Polly ticks.
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Beachlover
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BorderReiver
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Any other old farts watching the news clips of US Palestinian protest arrests and thinking "fucking Vietnam all over again"?
Talk about ignoring history at your peril.
Talk about ignoring history at your peril.
It is the crushing of freedom of speech in universities that is worrying me. We are starting to see evidence of Florida's general approach in Canada. This particular point of protest is the instrument for implementation in the US for lots of DeSantis's hatred of all independent thought.
The unpicking of social freedoms sounds odd coming from those libertarian types, but that is only because they lie about their intentions all the time. Right-wing antisemites using the charge of antisemitism to break up the coherence of the centre left has been one of the great intellectual coups of the C21st in the US and Europe. Not to say there isn't plenty of antisemitism and each and every political party, just that the right have been particularly artful and well-organized in creating a fulcrum from it.
If you look at the history of the membership of congress and senate in the US, you'll see that the number of Jewish democrats outweighs the number of Jewish republicans by thousands of per cent, yet it is the democrats suffering.
The unpicking of social freedoms sounds odd coming from those libertarian types, but that is only because they lie about their intentions all the time. Right-wing antisemites using the charge of antisemitism to break up the coherence of the centre left has been one of the great intellectual coups of the C21st in the US and Europe. Not to say there isn't plenty of antisemitism and each and every political party, just that the right have been particularly artful and well-organized in creating a fulcrum from it.
If you look at the history of the membership of congress and senate in the US, you'll see that the number of Jewish democrats outweighs the number of Jewish republicans by thousands of per cent, yet it is the democrats suffering.
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Saint-Just
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I think this article today by Robert Kagan in the Washington Post gives an interesting perspective that in more ways than I’m comfortable with applies to many western democracies.
Saint-Just
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You'll be getting Kate Forbes, I reckon. Though she presents as a vicious, right-wing wifey type, inclined to supply a version of Thatcherism with a bit of anti-abortion sentiment, I am sure I am wrong about that. It is what is good and dreadful about nationalist parties .... everyone is in there from left to right and you can't tell from one minute to the next who you'll get at the top.
Rather looking forward to Rish getting eaten alive during the week. He's mumbling about 100 days of retribution (er, new and attractive policies) though. Liz and Kemi and IDS are just waiting til Friday to demand a new leader. BJ will be back in national politics by mid June.
Rather looking forward to Rish getting eaten alive during the week. He's mumbling about 100 days of retribution (er, new and attractive policies) though. Liz and Kemi and IDS are just waiting til Friday to demand a new leader. BJ will be back in national politics by mid June.
BorderReiver
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Roll on Ragnarok.
I just finished season two of 'Things Fell Apart'
I think some of you would quite enjoy it. I thought the first season more interesting than the second. It was produced for Radio 4 and traces the history of some of the flashpoints of the culture wars.
I think some of you would quite enjoy it. I thought the first season more interesting than the second. It was produced for Radio 4 and traces the history of some of the flashpoints of the culture wars.
bushwacker
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Cant be worse than our prime minature
I found it a bit superficial, but that might have been because it was all still so fresh in the memory. It'll be valuable later to remind how crazed and gullible people became.
Saint-Just
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Don't forget the other ones that preceded him though. I found this Blue Plaque for number 10:
Saint-Just
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The second season? I agree. Part of what made season 1 interesting was tracing the history of the topics. The COVID stuff is interesting in its way but so fresh in comparison and the stories just aren't as interesting.
You'd think he would have covered Andrew Wakefield for example in the second season.
Beachlover
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Possibly because the actual phenomenon of him dating Elle MacPherson is more difficult to believe than the crap he spread about MMR and autism
MaC
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John Swinney's supposed to be putting his hat in the ring......
MaC
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I think so too.
Sound, and he's been there, seen it all, knows the characters, etc.,
I don't think I like Ash Regan, though I did like Kate Forbes.
We'll see what we see.
Sound, and he's been there, seen it all, knows the characters, etc.,
I don't think I like Ash Regan, though I did like Kate Forbes.
We'll see what we see.
Good article that - I follow a podcast on the SCOTUS and have heard much of this analysis previously but in disparate conversation.
MaC
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Thing is you see, most of them were quite happy with Nicola, so no one really thought to stir all that much to find out.
Now, well, either you go for old guard like JS or Angus Robertson, or the already divisive Ash, or go straight laced like KF. Among the younger men, Neil Gray (Health) or Jamie Hepburn....neither name is really 'recognisable' to anyone not looking hard......and that's the thing across the board.
Unless something happens that causes them to be widely reported, then most will never hear their name. Not saying they're not capable people, just not known beyond their own constituency.
It's going to be an interesting few weeks
