{"id":258374,"date":"2025-05-14T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=258374"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:59:15","slug":"trebles-all-round-2","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/trebles-all-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trebles all round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalism seems to have descended from tragedy into farce. Trump climbs down yet again from adolescent posturing and cuts the China tariff by 115%. Qatar soothes and flatters him with a free 747 &#8216;flying palace&#8217; for his presidential toy cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>In a craven sop to Reform UK, Labour plans to &#8216;get tough&#8217; on legal migration, despite its known advantages for the economy, and a looming demographic crisis. Who needs facts and statistics when scapegoats are easier? Starmer and co are pandering to populist dog whistles.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, autocrats offer peace with one hand and lob missiles with the other.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths pile up while the profits roll in, and the rich celebrate with cocktails on their floating palaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-258374","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/258374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}