Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:46 pm Would be an huge step. But are they still blocking the dustcarts?To be honest, apart from the recycling piled on a few inner-city streets you'd hardly know it was happening. Our bins get emptied every week; not always on the right day but they go eventually.
He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh airhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1754042991
Simon Jenkins
. The president with whom he is becoming comparable is Teddy Roosevelt after 1900. He too tested the limits of presidential power. He too was frantic to lead the daily news agenda. But he too seemed to care about America’s natural environment, its forests and deserts, and a role for Washington in their custodianship.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:45 pmWhat is the point of Simon Jenkins?He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh airhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1754042991
Simon Jenkins
In which a plan to build a ballroom in the White House and a hatred of wind turbines, is produced as evidence for this laughable conclusion.
. The president with whom he is becoming comparable is Teddy Roosevelt after 1900. He too tested the limits of presidential power. He too was frantic to lead the daily news agenda. But he too seemed to care about America’s natural environment, its forests and deserts, and a role for Washington in their custodianship.
Wes Streeting said to be eyeing up No 10 – but how will doctors’ strikes affect his chances?No evidence is offered that Streeting is "eyeing up No 10". Never mind, stick that in the headline, watch the internet run with it. The article is actually fine.
His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says. This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.”
Instead Kemp uses the term Goliaths to describe kingdoms and empires, meaning a society built on domination, such as the Roman empire: state over citizen, rich over poor, master over slave and men over women. He says that, like the biblical warrior slain by David’s slingshot, Goliaths began in the bronze age, were steeped in violence and often surprisingly fragile.
Goliath states do not simply emerge as dominant cliques that loot surplus food and resources, he argues, but need three specific types of “Goliath fuel”. The first is a particular type of surplus food: grain. That can be “seen, stolen and stored”, Kemp says, unlike perishable foods.
“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited. And even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem.”Yeah, man.
Labour does not deserve to win next election without change, Reeves saysThe Guardian really doesn't like Rachel Reeves. Every other article seems to be framed in terms of Reeves blocking their favourite solution, a wealth tax. You could equally frame her period in office with fairly large increases in spending, investment and borrowing. But they've decided the clicks are with making Reeves sound like Ronald Reagan.
Chancellor admits voter frustration as government faces renewed calls from Labour politicians for a wealth tax
Chancellor’s attempt to intervene in car finance scandal branded ‘disgraceful’The intervention didn't happen, because the Supreme Court decision wasn't as damaging to the car leasing industry as it might have been. But the Guardian reported Reeves might have intervened, and here's a Lib Dem MP to keep the story alive.
Defending industry over consumers sends ‘really bad message’, says Treasury committee member Bobby Dean
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