UK political discourse is a case study for how much someone considered a nice chap with good manners can still get away with.
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He says dreadful things in such a calm, reasonable & (from watching his speech at NatCon) boring way.
sep 15, 2025, 1:25 pm • 6 2 • view
Check out his book
sep 15, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I've read extracts which were very wordy with virtually no concrete ideas on how to achieve what he wants.
sep 15, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Take a sectarian speech through AI and see what the responses are when it is first done in an Etonian tone and then presented in an Essex or Barnsley drawl
sep 15, 2025, 11:16 am • 53 3 • view
See also how a professorial style allows German far right politicians and commentators to project a facade of credibility.
sep 15, 2025, 11:17 am • 43 1 • view
Maybe Italy is the Country against this trend as a ciociara is in charge, then again she hasn’t given an interview to the press for 247 days and we have all forgotten what she sounds like.
sep 15, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t this just always the case with pretty much anything? Remember once being told that the impact of any presentation is about 40% how you look and move, 40% how you sound and only about 20% content. Distinctly remember a training session when we watched back videos of talks with the sound off.
sep 15, 2025, 11:19 am • 12 0 • view
Yes, I did that training too as a graduate student (at U. Edinburgh). Among the most useful couple of hours in my entire professional life, I think.
sep 15, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 0 • view
centrists are so afraid of what they might need to do if there were actually a far right threat so they spend all their energy on denial.
sep 15, 2025, 12:53 pm • 14 3 • view
Ethos, logos, pathos, taught Aristotle.
sep 15, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
It also works in a shouted Ulster brogue when mixed with biblical blood and thunder en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Pai...
sep 15, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view
I was horrified to discover that I felt that Trump was about 25% more credible/reasonable with an english patrician accent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFg6...
sep 15, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 1 • view
Farage's 'popularity' comes from his appearing as a posh but nice bloke who likes a laugh and a beer. His whole image is designed to con lower class voters.
sep 15, 2025, 11:20 am • 5 1 • view
And it does!
sep 15, 2025, 11:32 am • 2 0 • view
Yep. Hook, line and sinker.
sep 15, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"
sep 15, 2025, 11:56 am • 3 0 • view
"Hey, business is business. You use a gun. I use a fountain pen. What's the difference?"
sep 15, 2025, 1:20 pm • 5 0 • view
Not just UK 😭
sep 15, 2025, 11:17 am • 1 0 • view
Especially if he’s a cheeky bloke.
sep 15, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view