Peter Moore

When I lived in the US I would marvel at people I knew were on like $200k talking about taxing the rich and being legitimately upset to be told that was *them*

And at least one key takeaway is that this all goes much deeper than Netanyahu trying to avoid prison, and that if the international community is going to actually grapple with the crimes in Gaza it needs to grapple with *Israel* as an issue not just a few of its leaders.

But there are voices - disproportionately it must be said emigré Israelis! - who have seen all of this coming down the track, and I think it is time that we pay a lot closer attention to what they have been saying.

The problem of nutpicking - picking the nuttiest arguments of your opponents to argue against - has poisoned a lot of issues, but it feels particularly bad here because I feel a lot of 'sensible' criticism of the fundamental nature of Israel has been ignored in favour of the red triangle brigade

I quote this not to criticise but because it neatly states something I think a lot of people in influential positions are feeling, but: A starting point is to get that Israel as they knew it has not existed for a long time, and that critics of Israel have understood this for a while

Anyway it's the teens I feel sorry for, I'm not quite sure how you can be expected to grow up in a world that doesn't really want you to grow up

I only have the fuzziest of outlines but it's been playing in my mind for a while that a lot of the social trends that we have problems with now are in a lot of ways a crisis of adulthood, of lots of people not wanting to shoulder those duties, but also not wanting others to have that independence

if we took every penny every billionaire has, trump's campaign would've been starved for funding, media wouldn't be owned by right wing billionaires, kamala harris would be president right now and thus there wouldn't have been a $4T hole punched in the debt to extend Trump's tax cut

Yeah you need a bit of distance to perceive it. I always get the shits visiting my American family but for the decade I lived in the US and visited the UK I was always surprised how randomly I ended up hungover just seeing, like, aunts.

They're right but given all the other ways that Britain is basically hypertension island they should keep quiet.

It says serious damage which I am not entirely sure what that means but I am fairly sure that spray painting something that was still left in working order doesn't count.

Compare and contrast arrests under the PTA in NI and the corresponding death totals with today's arrests in London alone - its crazy, counter-productive and Labour will rue the day...

It's increasingly disturbing to me that the current lot saw the Tories do all sorts of rightwing culture stuff and shore up their support and don't seem to get that was because they were pandering to their base rather than because it pandered to the middle.

i love when progressive americans are like "we need walkable cities and a vaguely social democratic government and a broadly secular culture but also i think the aesthetics and vibes of catholicism are cool" you yearn to visit montréal and you dont even know it

this type of thing doesn't protect humanity it never can. It can only ever demean it. It's terrifying that some people who are apparently making some effort to understand cannot see this and the danger we are all in in the future if we allow some of us to be so thoroughly dehumanised

I’ve already reposted this but it’s absurd that the government’s position is that Harriet Harman MP and the Gordon Brown Government wrote a very strict toilet ban and then just forgot to mention it for 15 years. Thankfully the Court found it out.

Oh man somehow this slightly broke my heart. I'm putting my phone down now and going to get my kids from nursery early.

At a certain point we will look back on the era of listed companies being mainly concerned with profits with the sort of nostalgia boomers have when they talk about butchers and proper binmen.

Discrimination against a helpless minority, practised and affirmed under a Labour government, like it’s just some normal thing to do to people, to invent new ways to make their lives difficult, because you’re irrationally terrified of their existence.

i still can’t believe the Supreme Court ruled that when Parliament passed legalisation with the express intention of codifying trans people’s rights, what it was actually doing was bringing in the most draconian anti-trans legislation in the western world

"Hahahahaha, how do you like it now motherfucker?"

- Hegel

"Guy who buys a risky investment in a highly regulated market on credit" waaah waaah where are my guaranteed returns waaahhh

The deeper problem - perhaps the fundamental problem in this area - is that we have organized housing so that provision of a basic service is completely intertwined with a speculative asset market. The long run goal should be to disentangle them.

The problem is that 80% of the time what follows isn't really a left reckoning with where we actually are but a basically retvrn politics of giving us back what the boomers cast away, with Corbyn as turncoat boomer in chief and no clear idea of how to get from A to B.

The superpower of the left in the UK is that they don't politely avert their gaze from all the load bearing lies that prop up the current system, and as more and more lies pile up their hit rate is growing and growing.

It's a historic fumble that the UK has pretty much the most left favourable fundamentals in the developed world at the moment - even down to our young men being among the least susceptible to swinging right hard - but this is the outcome.

Suspect it will always be easier than they want if only cos it is hard to think of a more rabidly motivated group than parents going to bat for their unusually vulnerable children.

(Feel the need to say that I just checked what catacomb actually means and I need to clarify I don't mean there is a cemetery under a major London station and just that there is a big intermittently abandoned cargo depot)

I used to work at a huge railway station in London and had clearance for every part of it. You'd be surprised how huge the back of house is, and my favourite part of it was just spending night shifts when it was shut poking around the Victorian catacombs.

M&S in HMRC row over Wimbledon strawberry and cream sandwich

as an American, this is my imagined platonic ideal of a British headline

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