luke dodd

going to be mad circa 2028 when Peter Mandelson is acting as a key prime ministerial advisor from his cell, like a sort of New Labour Hannibal Lecter

"Britain was better in the 50s"

"When most people cycled to work, and people walked to town?"

"Not like that".

pointless engaging seriously, it's just reflected transphobia, but shame we can't discuss 15 min cities and models of urbanism seriously without these freaks

there's a brilliant In The Loop style movie to be made about foreign spies going increasingly mental at a UK council planning department

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.

Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?

It is 2014, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election
It is 2028, MPs

went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

I’m sure “politician secretly working with country that keeps threatening to nuke us” used to be a bigger story

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing*

Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.

Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?

Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

Don't attack them for being hypocritical, attack them for being homophobes.

It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.

Have deleted this earlier post of mine as I think calling it a lie doesn’t quite hold up to scrutiny without me moving the goalposts, and detracted from my core point that the overemphasis on Blue Sky is indicative of where Webb is getting his information

If listing cases of 2025 US political violence, one would include the Charlie Kirk killing, the Melissa Horman killing (MN state legislator), and the CDC shooting.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.

can never tell how much these people are drastically overestimating the level of interest in politics from most students and how much they’re just lying. tend to think more the latter but they keep coming back to it!

taking a photo of anyone in public, otherwise minding their own business, for the purpose of mocking them is antisocial behavior and the people involved should be shamed

Think my views on the union are coalescing around "it's a wonderful thing that England does not deserve"

I've said this before, but every time I've gone back to the UK in the last 25 years I've been shocked by *some* sign of the atmosphere getting worse toward migrants, from government announcements to private attitudes. I'm hesitant to go back right now at all out of sadness at where we are.

On a deeper level, MPs in a representative democracy are under an obligation to *listen* to whatever their constituents believe, they’re not under an obligation to act as if it’s true or moral when it’s not.

he's revelling in humiliating the United States by helping Trump destroy it the same way he felt humiliated when the United States helped destroy the Soviet Union

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So I was curious how Chat GPT would respond to being called a "clanker" so I fired it up for the first time in years, called it a "clanker", and then this happened lmao.

UKIP won 7 seats on the Welsh Assembly in 2016

A good effort from England but honestly just a forlorn battle