... the solution is an eco-socialist programme to relocate investment decisions away from the billionaire class and towards a democratic public. Labour and materials need to be employed intelligently and at scale if we are avoid the worst.

How we make that possible is a tricky question to answer, and one the major media are determined not to ask. But it can be done. northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

What do we think will happen if the next election hinges on the press being forced to choose whether to boost the Green Party, or Reform? Are we going to see the now-standard all-channels terrifying hate campaign aimed at Farage? I am going to say: No.

The Greens now have an chance to prepare a plan for government that holds together, and promote it unapologetically, while Labour-Con-Reform circle the drain of Treasury-brained respectability politics. The prize is a complete re-engineering of political common sense. yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

To the extent politics is about feelings, it's about wanting to identify with someone who knows what they want to do with power, sets it out clearly, and is visibly having fun with it. If you want to win over the undecided, first you have to show that you can't be pushed around.

We can't leave our understanding of the world beyond our immediate experience to be shaped by billionaires and their toadies, with a sprinkling of BBC bureaucracy. We will only be able to grasp and resolve our actual differences when aren't being fed convenient fantasies by the very rich.