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lachrymose

George Osborne, the Chancellor, had painted a lachrymose picture of the 'shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits'

what he's really saying is that the idea of people on benefits disrupts the dominant ideology of work being something you need to do to live lmao

—p.49 The Westminster Cartel (46) by Owen Jones
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Mont Pelerin Society

With the stage set for a generational struggle in defence of an increasingly besieged free-market capitalism, the Mont Pèlerin Society was born.

—p.20 The Outriders (17) by Owen Jones
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Overton window

my deep attraction to the idea of the 'Overton Window', a concept invented by US conservatives to describe what is deemed politically possible at any given time

—p.xviii Foreword to the Paperback Edition (xi) by Owen Jones
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