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So, from today, refugee status in the UK will be limited to 30 months - and on each review, if it is deemed that their originating country is not longer dangerous, they will be returned.
Unlike other measures to 'toughen' the refugee regime, this can be enacted merely as a change in existing rules & this requires no parliamentary scrutiny.
If, anyone thinks this will win Labour votes in the local elections, they may well be disappointed!
In the next weeks we will see an intensification of attacks both on Zack Polanski & the Green Parties, as the Right media realise actually both GPEW & the SGs represent a real challenge to their man Farage delivering the country to the Far Right.
We can expect lies, distortion & extrapolations all intended to demonise the Greens, but given the new social networks the progressive left increasingly uses (like this one) unlike previous campaigns this one may be less successful.
If you didn't expect Keir Starmer to hold the line on non-cooperation with US/Israeli air strikes on Iran, you'll be unsurprised he's now said that UK bases can be used for 'defensive' attacks on Iranian military bases.
And then he used the phrase that UK bases will be used for 'specific & limited defensive purpose'; of course, any similarity to the claims the Tories made about breaking international law is just a coincidence.
Labour's support will further ebb away.
#politics
h/t BBC News
In the next weeks we will see an intensification of attacks both on Zack Polanski & the Green Parties, as the Right media realise actually both GPEW & the SGs represent a real challenge to their man Farage delivering the country to the Far Right.
We can expect lies, distortion & extrapolations all intended to demonise the Greens, but given the new social networks the progressive left increasingly uses (like this one) unlike previous campaigns this one may be less successful.
Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
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Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are at some point in a situation where the best you can do is a vegetarian option.
Sometimes it's not even our hand being forced but us not having the mental strength or priorities to do something: I […]
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On Alliances
This morning (it is evening now in freezing Berlin) I wrote an article about a blog post Cory Doctorow had released the day before.
In his post Cory made an argument about LLM usage that I criticized: I think his view on technology being neutral and it being possible to "liberate" any technology by making it "free and open" is a bit wonky. You can read his stance and my arguments in the respective articles.
Cory Doctorow is not like you or me. He is famous - at least on the Internet and in […]
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Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to make this possible the answer tends to be: "Well, they are having jobs and can provide for their families now, so it's reducing poverty."
Now of course the situation is a bit more complex, has more angles. […]
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Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are at some point in a situation where the best you can do is a vegetarian option.
Sometimes it's not even our hand being forced but us not having the mental strength or priorities to do something: I […]
How can we reform capitalism?
Well Jason Hickel & Yanis Varoufakis suggest three key steps:
1. re-engineer finance; penalising investment for destructive private investment & prioritise public investment for public goods;
2. democratise public & private budgeting decisions;
3. democratise corporations; wrest control from the elites & put it in the hands of workers.
Its as simple as that.... well, OK not simple, but you can see what they're getting at!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
How can we reform capitalism?
Well Jason Hickel & Yanis Varoufakis suggest three key steps:
1. re-engineer finance; penalising investment for destructive private investment & prioritise public investment for public goods;
2. democratise public & private budgeting decisions;
3. democratise corporations; wrest control from the elites & put it in the hands of workers.
Its as simple as that.... well, OK not simple, but you can see what they're getting at!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
Buddhistdoor View: Buddhist Diplomacy in an Era of Rupture
🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yy3wu2sd
#Buddhism #Commentary #India #Diplomacy #Politics #Democracy #Trump #Economics #Imperialism #WEF
Vihāra is an experimental Buddhist monastery: a federated hub representing the activities of a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan Vajrayāna/Mahāyāna lineages.
