pauldstevens.bsky.social
Anti-growth coalition; tofu-eating wokerati; over-privileged middle-class Trot; left-wing economic establishment. Ex-journalist. Ex-radio presenter. Ex-Labour. Academic. Bristolian. New Forest, UK. #MMT
1,002 posts
453 followers
264 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
A rogue’s gallery of Tories.
comment in response to
post
The BBC (esp News and Current Affairs) is a bad faith actor in the UK’s information environment. While folk simply pretend things are slightly off balance rather than fundamentally broken, things will get worse… until hands are wrung at the “unforeseeable” impact having been realised
comment in response to
post
Unbelievable.
comment in response to
post
Journalism IS increasingly out of touch with public opinion. They have little in common with the public.
They’re “overwhelmingly White (90%); privately
and university educated (91%); from a privileged background (71%) … [and] left-leaning.”
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
comment in response to
post
Nah, there’s no money in it. Neoliberal Britain will never go for that.
comment in response to
post
And yet such intransigence from Starmer over renationalising water.
comment in response to
post
Starmer’s Labour certainly allowed Farage to park his tanks on their lawn.
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
Those tanks aren’t arriving for a “parade”.
comment in response to
post
Companies won’t invest in a country where public services are dysfunctional because they’re being deliberately and needlessly underfunded, or are failing as private monopolies having been sold off for ideological reasons. Get spending: there’s nothing stopping you.
new-wayland.com/blog/how-the...
comment in response to
post
new-wayland.com/blog/how-the...
comment in response to
post
There is no economic basis for this whatsoever: this is political and ideological.
comment in response to
post
The view from the Overton Window has shifted massively in the US if Musk is seen as a centrist.
comment in response to
post
Out of more than 48 million registered voters. A few people making a disproportionate amount of noise, and being given a disproportionate amount of coverage by the MSM.
comment in response to
post
BBC weatherman Michael Fish's historic 1987 storm gaffe www.dailymail.co.uk/video/ukweat...
comment in response to
post
Reform: run by millionaires, for millionaires.
comment in response to
post
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
comment in response to
post
Journalism IS increasingly out of touch with public opinion. Which is hardly surprising when one considers who journalists are: 90% white; disproportionately privately educated; and 91% university educated.
comment in response to
post
“Space bellend…”: I knew exactly who you were taking about immediately 🤣
comment in response to
post
B’bye, billionaires 👋
comment in response to
post
Looks dystopian.
comment in response to
post
The less likely a demographic is to be called up for national service, the more it supports it. Who could’ve predicted that? 🤔
comment in response to
post
Reform: run by millionaires, for millionaires.
comment in response to
post
What if falling defence spending has nothing to do with the government’s ability to spend on other things like public services and education? What if those decisions are political and not financial? Where does government money come from? What if it’s not where people think?
modernmoneybasics.com
comment in response to
post
What if tax has little to do with what the state can afford to fund, and its decisions are politically and ideologically motivated?
modernmoneybasics.com
comment in response to
post
Is it though?
modernmoneybasics.com
comment in response to
post
Me too. I was trained by my first “proper” employer. Sent me to college on block release, and paid for my exams. I was with them for more than 20 years, so I like to think they got their money’s worth!
comment in response to
post
Indeed. We need our children to leave school educated: job training is the responsibility of employers.
comment in response to
post
No, we need our children to leave school educated: job training is the responsibility of employers.