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Gets more relevant by the day
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Gets more relevant by the day
Mine is actually a step further. I struggle to feel any sense of pride or shame in anything that wasn’t in my control. ‘Proud to be from X’ for example. I grew up in Tottenham and there are lots of great/not so great things about that - it doesn’t make me feel any sense of pride or shame.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Mine is actually a step further. I struggle to feel any sense of pride or shame in anything that wasn’t in my control. ‘Proud to be from X’ for example. I grew up in Tottenham and there are lots of great/not so great things about that - it doesn’t make me feel any sense of pride or shame.
It also reduces deterrent effects. Long sentences aren’t a deterrent, but a high likelihood of getting caught is.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It also reduces deterrent effects. Long sentences aren’t a deterrent, but a high likelihood of getting caught is.
For balance, we now hear from bus.
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
For balance, we now hear from bus.
Always makes me think of hip hop/grime videos. You need your boys for the chorus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Always makes me think of hip hop/grime videos. You need your boys for the chorus.
Wearing the turkey has done wonders for his traps
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Wearing the turkey has done wonders for his traps
Christening and funeral on what sounds like the same day!? Wouldn’t trust her with a gun either. Slow down!
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Christening and funeral on what sounds like the same day!? Wouldn’t trust her with a gun either. Slow down!
Smoky Bacon to ease heartburn
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Smoky Bacon to ease heartburn
Such limited thinking. ‘Higher spending’ could potentially improve many people’s lives. The idea that a gov trying to improve anyone’s lives is seen as ‘left wing’ is so telling of the standard of political commentary we have. Embarrassing
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Such limited thinking. ‘Higher spending’ could potentially improve many people’s lives. The idea that a gov trying to improve anyone’s lives is seen as ‘left wing’ is so telling of the standard of political commentary we have. Embarrassing
This is everything wrong with political journalism. No thoughts on what policies might be better or worse for people. Everything is just ‘how will this affect an election four years away’. Stealing a living
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is everything wrong with political journalism. No thoughts on what policies might be better or worse for people. Everything is just ‘how will this affect an election four years away’. Stealing a living
Think the difference is those things weren’t for politicians. Can already picture the lazy framing from journos of ‘is giving politicians a fancy new workplace really the priority when X’
October 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Think the difference is those things weren’t for politicians. Can already picture the lazy framing from journos of ‘is giving politicians a fancy new workplace really the priority when X’
They even make an explicit point in the blurb and intro that he’s been doing this same bit for 30 years - as if that’s … good?
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They even make an explicit point in the blurb and intro that he’s been doing this same bit for 30 years - as if that’s … good?
‘Peace be with you’
October 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
‘Peace be with you’
But even the easier flip of this - making a moral case for your position as oppose to morally attacking your opponent’s - has all but disappeared. DC & GO argued for austerity on grounds of fairness and moral responsibility. KS and RR argued for welfare cuts by saying ‘we can’t afford it.’
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
But even the easier flip of this - making a moral case for your position as oppose to morally attacking your opponent’s - has all but disappeared. DC & GO argued for austerity on grounds of fairness and moral responsibility. KS and RR argued for welfare cuts by saying ‘we can’t afford it.’
Nectar points. Class
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nectar points. Class
That makes sense. Just so exasperating that they only think/care about political strategy - rather than any sort of governing strategy - and yet are still so wide of the mark on that.
September 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
That makes sense. Just so exasperating that they only think/care about political strategy - rather than any sort of governing strategy - and yet are still so wide of the mark on that.
Dylan genuinely why do you think they’re still pursuing this ‘he’s right but don’t vote for him’ stuff? Is it just head in the sand, or is there a sunk cost fallacy to it where they’ve just invested too much at this point?
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Dylan genuinely why do you think they’re still pursuing this ‘he’s right but don’t vote for him’ stuff? Is it just head in the sand, or is there a sunk cost fallacy to it where they’ve just invested too much at this point?
Pleading that he did actually mean ‘ticket’. Aside from doubling the ignorance there’s something around a sort of inauthentic national voucher I quite like.
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Pleading that he did actually mean ‘ticket’. Aside from doubling the ignorance there’s something around a sort of inauthentic national voucher I quite like.
‘Is there a correlation between encouraging people to buy things and those people then using those things? We explore.’
September 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
‘Is there a correlation between encouraging people to buy things and those people then using those things? We explore.’
Agree. Makes me wonder how the eventual reduction of age-related spending will actually happen. A party campaigning on it will likely be hammered at the polls. A gov announcing it once in power may struggle to get it through their MPs if not in their manifesto - even with a majority.
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Agree. Makes me wonder how the eventual reduction of age-related spending will actually happen. A party campaigning on it will likely be hammered at the polls. A gov announcing it once in power may struggle to get it through their MPs if not in their manifesto - even with a majority.
Fans’ expectations significantly increased without realising it was Levy who raised them.
September 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fans’ expectations significantly increased without realising it was Levy who raised them.
See no pothole, hear no pothole, speak no pothole
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
See no pothole, hear no pothole, speak no pothole
Difficult to have any sympathy for the gov/KS/RR when they trot this out. A wealth tax is for those NOT in that 1%, because they’re not paying any income tax at all! Also that 1% paying a third of IT is not a sign of redistribution as they suggest, it’s a sign of extreme inequality.
July 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Difficult to have any sympathy for the gov/KS/RR when they trot this out. A wealth tax is for those NOT in that 1%, because they’re not paying any income tax at all! Also that 1% paying a third of IT is not a sign of redistribution as they suggest, it’s a sign of extreme inequality.
Two of these groups have very little political power, the other is the wealthiest demographic in the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Two of these groups have very little political power, the other is the wealthiest demographic in the country.