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Thing is, at heart this holds a banal truth that everyone can recognise: “if they hadn’t spent money on [thing I decry], they’d have more money for [thing I support]”, it’s just so badly done in scale and responsibility and all the rest

A very particular response to being told one is exceptional, I feel

How many destroyers could you buy for the cost of that rainbow? 6? 12?

Pleased to see robust debate around defence spending on X Dot Com (formerly Twitter Dot Com)

Wonder how he’ll get on with the telegraph’s new owners

Can’t even burgle nonces anymore. Because of woke.

The entrepreneurial spirit that made this country great imho

Sir, I resemble that remark

But I don’t think that is a mad thing, I think it’s a morally very bad thing? Evil but connected to reality.

Why do you hate women

I’m not saying they are good and virtuous or anything similar. I am saying they are very right wing but not clinically insane

You can be that and still bracingly right wing?

It’s my understanding that Axel Springer media is quite strongly right wing but not really in that frothing at the mouth spent too long surfing 8chan incognito way that the telegraph has cornered so this could be interesting

Heinleinism, otoh, the cult of military sci-fi he birthed is usually very very dull

Yeah he was a good writer and he was ideologically *interesting*, his entire career, even if he was also arguably quite mad at the end

Tbf it’s very in tune with Victorian sci-fi that. All those novels which are just basically “man bangs head, wakes up in socialist year 3030”

Feels like being trapped in a lift with a libertarian Castro

I think it matters for assessing the quality of the narrative, though. Whereas, y’know, a manifesto could be presented in a less clunking manner!

Also worth pointing out it isn’t a manifesto but a speech given by the central character

So, all politicians take the position they likely believe on the Iran war, but Bluesky are all middle-class liberal hypocrites for opposing grammar schools, is that right Iain?

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I mean, via its proxies is afair still madly wrong given all the reporting I’ve seen says that parts of Hamas weren’t even aware of the plan, but I can at least see how you get there? But yeah, “what those Palestinians did”, Muslims are just one interchangeable mass to him

Anyway, if it helps it’s not just you he has mad beliefs about, he also believes that Iran “did the attack on October 7th”

Haha!

…Wait it’s the wrong shade of green? this is an outrage

I think he’s got a secret plan to fight it

Glad you have the intricacies of inflation figured out though. Fair play, that one’s quite tricky.

James Watt squats across Britain like a giant toad

12 months and two days ago

The reason it’s “not given much attention” is it’s not true. The proposed strikes were limited and punitive and aimed at degrading Assad’s chemical weapon delivering ability at the other end of the country to the area that ISIL took over.

It’s really not as good as the précis sets out.