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If us Star Trek nerds can’t get our facts straight, what hope for humanity?

Measure of a Man is season 2!

I’d start with Strange New Worlds. It’s very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it’s still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.

Exactly. I think Labour would do it, more than happily, were it not for the housing crisis. They understandably want to build a lot, quickly, but they need to be convinced that the crisis won’t really be ‘solved’ without medium- long-term thinking, which includes eco-friendly standards.

Yeah, no room for complacency! But that’s why we need to do the difficult things quickly (e.g., building all the pylons we need to link up new green energy developments) and also do things that aren’t likely to be undone (which is why Labour shouldn’t drop the requirement for new homes to have solar panels).

In the UK, the environmental movement has actually won the argument, but I don’t think we’ve fully realised it, yet. Even Conservative voters (if not MPs) want climate action as a high priority.

I’m sceptical, but I think that as long as carbon capture happens alongside shutting down fossil fuels, it’s at least worth a try.

Yeah, you’re right about the footnotes. I read someone the other day saying they felt like Kuang was writing with an imaginary social justice scold hovering over her, and I think that’s about right. I find it odd that someone feels they have to say ‘racism — which is bad, by the way — exists in this society’. We know it’s bad! Even racists don’t like being called racist!

I started reading it yesterday, so I’ll let you know.

Why did you dislike it?

Yeah, if I was in charge I’d build council housing for the rich, too (like the Barbican). Then the money currently going on rent and mortgages could be better invested elsewhere!

sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses

This is probably the way to go, because then the Tories won’t be able to run on ‘Bring Back Right To Buy’.

That’s part of the reason I’m sharing it here!

Anyway, I’m sure there’s a non-zero number of conservative-leaning readers of the NYT. Every one of them who’s swayed away from Trump is a win.

He was a secret Marxist all along. The Daily Mail was right!

Just nationalise it already.

I put an archive link in the post! Here it is again.

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Just a little bit, as a treat.

This and the stuff around the ‘single status’ for workers is genuinely quite difficult. For instance, the Writers’ Guild has concerns about how royalties would work under such a status. That’s exactly why the government’s doing the right thing in having an extensive consultation period.

Terrified this will now actually catch on.