Stubborn imperialists, why put inches on both sides of a measuring tape, it makes no sense

We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption

Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies.

Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied.

Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains.

Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.

And 3/2! we need to build more but there's a whack situation in rural areas (maybe in urban too, idk) that the onus is being placed on volunteer groups to build housing while existing stock disappears exponentially faster for extractive profit. That's the problem- not humans living in their homes!

Yeah there are older people living here alone (potentially lonely) because the younger generations of their family can't afford to- but here the scarcity of housing is absolutely an illusion. We have plenty of houses- it's just there's been a political choice not to regulate what happens to them 2/2

Within my rural community council area, with its roughly 280 resident households, non existent private rental market and utterly unaffordable-to-local wages purchase market, there are approx 200 houses not in use as homes. 1/2

Aaarrggh, it's so brilliant! Love your work.

Richard Tice is worth £40 million
Farage is worth £3-7 million
Zia Yusuf is £31 million

And people are like “THeY’Re gOiNg to fIX tHE sYsTem!”

What, the one that made them all obscenely rich?

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Love Anyway You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that…

Much wisdom, as always, from @mariapopova.bsky.social and The Marginalian - a great resource #psychology #culture #philosophy

Love Anyway www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/22/l...

Yeesh

Also this

As someone who waitressed for 20 years, I can confirm telegraph types were consistently less bearable than children and a lot less fun to be around

Ooft!

A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss Recording what has been erased—and making sense of what remains.

Gaza is now buried beneath 68 million tons of rubble. How does one, in the face of such destruction, refuse to be defined solely by loss?
https://bit.ly/3ZTp53S

Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation - Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation

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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Alistair Heath: ‘Why this woke left generation’s refusal to be murdered is ruining Britain’s economy’

Board of Peace - Season 1

COME HOME, DONALD - Alastair McIntosh — The Porch (Photo above of abandoned settlement looking down towards where Donald Trump’s maternal ancestors were evicted on the Isle of Lewis.) Donald Trump was a controversial name in his mother’s home natio...

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'The Far Trees'
Charcoal & Oil Paint Sketch

'Fertile Earth (waiting for a plough)'
Ink

Weet-a-dix!

Haaahahaaaa

HA!

OCTOBER UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4850 landholdings (76.55% rural Scotland). The project is financed solely by subscription income which is not rising as fast as expansion expenditure so may have to slow the project down. Subscriptions start at £5 whoownsscotland.org.uk

Autumn Leaves (Autumn 1), by Isla Ratcliff track by Isla Ratcliff

My daughter @islaratcliff.bsky.social has just released a single Autumn Leaves (Autumn I) from her forthcoming album which is a Scottish trad interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons published 300 years ago in 1725. Album is due out November islaratcliff.bandcamp.com/track/autumn...

They must have some sort of supporting staff that are tired

@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy

Night Sky on Mars

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