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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
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This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.
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Also, it’s not ‘only now’; these allegations were raised as early as 2013, but the complainants were anonymous.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Also, it’s not ‘only now’; these allegations were raised as early as 2013, but the complainants were anonymous.
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This is pretty much exactly how Peretz, Yachimovich & Herzog destroyed the Israeli Labor Party - adopting security hawk positions, supporting settlements & even opposing inter-ethnic marriage. They essentially pushed Israeli liberals into becoming apolitical & right wingers just voted right anyway
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This is pretty much exactly how Peretz, Yachimovich & Herzog destroyed the Israeli Labor Party - adopting security hawk positions, supporting settlements & even opposing inter-ethnic marriage. They essentially pushed Israeli liberals into becoming apolitical & right wingers just voted right anyway
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The fascination with Denmark is revealing - that’s a PR system where the Labour equiv party can just hand votes over to other centre-left parties without this undermining its prospects of governing much. Or form a government with the main centre-right party, as they are now.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The fascination with Denmark is revealing - that’s a PR system where the Labour equiv party can just hand votes over to other centre-left parties without this undermining its prospects of governing much. Or form a government with the main centre-right party, as they are now.
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Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail
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This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
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i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
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My favourite thing is that he went through security, transferred landside, queued for a paper ticket rather than just using contactless, went back through security, was kindly allowed to jump the queue, nevertheless managed to make his flight, and yet somehow this demonstrates that the UK is broken.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My favourite thing is that he went through security, transferred landside, queued for a paper ticket rather than just using contactless, went back through security, was kindly allowed to jump the queue, nevertheless managed to make his flight, and yet somehow this demonstrates that the UK is broken.
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Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
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Trump got a big W with Dems caving on the shutdown and he immediately decided to blow his foot off with a proverbial shotgun.
U.S. SUPREME COURT EXTENDS PAUSE ON JUDGE'S ORDER THAT REQUIRED TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO FULLY FUND FOOD AID FOR 42 MILLION AMERICANS THIS MONTH AMID FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Trump got a big W with Dems caving on the shutdown and he immediately decided to blow his foot off with a proverbial shotgun.
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The UK is funny because they could just be like “let’s electrify 100 km a year” and do that 20 years and it would be a really good investment, and wouldn’t be that hard.
Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...
Over 99% electrification of Indian Railways network complete
Indian Railways Electrification: The Indian Railways has completed over 99% electrification of its broad-gauge network, with a significant push towards renewable energy, including rooftop solar panels...
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The UK is funny because they could just be like “let’s electrify 100 km a year” and do that 20 years and it would be a really good investment, and wouldn’t be that hard.
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ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
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It never stops being morbidly hilarious how Americans reelected Trump in part as a "YOU CAN'T ****ING TELL ME WHAT THE **** TO DO" backlash against real or imagined middle management PMC types, and now Trump has built a regime out of every single unique flavor of nightmare middle management despot.
It's genuinely impressive how Pete cannot see his job as anything other than Toxic Terminal O-4 behavior with Fox Anchor Characteristics
This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It never stops being morbidly hilarious how Americans reelected Trump in part as a "YOU CAN'T ****ING TELL ME WHAT THE **** TO DO" backlash against real or imagined middle management PMC types, and now Trump has built a regime out of every single unique flavor of nightmare middle management despot.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II
October 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II
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This is the BNP 2005 manifesto: it is a much more moderate proposal than that of Chris Philp and Katie Lam for the 2025 Conservatives since BNP accepted that people settled here legally have legal status (which the 2025 Conservatives do not recognise) and so proposes voluntary incentives to leave.
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is the BNP 2005 manifesto: it is a much more moderate proposal than that of Chris Philp and Katie Lam for the 2025 Conservatives since BNP accepted that people settled here legally have legal status (which the 2025 Conservatives do not recognise) and so proposes voluntary incentives to leave.
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Curious how many people will be doing this soon.
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Curious how many people will be doing this soon.
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G.K. Chesterton had a line about this in “The Man Who Was Thursday”:
August 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM
G.K. Chesterton had a line about this in “The Man Who Was Thursday”:
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worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War
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Oddly enough there is now a camping boom in China, so the answer to that question is "two generations after the Great Leap Forward"
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/...
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/...
www.globaltimes.cn
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Oddly enough there is now a camping boom in China, so the answer to that question is "two generations after the Great Leap Forward"
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/...
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/...
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This reminds me of the time a friend from China once asked me, deadpan, “how many generations removed from poverty do you have to be to enjoy camping?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...
‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This reminds me of the time a friend from China once asked me, deadpan, “how many generations removed from poverty do you have to be to enjoy camping?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...
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It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
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he's not a Nazi he's a fucking idiot who had a nazi-curious phase in the marines and then joined up with Blackwater Redux, it is all these things *combined* that are sketchy as fuck
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
he's not a Nazi he's a fucking idiot who had a nazi-curious phase in the marines and then joined up with Blackwater Redux, it is all these things *combined* that are sketchy as fuck