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Just saw the film Pressure. Good watch, but probably more tension if you don't know the date of D Day going in!
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If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.
My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
Spent a week at the Edinburgh festival & fringe - my three favourite shows if you are going. #edfringe #eif
1. The Plot. Two brothers stuck in purgatory tell the story of how they got wound up in the Gunpowder Plot. Amazing acting - gripped throughout.
festival.summerhallarts.co.u…
3. Hostile. Very well put together one-man, no-words show about a wanted man stranded in the desert. Visually impressive with lots of lights, sound and smoke. Lovely chance to explore the Morningside area while there.
eif.co.uk/events/hostile
Odd #newsnight item on the 'night time economy' that barely noted changing habits causing venues to close & platformed as-expected industry pleas for taxpayer funded handouts. Only structural issue mentioned was Brexit! No dissenting economists around to put forward other side?
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The debate is not about Labour's mission. But how to achieve it in a fast-changing world.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion-…
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Jevons paradox playing out in real time.
Cheaper technology is creating more demand and more jobs.
apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-…
Great data and visuals. We need a much simpler tax and incentives system. Long shopping list every budget statement implies so many carve outs, hand outs & complexity weighing down or holding back the country.
Read the piece. Blair is basically right. Knee-jerk responses from Burnham & Streeting miss the point (theguardian.com/politics/202…). Rather than pander to members, they need to face reality Britain's prosperity problem needs radical policies to reverse. Or, literally, party's over.
Victoria line carriage told pickpockets are about and a known pickpocket has just got on so watch out ... what a joke city!
A strange death that would be made even stranger by the feeling it's been a long time coming!
The strange death of Labour England
In Gorton & Denton, Labour's discrete voter blocs have finally been torn asunder – the white working class escaping to Reform, and the graduates-with-no-future towards the victorious Greens, in alliance with immigrant populations.
Social democracy has bifurcated into two new poles of frontman national-populism and its antithesis in Polanski's eco-populism. Perhaps Labourism was just a 20th-century phenomenon, dependent on an industrial base that's no longer there. Perhaps it's had its day, making way for new, polarising political forces on our fragmentary cultural-political landscape.
Full piece HERE👇
unherd.com/2026/02/the-green…
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Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.