#Thatcherism

Robert Saunders

Whoever becomes Labour leader today, one positive outcome is assured: no one will regard them as the Messiah. They will be treated as a flawed invidual who makes mistakes &

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1. Dear Young People - and Aaron Bastani. I'm 65. We fought Thatcherism in every way we could. I had the arrests and broken arm as my reward. I slept

Zoby for EFTA🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

A thread containing lots of generalisations:It is clear that much of the reaction to the government's response to Covid-19 correlates significantly to the individual's views on both Brexit and the

First panel of the conference!First up we have Dr Lauren Barnett with 'Cabbages & Kings: Plant Horror and the Political response to climate change'#PoHoCon21 The early weird of Algernon Blackwood

With Michael Moore embracing eco-austerity calls to cut the living standards of Western workers still further after 40 yrs of wage restraint, time to give my left critique of degrowth

Andrew says stay at home, protect the NHS 💙💙💙

Ranking of post-war PMs based on ideology Thread of my thoughts on each PM from the bottom-up ‘(S)he Who Must Not Be Named did great things – terrible, yes, but

If Labour moves to the centre, we will be indistinguishable from Tories.I mean, there might be a few small differences, like how a centre-left Labour government lifted 600,000 children and

Its quite cute how British right-wingers still think that Thatcher was a conservative. What did she conserve? I would love to know. Unbridled free-market capitalism - which she unleashed in

Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony

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For a few years now, there's been this meme of putting together "_____ Gothic" lists, full of eerie narrative snippets. Like, Pacific Northwest Gothic with descriptions of timeless, perpetual rain

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[THREAD]I keep getting told Labour #Blairism is better than Tory #Thatcherism so let's explore #NEOLIBERALISM.12 years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked what was her greatest achievement? Thatcher replied:

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

1. I've talked a bit before about how the right wing of British Labour (Starmer and co) and the right wing of the Conservatives (Spiked et al) are both staffed

good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Guardian editor Lenore Taylor, ninefax economics writer Shane Wright and Phil Coorey who files political gossip and Liberal Party leaks at the AFR.

Tides of History

As we await the result of the 2020 Labour Leadership contest, read up on some of the historic battlesFrom the shock death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963 to the rise

Economists of every stripe, from Marx to Milton Friedman, have a consensus on the nature of land: "Land is a natural commons — it belongs to everyone, and that land

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Harold Wilson (11 March 1916-24 May 1995). I have lived through 14 PMs & 11 Labour Party leaders. The 25th anniversary of his death is as good a time as

KEY ENGLAND ELECTION TAKEAWAYS (thread)1) Brexit realignment continues2) Tory Party now hegemonic in much of England. 3) Elections put pay to the theory that Labour's problems were just about Corbyn.4)