Owen Michael

This is what the Gender Critical movement always was by the way, a crowd of far right thugs trying to physically assault a woman for clicks

This has sent me on a journey collecting non-league teams in the quarter-finals between 1888 and 1925

Whatever you personally think of trans people, in general young people are much more accepting and supportive of trans people than older people are. Many of them have close friends who are trans. Most really don’t think things like the toilet issue are problems.

With regard to the question of prejudice towards minority group, I think a key question remains "Do you recognise this demographic group as an equally legitimate thing to be, something which, ideally, we should ensure is no harder to fully participate in society as this thing than not this thing?"

But there's always a desire to dismiss the socially liberalising tendency of Labour as a kind of modern aberration, rather than celebrate being the party that ended corporal punishment of prisoners, abolished the death penalty, legalised abortion, homosexuality and contraception, etc

Definitely my favorite thing on social media is when people assume that if you are not talking about the issue of the day in exactly the way that they are that you must be an evil person who supports evil things and not someone going through their own shit

the people yearn for strong parties unfortunately they’re basically illegal

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If you support modern equalities legislation and freedom of association and expression, as this MP does, what does accepting that social conservatism is part of Labour's history actually *mean*?

The Labour party really needs to stop being so obsessed by what 'Labour' is...

... But putting that aside this is a fascinatingly confused article that tries to claim 'left' values are actually socially conservative and thus Labour should embrace social conservatism.

Doesn't follow at all.

It helps if you start from the perspective that actually saying 'due to this war, things will get worse' is more helpful than making unduly optimistic claims.

can everyone on here stop the conspiratorial chat about developers and fire

obviously glasgow's had dodgy fires in abandoned buildings but this is not that! it was a busy, occupied building in the city centre

you're just taking attention from the real scourge which was likely unsafe vapes

Look you can cite the polling popularity of M4A, no more arms to Israel, expanded education all of that; but it runs up against the simple fact that when The Voters get the chance to determine policy, they often choose different, and it's the elections that matter.

Yeah, in particular I feel like May was simultaneously too early and too late: she'd missed the new PM opportunity and hadn't /actually/ had things blocked yet

Imagine going back in time and telling someone that in the future, bread will come sliced, and the purest refined wheat will be used to make it, upon which we will slather preserved fruits any time of the year. This will be considered a regular breakfast for the poor.

"the bourgeois early modern world of guilds and masonic lodges and political movements and beer halls and salons inherited its structure from orders of knighthood, abbeys, and ruthlessly suppressed peasant movements." words uttered by the utterly insane.

He just has a long memory
(And it's not about the bread, it's the going on the run that's the big issue)

"I've hunted you across the years" is an addition to the musical that isn't really backed up even there, in the book he only does anything about it when he (accurately) thinks he knows exactly where Valjean is already

A lot of people in politics get into it because they're inspired by a particular politician or a particular injustice at a particular time, and IMV part of being a good politician is ignoring that voice and governing for the times that you are actually in.

What actually needs to happen is these people need to be arrested put through the system and eventually prison. Don't care which party or which politician or however 'just' you think your cause you don't have the right to behave like this just because the person you are harassing is an MP.

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What I want is for US troops to come to absolutely no harm while accomplishing exactly nothing and killing nobody and i think the easiest way to avoid going insane is to accept that's not how things work

There is a joke in astrophysics like "This event will not occur on an astrophysically useful timescale, which is the length of a grant cycle or PhD project".

Feels like political/electoral cycles are even worse, as "rejecting previous plans" has more advantages.

Dee's alternative reform was arguably better

Someone, I can't recall who off the top of my head, described the POA as simultaneously to Corbyn's left and Priti Patel's right

Labour needs to stop pandering to the right on immigration, and stop being so aggressively against trans people if it wants to regain the trust of younger voters. They don’t seem to understand how much they’re putting young people off.

An absolute madness rune for the Extremely Online Left is that people like Stephen Miller were deliberately echoing their talking points vastly overemphasising/lying about Liz Cheney's role in the Harris campaign because they correctly sensed that doing agitprop about it was demobilising.

But yes contrary to popular belief Labour have the same fiscal rule under Miliband, Corbyn and Starmer

I think this is right a lot more broadly as well. We spend a lot of time ascribing corrupt motives to politicans out of a failure of imagination - because we can't imagine they actually think X is a good idea, when they do

Same applies to Mahmood on immigration or Putin and Ukraine. They believe it

Ash Regan, when?