Eunice Goes
Political scientist at @RichmondUniLdn. Interested in parties and ideologies and quite a few other things. More of a fox than a hedgehog.
- Great reporting by @pronouncedalva.bsky.social. But it does not reflect well on Starmer and his team to present themselves as powerless and naive victims of a scheming Prince of Darkness. In fact, it reflects a fundamental lack of judgement and moral rectitude. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
- As a great user of em dashes I loved this historical dive into the usage of this punctuation mark. Contrary to received opinion, em dashes are a sign of humanity. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/9...
- It was quite infuriating to hear yesterday the former Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz blaming red tape for the lack of housing and railways in Europe when the government he was part of spent the best part of the last decade telling Europeans they couldn’t afford the welfare state, housing, etc.
- The fiscal impositions of the German government - and Scholz served in Merkel’s government - to EU member states are the main cause of the continent’s stagnation.
- It’s desperately sad that a Labour government is actively contributing to the destruction of the higher education sector in the UK. Labour’s ‘survival of the fittest’ approach to HE will mostly harm the voters and the places it was supposed to represent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Characteristically astute and sharp analysis from @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Listening to a distinguished European social democrat leader and becoming convinced that the poverty of our politics also results from the narrow intellectual hinterland of contemporary politicians. Far too many don’t go beyond the airport bookshop.
- Now, social democrats like to latch on to the idea of Abundance and the bogeyman is regulation, red tape. Everyone forgot that the main reason why Europe stop building houses, railways and so on was because apparently we couldn’t ’afford it’.
- We still, apparently, can’t afford social justice and investment in growth, etc (on side note, of course we can). But this new war on the new bogeyman - regulation - will not renew social democracy.
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View full threadThe question may not be very sophisticated but let’s face it, social democratic parties don’t offer intellectual sophistication to the young; they think that nebulous thinking is sophistication.
- But who would like to have dinner with Matthew Goodwin? That is a much more important question. Self-righteous, nasty egotists without a sense of humour but a with a narrow set of interests are rarely good company.
- Following the @financialtimes.com’s story, any attempt to rehabilitate Peter Mandelson is doomed to fail. Association with such a corrupt and immoral man will taint anyone who will try to defend him.
- Wonderful to see a Vieira da Silva in @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Chartbook. As the picture shows, her paintings are amazingly intricate and beautiful. adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...
- @beccagold.bsky.social makes an excellent case for more explicit defences of the good life and of joy and beauty by Labour politicians. renewal.org.uk/articles/pro...
