Was about to install Forza Horizon as I’m obvs a massive weaboo but despite setting the game in Japan you can’t drive a Nissan Cube? Unplayable garbage, no thank you

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Voters think they can have it all: an affordable life and a livable planet. They are right. Both is at the core of an anti-fascist economics that centers on making life livable for all rather than letting the far right dystopia of a burning planet rule. Chart via @triofrancos.bsky.social

a defining question for anyone concern-farming re Truss events: what does LDI stand for?

this sort of nonsense alights just how important antidemocracy is to the far right. if people want to elect an immigrant then let them. if a characteristic of a person is enough to make people not want to vote for them that is terrible but it’s also a hyperminority view (which is why they say this)

In shorter contributions, @jimmcmahon.co.uk calls for economic democratisation, @pollybillington.bsky.social makes the case for place-based economic development, and @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social discusses how to ensure growth delivers an "economic feel-good factor"

In two major essays, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social sets out the demand deficiency currently holding back the UK economy, outlines an affordability agenda to increase household confidence, and calls for an agile, market-shaping state that can intervene to boost productivity

as gilt markets tremble, time again for my 'Bank of England has too much fiscal power, in the wrong hands' chat with Andy Haldane. On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain? www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

The British millennial song is That’s Not Me and it brings me great pain to admit it.

Why you shouldn’t sell your retail business to asset stripping vultures and venture capital, example #100000000

Pleased to once again get the chance to make the case for compulsory voting, this time in a report for Labour Together. I set out why compulsory voting would rebalance British democracy towards a more long-termist progressive politics.

🚩 happy May Day from the Co-operative Party :-) 🚩

Endlessly proud to be a part of the team and a part of the movement that’s made this possible. Tonight, your pubs, your music venues, your sports halls are all safer and more secure. Community assets in community hands. 🙌

shot w @halideapp.bsky.social kino :-)

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Power belongs in your hands, not just in Westminster. Today, the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill finally passes into law, featuring a landmark Community Right to Buy. This is massive win for community power and for the co-operative movement. 🐝

The workers making British music festivals great should be the ones who own them. A UK festival just became employee-owned for the first time in history. We’re calling on the government to make this the standard, not the exception, for the creative industries.

something funny about ninajirachi is she is 26 years old meaning she is 6 years younger than me, but she seems to have experienced the pre modern internet exactly the same way I did, which can only lead me to the conclusion that Australia is a half decade behind the UK culturally

working in retail is v chic

Interesting to see the @coopparty.party.coop call for the scrapping of VAT for youth clubs and community centres 👇

happy Easter. but yesterday was better. 💍

🏡 Housing co-ops work. The problem is that UK law doesn't have a home for them. Without a proper co-operative housing tenure, co-ops have to work to legal structures built for something else, making them harder to set up, harder to scale, and harder to access. Let's change that.

His whole gimmick is being divisive, he can't even make a point about the state pension without making a snide remark suggesting that young people today who have endured wage stagnation, a housing crisis and a pandemic, all while maintaining record high employment levels, don't make a contribution

🇪🇸 NEW: Spain is showing how to unlock co-ops at scale. ✅ Make them easier to run ✅ Back them with law ✅ Recognise community energy and housing co-ops For co-ops and the wider social economy, this is how the model grows.

All they fucking do is whinge

Sorry, last post about Goodwin - this is objectively very funny indeed.

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YES! IN! OUR! BACK! YARD!

Today, the Co-operative Party is launching Yes in Our Backyard - our new report on community-led housing in the UK. The housing crisis is one of the defining failures of modern Britain. 🧵

Community-led housing has to be part of the solution to the housing crisis. We're launching our new report on community-led housing tomorrow, showcasing the stories of communities building homes, retrofitting existing buildings, and pioneering different routes to home ownership.

Markets wrong on UK interest rate rises, say economists ft.trib.al/JnmXJEj

I only got to selection as a Labour & Co-operative candidate once - then the pandemic shut down the election. It’s fantastic to have so many eager Co-operative candidates eager to deliver on our principles locally. New community powers from the government are ready for us to make the most of.

🎊 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣! 🎊 We're standing over 1,000 candidates at this year's Local Elections. Our Labour and Co-operative candidates will make the case for local power, local ownership, local wealth, and local pride. 🌹🐝

Hmmmm look who is at number 235 👀

We're at @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social's Venues Day in Shoreditch seeing how co-operative models secure grassroots music. Music Venue Properties has saved 7 venues by purchasing freeholds as a Community Benefit Society. Community ownership is the key to long-term stability for live music.

i’m not really one for patient music - much to the irritation of everyone who drives with me. this however is a really lovely tense kind of patience. the drum part is soooo tight too. youtu.be/nAbJoJxq6PE?...

we must invest every penny of available capital into building Pokopia 2

Every country in Europe watched electricity prices spike last week. Belgium hit 400 €/MWh. Germany €450. Netherlands nearly €500. Spain barely moved above €100.

let's get this place HUMID!

As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust." On one of the worst people in British politics.

happy Pokémon Day. the most co-operative Pokémon is Combee, and it’s not even close

Both Samsung and Apple agentic offerings going forward thru 2026 powered by Gemini backend. Google clearly winning the consumer backend war, again

absolutely obsessed with this album, an early contender for 2026. deconstructed bridge is crazy youtu.be/QP9hiOWhFd0

Tory plan to shelve “low value” degrees gets the equation wrong. If workers in creative industries - one of UK’s most successful and lucrative industries - can’t pay back their loans, that’s because *they aren’t being valued properly*. Profits are too high and too much of the…

I think I have the solution to the youth social media issue - kids are banned from WiFi. Not the internet - WiFi. If you want to access social media you do it by plugging into Ethernet and going from there - the internet as a destination again, not as a permeable infinite space

listening to faith no more & doing lateral pull downs