By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/06/2026Despite having won a majority so large it would have made Saddam Hussein blush (not because Labour was popular, but because the outgoing Conservatives were universally loathed), Starmer has refused to lift a finger to improve Britons' lives. 15/ 1400
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/06/2026Instead, he's abetted genocide, criminalized protest, proposed ending jury trials, imposed austerity, handed the NHS over to Palantir and all the remaining potable water and electrical capacity in the country over to American most unprofitable AI giants. 16/ 1390
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/06/2026Starmer's insistence that we can't have nice things is *bad* politics, because (and it's weird that this has to be said) a government that makes people's lives *worse* is less popular than a government that makes people's lives *better*: www.whatwelo.st/p/everyone-h... 17/whatwelo.stEveryone Hates Tech But Nobody Knows What To Do About ItIt's hard to regulate big tech when you're unpopular 1506
