Oh I agree! I'm not saying it helped to sustainably solve Tory infighting. But it was v much a response to, or perhaps more accurately a product of, that infighting - eg Johnson backing Brexit as a power play against Cameron, the constant hardening of positions in response to Faragist right, etc

No, but it was a *response* to perceived UK problems (and, perhaps more pertinently, Tory party problems).

I don't think "second world" means what you think it means.

Georgescu has 250k followers on TikTok tbf, so you could say he's also embraced C21st forms of self-promotion (Lasconi has 91k)

"Frequency bias of negative stories" - so well put.

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"It's a massive struggle" oh f*** off