➰ Last Chance Rodeo
Bluesky asked me for my date of birth, but will only let me enter a date that is 1,000 years older than I admit to being.
The Economy
Over the years in the UK, “the economy” has become the central obsession of politicians. Not education or healthcare, not aspiration or a better life for “hardworking families”. So important is “the Economy” that politicians work tirelessly to cede all control of it: to multinational corporations and other assorted rentiers, Ciry spivs, and, of course, technocrats. The same people more or less who over the last 40 years drove “the Economy” into the ground.
These politicians and their highbrow friends in academia and the media then puzzle about widespread disengagement with politics and the rise of populism
The BA app for iPad is excruciatingly useless. All it presents is a screen to book a flight. No other options. If I enter a destination to book, nothing happens. Great work, British Airways!
Britain’s housing crisis needs radical action not Labour’s technocratic small beer.
Labour would oversee ‘biggest boost in affordable housing in a generation’
Having impoverished the country and precipitated a housing crisis, the Tories can’t kick off a culture war between homeowners and renters because no one can afford either. Instead in bargain basement Britain we get a government-sponsored culture war between car drivers and the rest of us.
My tip to people trafficking entrepreneurs struggling with burdensome government regulation: make a lot of noise about using AI and don’t forget the generous donations to the Tory party.
I’m doing the Hackney Legal Walk on Saturday to raise money for Citizens Advice. Their advice helps people assert their rights, leading to over £2M income gained by residents of East London in July and August alone.
More proof should you need it that the Tories think you are stupid.
Hello younger voters👋. You’ve heard that politics doesn’t offer you anything because you don’t vote. That’s only half the story. Politicians didn’t pay attention to deplorables or Brexiters until they voted the wrong way. You don’t need go fuck-barking, but do put the shits up the politicians.
What is remarkable about this is not that almost 80% of the electorate don’t trust Sunak on the environment, but that 20% of them are so terminally gullible and stupid that it’s a wonder they’ve lived to reach voting age.
Only 22% of Britons trust Sunak on climate, finds Guardian poll