The rich are not ‘contributing’ at all. Rather, we are preventing them from using too much of our productive capacity so that we can use it ourselves, for other purposes. So who is contributing? We are, in the form of our labour."

“It’s when men like him gain power that leads to regimes such as the one in Iran” - straight up racist framing that she would obviously not use if he was white. Also (a lesser crime admittedly) just appalling sentence construction.

Seems little doubt by now that privatisation has failed to improve services and is very unpopular, regulators are either toothless or corrupt. What way forward?

Somewhat similarly, doesn’t Miller’s justification nullify the point of having these laws in the first place? If it’s clear you can successfully defend the territory, you don’t need the protection of the law

When my school went on strike last year, the trust refused to meet with the constituency MP - a Labour minister. Said MP took it up with the DfE, who said that Philipson couldn’t force the trust to meet. Funny because she seems to have a lot more power here…

When my school went on strike last year, the trust refused to meet with the constituency MP - a Labour minister. Said MP took it up with the DfE, who said that neither they nor the Secretary of State for Education had the power to compel the trust to let them in.