You are reinventing Jerry Cornelius

Higher levels of unionisation were objectively better

the Budget will be the moment Labour increases the tax burden on working pensioners and landlords and decline to cut public spending

what precise welfare reform is needed? hat was proposed was a cut of £5000 a year from sick and disabled people

The benefits cuts were halted or reversed - which is actually good.

And this is a government that refuses to cut spending and services

What’s worst?

The pay deals for doctors, nurses and teachers; Rail nationalisation; Renters’ rights; £40bn extra on public services; Living wage at 2/3rds median earnings; Workers rights; VAT on private schools; Breakfast clubs; £49bn on social housing; Great Britain Energy

So many disappointing!

agree

Don’t think the BBC have any business need for for Pressiential approval - so less pressure to settle.

So, indeed, Trump can no longer bring a defamation claim in the English High Court. He apparently wants to file one in Florida, but I doubt Panorama was actually broadcast there. Proving damages seems tough in my non-expert view (coupled with higher bar for defamation of public figures in the US).

President Trump said “fight” 20 times in that speech. Not exactly a distortion to quote him. A montage may have been better if more boring but this was not a distorted misrepresentation of normal political rhetoric.

The decision to keep paying Ros Atkins but basically stop him doing any of the analysis or explainers which he was a) good at and b) seemed to be quite popular in favour of co-hosting a podcast about the media is really, really baffling.

For that, you've got to look to the Senate's century long commitment to ensuring that Black Americans could be legally lynched. I am not being hyperbolic. Because in 1922, the House passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime. naacp.org/find-resourc...

The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

That essay grew into this entire book of Dispatches from an Age of Last Things. amzn.to/3JEzcW4