It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades. Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

The American political system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders

When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars, a big corporation like Disney is forced to listen – and respond. Next time you’re feeling powerless, remember this.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

"But perhaps the ground is shifting. Citizen journalism is flowering, through the Bylines network, openDemocracy, Double Down News , Novara, Declassified and DeSmog, and in particular at the local level." 👏👏👏 Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

The privately-educated elite still dominate the UK's most powerful roles 68% of FTSE100 chairs were privately educated. 62% of judges were. 50% of newspaper columnists too. See a pattern, here? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Car drivers in London support reducing their car use, as long as it’s done fairly - new study finds www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Taxation of the rich is growing in popularity nationwide and overseas, and Harold Meyerson writes that it could play a central role in the 2028 Democratic ticket. trib.al/hqKjIAH

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Amid the anger and hate, this is the big question: can societies still summon empathy? | Keith Magee

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

Free speech latest. Republicans are living in an alternative reality.

Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study by @transportenvironment.org shows www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Every now and again we need to remind ourselves that normal service in the economy stopped around 15 years ago, and it’s little wonder people are stressed and looking for scapegoats ifs.org.uk/data-items/r...

📢 THIS 🔽🔽🔽 "Part of the rise of Reform is more than immigration, it’s this feeling that nothing’s working, the political parties have failed. They make promises they don’t keep ... They look at the world around them and they just see things crumbling.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

America is a deeply sick nation.

Canada is not alone. "Voters often accuse politicians of fiscal sleight of hand, but here they are complicit in presuming ever larger pension cheques can be conjured like rabbits from a hat. At some point, both groups must confront mathematical reality." www.ft.com/content/d419...

What Happened to Labour's 2024 Voters? Using the recent wave of the @britishelectionstudy.com I look at people who voted Labour in 2024: - How many are still with the party? - How many have left? - Why might that be? TLDR: they've left because of economic issues/concerns, probably.

The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO

Wealthy donors are increasingly funding political campaigns, eroding the public’s trust in the political process. The Government has the opportunity to reverse that trend, argues Rose Whiffen. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Trump's policies are hurting everyone except for the richest 1%. "New Golden Age" for whom?

If we’re not gonna force Big Tech to make their algorithms transparent, then at least these social media platforms should be required to provide users the option to only see posts from those they choose to follow in chronological order. Call it the Don’t Algorithm Me, Bro law.

The Kirk murder is Trump’s Reichstag Fire! Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

"There has never been — nor will there ever be — any other player like Ken Dryden. He was unique. And I am so honoured to have been able to call him my friend." — by @spaikin.bsky.social

The solution to generational inequality is not for younger Canadians to work harder and save smarter. The hard truth of our broken generational system is that the deck is stacked against them. Want change? Join us! www.gensqueeze.ca #cdnpoli

🚨 According to a recent YouGov poll of polls, #Labour are losing more votes (26%) to progressive parties than to #Reform or the #Tories (14%). Why can't #Starmer and the likes of Morgan McSweeney see this obvious fact??? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Saving the country from Nigel Farage is the urgent, patriotic duty of this government; it is vital that it prevents an extremist, racist, authoritarian takeover which would be against the will of the overwhelming majority of the population”. Yes! And it needs to dramatically change course to do so

Economic crises tend to help the right because voters assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Stronger labour laws don’t just help workers. They improve life for everyone. By @policyalternatives.ca Senior Researcher and Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Niall Harney: theclarion.ca/politicslaw/...

As inflation continues apace, the labor market shrinks, and GDP growth slows, people are starting to whisper the S-word: stagflation. The Fed’s options are limited, and Trump’s ridiculous budget cuts won’t fix the problem. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/Cirt7eU

British economic sentiment is following the US in becoming an increasingly partisan signal. There has been a red-blue sentiment gap for decades, but it’s widening (data: @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social / @keiranpedley.bsky.social)

Privatisation cult destroying UK. UK gave away North Sea oil/gas, low fees/tax, collected $11 a barrel revenue, wasted on tax cuts for corporations/rich Norway didn't, levied higher tax, got $30 a barrel. Norway has $2trn sovereign fund. UK has economic crisis, still obsessed with privatisation

This is our original article from 2014 - noting the higher level of disaffection among UKIP supporters. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

One of the best people ever born/made. I will miss his remarkably gentle and wise presence. www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...

Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre

According to a new WSJ poll, a record-low share of Americans feel optimistic about improving their standard of living, while a record-high say the American dream no longer holds true. What really happened to the American Dream? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-to-the-american

"Should Canada recognize that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza?" Yes: 64% No: 36% Mainstreet / Sept 1, 2025 / n=1008 / MOE 3.1% / IVR

Here is a problem. The UK has low economic growth, low investment, faltering public services, rising poverty. Despite failures, govts cling to same policies - privatisation, PFI, wage/benefit cuts, no curbs on profiteering, won't redistribute. UK is stuck in that loop. Why do govts not rethink?