{"id":83075,"date":"2025-06-13T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83075"},"modified":"2025-06-13T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:42:20","slug":"a-profoundly-hostile-world-where-the-odds-are-stacked-in-favour-of-a-desperate-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/13\/a-profoundly-hostile-world-where-the-odds-are-stacked-in-favour-of-a-desperate-few\/","title":{"rendered":"A profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is another day where there is much more to say than there is time to do it in.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's actions in seeking to control the National Guard in California are now subject to a legal dispute. He lost round one. What is clear is that this is all a diversionary tactic by a desperate fascist, desperate to foster tension.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu is doing the same by attacking Iran, and people are losing their lives again.<\/p>\n<p>And here Labour says it has no intention of backing down on benefit cuts, none of which are necessary.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in a profoundly hostile world, where the odds are stacked in favour of a desperate few.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the Age of Aggression looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is another day where there is much more to say than there is time to do it in. Trump&#8217;s actions in seeking to control<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/13\/a-profoundly-hostile-world-where-the-odds-are-stacked-in-favour-of-a-desperate-few\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,203,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-fascism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83076,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83075\/revisions\/83076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}