Why depend on growth to bring in the revenue to pay for public goods? Why not organise the economy around other principles including resilience in the face of climate change, and social justice?
theconversation.com/why-the-uk-s...?
theconversation.com/why-the-uk-s...?
Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all
Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Why depend on growth to bring in the revenue to pay for public goods? Why not organise the economy around other principles including resilience in the face of climate change, and social justice?
theconversation.com/why-the-uk-s...?
theconversation.com/why-the-uk-s...?
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
‘…it’s going to require everyone to be very big and very brave to beat not just Reform, but the causes of Reform.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
‘…it’s going to require everyone to be very big and very brave to beat not just Reform, but the causes of Reform.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
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New report: The far Right in Britain has become an industry, with its influencers increasingly earning big money.
"A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters
now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists"
irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
"A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters
now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists"
irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New report: The far Right in Britain has become an industry, with its influencers increasingly earning big money.
"A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters
now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists"
irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
"A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters
now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists"
irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brewed in 2016 - how a Tory government’s deliberate politicisation of the BBC governance structure led directly to this crisis.
theconversation.com/the-politica...?
theconversation.com/the-politica...?
The political meddling that led to BBC crisis – and how to stop it in the future
This peculiar arrangement of political appointments therefore effectively gave partisan appointees a veto over a crucial senior management decision.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Brewed in 2016 - how a Tory government’s deliberate politicisation of the BBC governance structure led directly to this crisis.
theconversation.com/the-politica...?
theconversation.com/the-politica...?
The BBC must stand up to Marie Antoinette!
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The BBC must stand up to Marie Antoinette!
Watching Newsnight is instructive. Barry Gardiner, arch rebel, lays out the conciliatory line, and barking mad Maurice Glasman pulls out a pistol and shoots his ostensible colleague in the head.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Watching Newsnight is instructive. Barry Gardiner, arch rebel, lays out the conciliatory line, and barking mad Maurice Glasman pulls out a pistol and shoots his ostensible colleague in the head.
Ben Jennings in The Guardian.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Ben Jennings in The Guardian.
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And if you want to read on why a leadership challenge is likely and who the candidates to replace Starmer are....
samf.substack.com/p/who-might-...
samf.substack.com/p/who-might-...
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And if you want to read on why a leadership challenge is likely and who the candidates to replace Starmer are....
samf.substack.com/p/who-might-...
samf.substack.com/p/who-might-...
‘The revelations raise questions about whether a network of Trump-aligned interests helped engineer the BBC’s worst governance crisis in a decade.’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
‘The revelations raise questions about whether a network of Trump-aligned interests helped engineer the BBC’s worst governance crisis in a decade.’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
Bobandroberta Smith
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Bobandroberta Smith
I was flicking through a copy of George Borrow’s Wild Wales in a second hand bookshop when I cane across this bookmark.
Other times. Lost opportunities.
Other times. Lost opportunities.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I was flicking through a copy of George Borrow’s Wild Wales in a second hand bookshop when I cane across this bookmark.
Other times. Lost opportunities.
Other times. Lost opportunities.
The BBC is under siege. It has been for a long time.
But now it’s us, the people who think we ought to have access to free and fair media, who are also besieged.
So stand by the BBC, whatever its flaws, because without it everything becomes so much worse.
But now it’s us, the people who think we ought to have access to free and fair media, who are also besieged.
So stand by the BBC, whatever its flaws, because without it everything becomes so much worse.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The BBC is under siege. It has been for a long time.
But now it’s us, the people who think we ought to have access to free and fair media, who are also besieged.
So stand by the BBC, whatever its flaws, because without it everything becomes so much worse.
But now it’s us, the people who think we ought to have access to free and fair media, who are also besieged.
So stand by the BBC, whatever its flaws, because without it everything becomes so much worse.
‘Can an institution under permanent threat from well-resourced critics maintain editorial independence by admitting every mistake during political negotiations when every admission will be weaponised to destroy it?’
7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
The BBC Crisis and the Impossible Institution
Real editorial failures, compromised oversight, and why structural dependence on government funding makes independence impossible
7thin.gs
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
‘Can an institution under permanent threat from well-resourced critics maintain editorial independence by admitting every mistake during political negotiations when every admission will be weaponised to destroy it?’
7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
The programmes that tend to trip up the BBC are made by independent production companies. Why? Because successive Tory governments have demanded such outsourcing. The Right’s war on the BBC has been going on a long time.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The programmes that tend to trip up the BBC are made by independent production companies. Why? Because successive Tory governments have demanded such outsourcing. The Right’s war on the BBC has been going on a long time.
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Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
‘Who, bluntly, would you trust more to be impartial on the Middle East—Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott or Lyse Doucet?’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
‘Who, bluntly, would you trust more to be impartial on the Middle East—Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott or Lyse Doucet?’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
I’m a very keen reader of fiction, but a far-right ‘erotic novel’ is not a genre I’ve explored. I did try to read Edwina Currie’s first novel, but I love literature, so I gave up quickly. If anyone can offer a review of this thrilling tale, I’d be interested.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Another suspended councillor and a mucky book row - just an average week for Reform in Kent
Another councillor has been suspended over a leaked video while one claims he was booted out for writing an "erotic novel" at Reform's flagship council
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I’m a very keen reader of fiction, but a far-right ‘erotic novel’ is not a genre I’ve explored. I did try to read Edwina Currie’s first novel, but I love literature, so I gave up quickly. If anyone can offer a review of this thrilling tale, I’d be interested.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
This is fascinating. But you wouldn’t know it if you listened to the 3 men with predictably similar outlooks talking around it on the Today programme at 8.00 am (Rajan, Gove, McTague).
So I’m sharing this as a public service!
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uks-sen...
So I’m sharing this as a public service!
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uks-sen...
UK's sense of division reaches new high as culture war tensions grow, study finds | King's College London
Growing numbers say the nation feels divided and they would like the country to return to how it used to be
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is fascinating. But you wouldn’t know it if you listened to the 3 men with predictably similar outlooks talking around it on the Today programme at 8.00 am (Rajan, Gove, McTague).
So I’m sharing this as a public service!
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uks-sen...
So I’m sharing this as a public service!
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uks-sen...
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @arusbridger talks to the FT’s Janine Gibson about the BBC. Is a right-wing cabal in control of it? Plus: Britain declines to join Brazil’s COP30 rainforest fund.
The BBC is in a mess
Plus: Britain declines to join COP30 rainforest fund
prospectmagazine.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @arusbridger talks to the FT’s Janine Gibson about the BBC. Is a right-wing cabal in control of it? Plus: Britain declines to join Brazil’s COP30 rainforest fund.
The UK media, led by the increasingly unhinged BBC, is baying for the scalp of the man who has been Justice Secretary for 5 mins. Why is no one talking about Chris Grayling, the one-man wrecking ball from whom prisons & probation have never recovered?
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The UK media, led by the increasingly unhinged BBC, is baying for the scalp of the man who has been Justice Secretary for 5 mins. Why is no one talking about Chris Grayling, the one-man wrecking ball from whom prisons & probation have never recovered?
Technically Birmingham is a forest….
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/from-concret...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/from-concret...
From concrete jungle to greenest city in Europe
‘Does Birmingham even have any trees?’
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Technically Birmingham is a forest….
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/from-concret...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/from-concret...
Leave him, and take the kids.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity
US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Leave him, and take the kids.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
