RDCK98

People will tell you Scottish banknotes have had animal pictures on them for years & if uk politics wasn't so insular people would know that, but it's actually wrong. The truth is, we accidentally drew a picture of Winston Churchill where he looks exactly like an otter & we're too proud to admit it.

M8 Woodside Viaducts consultation

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See also, Darth Maul finally dying at the hands of Obi-Wan on Tatooine giving closure to his arc, only to have 20 years of backstory continually filled in for us and robbing us of the singular beauty of that moment.

There is an obvious compromise here: furry versions of historical figures.

Real Third Worldist-Palmist thought on display here

Pedro Sanchez

•Calls for end of veto power in UNSC, integration of Brazil, India, and African countries into the permanent membership

•Downgrades relations with Israel

•Calls Germany a "vassal" of the US

Delighted I live in a south facing corner flat with no sun blockage, disappointed that this is in Glasgow.

The handwringing sometimes comes off as seeking Celtic approval for their idea of Britishness which, lads, you're never going to fully get.

That definitely happens because I have had English people get a little offended when I insist I'm Scottish and would never identify as British. But again, they are the largest nation by a country mile, I would expect this to happen.

Well yes but therin lies the problem. Institutional Englishness is consumed by an archaic British superstructure. There are *no* distinct English institutions and there really haven't been any for centuries.

Never mind England specific institutions, there are very few British specific institutions that aren't horrendously archaic.

Aye and I think that's where the Nairnite tradition comes in. Englishness is this way because we have a malformed imperial-feudalistic state. Scotland, Wales and Ireland have alternate institutions to anchor their identity. England has...the football team?

Even within Scotland, to be British in Edinburgh can be very very different to being British in Glasgow (albeit with more commonality/overlap).

I've spoken about how Britishness for me will always be tainted/associated with loyalism etc but I don't think that necessarily extends to Englishness. Nor indeed, do I think it necessarily extends to Britishness *in* England itself.

I think a fair part of it is them internalising critiques of Britishness from Ireland, Scotland, Wales etc and transposing it to Englishness, not recognising that Britishness manifests itself differently in each nation.

It's going to make a great wee comedy film in a few year

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The way these people are responding you'd think they were replacing him with a full explainer on the Bengal famine

There's an alternate history where Britain carves off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from India in '47 and the Yanks don't let them get rid of it in the 60s because of the holy war against communism.

Something I think about often is Denis Healy getting raked over the coals by Dean Rusk/Robert McNamara for the East of Suez withdrawal plan.

It isn't until Maggie that you get a reestablished "Special Relationship" on par with Churchill etc and even then, the US flexes whenever it wishes in the case of incidents like Grenada.

The Johnson administration was *furious* with Wilson not just for Vietnam but for the British withdrawal East of Suez announced in '67. The creation of the BIOT should really be seen in this light.

My recommendation for anyone interested in the British Empire as the predecessor to the US domination is to read UK sources from 1956-1979 concerning Anglo-American relations. You really get a sense of the true power dynamics and the borderline contempt that the US holds for Britain

The Lords starting a constitutional crisis over Gender Recognition Act reform, I can see it in my mind's eye so clearly

Image of BBC breaking news page. It shows a ship on fire, captioned "Cargo ship on fire in Straight of Hormuz after three vessels hit by unknown projectiles.

Chat is this good?

@heartinamber.bsky.social recently pointed out the phenomenon of people who think it is transphobic to read to the end of a sentence. This is basically the foreign policy equivalent

The Cypriots are furious at us leaving them open to attack despite squatting on their land. There are *so many* easy anti-imperialist critiques of Britain's conduct that don't involve making up a guy in your head to get mad at.

I do not understand why some folk are deliberately missing the easy hit of "The Prime Minister is right to not directly attack Iran in this illegal war but he should stick to the courage of his original convictions and forbid American forces from using British bases to break international law."

This is amplified tenfold by the fact that the US does not have a meaningful competitor in MENA— although I still dispute that the US has actual, true hegemony in this region specifically. The absence of a competitor makes it that there is no immediate consequence for the arrogance and cruelty.