Chłoddy
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They can’t see why they are hated.
Every clique gets their Jesus. That’s the deal.
May 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Every clique gets their Jesus. That’s the deal.
Update: The quiet is no longer nice.
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Update: The quiet is no longer nice.
We’re going to need more hotdog suits.
Latest from me: All of us, it sometimes seems, are suffering from the political equivalent of road rage, manifested in either futile shouting or tense silence...
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The English question now isn’t about Reform or any party politics. It’s we can’t even talk to each other any more | John Harris
My time in Lincolnshire highlighted our country’s most serious problem: the disconnection that means solutions can’t be reached, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We’re going to need more hotdog suits.
Everyone should check out the work of Ethan Shone and Adam Ramsey for Open Democracy. They are for me, top working journalists who’ve been answering this question for a number of years now. That it’s even a question seems extremely naive at this point.
This is something I genuinely do not understand.
Why does Labour not do something about it now?
Why does Labour not do something about it now?
‘Reform is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low tax jurisdictions including Monaco, UAE and Switzerland.’
Britain’s election laws are broken - and, so far, Labour’s mooted fixes are completely insufficient
www.ft.com/content/b133...
Britain’s election laws are broken - and, so far, Labour’s mooted fixes are completely insufficient
www.ft.com/content/b133...
April 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Everyone should check out the work of Ethan Shone and Adam Ramsey for Open Democracy. They are for me, top working journalists who’ve been answering this question for a number of years now. That it’s even a question seems extremely naive at this point.
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Noah smith saw a mediocre white dude that everyone hates and was like "I identify with this"
Anyone who “instinctively likes” Hegseth needs a fucking lobotomy.
April 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Noah smith saw a mediocre white dude that everyone hates and was like "I identify with this"
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It's funny how the Blue Labour "left economics and social conservatism" types are basically invisible whenever Labour are doing austerity but desperate to yell into any available microphone on culture issues
March 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's funny how the Blue Labour "left economics and social conservatism" types are basically invisible whenever Labour are doing austerity but desperate to yell into any available microphone on culture issues
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I mean, you would *think* this would cause Discourse. What it instead prompted was months of televised roaring in fury at the unfairness and surely cheating that caused e.g. Ashworth to lose his seat.
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I mean, you would *think* this would cause Discourse. What it instead prompted was months of televised roaring in fury at the unfairness and surely cheating that caused e.g. Ashworth to lose his seat.
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The fact that the people who did Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Guantanamo got away with it is part of how we got here
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The fact that the people who did Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Guantanamo got away with it is part of how we got here
What do these people think that the whole Corbyn thing was actually about?
March 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
What do these people think that the whole Corbyn thing was actually about?
Good for her.
President Trump says the economy is in a "period of transition" and can't predict if the U.S. will fall into a recession.
Trump dismisses concerns over back-and-forth levies, says 'tariffs could go up'
President Trump says economy is in a "period of transition" and can't predict if U.S. will fall into a recession
www.npr.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Good for her.
This is exactly how all of those conservatives became some profoundly ill informed in the first place.
the conservatives that Sam Seder debated in that Jubilee video were so bad that the online right has convinced themselves that the conservatives were actually the leftists and that Sam was the conservative
lol
lol
March 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is exactly how all of those conservatives became some profoundly ill informed in the first place.
Framing these two things, which are completely separate problems, as somehow in competition is exactly the kind of clumsy, half arsed punditry that’s come to characterise much of the Guardians worst output.
March 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Framing these two things, which are completely separate problems, as somehow in competition is exactly the kind of clumsy, half arsed punditry that’s come to characterise much of the Guardians worst output.
If you crowd fund me I’ll call Wes Streeting a bellend to his face.
The Labour Party has sent an offer for £5000-a-head (+ VAT) tickets for the "Business Leaders' Summit Package" which offers C-suite executives a "networking business lunch with key Labour politicians", and the chance to "network, hear from, and talk to [...] senior politicians" at the conference
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you crowd fund me I’ll call Wes Streeting a bellend to his face.
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Sometimes, disabled people mourn for the non-disabled life we had planned.
I mourn who I could've been had the IDS, Kendall, Reeves, Osborne, Starmer, Cameron, Freud, Brown, Blunkett, Hain and cooper not cooperated in building the torment nexus that is social security in the UK.
I mourn who I could've been had the IDS, Kendall, Reeves, Osborne, Starmer, Cameron, Freud, Brown, Blunkett, Hain and cooper not cooperated in building the torment nexus that is social security in the UK.
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Sometimes, disabled people mourn for the non-disabled life we had planned.
I mourn who I could've been had the IDS, Kendall, Reeves, Osborne, Starmer, Cameron, Freud, Brown, Blunkett, Hain and cooper not cooperated in building the torment nexus that is social security in the UK.
I mourn who I could've been had the IDS, Kendall, Reeves, Osborne, Starmer, Cameron, Freud, Brown, Blunkett, Hain and cooper not cooperated in building the torment nexus that is social security in the UK.
Labour went the absolute worst way about picking the lowest hanging fruit. Taking all the flack of rising tax’s while securing an absolute pittance in terms of revenue. They should have gone further since they are taking the heat either way.
The answer to "Why isn't Labour taxing the rich?" is "Labour *is* taxing the rich." Did you miss the months of front page outrage over inheritance tax reforms which are about to close one of the most lucrative loopholes for the mega-wealthy, and the removal of VAT exemptions for private school fees?
March 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Labour went the absolute worst way about picking the lowest hanging fruit. Taking all the flack of rising tax’s while securing an absolute pittance in terms of revenue. They should have gone further since they are taking the heat either way.
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Incredibly telling that centrists simply cannot imagine being popular & winning elections by actually making people's lives materially better & only though flag shagging, having enemies & doing the wars
I always felt Major won the 92 election several months earlier when he went on TV in 1991 to announce the start of the first Gulf War.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
March 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Incredibly telling that centrists simply cannot imagine being popular & winning elections by actually making people's lives materially better & only though flag shagging, having enemies & doing the wars
Russia is not Iraq. Not even close. And Britain, our coalition of the willing, will not be the US led coalition in Iraq. The potential here for calamity, is overwhelmingly more significant here than it was in the first gulf war. We all love picking our favourite historical allegory, but this is bad.
I always felt Major won the 92 election several months earlier when he went on TV in 1991 to announce the start of the first Gulf War.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Russia is not Iraq. Not even close. And Britain, our coalition of the willing, will not be the US led coalition in Iraq. The potential here for calamity, is overwhelmingly more significant here than it was in the first gulf war. We all love picking our favourite historical allegory, but this is bad.
He was supposed to be winning the next election on the basis of dealing with gross inequality, and it’s impact on everyone particularly those in poverty who by far suffered the most and for the longest due to austerity.
Today he announced further welfare cuts.
Today he announced further welfare cuts.
I always felt Major won the 92 election several months earlier when he went on TV in 1991 to announce the start of the first Gulf War.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
Starmer is in the process of winning the next election here.
Calm authority sticks in voters’ minds, especially given the moronic alternative.
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
He was supposed to be winning the next election on the basis of dealing with gross inequality, and it’s impact on everyone particularly those in poverty who by far suffered the most and for the longest due to austerity.
Today he announced further welfare cuts.
Today he announced further welfare cuts.
Can this man who’s fumbled every single golden opportunity he’s been handed finally land this one?
I mean, that’s what literally everyone has said about everything and it’s been ‘no.’ Every other time. But maybe? Who knows.
I mean, that’s what literally everyone has said about everything and it’s been ‘no.’ Every other time. But maybe? Who knows.
These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction.
Will he seize it? New writing from me.
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Will he seize it? New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Europe’s darkest moment could be Starmer’s biggest opportunity
The collapse of the old order is a moment of political possibility. Starmer must seize it.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Can this man who’s fumbled every single golden opportunity he’s been handed finally land this one?
I mean, that’s what literally everyone has said about everything and it’s been ‘no.’ Every other time. But maybe? Who knows.
I mean, that’s what literally everyone has said about everything and it’s been ‘no.’ Every other time. But maybe? Who knows.
The way no one ever goes to prison for bribery here is very funny. Do we think it’s because it never happens? Or do we think it’s because it isn’t illegal?
Legislators for hire.
Nearly 100 members of the UK House of Lords give political or policy advice for money.
Multiple peers paid by foreign govts including repressive regimes.
Parliament is a cesspit of corruption, too many enriching themselves.
Need a clean-up.
Nearly 100 members of the UK House of Lords give political or policy advice for money.
Multiple peers paid by foreign govts including repressive regimes.
Parliament is a cesspit of corruption, too many enriching themselves.
Need a clean-up.
Revealed: how members of House of Lords benefit from commercial interests
Months-long Guardian investigation exposes weaknesses in code of conduct that could trigger calls for greater reform
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The way no one ever goes to prison for bribery here is very funny. Do we think it’s because it never happens? Or do we think it’s because it isn’t illegal?
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Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...
Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world.
mondoweiss.net
February 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...