As Rachel Reeves stresses the link between international relations & economics... for those of us who've been (in my case) or still are International Political Economists, this is all very much what we've been talking about for decades.
So, for those of you wondering how that might work, one great book that brings a lot of the things Reeves is talking about together is:
Stopford & Strange's Rival States, Rival Firms.
or try the collection of Strange's work.
Because if we don't have more reasonable people seated on it the amount of damage it can do is both catastrophic and long-reaching. Covering decades.
So yes, _vote blue_. It's important. Because I'd rather the kind of judge that Biden or Harris will appoint to the kind that Trump will appoint. Every. Single. Time.
5/5
The regulations were good but they were not enough; people were shocked and dismayed, and turned that into action.
When you think about how, in the context of the appalling footage from Haneda, no one on the Airbus died, remember that. It was not (only) a miracle. It was the result of disciplined investigation, training, engineering, information sharing, and worldwide cooperation over decades.
So, okay, maybe it was a miracle. But of a fundamentally different kind. /fin
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