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@afneil You need to get out of London, Andrew. You’ve clearly got no idea how much people here are struggling. And, yes, a lot of it can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher.
The @AndyBurnhamGM appeal is that he can reach the parts of Labour that other politicians can’t permeate, holding together both socially liberal city voters on one side and the older working class Brexit supporting towns on the other. Useful given his route back to Westminster must pass through Makerfield, a seat in a region that voted heavily to Leave. Enter the former Health Sec @wesstreeting who has decided to stir the pot. His supporters deny Wes is up to mischief but the backbencher - for now - has certainly raised the temperature by describing Brexit as a historic mistake and reopening an argument Labour has spent years desperately trying to close down. The thinking goes that the good people of Makerfield, near Wigan, will be spooked by the suggestion Britain could be back in the Euro fold before they’ve finished their meat pie barm cakes. A reference meant with fondness for my fellow pie-eaters… I know the area well, my sister lives nearby, and I grew up covering stories there for the Evening Post and Chronicle in the 70s and 80s when the miners’ strike dominated headlines. What I’m saying is don’t underestimate the good people of Makerfield. Like many communities across the North West, Brexit was never simply about Europe. It was about identity, frustration and feeling ignored. @Nigel_Farage is speaking the language of some, but not all. Locals will listen, give all sides a fair hearing and then decide who is the best candidate to give them a voice in Westminster. No political party should take them for granted.
James Cameron says he wants to make the next 2 ‘AVATAR’ films in “half the time for two-thirds of the cost.” “We’re going to be looking at some new technologies to try to do them more efficiently. Because they’re hideously expensive and take a long time.“ (Source: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…)
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham goes for a run after announcing his plans to return to Parliament
The economy sick and the left split, Labour is set to lose the next election. There is only one lever left to pull. I argue in @TheTimes at the next election Labour must campaign to Rejoin. Voters are there: 59% polled this week are ready to return. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
16 years ago tonight, Gordon Brown resigned - and things got a bit heated about what would happen to British politics next…
We’ve lost a decade since the Brexit vote, we can’t afford to lose another. Here’s how Britain could rejoin an altered EU - alongside our great allies in Ukraine - by 2036. Charles Kennedy Memorial lecture: youtube.com/live/AoPEjct-q… Also, an abridged version: thenewworld.co.uk/steve-anglesey… Thank you to the @euromove for organising and hosting.
For 20 years I worked at not working. I bought into the “4-hour work week” lifestyle bs. I profited and spent those profits on non-working essentials to maintain a not working life, but guess what? It all dried up as it inevitably would. Now I work. Work is good.
Stoicism is one of the West’s most influential philosophical traditions, and author Ryan Holiday is its greatest advocate. And so, when he says that Ivanka Trump’s praise of Marcus Aurelius is “as cringe as it possibly gets, because it’s not real and it’s totally missing the point,” anyone who cares about Stoicism should pay attention. While Ivanka’s quotation of Marcus, on how “the soul becomes dyed the color of its thoughts,” reproduces the sentence accurately, explains Holiday, she fails to live up to the philosophy because she has not, in his terms, staged “an intervention with your dad whose life would be dyed with his horrible, negative, mean bullying thoughts all the time.” But what Holiday demands of Ivanka contradicts the stoic philosophy he claims to teach. “A man must know many things first,” wrote Marcus Aurelius in Book 11, “before he be able truly and judiciously to judge of another man’s action.” And yet Holiday does not entertain the possibility that Ivanka has thought carefully about her relationship to her father, that she has considered and rejected the path of public denunciation, or that her loyalty might itself reflect a moral commitment. Instead, he assumes that her silence about her father proves her unethical. Donald Trump’s tweets, his rallies, his rhetorical style, and his political career are not Ivanka’s to control. The very first sentence of Stoic Epictetus’s Handbook says, “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions...” x.com/shellenberger/… Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video! x.com/shellenberger/…
