Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.

If you're 'conservative on many issues', then by definition you're a conservative. Nobody on the UK left thinks George is anything but a chancer.

Aye, folks can't possibly be naive enough to think that Hegseth is the first to do this. Possibly the stupidest to get caught.

It’s important to understand that all of these people knew very well special forces were committing horrifying war crimes in Afghanistan and the most important people among them continued to sign the orders authorising new operations. The law will not save us, here. Political will might.

....the Labour right for the hubristic failure from which they'll never recover. The hopeful but yet unknowable result is a transformed Greens, a more natural fit for the younger left, the hostile media lessons learned? And the crankier, older elements of the left with a more natural home in YP.

Completely eclipsed by the Greens at this stage, hard to see how they're relevant except as a vehicle for the left's old guard.

They wouldn't be Republicans then. Individualism is a defining characteristic.

It's their core belief that underpins everything isn't it - this will work because we're smart and savvy and the people we're shitting on are too stupid to see what we're doing.