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"Tonight Louisiana defeated the darkness of hate, bigotry and division, but where will the next challenge come from? Will it be in another campaign in Louisiana? ... Or a campaign for president of the United States?" a v good long read/warning theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

"the basic fault-line is between the kind of nativist-populist right and social democracy". half right. it's no longer centre right in uk posing a threat. to stem it, we need economic populism & redistribution. social democracy is historically lily-livered theguardian.com/inequality/art…

no way

honestly wtaf

when netanyahu congress that israel has taken more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history he was lying. un reports contradict him. now an icc arrest warrant is out for him for war crimes and today the uk will not challenge that aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/26…

one of the problems of housing as an asset, not a basic necessity, is that the moment it’s not giving the desired amount of profit to landlords they sell up and displace those renting from them. this trend has fucked a load of my friends in london already telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

How it started. How it’s going The ultimate.

So important that these people get as much attention. Southport is full of good-hearted people.

"To ... Thiel & Musk, bitcoin is both the technological & political expression of what they believe ... Thiel has even suggested that democracy is incompatible with capitalism ... the US Federal Reserve is the deep state in its most harmful form". sigh ft.com/content/3821ff…

macron's party has taken to condescending the left, calling lucie castets' attempt to be prime minister a "publicity stunt" and saying she can't just "improvise parliamentary work". but she has a plan for france, whose state has the largest debt in europe politico.eu/article/france…

This is Harry. One of the counter protesters here at AQS today. He’s 76. He’s been here since 5:30pm. After this he told me: “I was born in a fascist free country and I’m determined to keep it that way” True Scouser.

new paper finds that "self-disciplined behaviour indebted employees adopt to avoid losing income and defaulting does not only make them more risk-averse in their individual wage negotiations, but also makes them less willing to unionise." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“[the BoE] is now paying 5% interest on £700bn of bank reserves at cost to the exchequer of £35bn a year … [but not paying] one-third of the reserves … would save [the chancellor] just over £22bn a year … without the need for spending cuts or tax rises” theguardian.com/business/artic…

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