interesting thread, I'd like to add: the UK Right has become less 'Murdoch-centric' and is a unleashed, so the 90s Labour Right gambit of 'well, the left are all weirdos, no one cares' is one that now has purchase against the 'blob' ie Labour Right too (frankly w/good cause, as Petie demonstrates)

Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...

she's fine, the people do not need princesses

and finally, perhaps most controversially, surely what we really want, honestly, are more 'Zarah Sultana' examples, eg Anglo-Pakistanis, Welsh-Jamaicans, etc etc. With a fluid understanding of their parents/grandparents culture in a UK (and in this case English) context

really rate you and a lot of the Greens, but, but, as a recovering labourist I have to say it is a different political tradition - not better, not unproblematic in itself, but different... trade unions are key

are/were we that different? no