Issue 47.06 is now online, featuring:
Perry Anderson on neoliberalism
Tessa Hadley on Mavis Gallant
Judith Butler on Trump’s anti-trans orders
Long Ling on Beijing’s commuter city
Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk
and a cover by Jon McNaught.
Read online at lrb.co.uk
‘Twitter remains for now by some way the market-leader, but its use-value is fast vanishing, as even the more sluggish old-school news and comment organisations recognise.’
Mark Sinker (@HiddenLandsc8pe) on Bluesky, from December:
lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/dece…
‘Withdrawing basic support from people who are not considered sufficiently ill or disabled risks making them more ill or disabled.’
Arianne Shahvisi on welfare cuts, from the blog: