I'm pretty sure the population could - if it wasn't for the BBC and daily mail and telegraph saying over and over again "That's weak."
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I'm pretty sure the population could - if it wasn't for the BBC and daily mail and telegraph saying over and over again "That's weak."
R/W media will hit out at anybody who looks like they might get enough power to introduce liberal/progressive policies - and too often it suits people on the left to make the same noise as the media on this to make themselves distinct, rather than identifying the REAL dangers.
It's like the fact that the LDs are blamed for their backtracking on student loans - when they were a minority party in a coalition who had limited say - and subsequent changes to Scheme 2 happened when they weren't even part of government!
Or let's talk about Reform themselves taking dodgy foreign money. Or cosying up to bad actors. Or their UTTER INCOMPETENCE at governance?
No. Starmer put Mandelson in office.
And that was when the screw-ups were even reported. The UK economy is 4-8% weaker because of Brexit and lost tens of billions of pounds because of Tory corruption. Tens of thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of lives were lost.
But Starmer put Mandelson in office.
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I am no friend of Labour. What we push back over is the asymmetry in the way in which Starmer is treated and the way in which any of the previous Tory PMs were treated. Including by the left.
"Apporte-moi du gui."
Tintin, peut-être? Asterix est contre les Romains...
Next thing will be "If they don't cut their insurance rates, we'll impose tariffs on them."
Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam
Oh boy! What a headline...
Ask yourself:
"What am I being asked to believe?"
"Who am I being told to blame?"
Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.
Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵
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Mum and I have always been pretty accepting of the stories she brings back (which is encouraging her to speak => good thing) but we had a simultaneous pretty visceral reaction to this.
There's always been a lot of come and go in secondary school, but few things have left such a bad taste in the mouth as Y10 talking about boys in her year saying to girls, "Speak when spoken to".
Weighing up whether to email school.
This is what I discovered.
Traditional skills are being lost. Like removing the cellophane wraps from CDs.
Darwin.
But backwards.
Watched the finale (?) of Call The Midwife last night. Still a bit traumatised.
Challenge: where is this?
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Think of Nero, Caligula. Think of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Think of rulers of Assyria.
This sort of thing is how people are going to look back at what is happening in the US at the moment.
The memes from well-meaning US citizens saying "Sorry" to the rest of the world don't come close.
Only ...
It was not in Rome. It was in the US.
It was not 1900 years ago. It was this century.
Trump is the sort of historical figure that will define the era. And I don't mean that in a positive way.
He helped himself to the state coffers, openly accepted bribes, showed blatant indifference to the interests of anybody other than him and his family, valued loyalty over wisdom, and set about destroying the world.
There was a man in Rome who before he rose to power was already notorious for (amongst other features of his flawed character) using children as objects for his sexual pleasure, but nonetheless ended up being elevated to the role of the most powerful man in the world.
Yeah, I'm not sure it's been renewed, either.
I've been spelling it with an H for a long time.
True. But I'm pointing out that she's not even achieving by *the standards she had for herself* at one stage, one assumes.
