Noughty Taughty
@noughtytaughty
Secular cyclist, grateful Gen Xer, humanities scholar, beer connoisseur, political sceptic, wannabe poet, reluctant teacher, comics fanboy, cat charmer, woodland walker.
This is mid-80s US data - old, but suggestive, esp with Starmer seeking to join his new European arms race with his growth narrative. That is, he wants us to believe that diverting funding from public services to defence is jobtastic. I'm not sure it's the finest job creation strategy available.
Underlying Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing of Gaza - as has been often noted by commentators - is the fact that when it stops, he'll lose office, and a legal process will begin that's likely to land him in jail. So the sound of the bombs can never stop. Unless Israelis remove him from office.
...and f*ck all work on weekends, and f*ck all work for kids. And the same for those with wealth and authority. That's social justice.
FT data found on Adam Tooze's substack today. Looks like Trump is committing political suicide. Not for the first time I wonder if Trump 2.0 = Truss 1.0.
"If I told them once, I told them a thousand times: Put "Spinal Tap" first and "puppet show" last."
Good bit of probably unreliable historical / theological data. What's not to like?
And right there is why Swift deserves to be famous. And why the business bros are [fill in expletive].
Scary escalation in US student debt, courtesy of Adam Tooze's substack.
Probably not for the squeamish but hilarious the way that Peter Jackson's Bad Taste is hilarious. I absolutely loved it.