Ben Ansell
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. Why Politics Fails. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host of What’s Wrong With Democracy? and BBC Radio 4’s Rethink
- A lot of people seem to claim it’s just ‘liberals’ who don’t like the government’s tone. But many of us are married to, colleagues with, friends with immigrants (including naturalised ones) and I don’t know about you but I care greatly about them! And this tone is just an endless grind.
- I wrote about Labour’s inability to grasp the nettle on social care in Jan. We are now in full Home Office driven fantasy policy where Labour will neither raise taxes for social care nor allow migrants into the sector. So I assume the plan is to bankrupt it. benansell.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
- In the spirit of @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s image of public opinion on immigration as “I want a pony in my flat with no costs attached” public opinion on social care seems to be “I want a magical care machine that costs nothing”
- I suspect ChatGPT will kill MOOCs and further raise demand for elite (and elitist) higher education with tutorials and all kinds of expensive labor that university administrators will hate.
