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This article is an antidote to the all too common trope in the UK among Brexiters and exceptionalists that Europe is somehow a "global bully" (while simultaneously being too weak and unable to rein in emotional France and vengeful Germany. Or something)
No. Europe is a port in a storm.
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No. Europe is a port in a storm.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
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7. You can see this pressure working simultaneously in the same government’s astonishingly draconian anti-protest laws: piling yet more measures on top of the extreme punitive regime introduced by the Tories. Want to free up some prison places? Then stop banging up peaceful protesters.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
7. You can see this pressure working simultaneously in the same government’s astonishingly draconian anti-protest laws: piling yet more measures on top of the extreme punitive regime introduced by the Tories. Want to free up some prison places? Then stop banging up peaceful protesters.
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6. As the patrimonial spiral of wealth accumulation, documented by Thomas Piketty, turns, governments become ever more punitive. The current government is abolishing most short prison sentences as an emergency response to the crisis. That’s a good thing. But the pressure won’t let up.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
6. As the patrimonial spiral of wealth accumulation, documented by Thomas Piketty, turns, governments become ever more punitive. The current government is abolishing most short prison sentences as an emergency response to the crisis. That’s a good thing. But the pressure won’t let up.
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5. If you doubt whether the economic elite exercised excessive influence over the 1997-2010 Labour government, I wrote a book about it. The short answer is: yes, it did. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/geor... 5/8
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November 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
5. If you doubt whether the economic elite exercised excessive influence over the 1997-2010 Labour government, I wrote a book about it. The short answer is: yes, it did. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/geor... 5/8