“They should tell the British people how the Treasury actually spends – that is, that it instructs the Bank of England to type numbers into bank accounts on its behalf”
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Jun 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
MT "Music creates new, subtler, more complicated, and therefore more dangerous pleasures…
brainpickings.org/2017/07/03/kaf…
...But poetry aims at clarifying the wilderness of pleasures, at intellectualizing, purifying, and therefore humanizing them. Music is a multiplication of sensuous life; poetry, on the other hand, disciplines and elevates it.
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There is one very simple thing that we can do and that works: social distancing"
"How Can Politicians Contribute to Social Distancing?"
"Mitigation
Mitigation requires heavy social distancing. People need to stop hanging out to drop the...
...transmission rate (R), from the R=~2–3 that the virus follows without measures, to below 1, so that it eventually dies out.
These measures require closing companies, shops, mass transit, schools, enforcing lockdowns… The worse your situation, the worse the social distancing
I am a local resident who, if you are successful in this election, will become one of your constituents. I write about the televised climate and nature election debate - due to be screened on @Channel4 at 7pm on 28th November - to express my concern that
the Prime Minister is refusing to take part in this debate, and to ask you to contact him to urge him to do so.
The leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the SNP have agreed to take part. As a voter deeply concerned about climate and nature breakdown -
At 1.5C the proportion of the global population exposed to water stress could be 50% lower than at 2C, it notes. Food scarcity would be less of a problem and hundreds of millions fewer people, particularly..
