JOB - Professorship of Politics at the University of Cambridge Application deadline: 15th of September jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47365/

Looking for some representative / archetypal socialist dismissals of liberalism. The harsher and more sweeping the better. Recommendations?

"The biggest threat to this Labour government is despair, and yet instead of countering it with a programme of hope, Labour is feeding that hopelessness." Me for The i paper on the impotent miserabilism of Starmer and Reeves ... inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

The political forces now driving the Labour party are the Tony Blair Institute & Labour Together. One is receiving hundreds of millions from Larry Ellison of Oracle, the other is a super-pac funded by hedge fund managers and private equity people. Nothing will change.

Eu completei o desafio de agosto mais rápido do que 88.7% de todas as pessoas no Duolingo!

Wrong. Economics is all about choices and they are choosing to hurt most of us. No to cuts, no to austerity - tax the rich. Build the anti-austerity movement everywhere.

Labour got rid of the previous MP for Ilford South because he stood on a picket line with striking workers and replaced him with someone who rents out flats with black mould and ant infestations.

Ilford South, represented by Jas Athwal, is in Redbridge - where 32% of kids live in poverty. Athwal owns 15 private rental properties, now well documented as being in a state of disrepair. Yet he voted AGAINST removing the 2 child benefit cap. How on earth is he a Labour MP?!

From Ted Chiang's recent New Yorker essay about AI. I totally agree with this:

Okay. If we take this literally - assume he genuinely had not been aware of the issues uncovered - then that is in itself an argument against a) the private rental sector in general and b) this landlord specifically

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

Hope there's truth in this rumour that Labour are considering removing landlords' exemption from national insurance Working tenants pay NI on their earned income so why should landlords enjoy an NI exemption on the passive income they draw from tenants? telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

The London Renters' Union has called on Labour MP Jas Athwal to stand down after a BBC investigation found black mould and ant infestations in his rental properties. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Nietzsche asking the hard questions

Jas Athwal - a rogue landlord - still has the Labour whip, while those Labour MPs who voted to end the two-child benefit cap don’t.

There was no wifi or 4G on my train this morning... There's barely any phone network in central London... Most people my age can't afford to buy a home... Most move year to year because of rents... Most can't afford kids... I know nurses in 50k student debt... Back on track?!

It comes as no surprise that the House emptied just hours after the judge announced the publication of the phase 2 report. It shows how many of those within the political elite are a part of the disregard, indifference and incompetence that contributed to the deaths of our 72.

"That room was more than half empty... how are we supposed to get justice when they don't even care?" Vice-Chair of Grenfell United Karim Mussilhy says he was surprised by how many MPs left the Commons before Prime Minister's statement on Grenfell Inquiry report. #Newsnight

Blair is speaking, as he increasingly does, irresponsibly & without understanding. Grenfell was not the result of 'mistakes', but fraud by manufacturers, complicity by testing bodies, dereliction of safety duty by architects & construction companies, and inaction by politicians.

Across Europe the electoral Cordon Sanitaire once drawn around the Far-Right has been withdrawn and redrawn around the Left. Neoliberal Centrism is in a symbiotic relationship with the Far-Right while democratric norms are ripped apart to prevent or destroy Left governments.