Play Germany’s election – the end of Merkelism? w/ Ines Schwerdtner and Adrian Daub by Politics Theory Other on desktop and mobile. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
— Read on m.soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/germanys-election-the-end-of-merkelism-w-ines-schwerdtner-and-adrian-daub
Category: Europe
The Landlord Parliament
The Landlord Parliament
— Read on tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/the-landlord-parliament
Crime always pays for the Tories – that’s why they turn to it again and again | Conservatives | The Guardian
The government’s law and order crackdown displays the performative cruelty that Priti Patel has made her own, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/29/crime-pays-tories-law-and-order-cruelty-priti-patel
British Fox News?
Today, Capitol Hill; tomorrow…
Greta
I take my oft-too-cynical hat off to you
Great Thunberg, ‘The EU is cheating with numbers — and stealing our future’
The Everyone Economy
Nothing new but nothing not worth repeating
‘The everyone economy: how to make capitalism work for all’, Martin Sandbu
Rigged and Rotten
A short run through some of the painfully obvious ways in which Disaster Capitalism – operating through US-idolising, Social Darwinist meritocrats – stretched out its slimy tentacles from No.10 Downing Street and fucked the shit out of the country. Happy Birthday NHS… Enjoy..
‘The Pro-Privatization Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Response’, Rachel Shabi
‘Being black is a pre-existing condition’
From Simply Human
— Read on simplyhuman1com.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/being-black-is-a-pre-existing-condition/
“Black Culture”
A post from Simply Human on the dangers of click-bait gramtivists unwittingly perpetuating the racial fixation.
Enjoy:
”Impartiality”
In a time of demagoguery, “impartiality” and “establishing the facts” are contradictory terms. Another sterling example of the Fourth Estate failing the people, speaking for power and making a mockery of the facts. Enjoy 😏
‘Why is the BBC bending to the Government’s definition of impartiality?’, Owen Jones
“When faced with a very clear choice between yielding to government pressure or serving viewers by telling them the truth, BBC management, shamefully, chose the former,” says one Newsnight source. “BBC bosses believe this helps preserve the organisation. All it will really do is sign its death warrant.”
Adventures of a Pseud 