A properly Star-FT brain #02 – Labour factions, Mark Fisher and Gaza

Another blog about the Morning Star and Financial Times, which I get most Saturdays. See first blog here.

The Morning Star had some good stuff

Kerr, M. 2024. Miliband commits to £8.3bn GB Energy investment strategy. Morning Star, February 17, p.3.

McCail, C. 2024. The anti-politics of Starmer’s Labour. Morning Star, February 17, p.12-13. (on the topic of the Labour Together outfit and its machinations. See also the FT Magazine about the monetizing of big business relationships

There’s a nice interview about a new film, The Settlers, dealing with Chile and the massacres of its indigenous people in the early 20th century.

Escobar, C. 2024. A deep wound (interview with Felip Galvez). Morning Star, February 17, p.17.

The FT has stuff about the two by-elections that the Conservatives lost, the death (presumably murder) of the Russian dissident Navatny, and stuff on Gaza., among much else

There is an absolutely brilliant letter “Dating by credit score reflects deep-seated fears” by Felicity Hawskley. I read it out to the wife, and said it wouldn’t appear in the Guardian or Times because they’d be afraid the readership wouldn’t get it. She replied it wouldn’t appear because the editors wouldn’t get it. Quite the burn.

Hawksley, F. 2024. Letter: Dating by credit score reflects deep-seated fears. Financial Times, February 17, p.10p.