The only thing that's put me off is the clear and present danger of 40 million woolly pully clad insurgents.

Will there be water walking classes?

Whatever next. I suspect she may start singing about a young wizard who lives under the stairs in a dull house with a mean family.

But anyway I think a move to the Southern Hemisphere might be best. Fewer nuclear powers. Argentina and Australia seem to have their fair share of Nazis as well though. A cave in New Zealand is my dream.

Back in 1971, Frans Halsema and Jenny Arean sang "Vluchten kan niet meer" with lyrics from Annie MG Schmidt. "Fleeing can't be done anymore". The faraway lands are war lands, eco disasters, tourist traps. Even the moon and Venus are occupied and perhaps the last bird sings in the last Spring..

Quite right! From 1968 to 2012 or so it seemed progressives in politics and media had time and space to kick a few dogmas and help create a world that is more free for more people. Since then we've been forced on the defensive, arguing against destruction and corruption. So tiring.

Kick him out of Scotland for good! It's years overdue.

Maybe there is no left or right, just intellectually curious or bigoted. Most of the inquisitive lean left, even experts know they know little. Most of the bigots instead suffer Dunning-Kruger syndrome, knowing enough to boast but seeing peer review as personal attacks. Dogma and schools don't mix.

If I could get rid of Microsoft, AWS, Apple and GCP at my workplace that'd save a few million. Unfortunately that's not an easy task in a techbro dominated global economy.

This is why we need Proportional Representation. But that's another thing Labour won't bring about. Much as I hate Reform Ltd, at least they're breaking the 2 party system.

Labour can't take anything for granted. In Scotland they won't get my vote as SNP and Greens can be trusted far more on Europe and on socialist policy. In England they benefited from the Con/Reform split and Cons being a shower of idiots. Unlikely to repeat.

PS: I believe Reform UK should not be on a Holyrood ballot. They are a Company, who are listed in London. Only parties with an internal democracy, a Scottish office and Scots residents on the ballots should run.

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1169...

Perhaps P Billy is a philanderer too.

TBH after the work she's done on Cambridge Analytica and Brexit I realise I'm biased, though I hope she isn't. You're right there's little I can find, but she's got to be aware Putin is directly behind fomenting transphobia.

You can't expect everyone to know GMG platforms transphobia systemically, but I'm learning that. Nonetheless I can't imagine the Guardian as an equivalent to the Dearborn Independent, so it seems hyperbole and a false equivalence.

I had to look it up and I agree it looks questionable. Not sure she doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt though. Has she got previous?

How bad is it that I first thought this was a map of sewage spills into the sea..