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    Re: UK: PM Theresa May calls snap General Election

    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...
  2. Re: Disabled man sentenced to be beheaded by Saudi Arabia

    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...
  3. Re: Russian geopolitical strategy: how much of Putin's foreign policy is perhaps influenced by Aleksandr Dugin's seminal work on geopolitics (1997)?

    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...
  4. Re: EU To Punish UK Further By Allowing United Ireland To Join EU

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
  6. Poll: Re: US Presidential Election 2016: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump

    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,...
  7. Poll: Re: US Presidential Election 2016: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump

    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...
  8. Poll: Re: US Presidential Election 2016: Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump

    David Duke on Twitter has thanked Julian Assange.

    Putinists, rapists and racists all make jolly bedfellows. Whodathunkit?
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    I'm quite tired so I didn't bother separating the quotes but luckily I didn't need to be too lucid to respond.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
  15. Re: UKIP MEP in serious condition after punched by fellow MEP

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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....
  17. Re: Famous Battles that are not as important we make them out to be

    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.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    Hunt appears to be the first SecState to have made himself unsackable by messing up his department.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    Bloody hell.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
  21. Re: The Chilcot Report into the Iraq War - in detail

    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...
  22. Re: The Chilcot Report into the Iraq War - in detail

    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...
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    Re: Is Cameron the worst Prime minister of all time?

    A bunch of Oxbridge pals screwed it up, and then Murdoch figured out how seize on that.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmHCvPHXEAAqMRz?format=pjpg&name=largeL

    This is slightly misleading; Farage said "virtually none" not "most". Mr Andriukaitis was also a member of the anti-Soviet...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
  28. Re: Eruption of Racist and Xenophobic Attacks across the UK

    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...
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    Re: Is Cameron the worst Prime minister of all time?

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    This is all mightily nuanced and compromising from someone who just referred to the Remain campaign as "Project Fear".
  31. Re: Eruption of Racist and Xenophobic Attacks across the UK

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    Can Scotland and London not just make a new country with a 32-county Ireland?
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    I think you're trying to say that Remain lost because scary truths aren't as powerful as cheerful lies.
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    Poll: Re: The British EU Referendum: In or Out

    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...
  38. Re: London elects Muslim mayor. Cue end of the known universe.

    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?
  39. Re: Oklahoma court says oral sex is not rape if victim is unconscious from drinking

    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...
  40. Re: UK CPS wants to criminalize internet trolling, and some of the UK posters do deeply upset me, so watch out!

    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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