The current government is saying it doesn't support US actions in Iran while also letting the US use bases, it's then simultaneously saying it's purely defensive while also hosting B52s and B1s in RAF Fairford. Green policy is far clearer than that.
Spend less on megacity arcology
This is a really good point about regulation more widely. A lot of regulation gets complicated because the industry being regulated likes it that way.
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
I've kind of come to view Thatcherism and the developments of capitalism since then as a kind of new Enclosure Act. We own nothing and are forced to rent everything.
Wonder what's happened to the USS Abraham Lincoln. IRGC claim they damaged it, marinetraffic reckons it's somewhere near Indonesia. Not somewhere it'd be if it was participating in the war.
Feels very much the same in my neck of the woods. It's relatively affluent, but a few well loved places have had to shut up shop.
How could a DPP who very much had his finger on the pulse when it came to public perception have possibly missed the case of this very well known public figure?
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
It's quite incredible how it's somehow taboo to say the obvious truth about the UK, which is that it's a well integrated society where most people just get on with their lives no problem. Apart from a core of extremely insulated journalists and politicians who refuse to be integrated.
Classic book, still have it somewhere
Again with the performative bullshit. We all know you're a partisan Labour bullshitter. The contents of your posting just *today* is far more dishonest than anything Polanski has done.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
Bombers, famously a purely defensive weapon.
Lies from politicians are a fact of life, what matters more is the importance and scale of the lie. "I was unaware of the issues around the guy I made US ambassador" is, for example, a really bad lie.
Because someone mentioned the dumb idea of transporting it in road tankers, I did the maths, it's 16,000 tanker truckloads.
Me: "I don't want to vote Labour because Starmer supported the Gaza genocide"
Labour: Why do have all these impossible purity tests?
Me: I'm voting Green because I like what Zack Polanski is saying
Labour: How can you vote for him after HYPNOBOOBS!
The "Why can't the Green party stay as a narrow niche party we can safety ignore?" Is becoming quite a popular genre of article.
This is demanding a purity test over an issue that's ultimately very trivial.
I have questions like: Why a Seat Leon? And also was it a stylish Mk1 model or one of the later duller variants?
Basically one set of landlords (the freeholders) loses and the winners are the leaseholders, some of whom will be landlords.
Just read this story and it is very misleading. It mentions wiping out ยฃ18.7bn in wealth, but that wealth only exists due to the right to rip off leaseholders. The ยฃ8.7bn "landlords" windfall is because some of the leaseholders benefitting will be landlords.
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This "you can't solve many problems by taxing the rich" has been the conventional wisdom for ages among wonks but I'm not sure it still holds.
The sheer number of problems you can trace back to the ever increasing wealth of the rich is just huge.
The Trump administration is desperately searching for a way to back down that isn't a complete humiliation.
Interesting little snippet
Gonna take this one with a pinch of salt since only the only source on it is the US.
Here in the UK it's taken a generation for an insurgent movement in the form of the Green party to reach the stage where it might dislodge Labour.
In the US it's even more dire.
Won't happen, Labour has a terminal case of "long Blairism" better to just join the Greens before they take your seat.
It pisses me off so much how the mainstream parties a free pass for the absolute bullshit they call "policy"
