If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth
I always thought Colin Jost was going over the top with Hegseth... maybe not?
So the tactical dilemma is where to place your second vote? Not much of an issue if you're voting for the right bloc, but I guess on the left you're trying to guess which party gets eliminated first. Overall this feels much less of a problem than FPTP.
Where is the tactical quandary in AV?
I just don't think a lot of people are spending time reading Green party policy atm.
