“Jeremy Corbyn gets into Downing Street, pulls a lever currently jammed at neoliberalism, yoinks it in the direction of social democracy and all is good”

I find this incredibly persuasive by James Meadway that Corbynism was able to evade fundamental questions about the state due to the fiscal enablements of low interest rates in the 2010s. The Greens will not be able to evade these questions due to the different fiscal climate of the 2020s but that there are a lot of intellectual resources in the green movement to tackle this.

https://youtu.be/3Iyi6Qgap4Q?si=_b45nbglGpKwu2k7&t=2962

An interesting post (Blog) from Prof. Murphy which gets the ‘little grey cells’ to ponder the; what ifs…

“I want to find the answer to the question, what is our economy now all about?

What is now clear is that it is not about creating further technologies that will forever be beyond human capacity to use. Instead, it has to be about how we advance human capability. It is only by investing in people, meeting their needs, and providing them with the freedom from fear that they need to explore their own capacity to live well that we can now see a rate of return on the resources available in this world. The amazing and useful coincidence is that by doing so, we can also avert the major consequences of climate change.”

Link to his blog:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/04/when-theres-nothing-left-for-markets-to-invest-in-what-can-we-do/

#ClimateCrisis #GenAISlop #AIBubble #Economy #NeoLiberalism #WhatComesNext #FinancialMarkets #Oligarchy #TechBros #Globalisation

Dear Aussies, politicians that put public money into private oil corporations need to be removed from office asap. They are neoliberal stooges or plainly corrupt conservatives that will first use taxdollars to subsidize the massive profits of the oilmen, and then they will use taxdollars to clean up the toxic messes the olimen won't clean up because it harms investor returns.

Don't saddle your children and grandchildren with endless costs to clean up the toxic devastation the oilmen always leave to the taxpayers.

If governments want to subsidize petro, then make a national crown corp instead. Don't be idiots like Canada, learn from our terrific mistakes.

#AusPol #CdnPoli #Neoliberalism #Petrostate

It would seem that Carney has lost Liberal-oriented columnist Althia Raj

Opinion | Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected

May 2, 2026
By Althia RajNational Columnist
Althia Raj is a national politics columnist for the Star.

#Canada #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #austerity #neoliberalism

https://archive.is/pst3g

I see virtually no point for programmes like Any Questions on #BBCRadio4 or Question Time on #BBC 1.

Any Questions today has reps from Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Reform, all parties that favour the status quo (yes, even Reform, the children of Thatcher; they're about as anti-establishment as the king). There's no ideological differences between them, they just have differing views on process and the extent to keep the current system of neoliberalism going. Together with the media, they keep the idea going that this is all inevitable, that nothing will change, just the way it is administered is up for discussion.

It's not political debate, it's an argument over who serves the establishment best.

Throw in some impotent rage from the public (there's very little actual questioning of the status quo allowed through the filter of the media), and there you go, an illusion of democracy.

#ukpolitics #neoliberalism

Hickel, Jason, feat. Dutta Anwesha & Maria Dyveke Styve. 2025. "The struggle for development in the 21st century: capitalism, imperialism and eco-socialism." GRIP Annual Lecture. 19 May 2025. Ulrike Pihl House, University of Bergen, Norway. https://youtu.be/wRQeC65hHfA

Watched this on May Day. Highly recommended.

#Degrowth #Capitalism #Imperialism #EcoSocialism #Ecology #Socialism #Communism #Democracy #HumanRights #Racism #Colonialism #Neoliberalism #Economy #History #Politics #Policy #Justice