Pretty much stopping reading the guardian, mainly because they entertain this idiot, I find the FT more realistic/sensible..am I now officially old?
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Pretty much stopping reading the guardian, mainly because they entertain this idiot, I find the FT more realistic/sensible..am I now officially old?
One day politics/history students will study this vile propaganda.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Only Labour, not as one would expect, The Greens, are modernising our electricity grid.
It needs to go faster and further but in my opinion will be set back to the Thatcherite chaos of the eighties if we don't have a second Labour government.
Increased price of ammunition?
When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.
As someone who likes rules, Starmer's following of them seems right to me. It isn't lawful to attack Iran. It is lawful to defnd states that ddn't attack Iran from them.
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The right has lost its collective mind.
What does victory look like?
What is the reason for this war (I am not seeing a legal justification: there obviously isn't one).
Tying yourself to Trump looks foolish.
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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
www.ft.com/content/38d8...
We are increasingly moving to "Do It Yourself Alternative Vote" for the voters themselves to work out how to use the current system (often for negative partisanship: get Tories out; who can stop Reform, etc). But makes campaigns as in recent by-election primarily an argument re relative chances.
Agreed, I hate what was happening in Iran, I have known Iranians and want to see that country succeed, but not via Trump's gung-ho method, I don't know, like almost everyone else, how it will pan out.
It's all very Dirty Harry... goodies, baddies, "make my day Mullah!"
Starmer needs now to go hard against it, could expect better polling IMO.
Oh, the ones that have produced ever improving educational outcomes..damn that's where we've been going wrong.
Conversion to comp civilised mine, it's all about funding/happy staff.
Matt doesn't think working class children should have small class sizes.
Oh sad face ☹️
Yes that would explain why he loves people like Hegseth and Noam
Class sizes cost money but solve many problems
Yeah that sounds like the Thatcher years, that UNDERinvestment in education really paying dividends now.
Tosh! I went to a grammar, it was out of date in every regard, in 72 the Wilson gov turned it into a comp, my education thereafter was wonderfully rich and varied, because teachers were happy and free to teach.
I went to a grammar school, it was truly terrible, we were taught everything that would enable us to succeed in the 19c...then in 1972 Wilson's government converted it to a comp, and every bit of the education I received thereafter would and should be as it could be today.
Crushingly predictable. Utterly unjustified by decades of research. A shibboleth in place of a policy.
As always: its not just grammars you're bringing back, its secondary moderns.
And no one wants their kids to go to one. Which is a issue when 75% of kids will do so.
Always missed in this debate. You're making the education of the majority worse, to privilage a small minority.
this is probably the best PR Starmer's had since the election though - the UK population, with unusual unanimity, hates Trump and wants us to have as little to do with his shit-flinging escapades as possible
Labour have introduced so many ‘green’ policies that help towards Net Zero.
Can’t remember the last time Green’s actually talked about the environment 🤷🏻♂️
Looks like spring 🌼 is here
Pretty certain this is only post 2024
Sweet!
I cannot stand Mason but we need to do some research about how he reported May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
He's a typical dales Tory, it seems to me, I live amongst them.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
I'm not Ganesh's biggest fan, but this is perfect.