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Also one that had been very little used until after 2010, no?
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Also one that had been very little used until after 2010, no?
It’s easy to make it make sense.
The Conservative Party calculate that it is politically advantageous to support stripping nationality from brown “foreigners” but to oppose criminalising white people who at a time of disorder and social unrest post-Southport advocated burning brown people to death.
The Conservative Party calculate that it is politically advantageous to support stripping nationality from brown “foreigners” but to oppose criminalising white people who at a time of disorder and social unrest post-Southport advocated burning brown people to death.
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s easy to make it make sense.
The Conservative Party calculate that it is politically advantageous to support stripping nationality from brown “foreigners” but to oppose criminalising white people who at a time of disorder and social unrest post-Southport advocated burning brown people to death.
The Conservative Party calculate that it is politically advantageous to support stripping nationality from brown “foreigners” but to oppose criminalising white people who at a time of disorder and social unrest post-Southport advocated burning brown people to death.
Back to the Future
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Back to the Future
In fact, modernity increasingly disowned by the populist right in favour of a weird combination of techno-futurism and pre-Enlightenment absolutism.
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In fact, modernity increasingly disowned by the populist right in favour of a weird combination of techno-futurism and pre-Enlightenment absolutism.
Religion and opportunity.
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Religion and opportunity.
Two steps forward for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.
To be fair, depends whether he means the Kipling of The Jungle Book and Kim or of My Boy Jack and “if they question why we died/tell them, because our fathers lied”.
I think we can probably guess which Kipling he means, though?
To be fair, depends whether he means the Kipling of The Jungle Book and Kim or of My Boy Jack and “if they question why we died/tell them, because our fathers lied”.
I think we can probably guess which Kipling he means, though?
August 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Two steps forward for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.
To be fair, depends whether he means the Kipling of The Jungle Book and Kim or of My Boy Jack and “if they question why we died/tell them, because our fathers lied”.
I think we can probably guess which Kipling he means, though?
To be fair, depends whether he means the Kipling of The Jungle Book and Kim or of My Boy Jack and “if they question why we died/tell them, because our fathers lied”.
I think we can probably guess which Kipling he means, though?
To be fair, this is also the article in which he rhapsodises about the experience of girls in headscarves at Katharine Birbalsingh’s school reciting Kipling, right?
A lot to unpack there.
A lot to unpack there.
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
To be fair, this is also the article in which he rhapsodises about the experience of girls in headscarves at Katharine Birbalsingh’s school reciting Kipling, right?
A lot to unpack there.
A lot to unpack there.
Nah, it’s just that the stilettos were murder on his calves.
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Nah, it’s just that the stilettos were murder on his calves.
Doesn’t matter, the Lords can’t stop legislation being passed, only delay it for a while.
June 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Doesn’t matter, the Lords can’t stop legislation being passed, only delay it for a while.
What f***ing “common law” need to know principle?
That’s pure bollocks.
That’s pure bollocks.
June 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What f***ing “common law” need to know principle?
That’s pure bollocks.
That’s pure bollocks.
Investors/developers just weren’t interested in them except for offshore wind. The auctions for solar and onshore wind saw very little interest, think the pricing was unattractive. They much preferred the ROCs and previous FIT regimes.
May 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Investors/developers just weren’t interested in them except for offshore wind. The auctions for solar and onshore wind saw very little interest, think the pricing was unattractive. They much preferred the ROCs and previous FIT regimes.
Yes, although given the mess made of investment in nuclear, not sure that’s an entirely bad thing!
May 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Yes, although given the mess made of investment in nuclear, not sure that’s an entirely bad thing!
They progressively stripped away funding/incentives (arguing the proof of viability and investability for existing projects meant state support less necessary) and replaced these with CFDs that didn’t really work. Offshore wind better but requires massive capital outlay (so big utilities game only).
May 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
They progressively stripped away funding/incentives (arguing the proof of viability and investability for existing projects meant state support less necessary) and replaced these with CFDs that didn’t really work. Offshore wind better but requires massive capital outlay (so big utilities game only).
It was largely a Coalition achievement and one that owed a fair amount to Lib Dems and Ed Davey as far as I can see.
Which may explain why the Cameron/Osborne era govt didn’t want to make much of it and subsequent Tories disowned it.
Which may explain why the Cameron/Osborne era govt didn’t want to make much of it and subsequent Tories disowned it.
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It was largely a Coalition achievement and one that owed a fair amount to Lib Dems and Ed Davey as far as I can see.
Which may explain why the Cameron/Osborne era govt didn’t want to make much of it and subsequent Tories disowned it.
Which may explain why the Cameron/Osborne era govt didn’t want to make much of it and subsequent Tories disowned it.
What is being talked about here is a nation as though it is a community of the people.
Which in German is a Volksgemeinschaft. Some other people used that terminology. They were not nice people.
This is the problem with “communitarianism”. It’s a pre-modern solution to 21st century problems.
Which in German is a Volksgemeinschaft. Some other people used that terminology. They were not nice people.
This is the problem with “communitarianism”. It’s a pre-modern solution to 21st century problems.
May 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What is being talked about here is a nation as though it is a community of the people.
Which in German is a Volksgemeinschaft. Some other people used that terminology. They were not nice people.
This is the problem with “communitarianism”. It’s a pre-modern solution to 21st century problems.
Which in German is a Volksgemeinschaft. Some other people used that terminology. They were not nice people.
This is the problem with “communitarianism”. It’s a pre-modern solution to 21st century problems.
You’re right to be upset. It’s appalling stuff to have come out of the mouth of our PM.
May 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You’re right to be upset. It’s appalling stuff to have come out of the mouth of our PM.
I can only think of 2 ways to assess the metaphor. One is describing immigrants as strangers which is othering and tends towards racism. The other is white “British” (mostly English…) communities feeling like strangers in their own country. Which is nonsense and offensive to those communities.
May 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I can only think of 2 ways to assess the metaphor. One is describing immigrants as strangers which is othering and tends towards racism. The other is white “British” (mostly English…) communities feeling like strangers in their own country. Which is nonsense and offensive to those communities.
Calls to mind Father Ted
May 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Calls to mind Father Ted
The notion of a nation walking forward together conjures up Napoleon’s columns, goose-stepping ranks of the Wehrmacht and Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Maybe it’s just me.
Maybe it’s just me.
May 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The notion of a nation walking forward together conjures up Napoleon’s columns, goose-stepping ranks of the Wehrmacht and Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Maybe it’s just me.
Maybe it’s just me.
We are a rock, we are an island.
And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.
It’s such a desperately limited and delusional world view.
And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.
It’s such a desperately limited and delusional world view.
May 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are a rock, we are an island.
And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.
It’s such a desperately limited and delusional world view.
And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.
It’s such a desperately limited and delusional world view.
Also, we are more than just one island. And England isn’t an island at all.
May 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Also, we are more than just one island. And England isn’t an island at all.
Island of individuals. Which is what we generally always have been (at least in our better moments).
Insular fortress Blighty is a prison.
Insular fortress Blighty is a prison.
May 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Island of individuals. Which is what we generally always have been (at least in our better moments).
Insular fortress Blighty is a prison.
Insular fortress Blighty is a prison.