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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 4:46

Reading: After the crisis, a new world won’t emerge as if by magic by Neal Ascherson

article image placeholderAfter the crisis, a new world won’t emerge as if by magic. We will have to fight for it | Neal Ascherson
The emaciation of the welfare state and the NHS above all come to that never again neoliberalism. But who will do the politics of never again when we open our eyes? Or are these hopes just prolonged dives into the world of dream? Pathetic fantasies dissolving into proxysms of depressive anxiety. As Britain wakes from its Corona coma, the landscape will look different. Mass unemployment as hundreds of firms go bust in spite of government loans made much worse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/19/after-the-crisis-a-new-world-wont-emerge-as-if-by-magic-we-will-have-to-fight-for-it

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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:25
Strong Britain may amount only to England weekly imitating the repressive populism of Poland or Hungary. Yet a great emergency, like the shared time of pestilence, leaves people sensing their own power, aware that they can act without waiting for yesterday's leaders
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