But also Fatah are notionally a socialist party so it’s revealing that the Palestinian Authority doesn’t get any mulligans or even goodwill off of that
Labour doesn’t have a sister party in Israel tho - Starmer gave a big speech about this as LOTO - this is clearly a big factor in how he justifies his position on Israel to himself - but soon after his speech, Israeli Labor closed down…(& his speech was especially bizarre because this was predicted)
To support the argument from Emissary, though separating phases of an ongoing sequence of violent events is hard, you can probably make a reasonable argument it wasn’t yet a genocide at any point when Sunak was in power but Starmer decided to act like it was Jan 2024, even when the facts had changed
There is a formal process for reassigning which doesn’t involve bids but it’s essentially a “the winner drops out and thus breaches their commitment to provide the games”, so it effectively results in a financial penalty being charged on LA and paid to whoever the IOC then award the games to
The least bad option is to just the government/parliament to another city in N England, change the planning permission for all the excess government estate in London to “whatever you want” and then just auction it so the market can decide how to allocate this real estate
The same thing happened in the States during the Clinton years
It’s downstream of “the left ends up in a place where there’s a consensus on the private sector economy so there’s no niche for right wing politicians to be the voice of corporate managers, so they all end up aspirant strategists”
The biggest issue with the claim is of course that China’s economic trajectory inc but not limited to massive exports to the US began years before the WTO accession
The fixation on the WTO is a massive alarm bell that the writer 1. thinks Chinese success was a western gift 2. has buyers remorse
The biggest issue with a lot of the C suite fantasy about AI is that it’s pretty easy for a mediocre or even bad manager to get mediocre work out of a mediocre client
If the manager is operating an AI instead of shouting at a junior they need to be good
