Adam Standring
@adamstandring
Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy. currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
There are worse places to be listening to Adam Tooze on the sorry state of the world
This fundamentally conflates ownership with implementation. What has crippled those public services still nominally under public ownership is that they have been subjected to the same forces that the rest have been - marketisation and outsourcing. The creation of pseudo markets has been a failure.
It's like the middle aged bloke version of Pat Sharp's Fun House... A warehouse full of IPAs at 50c a can. Grab all you can.
We have a political class with the political skills and nouse of a soggy crumpet
I've never really understood this as a basis of critique... Surprise, surprise, I feel morally superior to people who engage in acts I feel are morally unjustified... like yeah, that's what morals do.
I've seen time and time again how, when this critique of the media is made from the left, very sensible people dismiss it as naive populism or conspiracism. Particularly when that critique of the media is extended to questions of economic or foreign policy.
BBC Sport leading with this. It has been interesting talking to my kids about institutional corruption, the ethics of cheating, authoritarianism, commodification.
A degree in physics, and a climate campaigner, and still posting the AI overview. Oof
I'm really not sure where this idea that Starmer is ultimately a decent man comes from. - He lied to win the leadership - Presided over a purge of the party - Excluded critics from running and parachuted in mates.
I mean this response was literally one of the things used to paint the left as 'unserious' in the period 2015-2020. So it's great to see that many are coming round to this approach but I fear that ship has long sailed.
For some more context, here is the current logo of the Portuguese Socialist party, one of Labour's sister parties on the centre left.
There is literally nothing more popular in British politics than attacking Tony Blair, one of the most reviled public figures in Britain. It speaks to the political cowardice of those involved that they won't speak on the record.
These are the kinds of comments made after the establishment in your country wages a 30 year war on media studies.
There really was no introspection, no analysis of priors after the failure of the Brexit campaign.
Lots of people down on Lisa Nandy today for going AWOL from her brief but I prefer to think she's just been working on her pet project...
This seems to me an utterly bizarre defence of MPs drinking between votes. No, MPs don't have normal jobs, they come with a direct responsibility to the people who elect them.
It will never not be hilarious that one of the singular virtues of Starmer, as presented by his boosters, was his competence: