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2026-04-19 08:06:09 UTC

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Crispin Flintoff writes:
'Today it emerged that Tony Greenstein has been suspended by the Green Party on the basis of an alleged 'history of antisemitism, including court decisions and recent terrorism charges'.
Many people know Tony as someone who is blunt, fiercely outspoken and, at times, too prickly for some tastes. But to label him antisemitic when he is himself Jewish, and the son of a rabbi, is an extraordinary step and one that raises very serious questions.
And the 'terrorism' label also sits uncomfortably with anyone who opposes the misuse of the Terrorism Act to silence opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
Labour's witch-hunt of Jewish anti-Zionists began with the expulsion of Tony Greenstein. The question now is whether the Green Party is becoming similarly unsafe for anti-Zionists.'
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2026-03-30 01:22:45 UTC

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I have a 14-yr-old laptop from PCSpecialist running Kali and occasionally TAILS from a usb stick - no problem with the wifi. Just for info. No dongle needed for that.

2026-03-29 14:26:10 UTC

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The only time I've needed a dongle for Linux is for a Lenovo thin edge. My kit from PCSpecialist and Novatech works just fine with wifi.

2026-03-13 18:38:38 UTC

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I don't read The Grauniad, but does he mention Netanyahu and Israeli atrocities?

2026-03-09 08:32:38 UTC

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Dilnot.

2026-02-20 17:43:44 UTC

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One for Madame Tussaud's and a death mask in due course.

2026-02-13 18:30:01 UTC

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Barbaric.

2026-01-22 17:17:07 UTC

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February 3rd coming up.

2025-12-22 17:34:08 UTC

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Shame about the other two members of the Experience dying in impecunity - exploitation by the record companies.

2025-12-20 19:47:38 UTC

'Aisha Jung, a long-time human rights campaigner and a stalwart of the Palestine Solidarity Camp outside the US embassy, has just won substantial damages from the Metropolitan Police after being arrested at a Palestine solidarity protest in Trafalgar Square.
Aisha was arrested on 4th November 2023 for holding a satirical placard. One side said: 'Bombing civilians, massacring kids, ethnic cleansing, occupation & blockade, cutting off vital resources, collective punishment.' The other side said: 'War crimes, war crimes, war crimes, apartheid Israel, what a cuntry.'
She was arrested in front of her family, taken to a police station, held for hours and later told no further action would be taken. The Metropolitan Police has now agreed to pay damages, closing the case and said they should 'learn from mistakes and take steps to give officers additional guidance to inform decision making in future'.
What were the police thinking when they made the arrest? Does this signal a change in policing? What advice is there for anyone worried about being arrested for holding up a (non-Defend our Juries) sign?
Aisha Jung joins us tomorrow on The Crispin Flintoff Show (10:30am-12:30pm) to discuss how policing must change.'

2025-12-18 10:26:28 UTC

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Probably not helpful, but my old bq aquaris which came with Ubuntu installed, now runs UBports. You may be able to install UBports easily on some tablets. The installation is relatively easy.

2025-11-22 11:57:06 UTC

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https://apnews.com/article/france-ai-musk-grok-holocaust-e8c952c5d878226aa917d7a65836ed88

2025-11-11 10:16:08 UTC

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I canvassed for Labour in 2010, but voted Green when Brown brought Blair into the campaign. Then Kitkat happened in Brighton. The question is this: which Greens do you get? I'm not convinced by one Green leader. I'm past party and will support individuals.

2025-11-05 19:36:08 UTC

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BTW what are the standing orders?

2025-11-05 19:34:12 UTC

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In any normal council, an elected member would recuse themself...

2025-11-03 11:07:36 UTC

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Oxford will accept money from anyone - for example, the Schwarzman Humanities Centre (£150m from Schwarzman).

2025-11-01 07:43:32 UTC

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They compel us all to take statins.

2025-10-26 08:02:32 UTC

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KKR - the private equity firm which loaded Boots with debt.

2025-10-23 08:45:13 UTC

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Such trite nonsense:
'Britain wants to fly, and this government will act to meet public aspirations.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/realising-the-benefits-of-expansion-at-heathrow-airport

2025-10-19 16:35:28 UTC

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Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - they shd play this at the rallies
https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/clarence-frogman-henry-1937-2024-aint-got-no-home-singer/

2025-10-14 18:07:45 UTC

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Agreed - apart from the final sentence - this is a 'cultural dissatisfaction' (i.e. racism), IMHO. I've lived with this underground racism all my life. I don't make excuses for it. 'WOGS', 'Paki-bashing', 'how cam you live next to those people' (Sikhs).

2025-10-13 06:44:55 UTC

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I'm inclined to agree. I remember the regime of Jason Kitkat in Brighton. Which Greens are on offer?

2025-10-12 19:17:26 UTC

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Je crois que vous n'aviez pas raison. UNRWA travaille la-dedans - il ne leur est permis de livrer le manger (ca reste en Egypt) - mais il travaille la-dedans en faire d'autres choses. Leur CE l'a explique au BBC cet apres-midi. L'avenir de Gaza depend de UNRWA.

2025-10-12 19:07:59 UTC

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Je regrette que ca ne soit point impossible. Il n'y a pas tant de personnes ici. Faute de mieux, il faut assister les organizations pour reconstruire le pays entier. Ce que vous faites, ca ne sert que d'assister plusieurs. Je continuerai de soutenir UNRWA.

2025-10-12 18:56:01 UTC

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Selected Palestinians. The whole strip needs incoming resources for all. You do it your way and I'll do it my way. I'm not prepared to institute a hierarchy of Palestinians.

2025-10-12 17:58:33 UTC

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I've donated to MSF in the past. I prefer to support institutions for the entire population rather than disperse resources.

2025-10-12 17:52:44 UTC

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I've just donated again to UNRWA. It's still performing work in Gaza and will need substantial support in the immediate future - and it has issued a request for donations.

2025-10-12 11:57:16 UTC

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Without one mention of Bourdieu's _Distinction_

2025-10-10 12:05:39 UTC

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UCU reckons 12,000 lost in the last year. The number of proposed losses 'going forward' (hate that term) is even more drastic, I would guess. Grady on R$ identified the two issues (which have been obvious and we all know): inappropriate system of support/income stream; idiotic insistence on expanding the estate beyond what is reasonable, financed on bonds. There will be a bad look or perception because of the protracted action over pay. On that action, UCU shd have pursued a better distribution scale - profs have sufficient salaries (yes, I recognize that their increments are decided differently). So part of the issue is the system of funding and the other part is managerial policy. For matters of equity, a return to Dearing wd not be a bad idea for a start (but I've wittered on about that for ages).

2025-10-08 09:52:11 UTC

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US attacking Venezuelan vessels seems to be ignored too - the axis of evil (US and Israel).

2025-10-05 14:10:14 UTC

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They shouldn't be able to arrest you for that placard before the appeal by PA. It might simply imply that you support PA in its appeal against proscription. That is not illegal under any proclamation. You have a right to criticize the action of government. The police arresting people are making an unwarranted assumption unless the holder of the placard explicitly states that the intention is to support the actions of PA.

2025-09-28 08:20:13 UTC

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The world as Panopticon - curated by the richest.

2025-09-20 11:51:12 UTC

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... because I'm a long-term member of PSC and a Corbyn supporter in 2017-19.

2025-09-20 07:14:20 UTC

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'His are not 'legitimate concerns'!'
Nor are Friedland's.

2025-09-13 16:50:37 UTC

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Not soon enough. They've done so much damage.

2025-09-02 18:10:32 UTC

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His new economic adviser is ex-interest-rate committee and invited the police onto campus at Columbia against Palestinian protests. She shd fit in with hi cabal famously.

2025-09-02 11:42:59 UTC

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I have to disagree. She's forgotten her background. Anyone with any sensitivity from this background would not have indulged herself in this way or become involved in a tax issue. (I too was brought up on a Council Estate, for background). So I'm quite open to criticizing her myself.

2025-08-25 17:19:05 UTC

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Well past time for 'statements'. Deploy UN forces to Gaza and the West Bank.

2025-08-10 08:53:23 UTC

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The consequence of the over-emphasis on 'identity politics': constricting the definition of the working class to the 'white working class' when most of our service industry is maintained by south Asian working class.

2025-08-09 08:19:05 UTC

Petition to remove Robbie Gibb at BBC:
https://action.eko.org/a/bbc-remove-robbie-gibb-now

2025-08-07 16:47:01 UTC

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Oh, also, I believe that people other than those with the genetic deficit can suffer from ME/CFS.

2025-08-07 16:45:41 UTC

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My partner has suffered from CFS for about 15 years (she's now 80). She diagnosed herself and the GP consequently referred her to Derby Hospital where there is a CFS/ME clinic. She received advice on the energy envelope and pacing (that all depends on the intensity of the ME, of course). She became aware of Bruce Campbell and his group-counselling. We're members of the ME Association.

2025-08-07 07:40:23 UTC

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i.e. the professed intention of recognizing excellence everywhere was simply inconsequential.

2025-08-07 07:39:28 UTC

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There was once a mantra in the REF of 'excellence everywhere' - i.e. pockets of excellence in all universities. It was deceitful. There's also indolence everywhere.

2025-08-04 12:26:47 UTC

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People commend Leicester (I recognize this is the county) for its multiculturalism, but I know that there is an undercurrent of racism amongst white people there (it's my natal home). The only change from the 70s is that there are no longer overt marches (by and large).

2025-08-04 12:21:58 UTC

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There are notable Zionists on the faculty who may have sympathized with students who complained that they felt 'unsafe'.

2025-08-04 10:06:43 UTC

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Edward Said will be rolling in his grave. Has Columbia then banned _Orientalism_? Does it now dismiss Said's lectures there published as _Humanism and Democratic Criticism_? The institution has forfeited its academic credibility. Who is behind this - any of the senior faculty (not naming names)?

2025-07-25 17:23:37 UTC

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It's come a long way since 'Do no evil', but it started out as an aggressive tax avoider from the start (Double Irish) (and I didn't need Hodge to inform me of that)..

2025-07-25 08:54:41 UTC

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Have a peaceful time.

2025-07-18 17:36:38 UTC

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One aspect: many boomers benefited from the new ';room at the top' in the 60s, but regarded it as their own initiative rather than a structural change which is why they followed Reagan/Thatcher. Some of us remember our roots in poverty although we are now quite well-off. You have to pay it back.

2025-07-18 08:32:01 UTC

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Labour now represents the worst in our society.

2025-07-17 10:33:00 UTC

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False premise no 1: banks don't invest in the economy; they predominantly gamble without investing.

2025-07-16 14:53:31 UTC

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Crikey, which woman wd want more than one.

2025-07-07 12:59:57 UTC

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That's right. So it was 'successful' on those of her limited terms. Another context was to make some substantial part of the population asset owners - in the case of persistence, housing. The family fortune and its continuity became the only interest above all else and anyone else. Yet, on her other terms it also failed. Her concern was the entrepreneurial lower middle class (the Roberts enterprise) - but that was adversely affected by her insistence on financial services above all services. Productivity? Well that can be blamed on Brown as well since, I think, his 'industrial policy' was misconstrued as shareholder value and the short-termism of rent extraction. Firms decided that cheap labour was in their interest rather than capital investment. It's been forty continuous years of economic devastation.

2025-07-07 07:17:14 UTC

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Colour me shocked.

2025-07-05 09:54:21 UTC

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I'm afraid that I disagree. The Greens refused the opportunity in 2017. They look, like the LibDems, to be a predominantly middle-class party. Their record in Brighton was abysmal at times. If the greens wish to co-operate, eight years too late, they are welcome to do so. Personally, I prefer unadulterated Corbyn/Sultana, with, I hope, union support from FBU, RMT, ASLEF.

2025-07-01 18:21:00 UTC

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The blues have, the blues have it.

2025-07-01 16:39:33 UTC

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Wage inflation = recovering lost ground.

2025-06-30 18:11:16 UTC

The Stalinist purge accelerates:
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/labours-internal-purge-continues-unabated/

2025-06-29 12:23:55 UTC

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Everything is antisemitic to him. Every criticism is a 'blood libel' He trades on it. To The Hague with him.

2025-06-21 20:36:23 UTC

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Really? That's demented. Still, remember Clinton and Obama - they had their moments.

2025-06-21 15:50:12 UTC

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It's not quite correct, I think. He's an anti-semite and has been expelled from campus for three years for anti-semitic activities:
https://www.alligator.org/article/2025/04/uf-law-student-trespassed-from-campus-after-racist-antisemitic-social-media-posts

2025-06-19 19:06:57 UTC

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Presumably all precipitated by HS2 - but how will they prevent another Carillion? As @npub154p…gwly suggests, this composite companies have no vertical integration and cannot organize the sub-contracts effectively.

2025-06-18 18:49:21 UTC

Vienna Jewish anti-Zionist congress:
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/holocaust-survivors-speak-at-vienna-jewish-anti-zionist-congress/

2025-06-18 08:05:53 UTC

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Not sure about the 'meritocracy' argument: https://www.routledge.com/Against-Meritocracy-Culture-power-and-myths-of-mobility/Littler/p/book/9781138889552

2025-06-17 11:29:30 UTC

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Permanent imprisonment.

2025-06-09 14:07:46 UTC

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That's outrageous - cells in a prison! Expel the Israeli ambassadors and representatives now.

2025-06-01 16:36:17 UTC

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I can't find the document now, but the Treasury did actually try to model the Laffer Curve for the optimum rate. I suspect that it still has some traction there (and may be one reason why the 50% rate was reduced to 45%). Let';s face it, many of the affluent will attempt to avoid tax whatever the rate. Their mindset is that it is their money.

2025-06-01 10:53:18 UTC

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Ironically, in part propagated by a sociologist - Giddens with a perverse form of structuration in which the individual has extraordinary agency. The other pernicious influence was Foucault and his emphasis on subjectivity. We have to get back to class as a structuring influence (like Bourdieu).

2025-05-27 11:20:21 UTC

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The revolution will not start in The Grauniad.

2025-05-19 18:26:59 UTC

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Patriarchal misogynists, apart from not realizing that both parents working one or more jobs is the only way to exist in US hyper-capitalism. As out of touch as if already on Mars.

2025-05-13 09:39:31 UTC

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The longest period of stagnant real wages coming to and end with some wage compensation, but higher interest rates are necessary because of ... wage inflation. No, it's the supply side taking advantage of generally low wage rates.

2025-05-11 11:01:58 UTC

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There's been a reductionist trend to define working-class as the white working class. We need to refute that. 'Identity' is fine but it should not occlude working-class (including people who cannot work for any reason). Secondly, as most people here recognize, immigration is positive for economic growth.

2025-05-02 15:21:25 UTC

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2019 was the Brexit election. No Labour leader would have won that against Johnson. The chance to form a minority govt in 2017 was subverted by the other minority parties. A. N. Other would have won in 2024.

2025-05-02 08:39:17 UTC

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It's ludicrous. There have been so many commissions. Dilnot still seems the best option. The political situation will be dire in a decade, never mind the4 condition of social care.

2025-05-02 08:37:20 UTC

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I endorse Pam's statement!

2025-05-01 07:37:02 UTC

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Piece in the THE online today advancing that the current system is satisfactory and that a proposal for a tariff on firms for each graduate hired is counterproductive. The leadership of UKHE is merely concerned with managing the established system just as it capitulated to Browne in 2010-11.

2025-04-29 07:38:47 UTC

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Undergrad recruitment: in other words affluent liberal US youngsters. Just in a class cynical mood today. Apologies.

2025-04-28 07:26:20 UTC

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The first effect will be on local port economies on the west coast and Trump will just ignore them, I'm afraid.

2025-04-08 17:34:12 UTC

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Second best version: Cassandra Wilson:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YyNtFAMMsuA

2025-03-31 17:44:31 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens'_Nut_Gone_Flake

2025-03-26 14:33:15 UTC

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Coming to a campus near you.

2025-03-24 15:55:45 UTC

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'cynicism is weak spineless capitulation' or, in the instance of expecting left-wing leadership from the Dems, as a party, realism.

2025-03-24 15:44:09 UTC

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You're probably screwed.

2025-03-23 10:32:21 UTC

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ML are hardly surviving in UKHE now. German has virtually disappeared. In the 'old days' for most non-ML humanities degrees a modern foreign language was required (and often Latin too) and science degrees required German O-Level.

2025-03-22 12:16:03 UTC

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Those are penetrating thoughts.

2025-03-15 10:42:13 UTC

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People's QE: she won't because legacy thought is that it's inflationary.

2025-03-08 19:40:10 UTC

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Sweden is fast moving rightwards.

2025-03-04 13:34:31 UTC

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Don't think so. GDP per capita is just a mean - takes no account of the standard deviation (i.e. distribution) - could still have extreme inequality. Need to use it alongside Gini coefficient.

2025-03-04 02:05:19 UTC

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Nothing new there. They only _actively_ engage about their own T&Cs.

2025-02-27 08:52:02 UTC

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Everyone can help the organization:
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/114/074/996/157/969/870/original/59471d2ff27e1eb5.jpeg

2025-02-21 15:39:22 UTC

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Wonder if the erstwhile leader of the ShitLibDems, Sir Vince Cable, will make a deposition.

2025-02-14 09:55:04 UTC

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I regard her opinions in the same way in which she treated Long-Bailey and Tarry.

2025-02-10 21:34:30 UTC

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Plus Netanyahu endorsing the expulsion from Gaza proposed by Trump with no right of return - that surely destroys the entire point of a ceasefire.

2025-02-10 09:55:57 UTC

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I'll never vote Green after 2017.

2025-02-08 12:02:16 UTC

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Answer: don't collect the data in the first place, even encrypted.

2025-01-29 18:13:24 UTC

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When will they mention redistribution?

2025-01-25 12:34:19 UTC

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authoritarian capitalism = Fascism

2025-01-23 08:00:53 UTC

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We recognize what Bezos does, too. If a distribution centre looks like it will unionize, he shuts it down.

2025-01-18 11:16:38 UTC

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Good idea. I remember when the owner of Blackwell suggested that he would, when the conditions were right, pass the company to a staff collective - then sold to Waterstones. At that point, I stopped buying from it.