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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It takes an intellectual, emotional and physical effort to keep up with Trump-time, and this is if you are riding this out as comfortably tenured faculty, not as a civil servant who has been fired, a protestor being threatened with terrorism charges, or an immigrant facing deportation.

To convey the feeling to those not in the crosshairs right now, the analogy that comes to my mind is the open-ended uncertainty and fear of pandemic times.

I’m reminded of 2020, when the Trump Presidency was melting down and before we had the vaccine. But grim as it was, that was the end of Trump’s first term and the clinical trials were under way. Democracy and science were going to save us. Today, this is just the beginning of Trump’s second term and this time it is the labs that they are shutting down. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace | Donald Trump | The Guardian</title>
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    <title>Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Moron” you may remember from the autumn of 2022, when Liz Truss became prime minister and announced the biggest tax cuts in half a century, promising more to come – much more. It was what markets wanted, apparently – until markets plunged into turmoil and demanded the UK pay penalty rates to borrow, inevitably dubbed the “moron premium”.

Moronism is shorthand for a particularly toxic strain of rightwing supply-side economics. It dominates the fringe of any Tory conference, where hobgoblins fresh out of university talk moistly about Laffer curves, planning deregulation and Pinochet’s Chile, but it has grown ever more virulent within the parliamentary party over the past decade.

And “bastard”? For that our source is John Major. Normally as mild as soap, as prime minister he was caught on tape admitting that the Eurosceptics within his own cabinet had overrun him. The anti-Brussels headbangers were simply too dangerous to sack. “We don’t want another three more of the bastards out there.” That was 30 years ago. By the early 2010s, the Tory bastards had Brexit in their sights, while a decade later they chunter about immigrants, transgender rights and woke police officers, and can start at least three culture wars over breakfast.

Four candidates are left in the Tory leadership race, but ideologically they fall on one of two sides: those for whom libertarian economics comes first, and those who speak golf-club identity politics. There was a time when Tories could blend the two, as Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell did, but the globalised economy makes that impossible today. For one branch of modern Conservatism, “socialism” is the main enemy (a cunning codeword for the welfare state and workers’ rights); for the other, it is open borders. Each will nab the other’s language, of course, but ultimately their positions are incompatible. Anti-statism or the nation state, free capital markets or closed labour markets, globalisation or anti-globalism: in the end, as the young people say, you’ve got to pick a lane.

In all of Westminster there is only one example of a front-rank politician who successfully manages to be both a complete moron and an utter bastard, and his name is Nigel Farage. His ability to sport the dual faces of contemporary rightwing politics is part of his siren appeal to the Tory base. It means the greatest unifying candidate in Conservative politics leads a rival party. But the public schoolboy turned tribune of the working class is rarely held to account on his policies. The rightwing press do not ask him to explain how he can triple the tax cuts dreamed up by Truss and scrap NHS waiting lists. The BBC treats him as a panel-show pony rather than a politician. But no one heading the most successful political party in democratic history will be treated with such chuckling indulgence. Whether they want to or not, each Tory candidate has to pick a side.]]></description>
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    <title>An anatomy of the British war on woke - Huw C. Davies, Sheena E. MacRae, 2023</title>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The central moral justification for the war on woke is that it represents the interests of the working class. However, in constructing its ideological square, this community refuses the possibility that as well as white manual labourers and retirees, the working class can include people from any ethnic background, including immigrants. By constructing ‘the working class as white’ the anti-woke community pits whites ‘against racialised minorities and immigrants, who are denied working class status’.216
This community also refuses to address working-class people who voted to remain in the 2016 EU Referendum, who want to understand the colonial legacy of Britain’s stately homes, support footballers taking the knee or trans rights. Also, it has nothing to say to members of the working class who think asylum seekers are not illegal by default, nor to anyone from the working class who doesn’t believe plans to decarbonise energy are a threat to ‘western civilisation’. When members of the working class themselves are declared woke, like construction workers condemned by the Daily Mail, it is unclear if they have become woke by their own volition or as, people without agency, they have also been ‘infected’ by the ‘informal alliance’. 217
However, even if this group did consider the working class in all its ethnic, cultural and intellectual diversity, it would be irrelevant because, beyond far-right tropes, it offers no policy framework to deliver economically credible and environmentally sustainable solutions to any form of structural inequality including and especially class. Black is right to remind Spiked’s readers that economics matter because government economic policy, supported by anti-woke tax-exempt educational charities such as the IEA and anti-woke think-tanks, is making the working class poorer. A discussion paper by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows Brexit has increased food prices by around 6 per cent overall but disproportionately affected Britain’s poorest communities.218 Economics matter also because the anti-woke movement is subsidised by wealthy patrons. Since the working classes and poor are the most exposed to the social and economic costs of climate breakdown, opposition to climate action is what one of Goodwin’s fellow Social Mobility Commissioners, Rob Henderson, calls a ‘luxury belief’.219 This means, in Goodwin’s words, beliefs ‘that cost elites less than they cost people who have to live with their consequences’.220
If it were a grass-roots campaign for the working classes, the anti-woke community would be transparent in its finances, reject strategic investments from anonymous wealthy donors, argue the effects of climate breakdown will disproportionately affect the world’s poor and working classes, and it would lobby for wealth redistribution and a green revolution in high-skilled jobs.221
In lieu of such a campaign, this community seeks to discredit, delegitimise and constrain its political enemies. It wants the public to reject the consensus on climate science, end net-zero policies and think of climate activists as brainwashed extremists. It asks its audience to choose between its righteous in-group and the woke’s malign out-group. It stereotypes the working classes, projects its grievances on to them and uses them as proxies to claim moral legitimacy for its own fossil fuel-friendly agenda.
The British war on woke also pathologises social justice campaigns by likening them to dangerous and violent extremism and positioning them outside the normal process of democracy and representation. Anti-woke campaigners want their adversary − ‘the woke’ − to be confronted. They claim that this is an enemy within that is working in alliance with ethnic and racial minorities, won’t listen to reason and cannot be appeased. They say this internal threat wants to bring down ‘western civilisation’, beginning at its centre by betraying Britain’s historic heroes, infecting Britain’s institutions, polluting British culture and making disadvantaged children ashamed of their whiteness, their culture and country. Despite the repeated and sustained use of these far-right tropes, anti-woke campaigners claim any associations with the far Right are censorious smears.]]></description>
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    <title>In a contest between Tory MPs and reality, Rishi Sunak is refusing to pick a side | Rafael Behr | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-17T08:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sunak’s economics are more typically Thatcherite. He hung an icon of Nigel Lawson in his office at the Treasury. The pandemic forced him to override those instincts, subsidising the nation’s wages through lockdowns, but bowing to expediency in a crisis didn’t dent the underlying faith.

Likewise, the prime minister’s refusal to cut taxes is not, as some of his Tory critics allege, symptomatic of some socialist mind virus contracted in the Treasury. It is orthodox fiscal conservatism, given a disciplinarian edge by last year’s market backlash against Truss’s wild adventures in budget incontinence.

For Conservatives to be led by such a prime minister, one so pious in adherence to the tenets of their creed, yet still feel betrayed goes beyond ideological monomania. It is a kind of childish ingratitude, mixed with weariness at the dull burden of grownup government. That is why a hardcore still hankers for Johnson. They praise his unique electioneering talent, forgetting his ignominious downfall, because the “Boris” show was a delightful deferral of hard choices. They can’t muster any affection for Sunak for the same reason that an alcoholic can’t like the hangover as much as the binge.

But sobriety in style is not the same as moderation of belief. Downing Street is now better organised under a prime minister who pays attention to detail and sustains strategic focus. There are plans that don’t change from one hour to the next.

Whitehall officials are grateful for the restoration of functional administration, but the underlying tension between ideological obsession and practical government has not gone away. Where Johnson would bluff and bluster, Sunak prefers tactical discretion.

Last week’s U-turn on a December deadline for the automatic vaporisation of retained EU law is a case in point. Erasing thousands of statutes without knowing what purpose they serve is an obviously reckless, stupid idea. It was opposed even by the businesses for whose benefit the indiscriminate regulatory purge was intended.

The climbdown prompted a predictable backlash from Brexit ultras, mostly directed at Kemi Badenoch, business and trade secretary. She passed the blame – or credit, as it should rightly have been recorded – on to her civil servants. Downing Street made it clear that Sunak was hardly involved in defusing a legislative bomb ticking down in Whitehall, in case anyone might suspect him of losing faith in the doctrine of encouraging enterprise by pointlessly blowing things up. He was all for it during last summer’s leadership contest.

What the prime minister believes these days is hard to discern. He indulges his party’s most fanatical tendencies without full-throated endorsement. In return he is tolerated as a caretaker, not trusted as a believer. He is not blind to the practical limitations of Brexit ideology, but nor he does he see beyond them. He has not picked a side between reality and dogma, but stands awkwardly between them, in the churned-up bog of a political no man’s land, sinking.
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The war over currency is but one front—along with traditionalism, nationalism, and energy—on the spectrum of current global conflicts. “You have to control three things: borders, currency, and military and national identity,” Steve Bannon said in 2017, speaking of his goals for the traditionalist fascist international. 260 The increasing confluence of anti-Fed zeal with private intelligence collection presents an unprecedented risk of capture for democracies. At the same time, recent interest rate increases by the Fed have likely done more to pop the crypto bubble and disprove theories about bitcoin as an inflation hedge or store of value than any regulation ever could. 261
But if January 6 or Putin’s war in Ukraine have taught us anything, it’s that even bad ideas likely to end in disaster still have their appeal, and much harm can be wrought in their pursuit. The reactionary quest to restore “hard money” is just as attractive today as it was in 1933, and we should expect that those committed to the cause will try everything in their power—including microtargeted ads, disinformation, insurrection, launching futile wars, capture of the opposition, and purchasing entire social networks 262 —to achieve their goal. The time has come to affirm our commitment to democracy over fascism and make serious, informed decisions about the future of money—in the full light of democratic oversight—before any more decisions are made for us through government capture, covert action, or violence.]]></description>
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While she may not be one of life’s natural diplomats, nor was she by temperament a flag-waving jingoist. She disliked the Russian regime for many of the obvious reasons, but perhaps most of all because the autocracy crushes or at least corrupts enterprise.

It’s this issue that has long been the key to Truss. The Tory right is largely divided between the Eurosceptics and nationalists who supported Braverman’s anti-immigration stance and the libertarian wing which sees anything good for economic growth as good in itself. Truss is firmly in the latter group.

If anything, she has more in common with that strand of American conservatism that thinks of government as a sinister intrusion on personal liberty. It was while she was at the Treasury that Truss made a trip to America in which she met with a series of libertarian thinktanks, including the Cato Institute, co-founded by one of the billionaire Koch brothers, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.]]></description>
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    <title>Liz Truss has destroyed a reckless political project – Brexitism | Conservatives | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In that way, she perfectly embodied what may be her lasting achievement. She will be the symbol of post-2016 Britain, a country that set itself on fire and became an object of derision, pity and sadness in the eyes of a world that once saw Britain as an island of reliable, if sometimes dull, solidity.

She had only six weeks, but that was enough to send people’s bills soaring and their hopes falling. Britain is a smaller country than it used to be, and Truss – and the party so heedless of the national interest that they elevated her – are part of the reason why.]]></description>
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    <title>Truss is gone. The Tory experiment is dying. Kill it off. Then don’t forgive and don’t forget | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The truth is, Covid caused a collapse of healthcare as we know it – in both the first and subsequent waves. The NHS was overwhelmed. Two years on, so much rewriting of history has happened, it is easy to forget just how anarchic and desperate conditions were inside our hospitals in early 2020. NHS staff threw everything they had at increasing ICU capacity, but England’s starting point was only 4,000 critical care beds – one of the lowest numbers per head of any country in Europe. Horrified by the images from China and Italy, frontline staff like me implored the government to lock down. Yet hospitals were literally beginning to run out of oxygen before Johnson finally decided to act.

The service did not cope so much as shut down. In the frantic scramble to claw together as many ventilated beds as possible, surgical procedures in their thousands were cancelled. Cancers were left undiagnosed. Vulnerable patients dug in at home, too fearful or obedient to present to hospital. Staff couldn’t get tested for Covid. The PPE shortages were real and deadly. As for that “protective ring” Matt Hancock would later try to claim he threw around care homes, it was pure fiction. We all know what really happened to care home residents. Ignored and overlooked, they died in their thousands, not so much “cocooned” – as the government claimed – but incarcerated with Covid.

It serves many people politically to try to rewrite the grim realities of the pandemic as they actually unfolded inside the NHS. If anything, the attempts to spin, erase and deny the lived experience of health and care workers are more concerted now than ever. The mythologising of NHS “heroes” has been replaced by a pernicious new narrative, seductive to those of a libertarian bent, that lockdowns were draconian blunders – a panicky overreaction that must never be repeated. Last month, for example, the Telegraph published a piece by Fraser Nelson dramatically entitled: “Our liberty rests on whether Sage will admit to its horrendous lockdown mistakes.”

This could not be more wrong. Certainly lockdowns were a last resort, to be avoided if at all possible. But had we not locked down two years ago today, and again in January 2021, we would have seen corpses in hospital car parks, much like those harrowing images of Covid tents springing up outside hospitals in New York. Even as it was, there were too few ambulances, ventilators and critical care beds to go round. Patients died in corridors, they died in waiting rooms, they even died in hospital toilets. They died at home, alone, waiting for overwhelmed paramedics who couldn’t get there in time.]]></description>
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    <title>The fatal weakness of the Conservatives is not seeing the kindness in most people | John Harris | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-19T22:19:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/19/fatal-weakness-conservatives-not-seeing-kindness-boris-johnson-tories</link>
    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If Johnson’s party can find no collective facial expressions other than sneering or smirking, it is hardly going to thrive. What the Tories seem to be finding out, moreover, is that a combination of hardcore ideology and the snootiness of the class system is starting to fatally weaken their claims to speak for The People.

Their flag-waving, John Bullish fantasies about our national character surely peaked in the slipstream of the 2016 referendum, and have since dwindled away in the face of proof that most people are kind, law-abiding, willing to make sacrifices for others, and prepared to put up with an amazing amount of what life – and the government – throws at them.

To end up on the wrong side of all that takes some doing, but that is what seems to have happened. Such is the puzzle that will be preoccupying Tory minds through Christmas and beyond: if populists lose their popularity, what then?]]></description>
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    <title>Conservative backbenchers are out of touch with the public — and fully removed from reality | Martin Kettle | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-16T13:15:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yet this week’s revolt also highlights the growing importance of rightwing libertarianism in the modern Tory party. In some ways the driving force of this week’s revolt, this libertarianism represents a striking break with the party’s origins and past. Historically, the Tory party stood for order and authority, rather than the sovereign individual beloved by today’s libertarians. Even Margaret Thatcher, who is often still seen as the modern Tory party’s guiding light because of her economic individualism, argued that the party stood for what she called “ordered liberty”. Unlike today’s libertarians, Thatcher was never afraid to tell people how they should live their lives.

In today’s libertarianism, Thatcher’s economic individualism has spilled over into every other form of life. In this view of the world, every power given to every public official is a step towards tyranny, all departments of the state are malign empire builders whose existence threatens fundamental liberty, and all the checks and balances of liberal democracy, such as parliament and the law, are attempts to disarm the sovereign individual. It is a view that is both paranoid, massively overstating the threat from government action while largely ignoring the benefits, and politically self-destructive, since it is almost wholly at odds with the more balanced and pragmatic way that the public sees the same issues.

Nevertheless, this new ideological variant is proving highly transmissible on the backbenches. It is extremely infectious, and there have been several recent disturbing outbreaks. Graham Brady himself has described the UK government’s earlier lockdown measures as going “full eastern bloc”, and warned against being “pinged into the gulag”. Backbench rebel Marcus Fysh told a BBC interviewer that he opposes the requirement to wear a mask and show a Covid pass because “this is not Nazi Germany” and Britain is not “a ‘papers, please’ society”. And another rebel, Desmond Swayne, said the government’s proposals were the work of an Orwellian Ministry of Fear and claimed that the Health Protection Agency was the creation of “Stalinist minds”.

Where does this all come from? Paranoia over Covid regulations should perhaps be seen as first cousin to the intemperate exaggerations about British victimhood – made in some cases by the same people – that were part of the Brexit arguments. Leavers claimed that membership of the European Union destroyed all national sovereignty, and reduced a free people to vassal status from which Brexit would liberate and then empower us. The reality has been more modest. Today’s claim that to show evidence of a negative lateral flow test somehow makes Britain a police state is equally removed from reality.

The big difference between the politics of the two issues is in the mood of the public. The leavers won the referendum in 2016 and won the general election in 2019 on the back of it. In 2021, however, the public is consistently supportive of the more cautious approach to the pandemic that the rebels dislike. The more the rebels succeed in capturing the Tory party, therefore, the more dangerous the situation becomes for both Johnson and the party. If the rebels manage to block Johnson from taking future measures that have public support, or if they oust him in favour of someone who will toe their line on Covid regulations, the public may take its votes elsewhere.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The prime minister is sincere enough about liberty and too inattentive to detail to make a consistent authoritarian. His is a more infantile brand of tyranny that demands control yet is afraid of responsibility. It is a trait that flows not from any doctrine, but from the temperament that sees rules as a personal discomfort and treats duty as an invitation to defiance. Johnson wears the responsibilities of his office much as he wears his clothes: askew for theatrical effect.

That performance is integral to his appeal, but the quality that voters first find attractive in leaders can be a predictor of their undoing. There was a maverick charm in disregarding protocol and cutting legal corners when the purpose was getting Brexit done. The same ethos is more obnoxious when applied in service of Tory donors or indulgence of rule-bending allies.

No violation of constitutional principle could appal the British spirit more than queue jumping. That tendency may not be the most prominent aspect of Johnson’s government, but it is a persistent enough feature to breed resentment over time. It is a problem that will outlast the present policy dilemmas of the pandemic. The current challenge is choosing the right rules. But the origin of uncertainty and incoherence, as with corruption, is a prime minister who is himself governed by the principle that rules do not really matter.]]></description>
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    <title>THE POWER OF THE CULTURE OF FEAR</title>
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    <title>James B on Twitter: &quot;Lots of tweets rightly pointing out conflict between Johnson's purported libertarianism and the authoritarianism of the policing bill and his legislative history in London. No journalist should take his 'libertarian instincts' uncriti</title>
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Steve Baker
Harriett Baldwin
Sir Graham Brady
Steve Brine
Nusrat Ghani
Chris Green
Mark Harper
Philip Hollobone
Ben Spencer
Philippa Stroud
Robert Syms
William Wragg]]></description>
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