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🕑 Added 2021-05-11 06:00:02 +0000 UTCOn consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK.
We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour continues its drift to becoming a middle-class party; while in Spain, Madrid goes to the right. Podemos flops, while voters seem to endorse an anti-lockdown stance.
Then we get to our three articles on the consequences of the pandemic: is live-streaming complicit with power? Are liberals now anti-science? Will inflation return?
Three Articles:
- Stayed home, live streamed, got the T-shirt, Lev Parker, The Conservative Woman
- The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown, Emma Green, The Atlantic (pdf attached)
- Broad commodities price boom amplifies ‘supercycle’ talk, Neil Hume et al, FT (pdf attached)
Comments
dshamz_
On the question of the lockdown being in the material interest of the PMC - isn’t being able to make a decent salary working from home part of their material interests, as opposed to most workers who can’t?
J P 3
There's nothing as punk rock right now as being pro-Keir Starmer. Negative 47 percent approval. On his way to destroying a legacy political party, not unlike François Hollande did to the Socialist Party in France from 2012 to 2017.
