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RT @PlainLincoln
@Lavenderchina Not at all. Private medical insurance in UK right now is priced off broad assumption that emergency, chronic and most acute care will be covered by NHS, with PMI covering only lucrative bits. PMI WITHOUT comprehensive NHS, like USA? Multiply current UK quote by 5 or 10🤑😳

RT @TorstenBell
Sigh. No-one thinks there’s an epidemic of young single professionals going to food banks. There are these things called children which you probably don’t want to bring up in a single room. And obviously lots of people earning far less than £30k twitter.com/leeandersonmp_/sta

It's always the poorest that pay under Neoliberalism
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RT @ColeStangler
Yes, France spends a lot of money on pensions, but the system delivers a decent standard of living for millions. Macron's proposed reforms will disproportionately hurt low-wage workers. My story @thenation thenation.com/article/world/ma
twitter.com/ColeStangler/statu

It should be free anyway, what a dystopian way of thinking.
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RT @NRO
One answer to reducing abortions, @AUL argues, is to ensure that every woman knows that she can give birth with no money out-of-pocket.

The paper acknowledges that this would not be cheap. | @theWesleyJSmith

trib.al/QaXnfFD
twitter.com/NRO/status/1615999

RT @Fanxxxxtastic
@DavidLammy @labourpress @RishiSunak There were heartbreaking stories about how the Tories were affecting people's lives when you worked against your own party to make sure Labour lost 2 GEs while filling your pocket with money from tory donars

RT @timmckane
James Dyson, who made all his billions in the UK and then took his greed to SE Asia, complaining the the UK is riven with taxes and regulations. So how come he got so rich? And why is he so greedy that he left? By the way we had one of his overpriced Hoovers it was crap!

@mrpieceofwork It definitely is "cheaper" to build a world around people's needs - for a start long term investment in "green" solutions wouldn't be an issue, not having to choose between human suffering or "shareholder value" etc. etc.

Getting a lot out of this book. Very useful if you want to understand how things flare up and then disappear, as well as what class politics should look like. You’ll find it at Foreign Languages Press.

@schmidt_fu I use it to bring tweets across from Twitter, but I don’t go the other way. This is because Mastodon is much more private and I don’t feel I have permission.

Whereas on Twitter everything is public, so sharing tweets feels okay.

⚠️ If you only care about human rights abuses when your enemies commit them, then you don't really care about human rights abuses.

RT @BladeoftheS
Sunak is bragging that ambulance times are even worse in Wales than in England.

He does know that he is PM of Wales?

Doesn’t he?

RT @grosmorne29
"Peacekeepers" is also another interesting word to use - instead of "armed foreign occupiers." twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/statu

RT @jasonhickel
This week in 1961, US, British and Belgian forces couped and assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral wealth. Remember Lumumba.

It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.

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