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andrewducker- Emergency measure planned at ports to prevent food shortages because of Brexit
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- US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
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- The Scottish postman behind 'Sea Shanty TikTok'
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- Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist Christmas classic
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- Highway to the Danger Zone: Top Gun and the dangers of flirting with heterosexuality
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- People are great at following the lockdown rules - except for the one that matters the most
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- Takeaways in Scotland: 'I put £2,000 in every week just to stay open'
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- Why was NYC able to roll out a vaccine 50x faster in the 40s?
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- The reluctance of the Home Office to deny publicly that it is reconsidering the restoration of the death penalty - an example of government-media relations
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- What next for Scottish Labour?
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Date: 2021-01-15 01:27 pm (UTC)Many of the big food retailers in Canada also sell clothing, home furnishings, and many other items. If that is the same in the UK, then prioritizing the big chains will crush both small grocers and small non-food retailers.
I do not know if that was the intent of the way they are doing it, or if it is just a side benefit.
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Date: 2021-01-15 01:41 pm (UTC)A couple (Marks and spencers and Waitrose aka John Lewis) are perhaps more well known as clothing, homewares etc shops.
It is an example of the lack of economic ideological thinking that goes on in the Tory Party at the moment. A generation ago several cabinet ministers would have looked at that proposal, come to the same conclusion that you have, and objected on the grounds that the Tory Party is pro-market, not pro-big business.
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Date: 2021-01-16 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-15 01:53 pm (UTC)It's been apparant for many, many years that the Labour Party's position was a bit stuck in the middle.
I think there is a route forward for them but it involves two brave decisions.
1) Become genuinely agnostic on the constitution. Enthusastically support indyref2 (with a line on - if only so that the issue is settled and we can stop talking about it)
2) Become more radical in their policy offering. Part of the SNP (probably Sturgeon's) strategy has been to be a bland centre-left party. The policy offering is mostly things that most people in Scotland would nod along with, without upsetting too many vested interests or requiring too much critical thinking on the part of the voter.
These radical ideas don't necessarily need to be further to the left but they need to challenge orthodoxy. Drug decriminalisation, devolution of fiscal powers to local authorities, the creation of a New City around Harthill.
The contrast with the SNP would then be along the axis of imagination and profound change rather than broad economics or the acute question of the constitution.
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Date: 2021-01-15 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-15 03:35 pm (UTC)Is Scottish Labour run from London?
I will leave that question as an exercise for the reader.
US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds
Date: 2021-01-15 03:39 pm (UTC)Highway to the Danger Zone: Top Gun and the dangers of flirting with heterosexuality
Date: 2021-01-15 05:44 pm (UTC)