An incentive of that kind should be illegal

www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

2. It is perverse to load 60-somethings with benefits and 20-somethings with disbenefits. It is time to take intergenerational questions seriously.

1. We have witnessed Conservative governments making former students steadily worse off through a succession of modifications. It is only a matter of time before they (or Reform) move to expropriate unpaid student debt from inheritances - to and/or from former students.

There’s room for more than one! But I watched hours abd hours of Young Dracula with my kids and adore it.

I think the question of values, and what tactics to use to pursue them, are kind of missing at the moment. So 👏

I am interested in the tactical question: do Labour say Reform is the same as the Conservatives or different?

Yes. It is Young Dracula.

Do think there’s a place for a properly political betting market with bets on things like “us forces invade Nato state”; “midterms are free and fair”; “insurrection act invoked in next 12 months”; “state announces intention to secede in next five years” etc.

vs Google now? Does sound truly desperate.

Oh! What’s that?

I mean, there is a massive push by Murdoch and Viscount Rothermere to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Paging @scurry.bsky.social

Can also watch my conversation with @writesbright.bsky.social about dark money and hidden influence on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...

Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith.

Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.