#Austerity

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

Has the pandemic made British people more left wing? Answer: No.(See here for the UCL team presenting their research on this https://ucl-political-science.simplecast.com/episodes/policy-and-practice-public-attitudes-to-the-state-post-covid-

Chris Thomas

cthomashealth

THREAD: On new IPPR research in today's Financial Times.We show that our definition of efficiency during austerity stripped resilience out of our health and care system.We call on government to

Joe Skeaping

JSkeaping

Over the 1990s and 2000s we got used to a politics that was pure "form", devoid of content. Politics was more like a members' club- fine if you were keen

anthony_barrows

anthony_barrows

Today I’m experiencing a “complicated happiness.” Biden is not the person who I wanted to be president, but he’s orders of magnitude better than the troglodyte he’s replacing. (1/20) I’m

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

100 years ago, Argentina was one of the richest, most successful countries in the world. Even as recently as the early 1960s, its GDP per capita was higher than that

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

There's no question that Congress needs to pass a major stimulus bill. But how big should it be? Well, @adamshersh & I answer that in a new @Groundwork paper. We

Tom Andes

thomaseandes

Though I am probably preaching to the choir, New Orleans friends, there is a very confusing proposition -- Prop 2 -- on the ballot in Saturday's runoff election. In short,

Zara Bain

zaranosaur

I think it’s really, really important that people recognise that the alarm bells about NHS resources reaching breaking point have been sounded each winter for years now, with austerity-bred budget

CLARE SAMBROOK

CLARESAMBROOK

1/ What’s going on with schools in England? How come so many academy schools controllers are super-rich supporters of #Brexit, #BorisJohnson & Michael #Gove? I’ve been investigating with @warwickmansell Here’s

David Dayen

ddayen

Unbelievable that Democrats would let this hold up a deal. The Fed facilities have almost exclusively fattened the wallets of the investor class, and the central bank has tools to

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

The mistake was in thinking that Trump was going to govern as a populist. The tax cut for the rich, the attempt to repeal ACA, massive deregulation, & perhaps the

bhargava

bhargava_06

Pattinathar wealthy man who turn into Mystic.During Chola Empire there was a city called kaveripoompattinam. There rich merchant lived and his name was sivanesan and his wife name was nyaya

Nonny Nay 'Hard Left Propagandist' 😄🌹 🌹 👊

nayright12

Thread 1.The past is, as L.P. Hartley put it, a foreign country. But can we learn anything from the extremism of the 1930s? Rise and fall in the Third Reich:

#saveuel possum brigade

eideticat

Happy Mondays #academicwitter! We have had an incredible last week, with support from @HackneyAbbott @NadineElEnany @bungatuffie (Paul Gilroy) and @lesback - @UEL_News shooting itself in the foot by firing some

Anti-Bullshit Alien

LennieMerrick1

We see the news headlines faithfully parroting the top lines of these "reports" by opaquely funded thinktanks, but have you ever actually read one? Most would not pass muster in

Homunculus 😷

tryingattimes

I think I just realised why the cipher of ‘trans rights’ (which few seem to be able to define in concrete terms) has become the sine qua non of human

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