#GOVERNMENT

Jesus. I have just read Gove's Ditchley lecture and I am frothing. "Can we demonstrate the effectiveness of what we have done with other people’s money?" he asks. No. You've
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This is encouraging news and will give hope to business that a sustainable route out of lockdown is emerging.https://twitter.com/smyth_chris/status/1253220430749597696 No one can reasonably expect governments to have a crystal ball
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"We have no savings. I still have no job."As the pandemic drags on, families' savings are wiped out as they're pushed to the brink with no relief in sight.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/coronavirus-saving
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While giving the concluding remarks on a motion titled “Power Sector Recovery Plan and the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic,” on the floor of the Senate today, I called for the
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One pathology of libertarian thinkers is their tendency to equate power with its abuses. We are coming out of a century of spectacularly bad and abusive government. The existence of
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Keynes's 1940 pamphlet "How to Pay For the War" reframed the question of large-scale project financing. Rather than focusing on money (which governments can print at will), it focused on
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I thought the speech was actually pretty good - v serious and v heavily caveated. I also thought PM was a little emotional at the end. That said...there are a
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my question as a clueless outsider is, how do you know that the tax money will be well-spent and not end up mostly paying for military drones and police robodogshttps://twitter.com/jdmaccoby/status/1381598690742312961
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THREAD: 1,000 word piece by newly-elected Momentum co-chairs. Not one mention of words Tory, Conservative, Government or Boris Johnson, no criticism of Tory councils but a targeted attack on Labour
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This thread will explain briefly what’s happening. I will also post the evidence so you can all look at it.1. In 2005 Tony Blair was PM, George W Bush was
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UofT has published a document called "Sources of Government Financial Support During Covid-19 - A Guide for Graduate Students." the first section states that grad students will most likely not
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Every day we learn about city councils passing motions of solidarity with Indian farmers whose livelihoods are imperiled by laws the Indian government passed without consultation. 1/x These farmers aren’t
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OK, enough of silence. Others have been braver and more honest. I’ve held off my direct criticism of Cummings for years, as I haven’t wanted to revisit the personal anguish
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I am reading @SidneyPowell1 response to the gov surreply and I am jumping up and down in my office. Will thread ASAP here This is one footnote and I feel
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Currently, both 'sides' attempt to delegitimise the other's viewpoints by describing them in the extreme;'Lockdowns until vaccine' vs. 'let it rip'I won't get into those issues, but wanted to show
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How can we ensure that the COVID-19 economic rescue plan is both ecological and socially just? Here are six simple steps.1. Start by taxing wealth (a common tool during war-time
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