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Thing about people like Nick, their own moral compasses never get beyond finger-pointing, will-you-condemn and you-must-love our-enemies, because it's not real to them and nothing ever affects them.

I've never been so this may be nonsense, but I get the impression Bluesky is rammed with the kind of very important people who thought Keir Starmer was Grown-Up Politics, don't like it now they've got it and don't want to hear I Told You So from the people who told them so.

Twitchers versus curtain-twitchers

Still let's help them out in their war of choice eh

I know Marina does a lot of events so maybe people at them ask her this, but I would love her to explain why it is that she wrote loads about the Middle East in the days of Blair and Corbyn, but under Starmer she can't bring herself to write about Gaza. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“The way a government treats its refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.” Perhaps the way our leaders back Israel shows how they would treat us if they thought they could get away with it.

When you think about it, this is an ideal kind of democracy from many people's point of view - it has legitimacy but no effect, the decision-makers and the decisions remain more or less the same in any event.

What's more we went from one to the other without any of the loudest Je Suis Charlie voices noticing this, let alone caring about it.

30 or 40 years ago it might have been different but everybody knows who the MEK are by now, especially whoever invited them to Strasbourg but also including any news organisations who have neglected to say so.

As I used to say about Iraq, demanding "what would *you* do about Iran's nuclear programme" at this moment is like demanding "what would you do about German expansionism" in July 1914, it's a deliberate framing of the question to allow for only one answer, a bad and violent one.

This is the guy who's made his career by buddying up to people from Fettes and Eton, if you want to know how seriously to take this theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Intelligence is a way of doing things, a learned behaviour, not an innate quality. What taught me this was being at Oxford with so many stupid bastards.

It is remarkable how using the phrase "globalise the intifada" or "from the river to the sea" is a clear sign of genocidal intent but murdering tens of thousands of civilians is not

If Steve Bell had wanted to parody Hamlet for the Guardian he wouldn't just have done it much better than this, but he wouldn't have erred by having Trump address the skull from one soliloquy while reciting a completely different one. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…