BREAKING: Israel has admitted it blew up several packed apartment buildings to kill Nasrallah because he wanted peace in Gaza and no, I'm not joking here. This was really their rationale. Fuck it, I give up. How do I even parody this shit? 😭😭😭
Politicians point to stuff like universal income, healthcare etc, and play on the anxieties of the working/middle classes: "How will we afford it? Where will the money come from What about the national debt?" (meaningless questions) Because they think that desperate people are easier to control.
That might be true if a country had a single pot of money to spend. but that's not the case. UBI works because it's *U*. No stigma, no forms, no claims, no judgement over who is worthy or not, no enforcement, so no politician claiming that they're going to 'go after the cheats'. No stress.
UBI is proof that we do not actually care about evidence when it comes to policy, because I struggle to find a better example of something so consistently shown to be beneficial and yet it’s never even brought up as a serious option outside of endless pilot programs that all tell us the same thing
Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.
I'd like to ask again, how is the new guy different from the old guy?
I wrote for @theguardian-mwr.bsky.social on the British government’s efforts to copy Italy’s migration pact with Albania, memory and colonialism, the flaws of pragmatism, and the logic behind all that.
Britain’s prime minister knows such a plan won’t work. He’s cosying up with Giorgia Meloni for an entirely different reason, says professor in political theory Lea Ypi
Jesus this is grim. But go on, "patriots", keep claiming that Ireland is being exploited by evil greedy foreigners. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We struggle to secure payslips or a schedule – and in an 11-hour shift I barely have time for a bathroom break, says Czech journalist Saša Uhlová
Didn’t take long for the BBC to start bashing Scottish government. It’s as if UK government has no responsibility here. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampp...
Petroineos announced plans to close the site in November, but the first minister said the move was premature.