this is in the middle of a whole section where her and Jon Sopel wax lyrical about how bad the 'pro-trans Stonewall bias' was at the *BBC* lmao

There’s nothing politicians and press can do to make amends for conduct that despicable, but acknowledging it now is better than basically nothing at all, which is what we’ve had for most of the last two years.

That's because "the market" is not a neutral objective force that responds predictably to stimulation. "The market" are people - frequently stupid and greedy people, who will never accept anything less than their god-given right to gorge themselves sick on YOUR money. YOUR actual money.

Costs go up of course, but making something essential to life and general human wellbeing like housing a constantly appreciating asset was always going to end up like this.

It's not even a supply and demand thing. The "market" is goading itself ever higher regardless.

We have to endure these stupid soundbites until someone calls bullshit.

The state of housing provision and affordability in the UK is indefensible, and cannot be tinkered with or tweaked to suddenly work. Whole system of commodification has failed and it's going to need some very brave people with the political will to pull the plug on it soon. Won't be Labour.

These guys required absolutely no convincing that what they really wanted was fascism, they simply needed the conversation to move enough to say it.

Now they've made it clear they had no real intentions of negotiating properly over freelance, the other thing.

Tomorrow afternoon. I'm gonna make it as brief, vague, and useless as poss.

Also implied they want me to give detailed instructions on how I shoot images to give some mook they hire in for peanuts.

First of all, fuck you, and secondly, if I could distil over ten years of professional experience into a summary document in less than a day I'd never do it for you guys.

Also have a level of "do not perceive me" that prevents me from starting another British leftist podcast to throw on the landfill.

Ah, one of the "Labour antisemitism crisis" screamers recycling old Nazi tropes into Islamophobic ones, very cool.