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Broadly, I think the centre-right position should be that Englishness is obviously attainable, but it requires a certain degree of cultural assimilation, and that should be encouraged.

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

Disgusting. However flawed it might have been, the idea that the US stood against tyranny was an important one. Now it is dead.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The fundamental message is OK, but the language is so odd and off-putting

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I am an illiberal wokester, but I just feel like, if I were leader of a political party, my aimed-for coalition would not include people who thought 'am I in fact a British citizen?' was an arguable proposition, you know.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

'He's just another Stalin' Well, thats alright then

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Agree with both Rob and Stephen here. If Farage wanted to be a Tory politician, he could easily have become one at pretty much any point in the last 35 years. He hasn't. The questions are whether the Tories (a) realise Reform are their opponents, not confused allies and (b)...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

You do sort of have to laugh, a bit, at the US government going 'it says here "funding to secure a second American century" - we can cut that, right? Sounds pretty woke, right?'

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

I always enjoy this annual Politico list as it is presented as a bit of fun, yet is always inadvertently revealing about how Westminster actually works. www.politico.eu/article/west...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

My birthday being on a Friday has certainly made for good scrolling on the Popular with Friends feed in the last 24 hours

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

So you don't get balloons on profile here

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

I think there’s much in the @jonnelledge.bsky.social theory of Tories being symbiotically dependent on increasingly irrelevant papers. Pushing them towards fringe obsessions; making them pick subjects that just don’t land with normal people in the long run (but do immediately with the papers.)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

hang on did we know this? MILO?

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Martin Lewis grabbed from his house one day and ordained before he knows what's going on.

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

Perks of the job!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Got back into The Political Process over my days off so I made an infobox of my first statewide win

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

There's something really quite ghoulish about all of these tweets. I'm sure there might well be some downstream impacts of gutting may committees, but it's certainly nothing to do with an accident a week later.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I think, with aviation accidents, that it is unreasonable to want to get answers immediately, and especially so from a non-specialist politician. This clearly needs an investigation to understand exactly what happened and why.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Because they've barely been in office for a week and we don't actually know exactly what happened yet

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A highly-revealing exchange, this. A politician who not only doesn't do evidence-gathering but sees requests that she does so as inherently problematic.

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

One new innovation of the Trump era is the article structure that goes: "it is true that Donald Trump promises to do bad things. But he has so much power, if he just did good things, he would be great! But sadly he probably won't". And then it supports headlines like this

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

I have to admit, despite having written on it, I don't think Trump or his team really believe their argument about the law and in a way it's a mistake to explain how stupid it is. The birthright citizenship EO isn't an argument about law. It's an attempt to assert absolute power

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

oi mon ami, you got a loicense for that fun run? www.ft.com/content/579a...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

didn’t realise they were such architectural critics :((

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Vance doesn't look like a Vice President, he looks like an Eastern European media oligarch who has taken over a formerly centre-left party and turned into a personal vehicle for an explicitly pro-Putin agenda.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

She's really good at the minister for the Today programme stuff, which is part of why she was a good shadow foreign secretary and it was so reflective of both her and Starmer's slightly odd understanding of opposition and her strengths to make her shadow levelling up for a brief disastrous period.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

Just as TikTok users were always terrible ambassadors for using the thing, they are now the most persuasive advocates for banning it.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

As well as that, there wasn't an agreement that it was about growth. A decent chunk of the coalition wanted it regardless of the economic costs.

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

I do kind of admire 'it's wrong to means-test the winter fuel allowance'....four hours later...'we should look at means-testing the triple lock'.

submitted 43 days ago • 29 comments

RE: Airbnb, we should build lots of homes in the places people want to live and lots of hotels in the places people want to visit.

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

The thing about BlueSky is… the TL doesn’t refresh enough for me when I want it to

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

So many of their problems in government, and so many of their problems in opposition have the same root: by the end most ministers just weren’t across the detail and many of them have no experience of anything resembling functional policymaking.

submitted 48 days ago • 20 comments