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Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
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Many in the West have spent a long time congratulating them/ourselves on our rules-based model of society, while ignoring, and thus enabling the spread of, a group of people who treat rules as being for other people. Without making people face consequences, we're quite simply fucked

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Like the Tories increasingly did, Reform's voter age profile means their talk about work is pitched mostly a people who no longer do it, their talk of education at people whose kids are grown up.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Devon Council Result #LE2025: LDM: 27 (+18) RFM: 18 (+18) CON: 7 (-32) GRN: 6 (+4) IND: 2 (-1) LAB: 0 (-7) Conservative LOSE to No Overall Control.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

BBC: 🚨BRITISH POLITICS UPENDED AS VOTERS TURN TO REFUK!🚨 LibDems: 👋 we won some Councils too… BBC: LibDems: so maybe we can get some coverage? BBC: 🚨BRITISH POLITICS UPENDED AS VOTERS TURN TO REFUK🚨

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Is there any possible result overnight that wouldn’t have led to this paragraph being written?

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Terrific piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and exactly right, I think:

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Historian friends and colleagues! Please read, share and consider signing this letter from historians to UK MPs urging them to speak out in support of trans rights and avoid repeating mistakes that led to widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people in the past. 🗃️

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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

when populists win, they represent a historical shift in the country when liberals win, they now have to deliver

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

"having previously been in the police service" okay yeah that makes a lot of sense

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible - "I got a bit distracted and he wandered away", at a speed of 6 metres PER DAY

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'd caution against pushing this message too hard. Fundementally these deals are just extortion payments, and Trump sets the ransom. If he decides he wants the optics of lots of "deals" more than he cares about the substance of what's in them, he'll have no problem signing many "deals" quickly.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

This will not be close to perfect but it will be a whole lot more than the absolutely nothing a Tory/Reform government - the only alternative to the current one - would deliver.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Alan has a humbling deftness in the way he describes the seriousness of the moment. Essays that are this pointed and sharp are not normally this fun to read

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

submitted 12 days ago • 361 comments

Very interesting set of findings

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Big fan of using "The Long 90s" to describe the political settlement over neoliberalism

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Very similar situation to myself

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

One regular phenomenon of US politics is that news stories involving individuals - Elian Gonzalez, Terri Schiavo, George Floyd - tend to be the main way that big questions over migration, medical ethics, police brutality, etc actually catch fire politically. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in this tradition

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

God I love this subculture

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

If, as Tressie and the many people in the replies who agree with her do, you think that literal British citizens, inventing recipes in Britain, are in fact “Indian”, you need to have another, more careful think. Because what you’ve said is pretty racist.

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

FWIW my expectation before the election was that Labour would have to do a lot of learning very quickly because they would be going from very nearly a standing start, and this does seem to me to be what is happening

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

Welcome to the free thinker’s podcast, the last space where you can say anything in this woke culture. Please refrain from criticizing the President of the United States and the richest man in the world because those guys are my friends. Here’s six hours about how hard it is to be a cop.

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

Trust Trussell Trust to distrust Liz Truss.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 22 days ago • 220 comments

One of the things my partner has told me which made me laugh the hardest was explaining that a podcast she listens to refers to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as "Cuddle Club"

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I think a lot about this concluding paragraph from Eric Levitz's excellent review of Michael Lind: nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG. First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party. Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments