Michael Rovatsos

It's kind of obvious what the long game is here - exit international relations and global markets, stop migration, create a plutocratic society inhabited by mostly poor people living in a segregated domestic economy where education and health are only ever offered as charity. Gilead, you say?

If there isn't already some hyper-marxist theory that property (extended to also apply to family) enslaves even the capitalists themselves, Yellowstone provides a perfect illustration of the idea.

Boats coming across the Channel are a humanitarian disaster, but the debate around their impact on immigration is ridiculous. Even if the number went up more it's below 5% of net immigration, and most people arriving are eventually granted asylum anyway. Why does no politician admit that?

Not really, everybody found her really obnoxious.

Not bad - I dreamt an old classmate who is in jail for murder (in real life) had been released and was doing a Bavarian folk dancing performance to convince us she was innocent.

My friend's mum always told him "we're too poor to buy cheap shoes". Of course they weren't poor at all, which sort of proves the point.

I think people should learn about religions as a phenomenon - they have shaped our history and still shape the lives of the majority of the human race so are an important phenomenon. But schools should teach people to follow a religion, and other subjects should not be influenced by them.

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