Did I tell you to stop gloating yet? Did I say, “Simon Says?” There you go then. Now you may well ask yourself why I’m choosing to focus on this instead of the many other great and terrible things that are happening and the answer is I’ve been diagnosed with clinical Depression and Anxiety as …
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Jun 09 2017
Joy At The Sadness Of Others
Ok, so I lied. I think gloating is very important, so much so that it should be considered one of the 4 basic food groups along with grease, salt, and chocolate. In my rise to capo di tutti I found nothing as important as poor sportsmanship except remembering to strike first without warning and kicking …
Jun 09 2017
Not Gloating
No, not me. It would be beneath my dignity. After losing her majority in an unnecessary election, Theresa May now wants ‘stability’. But we shouldn’t gloat by Mark Steel, The Independent Friday 9 June 2017 The important thing now, says Theresa May, is to enjoy a “period of stability”. This is always the tricky part …
Jun 08 2017
May Loses Majority!
According to the Washington Post exit polling indicates that the Tories will lose 16 seats to finish at 314 (down from 330 before today) and Labour will gain 34 to finish at 266 (up from 232). A governing majority is 326 leaving the Tories 12 in deficit as opposed to a 4 seat cushion. This …
Jun 08 2017
Stiglitz on Austerity
From our other Nobel Laureate. This is framed around the British Snap Elections but really it’s universally applicable. Austerity. Does. Not. Work. In the long run it doesn’t work even for the .01%ers who favor it. It is simply Puritan Morality written as Public Policy. That’s not some wild eyed Lefty redistributionist theory, that’s Samuelson …
Jun 08 2017
For The Many, Not The Few
Don’t be so negative. Final speech before the election, not final speech ever. I’d trade 2 Obamas for him.
Jun 07 2017
An Election Of Hope
We were told Corbyn was ‘unelectable’. His fightback shows he’s anything but by Gary Younge, The Guardian Tuesday 6 June 2017 At a drinks party in central London, not long after Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader of the Labour party first time round, a young journalist talked me through the facts as she saw …
Jun 07 2017
The Councils of the Quislings
Labour Centrists Have A Problem: Jeremy Corbyn Is Doing Too Well by Jim Waterson, BuzzFeed June 06, 201 The plan for Labour centrists, as much as there ever was one, went something like this: Jeremy Corbyn, faced with a snap general election called by a triumphant prime minister buoyed by stunning poll ratings, would inevitably …
Jun 05 2017
Pogrom
(A) violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term originally entered the English language in order to describe 19th and 20th century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire. … Similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively …
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