This may well be nonsense (it was ever thus…); but PM Johnson seems to have a plan. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it will be difficult to stop. This twitter thread is remarkably accurate and even… Read More ›
Politics
The GREATE$T Trick of Boris, Brexit & Trump
How the greatest illusion of our time quietly transfers your money to the super rich. The truth is hidden by Boris, Brexit, Trump, and the trade war. Well worth a look.
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
Much of the outrage that floods social media, occasionally leaking into opinion columns and broadcast interviews, is not simply a reaction to events themselves, but to the way in which they are reported and framed. The “mainstream media” is the… Read More ›
Insults, lies, gaslighting, authoritarian threats. He’s your president.
After insulting Buttigieg, Trump demeaned Elizabeth Warren by describing her as “a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas.” Trump went on to compare Warren unfavorably with himself, describing himself as “so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius!”… Read More ›
He had tried to conceal insulting remarks from Donald Trump
“I believed that, by writing these messages in English, that would serve the same purpose as encryption,” Darroch said. “The fact that Trump was somehow able to decode them remains deeply mysterious to me.” Darroch said that, “out of an… Read More ›
The Daily Mail reaches a new low…
It’s fair to say that the general vibe of Glastonbury is a fairly socially liberal one, so it’s not somewhere you’d be likely to see a MAGA cap, for instance, or an “I love Brexit” T-shirt, like the one worn… Read More ›
The polls are clear
For most of this year, polls have shown remain ahead of leave, typically by four to six points. But in a referendum between staying in the EU and leaving on the terms that the government has negotiated, staying enjoys an… Read More ›
What the f*ck is going on in the UK?
Take a look at those numbers above. Tory party members are so obsessed with getting Brexit that they don’t care about anything else, apart from their views of the Labour Party that don’t seem to have changed since the 1970’s…. Read More ›
Behind Brexit lies a yearning for a past we destroyed
Was that period perfect? Of course not. Bad things happened, poverty existed, governments screwed up, and there were wars and reversals and crises. But the general trend was for increased wealth, health, life expectancy, security, openness, home-ownership, saving, disposable income,… Read More ›
The humbling of Britain
This is not “taking back control”. This is not the proud, independent, liberated Britain that the Brexiteers promised. It is grotesque, calamitous, an epic act of self-harm brought about not by some war or disaster but by our own stupidity…. Read More ›
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