I am sharing this from ‘The World’ newsletter from the New York Times this morning. In it, the newsletter’s editor, Katrina Bennhold (who seems like
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Developing our thinking on the politics of care
I mentioned yesterday the issues we have encountered on social media when using the phrase the politics of care to describe the thinking I have
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YouTube does not like “care”
Over the last few days, we have put out videos with the word “care” in the thumbnail, title, or description. None has worked well, especially
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Learning political poetry writing – taught by an angry poet
An old friend of mine, the poet Steve Pottinger, put this on his Substack yesterday, and I reproduce it here with his permission: If you’ve
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If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
GDP dominates political debate, but it tells us almost nothing about real prosperity, well-being, or care. Created as a technical statistic of massive use in
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What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face
This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care. Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It
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Politics has run out of road
Neoliberal politics promised growth, efficiency, and renewal. What it has delivered is inequality, insecurity, and democratic exhaustion. The right has failed. But, as this video
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Is Farage a fascist strongman?
Is Nigel Farage the strongman who could deliver fascism to the UK? Or is that the wrong way to understand the danger he represents? In
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The centre has not held
The centre ground in British politics is dead, most especially if that so-called centre ground is described as the space occupied by Labour governments over
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