I felt Wake Up Dead Man was Rian Johnson trying to make the film about religion and belief in 2025 America with a tacked on Benoit Blanc subplot because that was the only way he could afford to make it.

So many layers on this one.

They had a plan to *raise* them.

We already had that experience with second life.

As we discussed at the time, the hilarious thing about thet was the rioters were people these commentators would cross the street to avoid, and refer to in a rather derogatory manner, somehow transformed into a True Volk

Usually I would agree but I think the background is important here.

They are both different brands of reactionary crank, so I imagine... well?

Although a bookshop I liked near Queens is now a Cafe Nero, booo...

Yes, but you are missing the important bit about the mother.

Ed West ftr is himself not White British.

West himself is part-Irish. Look at who his mother is (this is another piece of the puzzle).

The ur-text is the Tom Utley column from about 20 years ago which went "my dad had a column in the times and I went to private school, now I've got a column in the times but I can't afford to send my kids to private school, what the hell is up with this bullshit"

I decided to check out the Tony Blair Institute website and well, see for yourself institute.global/insights/tec...

True, but like with the UK, a motivation for that was weakening the supposed French-German axis within the EU.

Weren't paying attention to what neo-cons were saying about Europe then.

What, were you alive in 2003?

France and Russia, the two great revolutionary countries.