The Greens now have an chance to prepare a plan for government that holds together, and promote it unapologetically, while Labour-Con-Reform circle the drain of Treasury-brained respectability politics. The prize is a complete re-engineering of political common sense. yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

To the extent politics is about feelings, it's about wanting to identify with someone who knows what they want to do with power, sets it out clearly, and is visibly having fun with it. If you want to win over the undecided, first you have to show that you can't be pushed around.

We can't leave our understanding of the world beyond our immediate experience to be shaped by billionaires and their toadies, with a sprinkling of BBC bureaucracy. We will only be able to grasp and resolve our actual differences when aren't being fed convenient fantasies by the very rich.

h/t @anthonybarnett.bsky.social

We have until July 24th to force the CMA to do its job and to pressure the govt. This is an opportunity to bring significant reform to the housing/land system in the UK, to bring real benefits to those who need housing, and those whose labour creates it. www.gov.uk/government/c...

So the government is planning to spend £39bn on housing. Meanwhile 7 companies that stand to benefit from this massive public investment are angling to escape their regulatory difficulties (evidence that they had "prevented and distorted competition") for £100mn. (£0.1bn) ...

The same day the Guardian wrote up a proposal from 7 UK housebuilders to pay £100mn to "affordable housing schemes." If the government regulator accepts the proposal it "will not have to decide whether the housebuilders broke competition law." theguardian.com/business/202...

That was my first bloot.