korgill.bsky.social
Retired academic. My books were only ever read by friends and family, and even they moaned when I didn’t offer them a discount…!
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Except they’re not trying to save money. They are lining up the usual suspects to blame when they fail to save money. “Local government is broken because the system is broken. Only good old Nige as PM can fix things!”
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Says the BBC website of the parade: “The numbers at Saturday's event was well below that, partly due to wet conditions and the forecast of heavy rain.” Blimey, that was a quick bit of research! Thanks BBC!
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We burnt all the trees down, so why hasn’t Labour grown a new forest yet?
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Fraser Nelson is another one. “Oh the world has changed for the worse and no one knows how to deal with it”.
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Not a goose-step to be seen! More of a goose limp.
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Does being young excuse you from knowing it’s the Right who have spent decades creating public squalor? But nice to see Musk bounce back after his recent humiliations on the global stage.
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At least the Republican Party has a new motto.
Faith, flag, family: fucked.
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If you’re a MAGA who believed Tiananmen Trump’s previous 30,000 lies, then 30,001 isn’t going to bother you.
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Oh dear. Suzanne Moore. Another one bites the dust.
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David ‘Brexit is great’ Frost, i.e. Frosty-the-Slowman, is confused with the TV presenter who died 12yrs ago? Ah well. The voter is never wrong! I’m changing my name to Clint Eastwood and standing for office.
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Because they couldn’t find Darth Vader’s phone number?
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I’m beginning to believe that Nazi salute didn’t do Musk any favours long-term.
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Turns out a doge isn’t a man’s best friend…
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But what a boxing match! A fungal in the jungle.
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Only if Napoleon was a sock filled with manure.
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Is this Musk attempting to stage a Poo d'État?
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So many nationalists who hate the very countries about which they claim to be patriotic.
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My grandfather came here from Ireland. Do I pass the Telegraph’s White British test or not?
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Macintyre was as reductive as Hayek. The latter saw social democracy as the road to serfdom; the former saw Nietzsche as the essence of liberalism. The latter is multifaceted. I can support freedom of association and oppose free markets. Whether as Marxist or Catholic, Macintyre was a bit of a fool.
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Is it the bit where The Times still pretends to be a newspaper?
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The Sperminator.
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Is the Mail saying we shouldn’t riot and attack all middle class ex-Royal Marines? I think we should be told.
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Vote Reform: because foreign billionaires always serve your best interests.
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Jeez. The Leavers have resorted to Nazi Stab-In-The-Back myths. If only we had anticipated this back in 2016…
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At least this will make Rowling happy.
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4. Well, it is that serious but at least the cure is more expensive than the sickness.
5. Well, the sickness is more expensive but at least…ah, fuck you, I need my culture wars so I can own the libs!
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1. At least climate change isn’t happening.
2. Well, it is happening but at least it’s not because of humans.
3. Well, it is because of humans but at least it’s not that serious.
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Please don’t fire me. Please don’t fire me. Please don’t fire me. Please! Please!! Please!!!
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The unaccountable ivory tower? Don’t the people who say this stuff know they sound like a village idiot who fell into a time machine from 1957? The message is: staff will continue to be shat on.
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I’ve not got much time for Steven Pinker either but years ago Pinker took him down over criticisms Gray had made re Better Angels of our Nature. Really enjoyable.
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“The answer to that is not to become more like Reform: it is to be more urgent and convincing about making reforms.” Agree. Jobs/wages. Housing. Public services. Paradoxically, if Labour really wants to neuter Reform, it should lean towards itself.
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Difficult to imagine the latter, I admit, yet hardly impossible.
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(1) But may not get enough credit if disillusionment has baked in during the interim.
(2) Doesn’t apply to responsible spending via progressive wealth taxes.
(3) Trump’s 2025-28 version of America might scare voters back, or its dystopian example might lead to a tempered, more moderate Farage.
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Labour’s gamble:
(1) by the next election the government will be making tangible improvements to public services,
(2) a spending blitz would risk a Liz Truss-style meltdown,
(3) progressive voters will vote tactically to stop a Reform-Conservative coalition.
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Many of us are sick at those who burn the forest down (by voting for austerity and Brexit and Johnson and Truss) but then blame the next government when there are fewer trees to distribute. Maybe our anger should be the story for a change.
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Some of us are torn. We acknowledge the failings and timidity of Labour. Yet we are also tired of a political-media class which still treats the far Right as new, plucky insurgents.
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To misquote P J O’Rourke. Far Right populists believe that the country is self-destructing. Then they get into power and prove it.
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Aghh! If only Reform voters had seen this 24hrs ago. Would have caused much self-reflection and a change in their vote…
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Exactly. Labour gambles (1) that public services etc will recover by 2029; (2) it will have neutralised reactionary cultural issues. Yet even if (1) happens it won’t get enough credit. While (2) will alienate progressives. Time for more of the ‘vision thing’.
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When you are that far to the Right almost everyone in the world must seem communist. No wonder MAGA is characterised by fear and insecurity.
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Perhaps. Though, even if they notice, I wonder how many of those who voted for Brexit to ‘save the NHS’ will quietly ignore this admission.
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How is it possible for one person to form a circular firing squad with themselves at the centre? BadEnoch is a kind of anti-genius.
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On the bright side, none of these Reform candidates advocates strangling blind orphan puppies. So there’s that.
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Blair: ‘Net zero is losing popularity.’
Reform and Badenoch: ‘We agree with Tony!’
Blair: ‘See. I told you.’
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So Bezos (the suck-up to Trump) just went to war against Bezos (I’m not a doormat)…and they both somehow managed to lose?!!
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We’ve heard this stuff for years. ‘New tech will save us.’ Some tech maybe. But carbon-capture is extremely expensive to scale up globally and redundant unless fossil fuels are also phased out. Yes, people need to see the social and personal benefits of net-zero but that’s hardly a new idea either.