Indeed, and whether Polanski's Greens eclipse them and take their seats or push Labour to the left, Reform-style, I'm more positive about them than anyone right now.

But one correction: we're still in the Brexit Years.

You have to wonder what kind of traumatic brain injury one would have to receive to *not* have it in for him, frankly.

I clearly remember Blair coming in. He did some unpopular stuff and some evil stuff but still, his government was also the first of my life where central government actually made things better for ordinary people.

These fuckwits have doubled down on the unpopular and evil and done none of the good.

"Before sci-fi had adopted greebles"

Chris Foss says Heinlein's publisher was just too cheap to hire a decent artist. :3

Also, Reel Big Fish's Hungry Like the Wolf is better than Duran Duran's, but this is a far lower bar to clear. I'll probably enjoy any cover of a Duran Duran song more than the original.

Sacreliege to The Clash fans but the Levellers did the best version of English Civil War.

(Which is kind of neat.)

(And to clarify, this is "dangerous to society" in the sense of why we lock people up in prison, not some dribbling neo-Nazi's "all Muslims are a threat to western values" dreck.)

Also people who complain about this should be treated like tax frauds, Libertarians, and other anti-society criminals.

Sure, I just mean: there's little point sitting on the sidelines and crossing our fingers that the Titanic changes course when the boat is surrounded by even larger and more dangerous icebergs, several naval mines, and is presently being pursued by a military submarine stacked with torpedoes.

Who would they replace him with, though? It's not like anyone in the party has been covering themselves in glory. There's maybe three or four options I could tolerate and there's no chance of getting any of them.

(That said a leadership election eventually won by Angela Rayner would be hilarious.)

Almost like the one unifying characteristic of all right-wing politics is crass hypocrisy! Every single time!

"In fact, I'm not even wearing a bikini; I'm sitting on the 9:15 to London Kings Cross in a bright red PVC raincoat..."

Yes, but still: we're comparing him to Tony Blair here, remember? This is not a high bar.

Streeting in particular has been spouting off about things he doesn't really care about recently, most likely to appeal more to the membership in case of a leadership election. But if he's not actually going to steer the party to the left he'll just be a [somehow] less-charismatic Kier Starmer...