The thing is that the Swiss started work on the bilateral agreements right away, so the UK is far behind if measured by the Swiss timeline.

Also fun fact, rejection of the 1992 EEA agreement was by the narrowest of margins 50.3%/ 49.7%

it took the Swiss ten years between rejection of the EEA (i.e. Norway/Iceland status) and implementation of the bilateral agreements with the EU in 2002 (allowing free movement of persons, incl. right to work and domicile)

all well and good for Summers, Mandelson et al to retire from public life, but what we really need is for someone high profile to come clean about their role and as an act of repentance to spill the beans on the others. not gonna happen lol.

Recently rewatched it as well, for the first time since the late 90s. Watching it in 2025, and knowing about the spectacular rise of reality tv in the 2000s, hadn’t properly appreciated that the plot was just so far ahead of its time

and yet it was the top story on the morning bbc broadcasts

maybe there’s some geographic/ timezone filter. But I still get a reduced number of notifications during the night, so it seems strange that Mamdani’s win wouldn’t have been considered sufficiently important

that explains everything

also, « hot commie summer » isn’t the diss they think it is

same. I’ve been fully radicalized

This got posted a few hours after it was clear that Mamdani had won 😕

yeah he’s really got under their skin, so funny. But more seriously, I think the existential fear is a takeover of the democrat party from the left, much like Trump took over the republicans from the right in 2016

a little bit too graphic for me, but point taken, picture worth a thousand words

I mean, it’s probably more effective than listing the nutritional info on the back

the crack cocaine of sweets is now safely out of reach in the top shelf of the cupboard where I will try and forget about it