Think what you want of Alistair Campbell but he made a pretty good summary of the Tory campaign on Twitter: they've based their entire campaign around a "bang average" politician.
May was at best...
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Think what you want of Alistair Campbell but he made a pretty good summary of the Tory campaign on Twitter: they've based their entire campaign around a "bang average" politician.
May was at best...
Iran, as grotesque as their leadership is, at least have some history of moderate secularism, democratic institutions (even today), a rich history and a cultural identity that has existed and can...
Some of the ideas he proposes are based on Russian geo-strategic trends that go back for basically its entire existence.
For example: pushing the border as far away as possible from Moscow and...
Ah yes, anti-English prejudice.
That crazy ideology that makes their "partners" in the UK somehow dissatisfied with being subjected to what is probably going to be a decade of Conservative...
One of our Supreme Court justices, Brenda Hale, recently gave a speech in Singapore (or perhaps Malaysia, my memory fails me) to law students. She gave a brief explanation of the background to the...
Well then I'm sorry but I am confused as to why Murdoch (who definitely fits my def. of the establishment) promotes "anti-establishment" views like nationalism and euroscepticism.
And I said that,...
I would say mainstream UK (particularly English) media, especially its most popular papers, are extremely anti-establishment, if we use the word in your context. Ideologically the Daily Mail, the...
David Duke on Twitter has thanked Julian Assange.
Putinists, rapists and racists all make jolly bedfellows. Whodathunkit?
I'm quite tired so I didn't bother separating the quotes but luckily I didn't need to be too lucid to respond.
The really worrying thing is that the blend of fanaticism and entitlement in much of the Brexit crowd is so great, that even when they will inevitably get what they wan't in the end, any slightest...
And what happens when the people vote to repress intellectuals, abolish private property, or oppress ethnic minorities? Does democracy mean vesting a single body with unlimited power to call...
There is no way the referendum could ever have been binding. The authority for holding such a referendum can only come from Parliament, and Parliament can't bind itself.
The effect of the...
I've been saying this entire time (pretty much 2 years) that our membership of the EU has never dampened Parliamentary Sovereignty. Our membership of the EU is merely a kind of delegation of power by...
Despite her claims of confidence in the government's chances in appealing the decision to the UKSC, I am convinced that the government pushed this "we don't need a Parliament" policy in the...
By most accounts he started the confrontation. When someone acts hard to an old, ex-military guy, and gets decked, there is a little nugget of humour in there.
So no need to get righteous about...
May condemning "Liberal human rights lawyers" meddling with British interests as part of her Brexit vision.
The Tories dont need to leave the EU and ECHR to get rid of pesky human rights lawyers....
My knowledge of medieval military history is scant but I've always found the arguments that Martel's victory at Tours has been assigned undue importance convincing.
Hunt appears to be the first SecState to have made himself unsackable by messing up his department.
Bloody hell.
It's so depressing that we live in a political climate in which I wish David Cameron wasn't resigning but am at least relieved Theresa May is succeeding him.
And having read the Labour rules on...
Perhaps my perception is skewed from being young and surrounded by people in their early 20s and seeing Twitter.
I'm basically trying to say that the lesson of Chilcot is that you can't let the...
As much as I find him unspeakably untrustworthy I actually think that Alistair Campbell had a point when he expressed worry that we will learn the wrong lessons from Iraq.
The mass opinion in the...
A bunch of Oxbridge pals screwed it up, and then Murdoch figured out how seize on that.
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This is slightly misleading; Farage said "virtually none" not "most". Mr Andriukaitis was also a member of the anti-Soviet...
General EU opinion appears to be in favour of Scotland staying in/re-entering, as far as you can discern without any major statements on the matter either way.
Hopefully if we did end up...
Can't tell if trolling or know nothing about Scottish politics.
Galloway hasn't been relevant to anyone outside a crowd of Bradford Islamofascists for a number of years now. And despite most of us...
Precisely, and in any case positive vs negative campaigning is purely a matter of which side you look at the issue from. A discussion of the inevitable economic challenges caused by Brexit is...
The working class have been deceived - the fault lies with the privileged cabal in the Tory party and UKIP (essentially a faction of rebel Tories), backed by the almost insuperable forces of the...
Dismantled his country for the sake of getting a 2nd term as PM.
Pretty much as bad as one could be. And to make it even more depressing: I'm going to miss him when he's gone, because the next...
This is all mightily nuanced and compromising from someone who just referred to the Remain campaign as "Project Fear".
The Brexit vote has legitimised xenophobia and vacuous chauvinism. The explosion of the egoism in these groups, who until now did not think that one of the largest and most advanced countries on...
Sorry, it's actually delicious that you have one short sentence, containing two propositions which are easily discredited with one photograph.
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Almost as funny as leading Brexiters talking about keeping us in the EEA (and thus FMOP) whilst their supporters are wondering when we get to send the immigrants home.
Sturgeon is not a member of Cameron's government or even of Parliament, his statements are quite powerless on her. Her brief is not to act in the UK's interest, but in Scotland's. That's the point of...
Can Scotland and London not just make a new country with a 32-county Ireland?
I think you're trying to say that Remain lost because scary truths aren't as powerful as cheerful lies.
I can't believe this is happening to be honest.
Years of debate and division, so many of us trying to make the case for the UK, to be keep us together, then the actual referendum and the hatred...
This guy seems to have split the media/twitterverse straight down the middle. Is he a polished-up radical or the new face of secular, integrationist, Islam?
Unfortunately this was the case with most rape legislation: the test was not one of lack of consent, but of force. It seems Oklahoma has updated its rape law for every kind of rape besides oral, for...
I think although these new guidelines contain some concerningly vague wording for the latter potential cases it will be very hard to judge until they start implementation of this new policy.
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