The fall in violent crime is too big to be explained by any single cause, but I've always thought that immigration from cultures where drinking eight pints and getting into a fight isn't seen as a normal way to spend your Saturday night must be a non-trivial part of it.

Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

We hate russians and you should too.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social delivers massively deserved kicking to the insane framing somersaults of media simultaneously trying to support 🇺🇦 & Trump regime 👇

"In a heartbeat we went from Trump putting sanctions on Putin to discussing what parts of Ukraine Trump will want to see handed to Putin."

Fortsatt skarpt och högintressant av Johannes Anyuru: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/OoM...

"Fuck off, this is our swamp" is the strongest political emotion on the planet.

most coups are at or about this level of lameness, it's just that we quickly forget the lame parts of the ones that work

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

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Jag är överens med Lars Wilderäng om väldigt få saker politiskt men jag har alltid beundrat hans ryggrad när det gäller att stå upp mot fascister och diktaturkramare.

Så jag ska också se till att avveckla min närvaro på twitter permanent. Behövde en spark i ändan.

‚Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones.‘

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From 1932