Michael
@mikeyh71.bsky.social
Scottish (expat - living in England).
Views: Green; support environmental protections and rewilding; expect equality and fairness for all; despise greed and corruption in all its forms.
Interests: hiking/walking, skiing, natural history, cookery, & family.
Views: Green; support environmental protections and rewilding; expect equality and fairness for all; despise greed and corruption in all its forms.
Interests: hiking/walking, skiing, natural history, cookery, & family.
The 70s crisis was real - inflation, oil shocks, weak industry, IMF pressure. But other options existed: social democracy, coordinated capitalism, industrial democracy, etc.
Did neoliberalism win because political and business elites rallied behind it as the 'fix' that would benefit them the most?
Did neoliberalism win because political and business elites rallied behind it as the 'fix' that would benefit them the most?
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The 70s crisis was real - inflation, oil shocks, weak industry, IMF pressure. But other options existed: social democracy, coordinated capitalism, industrial democracy, etc.
Did neoliberalism win because political and business elites rallied behind it as the 'fix' that would benefit them the most?
Did neoliberalism win because political and business elites rallied behind it as the 'fix' that would benefit them the most?
What the people of these islands need is definitely a state that looks after its citizens ahead of the billionaire oligarchs.
What's obvious is you won't realise that under Reform or the Tories.
Labour got in on the hope that they'd deliver it, but that's looking ever more questionable.
What's obvious is you won't realise that under Reform or the Tories.
Labour got in on the hope that they'd deliver it, but that's looking ever more questionable.
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
What the people of these islands need is definitely a state that looks after its citizens ahead of the billionaire oligarchs.
What's obvious is you won't realise that under Reform or the Tories.
Labour got in on the hope that they'd deliver it, but that's looking ever more questionable.
What's obvious is you won't realise that under Reform or the Tories.
Labour got in on the hope that they'd deliver it, but that's looking ever more questionable.
1975 – the welfare state (NHS, housing, education, etc.) was still delivering for the public, and the country had yet to face the shift to neoliberalism with its privatisation, austerity, cuts to public services, and the rise of a ‘greed is good’ mentality.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
1975 – the welfare state (NHS, housing, education, etc.) was still delivering for the public, and the country had yet to face the shift to neoliberalism with its privatisation, austerity, cuts to public services, and the rise of a ‘greed is good’ mentality.
Worth noting: The SNP has challenged BBC bias in Scotland for a decade. That’s not the same as right-wing “scrap the BBC” rhetoric. One is about fair representation. The other is about undermining public broadcasting.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Worth noting: The SNP has challenged BBC bias in Scotland for a decade. That’s not the same as right-wing “scrap the BBC” rhetoric. One is about fair representation. The other is about undermining public broadcasting.
Because those that benefit from this situation, also control the government.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Because those that benefit from this situation, also control the government.