bookmarking, as it were

Stupid admin shit is a matter of ancient tradition

The other side of that coin - going off personal experience and a quick google look-up, so take this with a grain of salt - is that Britain is a country of low wages (comparatively).

a rare instance of public business opposition to Trump's trade policy is a reaction to more trade www.ncba.org/news-media/n...

I know this isn't the point of the piece, but what really stands out is the near-consensus across voters for this👇. A moderately competent/backbone-having Labour leadership would've developed a platform and narrative to dominate for a decade. Instead, we have what we have.

The call for papers for the 2026 ASEN conference on 'Nationalism, Democracy, and Freedom' is out now at asen.ac.uk/conference! #asen2026

Heartened by the economy of the future

Mhm

Democracy clearly dies in broad daylight

Past time to revisit some of this stuff.

When I think of innocence and naiveté, I think Peter Mandelson

There's something compelling about the thought that the cultivation of reflexive anti-communism, anti-socialism or anti-any idea that suggests politics should not entrench the power of capital, has ultimately come to bite America in the ass.

This is all fine but I don't buy the message implied here - that there's a popular turn away from capitalism in any meaningful sense and that there's a political project waiting to be pursued. Part of the problem is in the framing, as ever. But only a part. news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...

Everything said in under a page (also, the title is wrong, it’s not the left in any meaningful sense of the word, as the article makes clear)

Trust the Financial Times to hit at the heart of liberal orthodoxy

Which tells you everything you need to know about opinion polling

There’s a far left in the UK? News to me

Went to Jedburgh to see historic sights

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You're a party that gets to govern~30% of the time in past half century. You're in power now but not doing great. You have a 1/10 chance of having all the power in next 15 years under current electoral system. You have 1/2 chance of having some of the power if you change it. What do you do?

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Not gonna mention the name of a very influential organization that's been trialing AI recently, but they too have found it to be so unreliable as to be useless (hasn't made the news). Which comports with some of my own usage of the thing. But hey, if it works for you...

Another reason for electoral reform. The only principled one is that FPTP is simply not democratic and that should be the end of it. But there's only one semi-feasible way to bind the power of the UK executive, and that's PR electoral system. Electoral reform IS constitutional reform

he’s simply saying the unspoken part out loud. Not the first time someone observed that the line between the state and big business is, shall we say, a bit fictitious

This gets it half right. The other half is the social nature of how ideas take hold, and organizational capture of audiences. Outcomes without social capture of audiences just won’t do it

Differences worth contemplating more than similarities, to be fair.

Great book and fantastic read by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, w lots of impressions. For varieties of capitalism nerds, a really interesting insight into incremental improvement in production process over time - something more appropriate to coordinated market economies than liberal market ones...

Great book and fantastic read by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, w lots of impressions. For varieties of capitalism nerds, a really interesting insight into incremental improvement in production process over time - something more appropriate to coordinated market economies than liberal market ones...

Differences worth contemplating more than similarities, to be fair.

Behind every great fortune is a government subsidy

Moreno-Linz question in Taiwan (for what that's worth)

Entry level position: assistant professor in emotions and international conflict at the University of Geneva. For colleagues who speak French. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta....

Doubly appropriate today

By the time I start teaching my class on business power and economic nationalism in January, I'll have too much material to teach from

Far better boost to voting participation would be electoral reform. But a party that seldom wins elections will of course not want to do that.

'Nazis were socialists'

Interregnum reading

Odd approach to soliciting policy input but if it works for them…

this is how you do the evil genius thing

So much for working class interests. Not that it was unexpected but carried interest loophole remains

If it happens this often, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature of this best of all economic systems

This will be hilarious...

Also, not entirely ‘crypto’

I know my British friends often despair of the state their country is in, but they can take solace in the fact a crypto-fascist party with half a million attendees is probably not on the cards

Whatever you make of this claim, you have to appreciate FT’s penchant for explaining class politics in the most unvarnished manner possible

JUST published (free access) Full article: Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Starmer facing possibility he might be in charge of a Labour Party”

‘Relatively nonexistent’ is the kind of term I’d expect feral nerds like this to use

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