John C

So much of British policing boils down to the idea that there's no point dealing with Low Intensity Crime even though Low Intensity Crime is the crime 90% of people have to deal with

Gladstone's dream is alive

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Listen it's been a long 72 hours between moving and PhD-starting

At least you had a lift when you moved in

This is the 21st century we were promised

Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler because no journalist will have read it and if they do they'll learn nothing useful about me, and at a broader level my favourite novel being a high brow thriller from the 1930s doesn't undermine my public persona *at all*

A crucial thing that divides Britons from Americans (and one that, imo, also helps to distinguish Canadians too!) is a total refusal to take themselves seriously

this is both extremely true and yet makes British politics incomprensible to the average American

There was a historian, wish I could remember who, whoever explained just how much quartering soldiers sucked in the 18th Century.

LOOK AT OUR WORKS AND DESPAIR

Kier Starmer five minutes after recognizing a Palestinian State with its own territorial waters: “I forgor”

Just as the level of 'the basic quality of what they produce', not on a 'do I agree with this?' basis the Tory party is coming out with stuff far beneath the quality of what the Lib Dems 2019-24 managed when their 'costing process' was 'one bright guy called JJ'. Where does the Short money GO?

Forever haunted by the strange finds held deep within my screenshot folder

top tier stuff

The African American Press cartoons are always a hoot

Does the Caribbean home of the 2070s maintain the critical traditions (a drinks trolley in the corner of the room stacked with hoarded liquors and rums of suspicion origin)

perfect detail

Alan what's it like to kill people's dreams like this

Every post from the Tory conference just makes me sad. Like watching a destitute clown begging for pennies.

Tim Shipman's tweet on 6th October 2021: 'Boris Johnson now squats like a giant toad across British politics. He has expanded the Overton window in both directions. Praising bankers and drug companies, while tight on immigration and woke history. Cheered for lauding the NHS and pro LGBT. Where does Labour find a gap?'

this tweet is now four years old, squatting rent free in my head – much like a enormous batrachian

hi, french government expert here! this is not funny, french government's only do this when they're very distressed

The thing is, I'm not sure that "Farage wins, then discovers fiscal gravity" isn't a situation that leads to things getting *even worse*.

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

We should be proud the way we corrupted the business nonsense phrase "bluesky thinking"

the rats! the ship! the water, rising!

people who want you to believe they can predict events a century out but can't predict Donald Trump fucking up.

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

America is now one big bet on AI and the inevitable crash from the bubble bursting will result a massive and irrevocable default of the western debt management and usher in an era of authoritarians based on the Moscow-Beijing-Delhi Axis vs No It’s Not

Full optimism today aren't you Jack