Sentence,Label,Solved conflict
"Few journalists thought to ask why it is large parts of ‘left behind’ places needed ‘levelling up’ in the first place.
",SUBJ,False
"Theresa May made this more explicit:  ‘Socialism is about levelling down.
",OBJ,False
"Conservatism is about levelling up.
",SUBJ,False
"It also reveals the limits of their ideological position, why they can never really be counted on to address regional inequality.
",SUBJ,False
"It meant that, for the first time in the UK, the right to develop land was a public matter, rather than one conferred by private ownership.
",OBJ,False
"In this zombie neoliberalism, there is only levelling up for the already rich.",SUBJ,False
"This paltry fund was followed up with twelve further ‘missions’—some containing specific aims to reduce rates of homicide, others more nebulous like increasing ‘pride in place’.
",SUBJ,False
"They asked the question of how one might tackle regional inequality, but the answer to that almost always involves long-term state investment, often led by local or regional governments with devolved powers and funding.
",OBJ,False
"The funding that does exist for the patchwork of devolved regional/city authorities requires them to compete for pots, rather than having the tax base and powers they need.
",OBJ,False
"This gave the planning system significant redistributive potential, and took power away from landowning elites.
",OBJ,False
"Urban, rural, and environmental planning, as a strategic and long-term process, is fundamental not just to revitalising regions but also to responding to the ecological crisis.
",OBJ,False
"In part due to pressures from the Treasury, the Bill introduces no new funding.
",OBJ,False
"Planning, like the NHS, is one of the few areas of the post-war welfare state that neoliberal politicians have not been able to fully dismantle.
",OBJ,False
"In stark contrast, what the Levelling Up Bill proposes is centralisation of power without any clear direction.
",OBJ,False
"These NDMPs, according to the draft bill, can be implemented at the Secretary of State’s whim.
",SUBJ,False
"The content of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill proves that the only levelling up the ruling party is interested in is levelling up the bank accounts of the already rich.
",SUBJ,False
"Boris Johnson declared ‘levelling up’ the ‘defining mission’ of his administration, but in practice the main usage of this slogan-policy was to pretend the government was actually doing something positive alongside its various draconian pieces of legislation and attacks on democracy.
",SUBJ,False
"There is very little in the way of investment or powers for the most deprived regions, no plan for investment in creaking infrastructure, nothing that would support new industries across the country.
",SUBJ,False
"That the government are shoehorning what is left of their unpopular planning reforms into this Levelling Up legislation speaks to the vacuity of the ‘defining mission’.
",SUBJ,False
"A government serious about equality and ‘levelling up’ would be looking to do the opposite of what this Bill does.
",SUBJ,False
"With even the economics writers at the Times conceding that the Tories have absolutely no plan for economic growth, what we instead have are attempts to extend the means by which rentier capitalism can be protected, extraction sites can be built against the wishes of the community, and Tory donors can continue to produce poor quality, un-ecological private homes that will need to be torn down in a couple of decades, if they don’t collapse before then.
",SUBJ,False
"The aim was, if not always successful, to create economic growth across the country and intervene in public health through improving housing.
",OBJ,False
"It is another power grab.
",SUBJ,False
"Blunkett used the phrase to defend further education spending on the basis that it would improve the lives of lower income students without levelling down wealthier, higher achieving students.
",OBJ,False
"The first piece of legislation to contain the slogan’s name has only reached its early parliamentary stages in recent months: the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was supposed to set out how these missions may be completed.
",OBJ,False
"In its initial draft, though, the Bill contains very little that can be said to ‘Level Up’, in the sense of action and investment that would significantly alter the lives of people across the UK—those whose towns, cities, and infrastructure have lacked the investment of London and parts of the South East for decades.
",SUBJ,False
"The Conservative manifesto in 2019 was one of the least substantial in terms of what it proposed for a ruling party’s agenda, outside of its one major pledge to ‘Get Brexit Done’.
",SUBJ,False
"The central mechanism of this process is the introduction of ‘national development management policies’ (NDMPs) which would override some of the policies made by local councils that lead their decision-making on particular sites, the most controversial of which are subject to public debate and deliberation (however limited).
",OBJ,False
"Levelling up, under this administration, means challenging regional inequality and has more recently come to be used to talk about inequalities in general.
",SUBJ,False
"Years of talk about missions, ‘left behind’ places, the ‘red wall’—all of this has been shown to be electoral hot air, always plainly nonsense but something the Tories and the press went along with anyway in order to pretend they actually had some sort of plan to end the stagnation for which they are responsible.
",SUBJ,False
"As I have written previously, the government has been trying for years to centralise the planning system to remove as much space for dissent to developments, whether that be newbuild housing estates or shale gas fracking rigs.
",SUBJ,False
"The reason for the lack of any actual ‘levelling up’ should be quite clear to most people: it runs against the ideology and interests of the Conservative Party.
",SUBJ,False
"The Tories may have been happy to spend lots of public money during the pandemic, some of it in ways the borders on the corrupt, but they still oppose the idea that the state can and should make targeted, long-term investments.
",SUBJ,False
"This, again, has a political motive: given how many of these authorities are Labour-run, it is hardly in the Tories’ interests to have mayors pursuing alternative agendas that may work better than their own, or that challenge the developers and landlords that fund the Conservative Party.
",SUBJ,False
"Instead of giving ministers more power to make decisions based on whomever has been able to lobby them successfully at the fundraising dinner, we need to be empowering local, regional, and devolved national governments to make decisions based on the needs of citizens, particularly in relation to housing and utilities.
",SUBJ,False
"The most prominent of these slogan-policies has been ‘Levelling Up’, which was seen as so important that a whole government department was renamed to push through what became a centrepiece reform.
",OBJ,False
"Usually, when politicians use these open, Newspeak-type terms, it is because they are trying to obscure more than they want to say.
",SUBJ,False
"Two and a half years into a disaster-ridden Parliament, however, ‘Levelling-Up’ remains a slogan-policy, beyond a small pot of money which seemed heavily skewed towards Tory and marginal constituencies.
",SUBJ,False
"The planning system’s initial institution was aimed at democratising land; the Planning Act of 1947 defined local authorities with responsibility for setting out their own development plans and deciding what should be developed or persevered.
",OBJ,False
"There is nothing in this Bill that does this; instead, we are being invited to put out trust whichever multi-millionaire landlord or former oil executive gets given the ministerial position.
",SUBJ,False
"The etymology of ‘Levelling up’ is one of distinguishing properly neoliberal approaches from ‘socialist’ ones, by use of the extended phrase ‘Levelling up, not levelling down’ (for example, by David Blunkett and Theresa May) for a particular policy intervention.
",OBJ,False
"Conservatives reject that.’  Under Boris Johnson, the term has been more clearly used in the positive sense, dropping the reference to levelling down.
",OBJ,False
"Indeed, one of the main concerns of the Committee was that much of the Bill is vague and unspecified, cut through with powers like this and further provisions for the Secretary of State to put down secondary legislation to give the Bill its substantive content in the future.
",OBJ,False
"They may have dropped the ‘levelling down’ part of the phrase, but this etymology shows the real pre-occupation of the Tory Party: preventing the redistribution of their wealth ‘down’ to the public, the very redistribution required to invest across the UK.
",SUBJ,False
"National governments would then be able to set the parameters of this—for example, rates of social housing, and emissions reductions—as well as focusing on projects that cut across the country, like trains.
",OBJ,True
"Most of the commitments the government has made seem to have started with a slogan, with the policy reverse engineered from there.
",SUBJ,True
"What the Levelling Up Bill is really is a Planning Bill in disguise, something the Committee made clear at the very beginning of their evidence sessions.
",SUBJ,True
"News media repeated the slogan, inquired sincerely as to what it might mean, asked when it might happen, projected their own visions on to it.
",SUBJ,True
"Socialists believe that, if everyone cannot have something, no one shall.
",OBJ,True
"But it’s more than clear that the original COVID shots aren’t stopping COVID, so why would this one work?
",SUBJ,False
"The variant has also been identified in several other countries around the world.
",OBJ,False
"There’s allegedly another new COVID variant floating around.
",OBJ,False
"My speculation is that it won’t and instead, we’ll be told there’s a new and deadly terrible vaccine-resistant variant that even five shots won’t stop.
",SUBJ,False
"–SHTFPlan  According to a report by NDTV, the new COVID-19 variant, BA.4.6 now accounts for more than 9 percent of recent cases across the US.
",OBJ,False
"Recombination happens when two different variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infect the same person, at the same time, reported NDTV.",OBJ,False
"The BA 4.6 variant is said to “evade immune protection.”
",OBJ,False
"The newest booster injection full of mRNA technology (an experimental gene therapy shot) is set to be authorized this week before human trials can be completed.
",OBJ,False
"As predicted, it “evades immune protection” from both the “vaccine” and natural immunity.
",OBJ,False
"So, when is the next variant that will evade this vaccine too?
",SUBJ,False
"This mutation, R346T, has been seen in other variants and is associated with immune evasion, meaning it helps the virus to escape antibodies acquired from vaccination and prior infection.
",OBJ,False
"It is not entirely clear how BA.4.6 has emerged, but it’s possible it could be a recombinant variant.
",OBJ,False
"COVID Variant Booster Authorization Is Coming This Week, Brace For The Next Variant
",SUBJ,False
"It’s a fair question, considering this is supposed to be an “Omicron specific” booster shot.
",OBJ,False
"While BA.4.6 is similar to BA.4 in many ways, it carries a mutation to the spike protein, a protein on the surface of the virus which allows it to enter our cells.
",OBJ,False
And guess what?,SUBJ,True
"As we predicted, new variants will come after the Food and Drug Administration decided to approve an experimental vaccine booster with no human trials specifically for Omicron.
",SUBJ,True
"Tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda ran a largely neutral article, albeit under an over-egged headline – hardly unknown in the West given how reporters and columnists rarely get to choose their titles – ‘The Funeral of Elizabeth II: a racist scandal, Prince Andrew's tears and a corgi's farewell to its mistress.’
",OBJ,False
"Yet the evening TV political talk shows, whose hosts seem to compete to be more strident and xenophobic than the next, took a very different tack.
",SUBJ,False
"Consider, for example, what Olga Skabeyeva, one of the most energetically toxic, said on the government's Rossiya-1 channel.
",SUBJ,False
Seeing which camp ultimately triumphs will tell us much about how far Putin really is planning to drag Russia into outright totalitarianism.,SUBJ,False
"As a result, the media was free – free to try and guess what would please its audience the most.
",OBJ,False
"The majority of the coverage was restrained, factual and even positive.
",OBJ,False
"Indeed, government newspaper Rossiskaya Gazetarather improbably stood up for the poor, neglected heads of state, complaining that the decision ‘to force world leaders to go to the funeral not in their motorcades but on special buses’ was a ‘gross violation of diplomatic protocol.’
",SUBJ,False
"As for 'shock jocks' like Skabeyeva, their role is to bring the combative energy of Jerry Springer to George Orwell's ‘Two Minutes Hate.’
",SUBJ,False
"There were some spiteful and critical comments, primarily on social media, but even these were then shouted down in what seems to have been a genuine public outcry.
",OBJ,False
"Although Putin claimed that he would have been too busy to attend anyway, that he was one of the few heads of state – along with Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko and Myanmar's Lt General Myint Swe – not invited either to attend or send a representative did hit a nerve.
",SUBJ,False
"Skabeyeva replied saying that a nuclear strike should have been launched on Monday because so many VIPs were present for the funeral.
",OBJ,False
"Of course not.
",SUBJ,False
"Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova, who has made a career out of embittered vitriol, described it as a ‘profoundly immoral’ act, ‘blasphemous to the memory of Elizabeth II.’
",SUBJ,False
"The Skabeyevas thrive in an atmosphere of conspiracy and xenophobia.
",SUBJ,False
"Newspaper Izvestia, which has been brutal towards Liz Truss, treated its readers to a detailed account that recognised the meticulous planning behind the event and noted that it passed off without a hitch.
",SUBJ,False
"Indeed, what criticisms the newspapers aired were generally aimed either at the British government, for ‘playing politics’ (as if any state funeral is not an impromptu summit) or clumsily handling the Saudi and Chinese delegations or the Americans.
",SUBJ,False
"Presumably it had in mind those Russian officials whose cars blithely skip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams, escorted by police cars with blaring sirens and strobing lights, using their own special designated lanes, who could feel these leaders' pain.
",SUBJ,False
"One of her guests was former general and parliamentarian Andrei Gurulyov, a man who previously advocated missile strikes on the UK, who this time called Britain ‘the seat of all evil.’
",OBJ,False
"Modern Russia is a propaganda state, but not in the same way as the Soviet Union.
",SUBJ,False
"When there is no clear steer from the Kremlin, different media outlets do still present different perspectives, but they are all operating in an increasingly dangerous environment, one in which outlets can be closed, editors sacked and journalists imprisoned or even killed if they step out of line.
",OBJ,False
"Nonetheless, it is clear that the Kremlin, which can impose an official line when it chooses through a secret memoranda called tyomniki circulated to media outlets, decided not to do so over the funeral.
",OBJ,False
"And, of course, that is essentially an audience of one man: the president himself.
",OBJ,False
"Even so, the 'racist scandal' proved to be a rather contrived comparison to the way African heads of state were forced to travel by bus, while a ‘white gentleman’, Joe Biden, could take his own car.
",SUBJ,False
"Even the regular television news was matter of fact, and showing footage of the mass of respectful mourners, the choreographed pageantry, the human moments of sorrow.
",OBJ,False
"Was she really advocating a nuclear first strike?
",OBJ,False
"Many journalists are trying to cling to the remnants of their professional standards.
",SUBJ,False
"The Kremlin has squeezed out any independent media, but all the same, the coverage of the Queen's funeral demonstrated how this is a post-modern propaganda state, in which competing 'narrative entrepreneurs' try to make their mark and please the boss.
",SUBJ,False
"Some tried to turn it against the British or US governments.
",OBJ,False
"So instead they are trying to guess where the line is, or even move it a little.
",OBJ,False
"However, this demonstrates how Russia's media environment works.
",SUBJ,True
"As I have written before, the official line on the Queen's death was strikingly respectful, taking its lead from Vladimir Putin's own message of condolences.
",SUBJ,True
"Most of the newspapers and the TV news programmes treated the funeral as a straight news story.
",OBJ,True
"That the infamous 'Beast,' Biden's eight ton armoured presidential limousine, got stuck in traffic was gloatingly treated as poetic justice.
",SUBJ,True