Denis Buckley

@wellingtonrock
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WHO ARE YOU? WHAT'S YOUR GAME

Still
... to paraphrase POTUS, a 'Radical Left Lunatic' who loves fairness, equality and DEI.

I've studied Classical Guitar since retiring, and can now read music reasonably. I've played Acoustic Guitar, intermittently, for most of my adult life. I've also taken up the Mandolin in recent years.
Just learning about hashtags... #fbpe #wokerati #ClassicalGuitar #Mandolin #MMT

'The White House can deny whatever they want. They can continue to lie and tell us that this 6’3” 220 pound man that doesn’t exist is in perfect health. They can tell us that he has no cognitive impairments.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholasjorcutt/p/im-trained-to-know-when-someone-is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

I'm Trained To Know When Someone Is Dying. The White House Needs You To Believe Trump Isn't.

I Can't Diagnose The President. I Can Recognize A Deteriorating Patient.

The Fractured Line by Nicholas J Orcutt

'He refers to them as “barbaric savages”; but when he looks at the mirror of the makeup studio he installed for himself in the Pentagon, what does he see?'

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/of-stoicism-and-stupor?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

Of Stoicism and Stupor

The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump

Thinking about...

'... to have life imitate satirical art. It is to align yourself with the characters from the 2021 movie who, on learning that a comet is barrelling at speed towards Earth, decide the solution is to avert their eyes from the sky.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/26/climate-sceptics-record-temperatures-heatwave-ed-miliband-net-zero?CMP=share_btn_url

Climate sceptics cheering as they melt in record temperatures? This heatwave is where satire has come to die

Delegates at an ‘anti-woke’ conference disparaged Ed Miliband’s net zero policies. But even they could not ignore the sweat on their foreheads, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian

'Far from being passive fixers in thrall to market economies, as the neoliberal consensus would have it, in reality they are the supreme actors, shapers of markets, arbiters of the economy. They need to start believing they can govern, wield their power without apology, and stop cringing in the face of the bond markets.'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/make-people-dream-build-economy-common-good-mariana-mazzucato?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Make people dream’: how to build an economy for the common good

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world

The Guardian

The City, the right-wing press and the Oligarchy HATE Socialism - because it'll take away their unfair control of our country...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/25/britain-new-prime-minister-andy-burnham-uk-rightwing-press?CMP=share_btn_url

Britain has become addicted to pressing the ‘new PM’ button – and I don’t see how Burnham avoids it

He’s almost certain to become the UK’s seventh leader in a decade. And with the rightwing press and the algorithm against him, he’s basically a meat sacrifice, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

The Guardian

Burnham, sadly, is just another doomed neoliberal.

'When Westminster invokes the bond market it does so as a tool of discipline, to constrain radicalism. But the public is crying out for radical action. The punishment for not taking it could be vast.'

'The issue is not who occupies Number 10.

The issue is whether we are finally prepared to abandon the failed economic ideas that have occupied Whitehall for more than four decades.'

... Neoliberal economic dogma.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/24/to-improve-well-being-we-must-abandon-failed-economic-ideas/

To improve well-being we must abandon failed economic ideas

Do you recall this lot? Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak ,and Keir Starmer. You might be able to add Andy Burnham to that list very soon, and nothing about what I say here will change. They all made big...

Funding the Future

How rich people avoid paying tax

(Originally by Instgram user @newmoney.blog)

As Tulsi Gabbard faces a fresh round of exceedingly difficult questions about the influence of her “guru,” it’s also worth asking the 52 Senate Republicans (including alleged "moderates" like Susan Collins) who ignored every red flag and voted to confirm her as DNI:

Any regrets?
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tulsi-gabbard-guru-dni

Tulsi Gabbard and Senate GOP face difficult new questions over influence of her ‘guru’

“No one knows who this guru really is, what his connections are, and where the instructions came from,” Chuck Schumer said. “We need answers.”

MS NOW

Unite needs to read the room. Or failing that, pop its collective head outside the room to understand that Net Zero is non-negotiable.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/progressive-economists-reject-unite-leader-sharon-graham-criticism-ed-miliband?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband

Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor

The Guardian