Mastodawn

In fact #totalfactor #productivity outside government appears to have declined slightly since 2019. Like you I think #capital has been over rewarded for what it has contributed so rather fancy returning to the #crosland and #peston idea of the state mobilising and providing additional #capital - as it did before #margaretthatcher - or even going further still and reviving the idea of 'the state as entrepreneur' in fashion half a century back!

AnyWorker May 25

This is beautiful.

Ed Zitron's excellent rant about the why of current business models and practices:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

#business #tech #management
#Meta #Microsoft #SocialMedia #enshittification #neoliberalism #executives #MargaretThatcher #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #CEO

The Era Of The Business Idiot

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

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Pete May 24

@asayeed @mhoye

#MichaelFoot said about #Thatcher:

She has no imagination and that means no compassion

Michael Foot - On Margaret Thatcher, 1981

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Foot

#MargaretThatcher #Maggie #MaggieThatcher #Foot #Labour #ukpol

Michael Foot - Wikiquote

Niklas Pivic May 22

#trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #humanism #funny #MargaretThatcher

Effimera - Rss Bot May 7

Cambio di regime in Occidente? – di Perry Anderson https://effimera.org/cambio-di-regime-in-occidente-di-perry-anderson/ #AlternativefürDeutschland(AfD) #speculazionefinanziaria #MovimentoCinqueStelle #quantitativeeasing #programmaMedicare #MargaretThatcher #globalizzazione #imperialismoUsa #RexfordTugwell #FrontNational #PerryAnderson #RobertKeohane #BrettonWoods #crisieuropea #neoliberismo #RaymondMoley #RegimeChange #welfarestate #BenBernanke #capitalismo #ColinCrouch #JasonFurman #AdolfBerle

Cambio di regime in Occidente? - di Perry Anderson - Effimera

Pubblichiamo la traduzione italiana di un importante contributo di Perry Anderson, noto studioso marxista, docente di sociologia e storia all’Università della California, già direttore della […]

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Cheshire May 4

Yes, Minister | Alan Ryan | The New York Review of Books
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/12/02/yes-minister/
From the archive an interview by #AlanRyan with #MargaretThatcher

Yes, Minister | Alan Ryan

On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the first woman prime minister of Great Britain. When she resigned—aptly enough, on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,

The New York Review of Books

Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️May 4

In 1979, the Conservative Party ran this ad in the London Evening News. The true source of May the Fourth Be With You

Do you feel dirty now?

#StarWars #MayTheFourth #StarWarsDay #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Conservatives

Mediathekperlen Apr 12

Skål, Genoss:innen! – „Powerplay – Smart Girls Go for President“ (2023)

„Basiert auf Wahrheit, Lügen und miesen Erinnerungen…“ – wenn ein öffentlich-rechtliches „Biopic“ als Serie in gleich zwei Staffeln mit so einem Disclaimer startet, dann ist Hinsehen eine verdammte Beitragszahler:innenpflicht. Und weil es aus Norwegen kommt, gleich nochmal! (ARD, Neu!)

Mediathekperlen | Skål, Genoss:innen! - „Powerplay - Smart Girls Go for President“ (2023)

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Martin Rust Apr 8

@Geri What's it good for to spit on the dead. She did have moments she deserves be celebrated for. When I, just a couple of years ago, first heard and saw her speech at the UN assembly in 1989, I didn't believe my ears and eyes.
"It is life itself—human life, the innumerable species of our planet—that we wantonly destroy. It is life itself that we must battle to preserve."
https://youtu.be/VnAzoDtwCBg?si=-DuwTS6bwe_bTisr
#MargaretThatcher

Margaret Thatcher - UN General Assembly Climate Change Speech (1989)

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PatternChaser Apr 7

"#Britain’s #capitalist state doesn’t need rebuilding, it needs dismantling, destroying, and burying in the bowels of #Satan, somewhere between #colonialism and #MargaretThatcher"

#Socialism

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/04/06/labour-economy/

#SwindonsSundaySermon: from the DWP to the economy - who doesn't hate Keir Starmer?

How does a Farage/Badenoch government sound to you, Mr Starmer? Because that is exactly where your Labour government is leading us.

Canary