DTrasler Writing

I'm listening to "Going Postal" again, and I can't help wondering if Mark Carney has read any Terry Pratchett, because he should, he really should:
"Unfortunately, the Post Office came to be seen, not as a system for moving the mail efficiently, to the benefit and profit of all, but as a money box. And so it collapsed, losing both mail and money."

The Post office, The hospitals, the schools, are not for-profit institutions. Not money trees. They pay you back in citizens.

Oct 22, 2025 at 1:23amWeb
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Oct 22, 2025
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He needs to do that and change course!
Show threadeMarginaliaOct 22, 2025

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We poor citizens need these services, and they seem pretty obvious.

But we accidentally elect some legislators with evil MBA degrees.

Then what we get are money-making solutions that can't, because they don't fit. Even greed can't market a letter to aunt Millie like a piece of junk fashion. Should hospitals sell your data to Amazon to stay afloat?

So yes, Pratchett should be required reading for anyone to even be a candidate or a civil servant, much less a PM.

Show threadHollieKOct 22, 2025

@Dtraslerwriting Kemi Badenoch claims that Terry Pratchett is her favourite author, but doesn't seem to have learnt anything from reading his books, if indeed she has actually read any of them.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/has-kemi-badenoch-actually-read-terry-pratchett

Has Kemi Badenoch actually read Terry Pratchett?

It’s important for politicians to have some kind of cultural hinterland. So perhaps we should be reassured by Kemi Badenoch’s revelation on the morning broadcast round that her favourite author is the

New Statesman
Show threadDTrasler WritingOct 22, 2025
@HollieK72 That's a great article!
Show threadCornelius FlynnOct 22, 2025
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Thatcherism created the current mess in the UK.
Make a short-term, small, profit selling publicly owned services and create private enterprises that don’t work.
Water, Power, and Transport Systems should always be owned publicly. They are not ‘for profit’. They’re what citizens depend on to live, and what non-tax paying billionaires take advantage of.