like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.

Thing is, it’s normal for people to be appalled by massacres and genocide. The unusual thing is people making excuses for it, propagandising to help it continue and cheering it on. Thats the thing that’s crazy and despicable here.

That's fantastic.

What, a period of financial crisis and stagnation that exposes the shaky foundations of the current political settlement? This seems like the perfect time for 15 years of relentless screaming terror about leftists and ethnic minority groups undermining and destroying society. What could go wrong?

Even if we want to blame all of this on Farage - and it’s very clear that lots of personally culpable people do want to blame it on Farage - he is a pure media creation, a man who owes everything he has to the indulgence and promotion of maybe six or seven media outlets.

And that’s the paper of record, the one that all the politicians read.

The Times used its initial reporting of grooming gangs to “declare war” on liberalism and multiculturalism - their words, not mine. That was fourteen years ago and they have been absolutely true to their words ever since, a relentless Nordstream pipeline blasting crackpot far right incitement.