Chris Jarvis

I just downloaded the new @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social paper by Mathew Lawrence and Alex Williams - The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism. It's long but worth a read: a radical vision for economic policy under a Burnham government. Read it here: actionnetwork.org/forms/the-pr...

Really important article by Sam Freedman.

Very good comments from Lucy Powell on trans rights. I will vote for her in the Deputy leadership election. I also agree with her on the dangers of groupthink, which this government seems prone to. news.sky.com/story/lucy-p...

My understanding is that that Federal Reserve Board would need to approve a new swap line for Argentina’s central bank. Maybe they will, but I don’t think this is Secretary Bessent’s decision to make. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

A really important article by David Allen Green. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

I expect Trump will say “You’re fired” to Musk at some point. I’ve seen several countries where a president worried about his ratings sacks a zealous or reformist prime minister who is even more unpopular. It sometimes works but often doesn’t. www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/p...

Brilliant article by Sam Freedman explaining what is going on in the US. Will there be an effective fightback? open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

I love that Teen Vogue is part of the resistance.

I’m remembering the Albanian pyramid schemes as Trump launches his new meme coin. A key moment in their collapse was when new schemes entered the market offering high returns with no real assets. The collapse came a year later. There may be a lesson for crypto here. www.imf.org/external/pub...

Excellent article which explains the commercial motives behind Meta’s lurch to the right.

I hated Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey but loved my classmate’s rewriting of the opening sentence: “No one who had seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her to be on heroin.”

bylines.scot/world/justic.... Excellent article on the United Healthcare CEO killing.

I’m seeing some political commentators, including the always interesting Ivan Krastev, comparing this moment to Reagan in 1980 or even Roosevelt. To me it seems more like the Bush re-election in 2004, and I remember that Bush’s authority evaporated less than a year later.

There’s discussion today about the risks of Trump firing Fed chair Powell. But should Powell be Fed chair? The Fed’s failure to recognize a change in inflationary expectations is part of the reason inflation was higher and Trump won. Powell failed in his most important task. Should he not resign?

I know Aurora, Colorado and I find Trump’s focus on it bizarre. Aurora is a typical American suburb. People’s lives are not dominated by fear of Venezuelan gangs. Their joys and sorrows are families growing and changing, making ends meet, play and work, being in nature and being in traffic.

This is the article. I’m still fettibg used to this platform defector.com/remembering-...

This is a great article. It reminded me of the line near the end of Charlotte’s Web: “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”

This is deeply disturbing. I understand the need for discipline in organizations but punishing people for raising safety concerns is a big red flag. bsky.app/profile/gare...

We have a conservatory for the first time since moving to England. It feels so good to listen to the rain on the roof while sitting dry inside.