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It seems to me that the tradition or culture of black activism in the US is, and perhaps has been for a long time, well ahead, in both what it has to say and how it expresses that, of anything similar in the UK. As evidenced in the whole of this discussion.

Another point that needs to be made about welfare fraud (apart from the exaggerated numbers), is that our society is based on fraud, though, mostly, hidden behind a legal facade. If you’re looking for any fairness in our society maybe look at, snooker?

I’m a big fan of Eagleton, but every time he mentions Hegel he reveals that he has never seriously studied him.

What the letter implies is that if the majority of Ukrainians, including those who oppose its regime, want to continue fighting to rid Ukraine of Russian occupation, then we should fully support this, even if it requires (as surely it does) Western arms. I agree, many on ‘the left’ don’t.

The important point, surely, is to be clear about what the ultimate aim has to be (disarmament), because this ought to guide any short term positions. Labour has no ultimate aims (except maintaining the status quo).

Also, why was the Panorama doc. On ‘Trump and tech’ not criticised when it is blatantly anti-Trump? Maybe because it would alert people to a programme that was damming?

Why, I wonder, is it so difficult to find anywhere on the internet the text of Trump’s speech that the BBC edited? (I haven’t been able to).

In principle this is surely correct, although ensuring that the process was genuinely open and democratic would be very difficult. Crucially, any such constitution would need to ensure, afap, that no element of the state could sabotage a genuinely socialist government.

The problem does not reside in trying to persuade those on the extreme right (very difficult); it is to provide a clear moral and coherent alternative leadership to those who don’t buy into this normalisation, to act as a counterweight.

www.owenjones.news/p/ukraines-d...

This might not come to anything, or anything I would support. But it is a good initiative, and probably the best to be hoped for in the circumstances.

Not sure why the word “still” is in the motion.