Do you remember when Labour did this during the Blair/Brown days and it signified the end of the Blair/Brown days?
#Labour #Ableism #Disability #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Austerity #Labour
Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity
'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'
#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity
'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'
#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.
In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.
#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.
The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.
In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.
#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.
Do you remember when Labour did this during the Blair/Brown days and it signified the end of the Blair/Brown days?
#Labour #Ableism #Disability #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Austerity #Labour
A Conservative MP has the temerity to complain about the reduction in trial by jury at #pmqs
Since 2010, because of Tory #Austerity, at least 295 court facilities (including magistrates', county, tribunal, family, and crown courts) were closed in England and Wales, according to figures reported in 2019.
Isn't it nice to know an archivist xxx
A Conservative MP has the temerity to complain about the reduction in trial by jury at #pmqs
Since 2010, because of Tory #Austerity, at least 295 court facilities (including magistrates', county, tribunal, family, and crown courts) were closed in England and Wales, according to figures reported in 2019.
Isn't it nice to know an archivist xxx
Mark Carney is an economist. So why is he ignoring decades' worth of data showing austerity makes things worse?
#Austerity "has significant and persistent negative effects on employment and the size of an economy (...), with the damage lasting more than 15 years"
Across a variety of advanced economies, "the negative impact [of #austerity] on GDP remains substantial even after a decade and a half. On average, GDP is more than 5.5% lower 15 years after a large austerity shock than would have been expected if there had been no austerity"
Mark Carney is an economist. So why is he ignoring decades' worth of data showing austerity makes things worse?
#Austerity "has significant and persistent negative effects on employment and the size of an economy (...), with the damage lasting more than 15 years"
I've written about the false economies of austerity before but here is a corker of an example:
this winter, to save money, frontline NHS staff are having to pay for their covid jabs, at a time when staff absences due to sickness are already too high...
Its a classic bit of costs-based policy making with no appreciation of the resulting (higher) costs.
Ir sums up what's wrong with decision makers myopic obsession with immediate cost(s).
h/t NHSManagersNet
I've written about the false economies of austerity before but here is a corker of an example:
this winter, to save money, frontline NHS staff are having to pay for their covid jabs, at a time when staff absences due to sickness are already too high...
Its a classic bit of costs-based policy making with no appreciation of the resulting (higher) costs.
Ir sums up what's wrong with decision makers myopic obsession with immediate cost(s).
h/t NHSManagersNet
Police crackdown with letal bullets in #Ecuador.
#ParoNacional #ParoNacional2025 #Noboa #NationalStrike #austerity #HumanRightsViolations #Otavalo #Imbabura #CONAIE
https://www.telesurtv.net/reprimen-municion-real-protestas-paquetazo-noboa/
Police crackdown with letal bullets in #Ecuador.
#ParoNacional #ParoNacional2025 #Noboa #NationalStrike #austerity #HumanRightsViolations #Otavalo #Imbabura #CONAIE
https://www.telesurtv.net/reprimen-municion-real-protestas-paquetazo-noboa/
Fucking hell, look at the date this was published:
Economists call for immediate suspension of spending cuts
https://ganeshnana.substack.com/p/economists-call-for-immediate-suspension
#nzpol #NicolaWillis #Austerity
Fucking hell, look at the date this was published:
Economists call for immediate suspension of spending cuts
https://ganeshnana.substack.com/p/economists-call-for-immediate-suspension
#nzpol #NicolaWillis #Austerity
