Zebedee (@revisesociology) - Political Hive

Zebedee

The Valley of Pleasure

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7 days 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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1574.934 VOTE

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9 days ago

Why Thames Water is Headed for Special Administration Thames Water supplies about 16 million customers in the Thames Valley and London, and it is deep in financial trouble. Its debt has swollen to somewhere between a staggering £18…

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2613.300 VOTE

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21 days ago

Is Vaping a New Gateway to Smoking...? Smoking levels in Britain have plummeted in the last century. In 1974, nearly a third of 16-year-olds were smokers, but by 2018 that figure had fallen to 2.5%. That is a huge…

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749.899 VOTE

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25 days ago

Is Britain Really In Decline, or just Adjusting...?!? There would seem to be a dominant narrative around that Britain is in decline and that only a RADICAL shake up can shift the nation's downward trajectory, but could it be that…

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915.858 VOTE

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about 1 month ago

Should 16-Year-Olds Have the Right to Vote? The UK Government is currently considering offering the vote to about 1.5 million 16- and 17-year-olds ahead of the next general election.... but is this about social justice for…

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808.810 VOTE

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about 2 months ago

A resurgence of the Left in the UK...? Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana (MP) recently announced the creation of a new left-wing political party. In a nutshell the new party is.... Socialist, anti-war, pro-welfare…

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1308.493 VOTE

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about 2 months ago

Calderdale Energy Park – Turning a National Park into an Industrial Park...! Of all places in the UK The Yorkshire Moors are now at the heart of a bitter fight over the future of renewable energy. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, based a couple of hundred…

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1058.831 VOTE

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about 2 months ago

Broken Britain: Tweaks Probably Won't Fix a System in Freefall There’s a growing feeling in the UK that things simply don’t work anymore: roads full of potholes, rising crime with little consequence, weeks-long waits for GP appointments, and…

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1385.646 VOTE

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about 2 months ago

Musk's America First Party.... Unmanifestable Destiny...? On 5 July 2025 Elon Musk made the formal announcement of the creation of the America Party, introducing it as a response to President Trump's just-signed "One Big Beautiful…

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1135.497 VOTE

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about 2 months ago

Do Politicians Need to Regain Control of Interest Rates? Farage and the Bank of England's Future Nigel Farage's Reform UK party has been making waves in recent weeks with its radical proposals to transform the way the Bank of England runs the UK economy. At the centre of…

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2259.754 VOTE