If Epping Council won it'd have been disastrous. That doesn't mean hotels are an acceptable form of accommodation, only the other day @ramfel.bsky.social released a report into how bad conditions are in them. It's that this government's alternatives are worse 3/
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Two obvious issues are: planning reform isn’t necessarily about even more deregulation. Might involve more, rather than less, strategic planning and even zoning requires an awful lot of upfront investment; and the private sector will only build pro cyclically because it needs to make a profit.

It's the definition of capitalism! (good ole Kalecki). If you are a class defined by control of the means of production then production is a nice to have, but control is a got to have.

To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

this is kind of fanon rather than explicit text, because it doesn't really matter for the purposes of writing a bond film

lockable phone pouches at the palace of westminster

*Reithianism, even, accursed phone keyboard

truly what i look for in a bond film is the deep appreciation for lore, continuity and worldbuilding

Say what you want about the tenets of Rethianism, at least it's an ethos

maybe that's just what people *say* they want, revealed preference and all that, but there's got to be at least some audience for "please don't treat me like a fucking idiot", surely

is this not "alpha" as in the manosphere bullshit? "fighting for princesses" is a tell

this is the most aggravating thing - there are quite clearly issues! BBC reporting isn't satisfactory! But these do not stem from cocking up the editing to make an insurrectionist liar sound like an insurrectionist liar and will be made worse if it keeps going the way it's going.

It was an occasional hobby of mine back on the other place to have a wee look at who young NatCon commentators were following. There's only so much you can tell about that of course but the median seemed to be somewhere right of Oswald Spengler.

The Spectator has moved on from fascist apologism to incredibly online nonsense from groyper-adjacent weirdos as part of its content, but I guess the garden parties are just that good.

I guess we'll just have to keep people born in 1955 in every single position of authority for the next thirty to fifty years. I can't see how that could possibly become unsustainable.

bitterly reminded of the journo who defended having to write for our deeply reactionary media's curious obsessions and moral panics as a form of dues-paying. has that worked out, pal

I mean what do you actually do here if the kids are all Illiberally Woke or whatever because it seems like the response is "ensure they remain at the bottom of the organisation where they belong until they know their place" and this doesn't sound sustainable