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UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"

New post: Reeves is not following in Osborne’s footsteps mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/reeves… Reeves’s main error has been a failure to raise tax enough. This goes back to 1997, and a belief that the public's distaste for tax increases was key in keeping Labour in opposition for 18 years.

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Y'days post: Reeves is not following in Osborne’s footsteps mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/reeves… The key fiscal rule that Reeves is following was first created by Brown, not Osborne. When Brown did raise personal taxes to fund NHS expansion, it was met with widespread popular support.

New article alert: I argue Ofcom should rethink allowing politicians to present broadcast programming because audiences appear uncomfortable with it and want impartial reporting JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni Cardiff Uni Comms The Conversation Arts and Humanities Research Council Thread 1/10 theconversation.com/why-ofcom-want…

ICYMI: Reeves is not following in Osborne’s footsteps mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/reeves… Reeves is right to follow the golden fiscal rule, first implemented by Brown not Osborne. Her mistake is not raising tax enough, reflecting Labour fears going back to 1992.

How economics has changed

"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide." In a searing interview with the BBC, paediatrician Dr Tanya Haj Hassan condemned the broadcaster for echoing Israeli government talking points as she recounted her harrowing experiences in Gaza. Dr Haj Hassan, who recently returned

He's right. Israel has been killing about 100 Palestinians every day for weeks now. It is rarely even reported.

We understand this has happened in Durham too.

"We find Israel's excuses and explanations completely untenable"

Merz in Berlin: "I no longer understand what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip...[Israeli actions] can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism". Weak sauce compared to other European leaders' statements, but strong stuff from a German chancellor.

Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today

New post: Is the centre right doomed? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-cen… Why have so many parties of the centre right either been squeezed out by populist right wing parties (eg France), transformed into populist right wing parties (eg the US), or have done both (eg the UK)?

Farage has met w far right Christian fundamentalist anti abortion groups from the US & now he comes out with this. I guess they’re all fed by the same big money streams. Do not think we could never end up where they are in America. It just takes money & time. & they have both.

Y'days post: Is the centre right doomed? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-cen… What has caused the radicalisation of socially conservative voters: growing social libralisation, attempts by mainstream right wing parties/media to distract from unpopular small state policies, or something else?

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Interesting new poll from YouGov - more Brits would prefer the government to drop their fiscal rules if the alternative meant cuts to public services

ICYMI: Is the centre right doomed? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-cen… The mainstream centre right parties in the US and UK have been transformed into populist right wing parties. Why did this happen, and can mainstream centre right parties elsewhere survive?

Because OANN and Newsmax and Fox are NOT news channels but just propaganda channels for Trump.