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Problem I’ve noticed is many people I know hate Starmer but will vote for him to get the Tories out. I’m convinced the media want Starmer to win. That will push the Tories to the Right ( National Conservatives) as soon as he gets in the media will go for him.I’m fairly sure we are the only...

I'm not so sure Labour will win. Yes, the Tories are in the lead in 'who is more likely to lose' terms. But elections can be thought of in terms of being lost and/or being won. So while, yes, the Conservatives are on track for losing, given their terrible track record, the appalling corruption...

I imagine Barnaby, himself Jewish, will accrue much opprobrium for his comments because the climate is now so hot and so racist. I'm already sick of "DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS" as the price of entry into the discourse and the toll to be paid if you want to be seen as a rational interlocutor. It is...

Over and over, it's all about the woke minority "elite" who have this mysterious power. Braverman from Petcha's post here (bold emphasis mine): and posh Quentin Letts in the DM from Mezzer's post here: They really want anyone who'll listen to believe that ordinary working class people...

She is the most grotesque politician in the 13 years of the Tories. And that, Suella, is a fucking achievement. You had to jump fucking high to get there. Read and weep.

I have a feeling that which of the above turns out to be right will be a measure of how far things have got in that nauseous hinterland between those ex-leftists, conspiracists and the alt-right. Not only a question of how much rationality is left, how much common decency, but also how much...

Yes. The defenders of Brand – including some who I’d hoped better of – seem so captured by crazy narratives of conspiracy and controlling hidden hands that their objective and critical reasoning faculties have finally and publicly collapsed. Their demand for evidence is easily satisfied by both...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/compass-chief-says-labour-has-expelled-him-and-attacks-party-tyranny?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other I was staggered by this. Compass are soft left group. Neal Lawson has been around for years. Decent guy. And where does it leave party members who...

I don't think anyone would be surprised that I have some sympathies for his conclusions about technology (but not his biases). Those ideas are not new or exclusive to the Unibomber. What I'd like to see is a wiser approach to the use of technology, that limits environmental damage and suburban...

I didn't say I had sympathy for his political objectives.

Having compassion for him doesn't make you a fool, having any sympathy with his political objectives does.

That would take quite a bit of plotting on political compass. 'I hear you're a centrist racist now father'.

Agreed, It’s possible to walk and chew gum at the same time as, I thought I’d made clear, in the last paragraph of my post.

...fuck shammer. If you think the people of brum have been treated with contempt already you'll find shammer's lot will treat them with hitherto unseen levels of contempt in future. If you find yourself agreeing with shammer something has gone desperately wrong with your moral and political compass

Thatchers moral compass, and anybody who shares its direction, are so far off the wall and in such a state of denial about the damage of 'free markets' that their opinions can be discounted. Such politics are a sick sick joke. Allowing the 'invisible hand' free reign is still delivering us all...

Where? One if the many problems with political culture in this country is that politicians are expected to pretend to be paragons of virtue. The irony here of course is that Corbyn comes much closer to meeting that impossible standard than the vast majority of politicians from any party.

For some context, some posts from over on the Lineker thread: As it happens, today I happened to stumble on this piece by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is excellent imo: https://www.chimamanda.com/news_items/it-is-obscene-a-true-reflection-in-three-parts/ And, you know, I never miss an...

A small correction. Apparently, the Level 4 Japanese that the youngest has been tested to, is not just in spoken Japanese. It involves passing four, separate, one-hour examinations in speaking, listening, reading and writing. My bad. Despite that (and on top of her Masters and everything...

And always, lurking in the background and arriving imminently ... My youngest daughter is arriving from the Philippines tomorrow lunchtime (23/12/22,) to stay for two weeks. I haven't seen her for four fucking years, what with the NSL and Covid and shit! She's 30 years old. She graduated from...