Tomsk
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After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
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November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
And this is before the latest anti-refugee plans announced today. The Labour/Green crossover is coming soon
NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos
📊Highest vote share Ipsos has ever recorded for the Green Party
📊Labour drop to 18%, equal to their prev. lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 09)
📊Reform UK drop 1 pt since Sept, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
📊Highest vote share Ipsos has ever recorded for the Green Party
📊Labour drop to 18%, equal to their prev. lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 09)
📊Reform UK drop 1 pt since Sept, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
And this is before the latest anti-refugee plans announced today. The Labour/Green crossover is coming soon
I have hope that in the end the side with the good typography will prevail
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I have hope that in the end the side with the good typography will prevail
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I could almost understand Labour's determination to keep our incredibly dangerous voting system if they ever bothered to use their big majorities to do anything meaningful in government
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 34% (=)
LAB: 16% (-3)
CON: 16% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 17-18 Sep.
Changes w/ 10 Sep.
RFM: 34% (=)
LAB: 16% (-3)
CON: 16% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 17-18 Sep.
Changes w/ 10 Sep.
September 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I could almost understand Labour's determination to keep our incredibly dangerous voting system if they ever bothered to use their big majorities to do anything meaningful in government
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association
Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted.
Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...
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August 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
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Education is a public good which should be funded out of general taxation. Anyone who wants to defend our universities needs to firmly and repeatedly insist on this point, and not concede an inch to the facile Thatcherite logic that got us into this mess.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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August 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Education is a public good which should be funded out of general taxation. Anyone who wants to defend our universities needs to firmly and repeatedly insist on this point, and not concede an inch to the facile Thatcherite logic that got us into this mess.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
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"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."
What It Took To Win
Thoughts on Zohran Mamdani's Popular Front
www.unpopularfront.news
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."
Just the right amount of incorrectness in there to make it annoying enough to post
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
The ones we love: all 16 of REM’s albums – ranked!
As their album Fables of the Reconstruction turns 40, we assess REM’s hugely varied discography, from mysterious masterpieces to commercial failures
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June 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just the right amount of incorrectness in there to make it annoying enough to post
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
He's going to be made to walk the plank sooner or later, isn't he? Surely some of the 411 must have a sense of self-preservation.
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He's going to be made to walk the plank sooner or later, isn't he? Surely some of the 411 must have a sense of self-preservation.
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New post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.
Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
I’m on holiday, and wasn’t going to write a blog post this week. But after a splendid day out on the Northumbrian coast I made the mistake...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.
And means the speaker has zero exposure to EDI in the real world
Saying DEI instead of EDI is like spelling colour color.
May 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
And means the speaker has zero exposure to EDI in the real world
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"Nurse! More poison!"
May 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Nurse! More poison!"
Somehow fitting that the Observer bows out of the Scott trust with possibly their worst ever editorial (a high bar to clear)
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The supreme court judgment gives protections to women at the same level as other groups
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April 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Somehow fitting that the Observer bows out of the Scott trust with possibly their worst ever editorial (a high bar to clear)
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It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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April 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Turns out an AI trained on George Osborne budgets can also deliver a Labour budget
AI should replace some work of civil servants under new rules, Keir Starmer to announce
AI should replace some work of civil servants under new rules, Keir Starmer to announce
The new digital ‘mantra’, which aims to save the government £45bn, prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials
AI should replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard under new rules that…
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March 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Turns out an AI trained on George Osborne budgets can also deliver a Labour budget
Will be interesting to see what comes first: the US attempting to dismantle the IMF, or the US going cap in hand to it for a bail-out.
Trump names Bitcoin and others as part of coming ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’
Trump names Bitcoin and others as part of coming ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’
Trump
buff.ly
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Will be interesting to see what comes first: the US attempting to dismantle the IMF, or the US going cap in hand to it for a bail-out.
Please let the debt brake leave politics with him...
🇩🇪‼️ Lindner announces that he will leave politics. His party, a mainstay of German post-war politics, is in rubbles. And not without causing much damage in Europe too
February 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Please let the debt brake leave politics with him...
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I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.
February 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.
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Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing *exactly what he said he would*?
February 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing *exactly what he said he would*?