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Keeping welfare protections for those who are grandfathered in and eliminating them for those who come next is the oldest divide-and-rule trick in the box of pro-business politicians. It would be boring if it were not infuriating.

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Also, pitting the deserving boomers against the undeserving younger generations is the classic centrist divide-and-rule move.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

“Forget the MPs who rebel over cutting disabled people’s benefits - remember those who don’t. Just as Iraq was for Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer and his government for years to come, whether they succeed or not.” My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Ci ho messo un po' a capirlo anch'io. Gli editorialisti esibiscono la propria mancanza di curiosità perché è un segno di privilegio: posso decidere di ignorare il resto del mondo perché il mondo ruota intorno a me. E chi li legge vuole sentirsi dare il permesso di fare lo stesso.

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The new NYT piece whitewashing Starmer's xenophobia for liberals is functionally identical to that BBC piece from two weeks ago whitewahsing Frederiksen's xenophobia for liberals. Only difference is it's a Starmerite herself doing the whitewashing instead of a journo.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Remember February 2022, when Western leaders seemed to think that an expansionist nuclear power bombing residential buildings was bad? Turns out that only applies if the victims are white Europeans!

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‘Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way the New York Democratic mayoral primary on 24 June will be remembered decades from now if Zohran Mamdani wins.’ Christian Lorentzen, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

What is really striking about this government is that they have no vision for the future whatsoever. Other than being nice to business so perhaps business will be nice to them when they lose their seats. (Yes, AI boosterism and YIMBYism are part of being nice to business.)

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‘The largest proportion of asylum claims by visa holders – 47 per cent – are made by students; Labour is hoping to drive down two sets of immigration figures at a stroke.’ Ed Kiely on the uncertain future of British universities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I like Andy, his heart is in the right place, but this is just “Boris needs to get serious and act prime ministerial” for people who go wild swimming

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

This sounds less like a case of the ‘left [getting] tough on immigration’ than of far-right policies being successfully marketed to pensioners who used to be union members, and further whitewashed by the BBC with the help of a famous liberal Oxford professor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hi, I'm currently looking into the impact of the PIP cuts on carers for the Big Issue: I'm interested in speaking to anyone receives PIP and Carer's Allowance, and who is potentially at risk from the new "four point rule" please repost for circulation

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Keir Starmer can find billions for weapons factories, drones and a submarine but not for disability benefits or the two child limit. One more time for those at the back: Poverty Is A Political Choice.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits. If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace. Let's fund welfare, not warfare.

submitted 25 days ago • 128 comments

Plus this is all about sorting the poor into deserving and undeserving, an evergreen of right-wing rhetoric.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

‘To add insult to injury, on the day staff were threatened with redundancy they were also invited to a “Doodling for Wellbeing” session. “Let your pen dance across the page”, they were told, as “a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.”’ 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

They also don’t seem to know what’s actually happening in classrooms? Which classroom is just “conveying content”? Stop believing the anti-critical-thought propaganda and talk with the people you’re supposed to lead; we beg of you.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Isn't it lovely, this research funding model where either you get funding but you have no chance at job security 🙋🏻‍♂️ or you have job security but you have no chance at funding? 👇🏻

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

tfw you try to resist the attention economy but even the damn sky has ads

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

For reactionary centrists the “fight against woke” was always a grift. They knew universities weren’t really woke and that “woke” faculty hold little power. They gave the far right an excuse for their attack on higher ed… and now they whine in the media, ignoring their own crucial role.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.

submitted 35 days ago • 36 comments

‘Fears cost of scrapping two-child limit will outweigh political benefit’: imagine being so morally bankrupt that you can only countenance lifting children out of poverty if your spin doctors tell you it's good for your poll numbers.

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New post: what prompted the UK’s change over Gaza? It’s not that the British government has suddenly found a conscience rachelshabi.substack.com/p/finally-la...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

At the UN in Geneva, UNRWA Director of Health Dr. Akihiro Seita warned that food shortages in #Gaza will increase child malnutrition. Without sufficient aid, the situation will soon spiral out of control. The siege must be lifted. Humanitarian aid must flow safely and at scale.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

When your political preferences and your biases align and you delude yourself into thinking that you can run the country with the sole support of a niche constituency, i.e. middle-class white boomers who are fine with Tory/Reform policies but think of themselves as the goodies 👇🏻

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently turquoise Labour have decided that they need to starve the beast, the Deep State is sabotaging them, culture is woke and for pussies, and Lisa Nandy is suspect. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It's quite something to spend months chasing Reform, notice that your own voters aren't voting at all while Reform voters still vote for Reform, and conclude you need to chase Reform harder.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

We need to make gen-AI use as cringe as NFTs.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Labour: Black and Asian people can fuck off, poor people can fuck off, young people can fuck off, trans people and their allies can fuck off, but Reform voters? They're our people!

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment