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Also true in the UK. Where people imagine there to be big savings they approve of (overseas aid, MPs salaries, benefits fraud) there are not.

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Which is a war crime.

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Sunday’s front pages in the UK. “We’ve got your back” Leadership.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

Weasel words obviously, but really quite important. Friday really starting to feel like a breaking point.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

As anyone with the misfortune to have followed me for a longer than a day, 'but why does a Tory PM sneer at people who yearn for the geopolitics of 1995?' has been a missing tooth for me. Some wider thoughts on that with a beautiful illustration in this weekend's paper:

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

He's running.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Smart piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social - Kemi Badenoch enjoys attacking "the left" so much she can't see all the threats to what she claims to stand for - free trade, an international rules-based order etc - come from the Christian nationalist right she courts. And what was wrong with 1995, anyway?

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"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin" www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

It bears repeating.

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

I see a lot of "no more", "isolate the US", "stand with Europe", etc. But what does that look like? Do we recall diplomatic staff and kick theirs out? Stop sharing FiVeEYes intel? NATO expulsion (no mechanism)? UN resolution? Scrap AUKUS? What form does "no more" take? What are the consequences?

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Anyone heard from Farage recently?

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They don’t appear to have a clear strategy to fight anyone.

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Call me unduly cynical, but there is a reason why the invite did not specify locations that were near any major population centres.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Have Boris Johnson and Liz Truss defended this latest obscenity yet

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Why? Not sure what this changes?

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Go fash, lose cash. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

I swear columnists have a pathological need to be contrary, no matter how idiotic.

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Brexit was supposed to mean Britain could no longer act as America’s bridge into Europe, but nobody ever imagined Europe would be looking to us to be their bridge into America. Huge opportunity there.

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GPs in England agree deal to end '8am scramble' for appointments

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It’s a trap (it’s not a deliberate trap, it emerges organically, but it still is one). Don’t engage with debates on things that should not be debates, even to observe that one side is nuts and/or toxic and this issue isn’t worth debating, because when you do that it’s a debate.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The way that X is alienating people from mainstream opinion is shown in the way you have people sitting down to 'puzzle out' something which 90 per cent of people in England agree on the answer to.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

In the real world, Keir Starmer is hosting European leaders on Sunday.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The Johnson graph is very funny

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Nobody enjoys seeing Starmer be polite to Trump but remember that Love Actually never explored the political and economic costs of Hugh Grant telling the president to get fucked

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

There’s going to be a lot of hat-eating tonight. Critics will find a way to do the PM down, of course. Say he gave too much or too little. Was too fawning or not enough. They'd have done it better. Nothing will come of it. But in their black shrivelled heart they'll know Starmer played a blinder.

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Starmer handing Trump a second state visit invitation was straight from the Shinzo Abe school of diplomacy. I wrote back in January on the lessons Labour drew from the late Japanese PM. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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🔍 ANALYSIS: Sir Keir Starmer will return from Washington with good reason for optimism

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Suella Braverman's tragedy is that it will never matter how much she debases herself in search of power: she will never be more than she is now because literally no one can stand her.

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The Tories and Reform have had their script for Starmer-Trump relations entirely shredded

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As a piece of clothespeg-on-nose realpolitik diplomacy, so far Starmer seems to be doing a very effective job in Washington - praising and flattering a capricious US president while also making a small number of vital points very clearly. But as ever with Trump, it could all go south at speed.

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Amid many disgraceful lines in the @hackneyabbott.bsky.social this is one of the most appalling. Eastern Europe? Fuck ‘em.

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This is, quite clearly, mad

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Pleased to see The Mirror reporting my question to the Prime Minister about Nigel Farage's history of fawning over Putin. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Nigel Farage has said Putin is the leader he admires most, and that NATO provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yesterday, I asked the PM whether he shared my concern these comments play into the hands of Britain's enemies.

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🇨🇦 If it lasts, the Liberals' recovery should go down in history. It's on a par with NZ Labour or GB Labour's 2017 surges 📈

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Getting angrier and angrier with the ahistorical nonsense spewing from Johnson on this. Far from "stiffing us", this is what the repayment terms were

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Making Canada Great Again 🇨🇦. The latest polling by Ipsos Canada has the Liberal Party ahead by two points. Six weeks ago it was 26 points behind! www.ipsos.com/en-ca/libera...

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

This feels very freak.

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The funniest thing that happened today in politics is that Kemi gave a speech and literally nobody noticed or cared.

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Starmer: "Nigel Farage didn't even turn up to the debate in Parliament today. Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin. That's not patriotism."

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