Excellent, excellent...

This makes for heartening reading, especially alongside the reports and pictures here from France. Recidivists, Luddites, and wreckers, the lot of them; and a good thing, too.

"Student of irony" summed up the prevailing ruling class attitude, the "politics of envy":

It's a point that's struck me many times, that we live in a world where the affluent are envious of the [rest] of us. They never stop going on about how the rest of us have got too much.

I've wondered, in the past, if we're not rapidly approaching what is fashionably called a tipping-point for neoliberalism. As a mode of rule, across great swathes of the globe it is demonstrably failing to deliver the goods: neither reliable economic growth, nor political consent. Resistance to privatisation and deregulation and the rest of it is, whilst still very uneven, becoming sufficient to undermine the programme; whether the strikes today will derail the alleged reforms is a moot point, of course, but you can certainly see the potential.