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Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour | Dan Evans | The Guardian

#class #education #paternalism #politics #technocracy #uk

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Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagining from Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production on JSTOR

#memes #paper #politics #uk | <blockquote>Thomas Hobson, Kaajal Modi, Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures:, Post Memes, pp. 327-352</blockquote>

2 years ago | View Shared by victor

Boris Johnson Knows Exactly What He’s Doing - The Atlantic

#brexit #politics #portrait #uk | <blockquote> (Several of Johnson’s advisers agreed to be candid in exchange for anonymity.) In an early phone call with Joe Biden, an aide told me, Johnson said he disliked the phrase special relationship after the president used it. To Johnson it seemed needy and weak.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all

#government #politics #uk | <blockquote>Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor

Against “sensible” politics | Prospect Magazine

#opinion #political_culture #politics #radical #uk | <blockquote>In spite of the fact most people think their own politics are "sensible," appeals to common sense are mostly about preserving the status quo—however broken it is</blockquote>

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Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate | Politics | The Guardian

#capitalism #corporations #politics #tax #uk #welfare | <blockquote>Vast sums are handed out in corporate welfare, and official silence is skewing the debate, so the public don’t know where billions of their own taxes are going</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor

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