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This isn't knowledge I learned in primary school and so therefore I assume it is woke
Everyday the US isn't invading Mexico is one to be thankful for
They are, get this, moving the headquarters of Space Command to Alabama
He's going to invade people because of their trade deficits
And then call it a 'Sexagon'
I think it's already available for any woman that wants it tbf
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
*taking notes for December*
I get it
You put Nuteling in bassinet, where Nuteling is supposed to sleep. Oh ho ho, jail for father, jail for 1,000 years
Wow, sounds like they're finally using those bats for something interesting
Honestly I just think its institutional: the barrier to getting a Labour leader out is just a lot higher than in the Conservative Party, which does tend to result in some fatalism.
Your mentions are still better than mine for suggesting that New Labour was a better government than this
Yes, but ultimately it's still a choice. Like sure, I would not like to start from here, but it's still legitimate to complain about what is ultimately just poor leadership.
I mean, the PM can be a different guy. That is a thing that the Labour Party could do.
I mean I wouldn't call that either progressive or not progressive as legislation. Ultimately also triggered by the SNP winning a majority in 2011, which obviously was not an event that happened under New Labour
Very different political opinion context mind. And in general a *huge* leap forwards in LGBT+ rights across the 13 years in power. A lot of the current roleback on trans rights stuff is explicitly rollback on New Labour era legislation.
Though unfortunately if you asked them that question they'd probably just say 'you mean like Peter Dinklage?'
As a HoR (Husband of Romanian) his post would be like a moth to the flame of racist Romanians alas
Welcome
The arc of British politics is long, but it bends toward convincing progressives that New Labour was the best government of their lifetime.
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In his own voice, Elon Musk is fully committed to a replacement conspiracy theory as his main lens on UK politics.
I have read over 10,000 posts about HBO's Harry Potter series
If only there was a recent case study of people swearing that NI wouldn't be a problem for leaving a European treaty agreement we could draw upon.
As an Irish you are of course good to sneer at both
Hot take: I think you should be able to criticise people calling you a treasonous and illegitimate government
Elon: i think every member of the british govt should be torn limb by limb by a pure white english mob The british govt: hm...interesting points
Imagine getting your house blown down by Storm Dave.
Look if you won’t condemn a nazi peadophile you just don’t have a line or a spine
Which is great news for Henry
She's going to be party leader for 20 years
"New York Mecs"
He's a winner, Nute, not like Puny Parker.
Of course Spider-Man is a Mets fan. For Parker must suffer.
I am not going to claim that this is easy or doesn't have drawbacks. It would require some really tricky choices. But public services being better is basically an issue everyone can agree on and the public are more willing to make trade offs than they're stereotyped as IMO.
As I say in the piece, you always require *some* polarisation as a political strategy as you need to divide electorates in way favourable to you. If it was me, I'd have gone for an all out push on public services, which IMO, is what people elect Labour governments for.
-Me watching the post credits scene of the Marvels and seeing Kelsey Grammar show up
Beast seems into it
I know, I'm ashamed of myself
Tbf, I can't prove it wasn't AI
Well idk about any photos, but he did appear at a press conference yesterday so
Though tbf, Duverger's Law not having the greatest time of things rn
A mutant blowing up a school because they mutated rocket biceps is a small price to pay for the right to bear arms.
It's a vaguely sympathetic Telegraph article today
Basically I'd say that in some ways the issues they are experiencing now are downstream of things I was trying to highlight in this piece. They are still trying to go for depolarisation in power, but it's a very different environment and it leaves people not knowing what they're for.
Yeah Jay, have you heard of the second amendment
What could be homoerotic about a bunch of men on a small boat with big guns hunting a killer fish
Also the men are made to do the community organising, rather than actually most of it being women and them stopping cos they got jobs
@abradacabla.bsky.social a classic Nuteing
Oh of course
So does he basically just think that everyone not born in the US should be thanking the US all day every day
That sounds an awful lot like Trump
Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.
Yup.
Thank God we have an electoral system that blocks radical parties from reaching parliament. I'd be really worried if we had one that might, say, give them a landslide majority on a third of the vote.
Jules, stop, I can only experience so much pleasure
I believe the kids call this "manifesting"
Logging onto BlueSky this morning.
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
I would like to distance myself from the Folk Odinism Dorset Facebook group
And the Tories already tried that
But also they're not going to fund programmes to help mental health either, which I feel like is an important point
Can you apply to be on the anti UBI blocklist? I want to be on the anti UBI blocklist
Tory councillor's wife who got thrown in jail for inciting violence during the riots last year and who has become a cause celebre for certain parts of the right wing media because we cannot have good things
Neither of those two things are incompatible with the show having a soft Thatcherite worldview
Well on the one hand they're based in New York. But on the other they're based in Queens
This 👇👇👇is so good. It’s hard do to it this well, but it’s not hard to give the same message.
@ralucahippie.bsky.social Is Eastern Europe behind this
There's a sort of normative barrier you need to be careful not to pass, aye.
This is incidentally why it's important that Starmer has no real project. I don't think many on the centre left would expect a Labour government to seriously manage to make Britain into a progressive paradise on every single issue, but it's hard at this point to say what progressives are gaining
New Labour was also very good at making its more progressive elements feel like they were moderate and centrist than they were, I dare say. This is not to say that I think New Labour was all progressivism all the time, but it's only with hindsight that I appreciate what it pulled off in some places
The govt's commitment to adult social care reform procrastination is truly impressive. First it commissioned Louise Casey to publish a review in 2028, then it decided she should first review grooming gangs, and now it is considering appointing her to a full time role in No.10
The titans of League 2
They can go lower
It's interesting that Powell and Llewellyn share the experience of having fairly meaty experience in foreign policy circles, though it would be basically impossible to replicate Llewellyn's career path in particular
A policy that half of Reform voters oppose, in this poll.
I'm sorry, but if your argument is that giving money to the Taliban will become popular because Labour attack it, then your argument is that Labour is so unpopular it has no route to victory this decade.
The province that taught the rest Latin
But less important than the true heart of the Empire: Dacia
Speaks well to NYC, IMO
Remember to measure her skull to make sure the match is just right
The first picture legitimately looks like some policemen just busted a small IRA splinter
Look at you, doing intellectual one upmanship via 'knowing things'
I did not realise clips of Michael Scott were imbued with such importance
Yeah, sure it's other people who are interested in games of intellectual one-upmanship
I literally just landed back in the UK and I don't even know what message this was
I think it's probably also because it's hard not to associate Sci fi with the 'Torment nexus' kind of tech bro culture even if, as the Torment Nexus joke makes clear they haven't understood the point
A 5th grader explains that his schoolmate shielded him. That friend is now in the hospital after taking a bullet while shielding his classmate. They are only 10 years old.
Widely considered 'not good'. The film that is, not the town of Grimsby
I would like to briefly note that Grimsby Town is @aremay.bsky.social's team so I believe traditionally goal celebrations are to be combined with buns
I'm in Kraków at the moment. Yesterday I thought I'd visit the cathedral on Wawel Hill, which would be a nice peaceful escape from the state of the world and walked straight into Lech Kaczynski's tomb.
Is a diary not merely a series of posts that no one else gets to see. Much to contemplate
Classic Romanian situation.
It's all just The Very Long 19th Century, I'm hearing
