Whenever I speak to students I seem to find it impossible to mentally calibrate their age against events properly.
Last night in answer to a question I started talking about the expenses crisis before remembering they were all four years old when it happened and had no idea what I meant.
To me that's still a recent event.
There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like oysters and champagne cocktails at Gow's in the 1980s, followed by some old chap at the golf course offering you a job in the City.
The general public don't care that the Tories closed down the UK's main gas storage facility in 2017. They should but they don't.
Life's not fair, especially when it comes to politics. That should be super clear by now.
So when the brown stuff hits the fan, Labour will take the brunt of the blame.
Rubbish. Look at France
It's as if the whole of the rw media have decided their sole readership is Reform voters.
Sánchez's former strategy guy thinks Trump and Merz may have gifted the PM the chance of being re-elected
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Guess which country is responsible for the lack of interconnectlions. If you don't know a quick glance at a map will help you
Why are they even having a Referendum? Those can be dangerous
Probably not, but I don't think the editorial line will change much - though of course I hope I'm wrong and it's the harbinger of the UK centre right realising that the EU is their only defence against being eaten by Reform
Europeans looking at Brits assuming that Axel Springer buying the Telegraph will make it a pro-European newspaper.
You could argue it is pro-European in a way, just not the ideological vision of Europe that many UK pro-Europeans believe in
Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
Kind of epic how British tabloids still haven't noticed that their pro-war position to play to an American audience isn't even popular with most Americans
There are about 300 people in the UK who think this war is a good idea, and they are all either columnists or MPs.
The Strange Death of Tory England
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Just to be a little pedantic, worth noting that the first Landesvater of non-German origin was David McAllister
Whenever Brits complain about immigrants it is worth mentioning what the British diaspora in Germany gets up to in its spare time
Westerners in Dubai don't look at maps, they look at mirrors
Westerners in Dubai don't look at maps, they look at mirrors
Tony Blair’s people are still running AI for the UK government. Just check out the ministers, staff, secondees and visitors at DSIT. Seamless continuation of Sunak’s approach. Can I stop explaining why we have a problem with American Big Tech now please.
Depends where you live I guess. In Oxbridge there's a lot of them & assume other main cities but Brexit definitely hit the smaller places like Kent which ironically some of them voted 4 it so what can u do...... we just have 2 campaign 2 rejoin SM/EU.
I claim to be the first to spot that Cowley was an absolute bell end. I saw the light when I heard him say on a podcast that British was an identity shared by every one on these islands. He really said that
The leader of the youth branch of the PP resigns from the party and says ppl should vote for Vox🤣🤣🤣 You'll recall that the PP is the moderate, centre-right party in Spanish politics, according to the ludremans who write in The Economist and FT
I feel about people stuck in Dubai the same way I feel about the couple currently in prison in Iran in that they don't deserve to be die but, you know, did you look at a map?
same
You fail to acknowledge that many 2024 Labour voters would have voted for a balloon on a stick to get the Tories out, they were that sick of them after Partygate, pandemic scandals and Liz Truss. Those voters had no interest in your manifesto. They just wanted to give the Tories the biggest kicking.
You become a successful politician by never admitting your mistakes. You have to delude yourself you were right, even when you were wrong. And keep up the delusion throughout your career.
Delusion from Blair is normal.
Anyone paying any attention to it is what's wrong.
