Fear we're so far past the 'democracy is set up to work for the majority' that, even if this registered with most of us, it would just be written off as symptomatic of the norm.

Oh, how we laughed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

😁 Good luck with Lord Moylan...

Generating video is *immensely* energy intensive. Let's say they produced 3,000 10 second clips for this ad (suspect that'd be an underestimate). At 1KWh per clip it's 3 megawatt hours.

Maybe ~400-500 households usage for a day?

newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Lol 😁 Although if it necessitates potentially bumping into Chris Mason on the terrace, we'll probably have country-wide resistance akin to the poll tax riots.

Rather than being addled with drugs...?

Looking forward to that. Hear the day rate's pretty favourable... 😀

Guess govt cowed by overwhelming sense of dependence on US (obvs, altho still believing can rely on them). This is interesting (& salutary) article re: growing global 'networked' interdependence, which surely must be increasing inclination to 'turn a blind eye'
zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-networ...

Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?