And the whole magic tech revolution thing when it was drill, baby, drill.....
06.03.2026 23:48
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And the whole magic tech revolution thing when it was drill, baby, drill.....
Yep, resilience for sure. And then you need to tell that story.
Ok. But that's an incredibly tough politics to walk from a standing start.
Yes, you just don't know. Could be another TACO moment. Or could be the next Iraq and everything in between. The only way that seems to make sense is constant public dialogue. It's all "this is our plan, we will deliver."
Yep, it's tough but this is where story telling is so important. Got to prepare ground. Bring people in, develop trust.
I genuinely don't know how Governments handle public engagement in a world of severe, abrupt multiple global risks all the time.
Pretending you are in complete control isn't credible.
But, boy, tough.
Increasing energy costs
So, about the cost of living crisis strategy....
Yes, sorry, it was a reply to the above.
They are being extorted. But not 50%. Over total earnings.
Walking Dunning-Kruger effect. Metacognition simply at the off setting.
Jesus.
No one pays 50% tax on their income. Nowhere near.
The fact she has to make stuff up says it all.
And as for tax being a "donation" - how patriotic.
Had me scrambling for Google.
Great report- confirms almost all my biases and prejudices that I pretend are analysis.
Goebbels for the agentic AI age.
That would imply some strategy. This is about impulse.
What we are seeing is not the projection of power.
It's orgiastic violence. The end is the violence itself. That's why the US administration keeps changing its tune. It's too cowardly to utter the truth.
It just wants to kill and kill and kill again.
It is clear that the US and Israel plan to do to Iran what Israel has done to Gaza.
There is something evil that is emerging.
Europe can't just stand by while 90 million people are carpet bombed. Sanchez is right.
I think the answer is that the Tories didn't like the fact the service sector workers ended up being quite progressive- this isn't what Thatcherism was meant to do.
And Labour- well, their view of Britain is stuck somewhere near 1923.
By the way, the whole right "lanyards" discourse re liberal professionals had largely passed me by. Just as NPC discourse did before.
See what we're missing by not being on X!!! Sad bunch.
Great work.
Maybe they should wear high vis jackets or "lanyards" to get noticed in our political discourse?
The "hero" voter is an IT service manager in Milton Keynes, struggling with a mortgage and childcare costs. They are broadly progressive on immigration (but not small boats), the EU, the environment. They are irritated at getting ripped off when they go out for a meal or want to buy concert tickets.
This just one detail from a cracking new report from @38degrees.bsky.social and @persuasionuk.bsky.social.
Economic populist agenda reaching across the political spectrum is noteworthy.
(Though "cost is living" too micro by itself. Needs a bigger vision).
home.38degrees.org.uk/2026/03/05/r...
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.
Funny how they took no time to calculate the social value of those care jobs......
And as this war gets worse, the support for "putting our head in the fire" will only decline.
Astonishing lack of judgement from LOTO/Farage.
I was young once mi laddie.....
It all feels very like running around the Home Office pulling whatever lever you can. Perhaps because it is.
Ha. Just you wait Gen Z boys. Lot of living to do fellas.
Learn from your elders and save a lot of pain- you will lose.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Agree. An inter-connective approach. (Just in case the EU goes MAGA too).
