Malcolm De Dodd
@malcolmdedodd.bsky.social
No #1 Matt Hancock fan
Being a pedant is a good trait to have though!
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Being a pedant is a good trait to have though!
Fair point, I should have worded that slightly better to account for that. I used a slight, and lazy, shortcut there when what I should have said is that the party runs in multiple regions, not necessarily all of them under the same structure
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fair point, I should have worded that slightly better to account for that. I used a slight, and lazy, shortcut there when what I should have said is that the party runs in multiple regions, not necessarily all of them under the same structure
No it is a nation, but in this context national means something very different and specific in contrast to regional. A national party is one who runs in many different regions, a regional party is one that runs in one certain area
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
No it is a nation, but in this context national means something very different and specific in contrast to regional. A national party is one who runs in many different regions, a regional party is one that runs in one certain area
I forgot about him! But note the word I used, "national party." PC only runs in Wales, it is a regional party. I am referring to someone in charge of a party who runs in England, Scotland, and Wales
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I forgot about him! But note the word I used, "national party." PC only runs in Wales, it is a regional party. I am referring to someone in charge of a party who runs in England, Scotland, and Wales
I like how they ignore that he is the first openly gay person to be a leader of a national and major political party in the UK. Like that is a pretty significant thing and it just seems to be overlooked by nearly everyone!
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I like how they ignore that he is the first openly gay person to be a leader of a national and major political party in the UK. Like that is a pretty significant thing and it just seems to be overlooked by nearly everyone!
Having a live televised show where all the presidential candidates have to draw 30 clocks in 30 minutes actually sounds like both immensely important vetting and amazing TV
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Having a live televised show where all the presidential candidates have to draw 30 clocks in 30 minutes actually sounds like both immensely important vetting and amazing TV
The good news is that there is 0% chance of it ever being in anything worth watching 😊
October 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The good news is that there is 0% chance of it ever being in anything worth watching 😊
It would be amazing if it doesn't even get to the stages where the lords and whitehall shoot so many holes into the planned scheme that it ends up dying on the grapevine. Like that is a proper government deathrattle
September 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It would be amazing if it doesn't even get to the stages where the lords and whitehall shoot so many holes into the planned scheme that it ends up dying on the grapevine. Like that is a proper government deathrattle
What is amazing about these developments is that there are dozens of separate lenses to view them through, and each lense will come to its own unique conclusion about how horrific and nightmarish this development is
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What is amazing about these developments is that there are dozens of separate lenses to view them through, and each lense will come to its own unique conclusion about how horrific and nightmarish this development is
It's like liberals believe in the inverse of the "if the Führer knew" and "the Tsar's advisors are to blame" phenomenon where the leader is the uniquely bad figure corrupting all the good people under them who just want to do the best for the country
September 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's like liberals believe in the inverse of the "if the Führer knew" and "the Tsar's advisors are to blame" phenomenon where the leader is the uniquely bad figure corrupting all the good people under them who just want to do the best for the country
If we are being honest, that hasn't been part of discussions relating to public policy at any level of the state since, at best, the Human Rights Act
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If we are being honest, that hasn't been part of discussions relating to public policy at any level of the state since, at best, the Human Rights Act
This has been true for decades. See the hell that the US put SE Asia and South America through during the cold war, and MENA during the post-cold war. Only now there is a direct uncensored feed on everyone's phones of what American hegemony actually looks like
August 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This has been true for decades. See the hell that the US put SE Asia and South America through during the cold war, and MENA during the post-cold war. Only now there is a direct uncensored feed on everyone's phones of what American hegemony actually looks like
Really the only one that is happy is Streeting, and that is because he is an especially sociopathic right winger who lacks even the small bits of humanity that someone like Lammy has (or perhaps had would be more appropriate)
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Really the only one that is happy is Streeting, and that is because he is an especially sociopathic right winger who lacks even the small bits of humanity that someone like Lammy has (or perhaps had would be more appropriate)
He believed he had to compromise, to take the "pragmatic" route to all policy issues, to moderate his identity, to accept that he can change nothing, to become another empty husk that administers a system far beyond him. And that, like with many other members of the Starmer cabinet, is killing him
August 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
He believed he had to compromise, to take the "pragmatic" route to all policy issues, to moderate his identity, to accept that he can change nothing, to become another empty husk that administers a system far beyond him. And that, like with many other members of the Starmer cabinet, is killing him
I remember how he was just after Grenfell, and there was this genuine anger and righteousness to him. Ultimately I think it is the more boring, and somehow more horrifying, reason: he is another idealist who has been chewed up and spat out by a system he believes too much in
August 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I remember how he was just after Grenfell, and there was this genuine anger and righteousness to him. Ultimately I think it is the more boring, and somehow more horrifying, reason: he is another idealist who has been chewed up and spat out by a system he believes too much in
There is also a hidden factor that nearly all of those online communities have fallen into a cycle of radicalisation which make the act of getting laid seem impossible and that women are not compatible with men. Which in turn, makes them stay online longer
August 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is also a hidden factor that nearly all of those online communities have fallen into a cycle of radicalisation which make the act of getting laid seem impossible and that women are not compatible with men. Which in turn, makes them stay online longer
It is so beautiful to see new slurs develop in real time 🥹
July 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It is so beautiful to see new slurs develop in real time 🥹
That requires two things:
1) Some international event happening that causes people to rally behind someone (with Carney it was Trump's suggestions of annexation)
2) There to be someone who is very charismatic, without any scars, who can act as a reboot to a tired gov
Labour have neither
1) Some international event happening that causes people to rally behind someone (with Carney it was Trump's suggestions of annexation)
2) There to be someone who is very charismatic, without any scars, who can act as a reboot to a tired gov
Labour have neither
July 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
That requires two things:
1) Some international event happening that causes people to rally behind someone (with Carney it was Trump's suggestions of annexation)
2) There to be someone who is very charismatic, without any scars, who can act as a reboot to a tired gov
Labour have neither
1) Some international event happening that causes people to rally behind someone (with Carney it was Trump's suggestions of annexation)
2) There to be someone who is very charismatic, without any scars, who can act as a reboot to a tired gov
Labour have neither
I am still sure that the next election is going to produce the kind of screwed up and unresolvable hung parliament that results in the next 2ish years being constant elections to try and get something to work
July 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I am still sure that the next election is going to produce the kind of screwed up and unresolvable hung parliament that results in the next 2ish years being constant elections to try and get something to work
In the good old days if a country wanted an industry nationalised they sent in the army and poltely told the owner of that company that the options are either a peaceful handover or a less peaceful handover
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In the good old days if a country wanted an industry nationalised they sent in the army and poltely told the owner of that company that the options are either a peaceful handover or a less peaceful handover
I haven't watched his Taskmaster series, only one that I deliberately skipped, but I assume that in that series there is at least one deeply harrowing moment that undermines his entire image as a public intellectual
July 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I haven't watched his Taskmaster series, only one that I deliberately skipped, but I assume that in that series there is at least one deeply harrowing moment that undermines his entire image as a public intellectual
There is lots of evidence to suggest that he is genuinely that dumb
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
There is lots of evidence to suggest that he is genuinely that dumb
How badly do you have to mismanage to go bust on an org which is literally just telling people to write a novel in a month? How can you lose that much money to suddenly go bankrupt?
April 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
How badly do you have to mismanage to go bust on an org which is literally just telling people to write a novel in a month? How can you lose that much money to suddenly go bankrupt?
Imagine if after the 2000 election the Dems blamed it entirely on the Jesse Jackson
March 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Imagine if after the 2000 election the Dems blamed it entirely on the Jesse Jackson