Every damn time!

Not everyone has the memory of a goldfish, you incompetent fraud.

Fukuyama is the most misunderstood contemporary intellectual, and his detractors never read past the title of ‘The End of History.’ He absolutely did not predict we’d be living in some liberal post-Soviet utopia; in fact, he predicted backsliding to violent anti-liberalism.

LGBT rights was basically the ultimate victory of respectability politics. It's essentially downstream of Will and Grace (1998-2006) But that's not "cool", so people hallucinated a completely imaginary history of a violent civil rights movement powered by riots and shock value

Top Gear in its golden era was always more about the presenters than it was about the cars. Their chemistry and humour made the show. Replacating them is like catching lightning in a bottle, as the "new" Top Gear showed.

a funny thing about degrowth/primitivism discourse is that fundamentally the most environmentally destructive and unsustainable human lifestyle was the hunter/gatherer phase, the entire earth would be stripped bare supporting a population of 1 million hunter gatherers

I enjoy the abundance right's vestigial Thatcherite belief in privatisation and an ultra-centralised state running into the brick wall of pretty much all of our reservoirs being built by local and national government before privatisation, which has clearly failed to do likewise.

🚫🌐 РФ використовує Інтерпол, щоб арештовувати та переслідувати кримських татар Наразі вже відомо про затримання кількох осіб таким способом. Серед них – 33-річний Ільнур Шагаєв, якого заарештували у Франції на запит ФСБ.

Embedding a reporter with Kadyrov's Akhmat - guilty of numerous brutal warcrimes against Ukrainian soldiers and civilians alike (and even credibly accused of murdering multiple Russian soldiers from other units) - violates pretty much every principle of journalistic ethics.

tourism accounts for 15% of Spain’s GDP. but sure, water gun the Dutch girl who booked a hostel. that’ll fix housing policy. also a super normal way to behave!

Which would never have happened without EU membership, so the point still stands.

Expel Russia from Interpol.

Not enough people have pointed out that Streeting and Phillipson are running literally opposite policies. Wes is trying to do academies to the NHS, Bridget is undoing academies. Wes wants doctors to be able to trade pension for salary, Bridget is banning teachers from doing so.

My culture isn’t like the others. When it’s warm and sunny, we get together with our friends and consume alcoholic beverages outside.

Now you may see that unbelievably grungy exhaust and think "Do the Russian actually have a coal-powered aircraft carrier?" And I am here to tell you: no, this thing burns mazut, a petroleum fuel of such hideously poor quality no one has bothered giving it a name in English.

populism is a rhetorical style. universal healthcare = outcome. specific universal healthcare systems, like single payer, public option, socialized care, etc., = policy. the refusal to do the work to get there or even acknowledge the complexity = populism

Where's Wally

The regional divide is interesting here.

1. Find a judge who's sympathetic to a Leeds Metro. 2. Get a super-injunction on the whole construction project. 3. Design it completely underground so it can be built in secret. 4. No public consultations, stakeholder engagement, environmental studies. 5. Dig baby dig.