Zebedee (@revisesociology) - Political Hive

Zebedee

The Valley of Pleasure

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21 days ago

Old Parties, Old Narratives, Old Certainties: All Gone For decades, Britain's political tribes were stable. You voted Labour because of class and unions, or Conservative because of property and tradition. Now? Every assumption is up…

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27 days ago

Reform UK's great tax climbdown... Last year's Reform manifesto was fantabulously fantastical.... £90 billion of tax cuts, the income tax threshold up to £20k, stamp duty gone on anything under £750k.…

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5297.941 VOTE

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about 1 month ago

Things are Looking Bleak for Labour... So Labour's been in power for 18 months or so now and it's another painful story of some initial relief and now downright pessimism about where they are headed, it all looks a…

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276.066 VOTE

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2 months ago

The ECHR: Can Britain Leave? UKIP and many conservatives want Britain should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This debate used to be the preserve of lawyers, but now the…

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1385.155 VOTE

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2 months ago

The Big State is Back — It's just Right Wing Now! Neoliberals have always bemoaned big government, and the neoliberal promise has been that governments would shrink and markets would rule. But under Donald Trump we have seen the…

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1032.409 VOTE

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2 months ago

Is Britain on track for an IMF bailout...? As the UK's public finances worsen and economic growth falters, some economists are warning that Britain may once again be on the path to an International Monetary Fund…

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1206.805 VOTE

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3 months ago

Britain's Going to the Dogs! Britain is well known to being a nation of dog lovers, but in recent years our love affair with dogs has reached unprecedented levels. Obviously people love their dogs, they…

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1255.121 VOTE

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3 months ago

The Lords: An Underrated Check on Power...? OK, OK I am NOT a fan of ascribed status, and so those hereditary peers in the House of Lords should just basically be sacked. Along with said Hereditary peers, the medieval…

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1304.670 VOTE

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3 months ago

Careful now... Amazon may be listening...! I remember when I was in Portugal a few years back, a friend of mine being suspicious of SIRI listening in to her conversations, based on her getting served adverts relevant to a…

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796.550 VOTE

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3 months ago

The UK’s Spending Dilemma – Is Austerity the Only Answer? The UK government is certainly in a pickle, and not a splinterland's style yaba pickle, but rather a particular pickle of UK citizens expecting a certain level of public services…

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1484.846 VOTE