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Saw this pigeon down at Telehouse. It looks like CGI, but there’s no trickery. The flesh had been torn from its neck, exposing the spine. It was steering clear of the flock there, but was quite agile, and dodged my attempts both to feed it and to grab it to take it to the pigeon hospital.
Not sure if it’s the weather or it’s time to fly home, but the swifts are massing over the Olympic Park.
Philosophically, neoliberalism is superficial and incoherent - almost as if it were designed to appeal to uncritical, incurious swots. In practice it is a failure: enabling a rentier plutocracy’s march to fascism
“Principled” conservatives: you may think the “dash for fash” is a cynical ploy to attract voters disenfranchised by neoliberal technocrats, a plan to entrench a rentier-capitalist plutocracy, or merely an unintended consequence of incompetent electioneering. Whatever. Why are you enabling fascists?
Here’s the thing about technocrats: they find themselves running a death camp, so they set about improving the productivity of the gas chambers.
One of the problems of the modern political class in Britain is that being a person of action means being photographed in front of a whiteboard gesturing with a dry wipe marker.
The didgeridoo player at Stratford station always attracts pigeons, who stamp their feet in time to the rhythm. The electric guitar player seems to drive the birds off though.
Rejoice, elder peasants! Those high-paid, high-skilled, high-productivity jobs could soon be yours.
Over-50s could deliver takeaways, says work and pensions secretary
So, the right wing argument for not doing much about climate change is, “It’s not so bad. It’s not as if everyone will die.”