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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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I note that cluxon has his ride to aus via the air force.
I know he used to 'run an airline' but I'm pretty sure he couldn't tell a good aircraft from a poor one.
But, he is now making noises bout updating planes. Is this a deliberate airforce ploy, and are they taking the piss.
Me a cynic? nah.
Tory peer Michelle Mone and her husband were interviewed by the BBC about the millions they and their family made flogging shit PPE to the NHS and the lies she and her lawyers told denying her involvement in the scam. Train wreck covers it.
'For Mone this was a train wreck of an interview with Christmas bells on'
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/23995615.michelle-mones-bbc-interview-spectacular-goal/
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | 17th December 2023 | Baroness Michelle Mone Exclusive Interview
Context.
I interviewed Michelle Mone. She makes every grasping, lazy peer look like an angel
Camilla Long
Sunday November 27 2022, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Times
https://archive.li/LnUS3
Capitalism is dead, yes, all it's forms are still around. But the reality is we are in something new. Neo-feudalism is a term I'm hearing to describe what we now have, not sure it fits, but best description I've seen so far . All I know is that it's starting to look more destructive than capitalism, is authoritarian, completely nasty, brutish and very, very anti working class.
Yanis Varoufakis latest offering
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-capitalism-ukraine-interview
Pretty sure that was still capitalism, vis a vis Marx