Exactly, I’ve been saying this for years: the housing crisis in Europe is fuelling the far right. A necessary part of stemming the spread of neo-fascism is reconstructing the housing system along universalist lines that privilege occupancy over ownership theguardian.com/news/article/2…

2021 country-by-country data are out:

US multinationals booked more profits in Ireland and Singapore than in the UK + Canada + Germany + Mexico + China + India combined

Congratulations to the highly productive Irish & Singapore workers*!

* and also to the tax accountants

This from a man who mobilised a campaign to overturn a tenure decision in a university he didn’t even work in

Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation apnews.com/video/israel-g…

“The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says Stephanie Flanders. “They would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.”

If top end medicine increased lifespan *on aggregate*, we'd expect the top income percentiles in US to have higher life expectancy than in UK. That's because rich Americans have access to more 'latest stuff' and spend more on healthcare than richest Brits. But it doesn't seem to…

This was good, about the London Mayor elections. onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-less…

Thirty years ago, the Channel Tunnel finally linked the United Kingdom and France!

This feat brought people closer together, gave new impetus to our trade and confirmed the strength of our political relationship.

Thread on the legalised extortion of leasehold.

Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister says the country will work to sanction Israel over its plans to invade Rafah.

There is a growing gap between university graduates and those whose education finished at school 🏫

In this @rmilibandlse talk, Jonathan Hopkin & Elizabeth Simon will discuss whether universities are responsible for the gap.

In person and online. Know more ↙️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

Take a minute to appreciate the statement, and then marvel at the fact that an editor actually made it a serious headline

Haven’t flown Ryanair for a while, and I’ve been remembering why

The meal was horrible, and such small portions!

Dark parody.
Read in reply a short statement from a remarkably wide cross section of the history faculty of Columbia University
history.columbia.edu/department-fac…

It's weird how the government chose to keep PR for the London Assembly, which always helps the Tories get more seats, but not for any of the other English elections.

Khan’s decision to hold his nerve on ULEZ aged well: he attracted Green voters and only suffered a small electoral backlash.

The replies. I find this rhetoric as depressing as anyone, but there needs to be some reflection on the left as to why Labour is about to complete the biggest electoral turnaround in its history

I was trying to figure out why they were so interested in pushing this narrative that Khan might lose, and I think this is it.

Arundhati Roy “The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees and livelihoods.”
frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/ind…