Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Grenfell: a signal moment, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
Here is a long form, eloquent interview with Joe Delaney, one of the residents from the Grenfell building.
Phenomenal. Thanks so much for that.
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Hard News: Grenfell: a signal moment, in reply to Rich Lock,
There is talk that the cladding was added purely for cosmetic reasons - private tenants in surrounding properies didn't like the look of the Grenfell Tower, so the cladding was added.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to BenWilson,
It's a huge deal. It's insane in a democracy to have had so little public debate of the detail. But I think it's a society that literally does actually not have a strong idea of what it wants at all.
Except for the young people who "really, really don't want it"? Seriously, I agree with most of what you say, with the exception that without digging rather deeper into how things came to be in such a mess there seems little point in further scolding a justifiably cynical electorate that's heard it all before. Right now I'm finding this helpful.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to BenWilson,
Far less important than the immediate future of the country was solidifying support internally and talking domestic agenda. That's how dysfunctional the political system has become, that not publicly debating the most crucial issue of the time, and then shaving in with a narrow loss is being heralded as a fucking revolution.
Wasn't Brexit the "most crucial issue of the time" du jour simply because May and her media enablers decreed it? In light of the unprecedented voter turnout I'd have thought that a little more reflection on why what seems an arbitrary rule was ignored wouldn't hurt. For a media establishment long used to setting the terms of manufactured "debates" before calling time on them at their own convenience, losing that kind of control probably does pass for evidence that things have turned to dysfunctional custard. How dare those pesky kids.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I think Jeremy Corbyn may be the PM of the UK by Xmas. I want to be the fly on the wall when he meets Trump…Oh, to live a real democracy with real, mass membership parties.
Your occasional number one local political mancrush hasn't exactly rushed to volunteer to have Jezza's baby.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to Joe Wylie,
No Little or Turei
Hey my bad - Metiria Turei gives it a go and, unlike some of the heavyweight-ranked punditry, at least avoids setting herself up for posterity to make a prize goose of.
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Hard News: Interesting Britain!, in reply to Kumara Republic,
...Little, Turei and Shaw.
Local political worthies offer their $0.02 on Corbyn, c. November 2015. No Little or Turei, though Shaw gives it a surprisingly decent shot. Dunne manages to banish any doubt that he sees things in any other terms than self-serving careerism.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Asking the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
a nice selection of comic/illustrated reportage from the NY Times...
Thanks Ian, some gorgeous stuff in that deep mixed goodie bag. For me Bill Bragg's Window Gazers is right up there with the best of early Raw magazine.
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Hard News: Stupidity and ignorance have…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
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...Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (who, let's recall, was CEO of Exxon freakin' Mobil five minutes ago)...
"ExxonMobil, for one, has spent $33 million since 1998 funding organizations like the Heartland Institute, which questions the link between humans and climate change, according to research from the publication DeSmogBlog. And Greenpeace estimates that Koch Industries has spent $100 million over a similar period..."
By way of contrast, an interesting account of the rise, and apparently rapid fall, of Chinese climate denialism.