Andrew Brown

I really do not understand at what point we forgot that this is how it works.
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?

We are in a hybrid war on two fronts.

The capitalisation of "he" is very important here; I read it the other way at first.

2/2

Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing.

Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked.

Don't let him forget it.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

A similar force is at work with some prominent Brexiteers - many of whom are from families who formed the imperial detritus. They can't forgive England for not being the country they thought they understood from air-mailed copies of Country Life.

My wife, who studied for two years in Berkeley, points out another huge cultural difference. American clergy have to sell themselves to their congregations, who pay them directly. C of E clergy are paid through their organisation.

Ely cathedral still has battle honours hanging on the walls, and a stained glass window in memory of the pathfinder squadron. Every time I see it, I think "But they were war criminals" -- and also incredibly brave young men who died to stop the Germans doing it to us. .

"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.

me too, and I still haven't got a theory of why it happened.

we call it The Epidural chez nous as its only when you try and stand up you realise you've lost the use of your legs

And to think that there were people who thought he was capable of being Prime Minister

Unbelievably depressing. He's talking about university students who lack the capacities I'd take for granted in an eight year old. America is so fucked — and so by extension, are its colonies, like us.

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Muscular Christianity.

“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”

Badenoch was selected as an MP before the rise of Farage. I used to live in her constituency, and racism was then taboo. Literally unspeakable, and thought morally wrong even within the Tory party.

One big reason was that during and immediately after the sexual revolution Christianity was seen on the Left as a bunch of old men trying to stop us getting laid: maximally uncool. Another is the the C of E was very much the church of imperial Britain. Also now uncool.

But it's not as if you reach your own beliefs from a standpoint outside the culture you were raised in.

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A virtual Colosseum

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.

Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters

Down by 140k isn't thought to be.

Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

The Vatican is the oldest computer in the world playing with a metaphor from a piece for The New World

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Yes. Lots of them came from Lancashire. Malise Ruthven had an excellent book about it all.

I know. But they are only part of the reason, and sometimes, in limited domains, they can be used to work against others of their kind/

"Back when search worked" is the key. LLMs today can counteract the enshittification of Google search. I have had sensible answers back for the sort of queries ("What is the best {X}?") where Google is now completely poisoned. Though mostly I use Kagi.

Ah, the discotheques of my youth! So much whipped cream

Dutch scrabble must be the worst!