Flip tha police comin' straight from the underground, a young fellow got it bad 'cos he's brown.

- KidzBop do NWA

Oh, I think I heard them once. Kind of Cradle of Filth crossed with Dimmu Borgir vibes.

AKA "I fought the norms and the norms won" 🎵

Surprised that you didn't go into the topic of social media. It strikes me that social media is the 21st century's weapon of choice for unfriendly governments. This rightward shift must have at least something to do with their effectiveness of utilizing the platforms where young people gather.

One problem I've noticed regarding the media landscape is that journalists are incredibly reluctant to publicly criticise other journalists. I first noticed it when respectable political journalists found it hard to criticise Michael Gove and instead gave him a lot of "benefit of the doubt".

I'm thinking more about the British far-right. Because Boris Johnson was pro-Ukraine, we didn't have the narrative that "if you're a real nationalist you have to say Russia are the good guys". But now that Trump has nailed his flag to the mast, and Farage will no doubt follow suit, let's see...

Given the tendency of people to shape their beliefs to suit their chosen identity group, I wonder if we'll see this change drastically once "believing that Ukraine started it" becomes central to the "far right populist" belief system. Let's see what the same poll shows in a month.

That's what my Amazon delivery guy said. I still think the neighbours stole it.

Nah, I've heard you guys talking about your IPv6 transport layer cider switch packet losses - you're totally making it up as you go along! 😎

Won't that just mean that advertisers will stop paying for advertising before movies, since nobody will turn up to see the ads, which will drive up ticket prices or put movie theatres out of business? It's like adverts on the radio - they're annoying, but they pay for the station.

The argument that "We should rejoin the EU, as long as it's under exactly the same conditions we used to have" isn't an argument that anyone on the rejoin side ever makes. I'm not sure why so many people try to argue against it as though it undermines the whole justification for rejoining.