William Cullerne Bown

It is only in the strangeness of today that this view seems plausible. How did India get its independence? Because Brits in Britain weren't up for violent suppression of peaceful nationalists. Trump is working super hard to tutor Americans out of their natural compassion.

He should call it 'The Fuehrerdome'. Though I guess the name will inevitably have 'Trump' in it. And probably something about gold. 'The Donald J Trump Goldenbowl', perhaps. Just the thing for impromptu little Nuremberg-style rallies.

That is our tragedy

Lesson 1. Give your audience a reason to watch. I have no idea what your ESRC project is or why I should care.

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Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

Mediocrity is part of it though, all the way back to the fascists of 100 years ago.

His inner circle just does not seem sufficiently competent for a job that big.

In a functioning democracy, they would have been impeached. In a functioning autocracy, they would have been purged.

The U.S. is somehow neither atm, so here we r.

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

I think there is a vg case for the Alternative Vote (pluralist majoritarianism) UK's evolving party system - not least as of balanced use for voters on different sides of political spectrum. It allows sincere voting by every voter + strategic choices by those who care
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

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Yes, those networks are centred on X. You really can’t understand the British Right today without looking at that pit of vile.

Yeah again with the caveat that I am 0% knowledgeable about this sort of thing it’s really hard to see any non-political solution that isn’t “total conquest of Iran around the strait,” which a. will take a long time and make things worse until it’s done, and b. probably still doesn’t fully secure it

Have faith in the people on the street in Minnesota. Determined and switched on.

I think it’s a measure of the centrality of US influencers (aligned with Trump) to the online networks that shape British right discourse at this point.

Oh, and money.

Yes. He seems in fact insufficiently ruthless to achieve the kind of regime change in the US he seems to want.

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Well, as Glasman puts it, it is part of “the MAGA square”.

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If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be much more obvious among many more of the Democrats in Congress?

I think there will be trouble before, during and after. But I think Minnesota has shown that the opposition is now determined and switched on. I am fearful but optimistic if that is possible.

I am finding France24 great background to this war. Just a succession of very well informed guests who are invited to give their view.

I’m not sure about. They let him walk away from Jan 6. He’s an oligarch in an oligarchic system.

Right. The question is how far he’ll be able to go in that direction.

How is he going to approach them?

There is literally no limit to how much damage Trump could inflict on the global economy. He is driven by motives that are completely disconnected from the wellbeing of his own country, let alone the rest of the world. If he thinks it will help in November, he will bankrupt us all.

But our initial view is that early intervention is better fiscal policy - both because it dampens the inflation spike, and because it reduces the need for any EPG style intervention.

Regardless bond yields will rise as many countries borrow at the same time. New debt issuance could be tricky

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The main question about this purchase is ideological. There is a clear split between Reform and Conservative voters on principles. Is Springer on one side of that line or t’other, or doesn’t care.

But why have we done those things? And built a new base there? What is the point of it all? You seem to be saying we just have a soft spot for sultans.