Martin Luther would have loved Twitter…

One of the joys of this greatest of films - it’s a meditation on the human experience, and different every time you watch it. (Unashamed Blimp fan.)

Assumed for a second that this was a satire on Macron…

A very fair and wise assessment. Thank you for sharing.

Yes… saw some clown wangling on this weekend about how Edmund Burke would have supported Reform… and honestly just stupidest timeline.

Entirely see where you’re coming from, but: he also shows an ability to adapt and learn, and is sympathetic to the German (he and the film overall). He’s romantic and wrong, but he’s not a reactionary.

Tho arguably the RN trends Whiggish…

Indeed sympathetic, but it’s essentially subversive. “This old duffer actually wasn’t / isn’t”. We come to sympathise precisely because he’s not “Tory coded”.

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is emphatically not!

Again, don’t disagree. But it’s not a problem fixed overnight - and the benefits far outweigh the short term costs in security and fiscal terms.

What’s Starmer’s alternative? No one likes the absurd abatement. But the UK is incredibly dependent on the US - especially where security is concerned. It might be satisfying to imagine being a student political calling Trump out, but a grown up government can’t really afford to