Michael Scott
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“If Americans had a more clear-eyed view of Putin, they would see a dictator who’s bet everything on a failed invasion, a country losing its sphere of influence, and an economy…cooling. A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility.”
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Russia’s leader isn’t nearly as strong as he’s made out to be, Andrew Ryvkin writes. “A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility”:
Putin Is Not Winning
Underestimating the Russian leader is dangerous, but ascribing dark powers to him plays right into his hands.
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He really is an obnoxious twat.
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"The US President’s self-congratulatory address to Israel for his 'success' in ending the war in Gaza was appalling, even vomit-inducing" || LETTERS

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Shocking scenes at SNP conference as someone says perfectly sensible things about energy, specifically nuclear power. It was an isolated incident, and his plea for sanity was overwhelmingly defeated.
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barleyman5.bsky.social
And other methods of immigration are also under the microscope
barleyman5.bsky.social
Are you sure? They can be "governed" indirectly.
barleyman5.bsky.social
Have a read back. It was a clear slight of hand talking about how many cases ended up being referred to the ECHR, as if those are the only cases affected.
barleyman5.bsky.social
Ah, now we have the accusation of racism.
No I do not think that. It is interesting, however, that you tried to use a slight of hand in your previous argument. I find that quite disappointing.
barleyman5.bsky.social
I don't confess to understand law fully and you may well be correct. Let's leave NI out of the discussion for the moment since it isn't the main point people are complaining about. "What rights would you be happy to lose?" Seems to be the main line of attack here for the more liberal folk.
barleyman5.bsky.social
I'm not convinced by that. And as I suggested NI could stay in ECHR if it so wished. Eire would see far more immigration then.
barleyman5.bsky.social
Are immigration decisions in the UK not based on laws dictated by ECHR though? Cases do not have to go all the way to the ECHR to be affected
barleyman5.bsky.social
I'm not sure. I'm sure the Irish would be even more upset about immigration rates though.
barleyman5.bsky.social
They have other Brexit exemptions
barleyman5.bsky.social
Then it might not apply there. The Irish are getting more and more upset about immigration rates these days though as well.
barleyman5.bsky.social
My response to that would be, as little as possible whilst allowing more control over immigration rates and returning people who have entered the UK by unofficial channels back to the country they came from.
I think that's a valid response.
barleyman5.bsky.social
Why the question mark response?
barleyman5.bsky.social
Well that's an assumption. "Oh it won't be, it will be terrible". It's not a great argument.
Instead why not talk about how it could be achieved effectively?
barleyman5.bsky.social
It depends what we adopt to replace the ECHR. I mean, it's only specific areas people are finding problematic.
barleyman5.bsky.social
40s UK is very different to today. Today's world is very different to today. A lot of the push for change is due to the high rates of immigration we are seeing nowadays. The ECHR is seen as something which is restricting adequate control of immigration rates.
barleyman5.bsky.social
Does altering mean giving up?
And let's face it, 95% of people do not understand the ins and outs of it fully. They rely on people who do to explain it, and there will be some of those people in favour of changing it and others opposed. So very difficult to have proper debate involving everyone.
barleyman5.bsky.social
It's been altered a great deal since the days of Churchill, as you've already pointed out. Has it not?
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Or it could be replaced by a UK version.