Aaron H. Ellis

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

Poster for Indecent Proposal (1993)

Finally watched.

As is oft’ pointed out, the fundamental flaw in the film is that everyone would gladly bang Robert Redford for free…

When I was managing a campaign in the 2015 election, I wrote a memo about ways to turn a paper @sundersays.bsky.social did on improving the immigration debate / taking the heat out of it / shifting the focus to integration – but the candidate shelved it.

Admire Starmer’s commitment to enjoying the worst of all worlds in every situation

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I’m so glad that I watched Network as a weird teen, as it’s completely shaped how I understand power and the media

So happy

Harrison

Harrison Ford is going to get an Emmy for this speech. Damn.

Me and my high school English teacher

You can definitely tell the scripted bit from the adlib…

Literally just finished a rewatch

She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work

The UK is really really good at integration, and yet people want this to be a weakness

BREAKING: The NEC has sensationally BLOCKED Andy Burnham from standing to become the next Ayatollah

And if the regime has killed tens of thousands of people over the last few months, that “strategy” might be already too late

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Some of the best-directed battle scenes ever

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Especially with *an armada* right on their doorstep

Though, of course, a supercharged Libya is a pretty bad outcome too…

Probably even more so now that there’s no myth of Russian invincibility…

Cover of Philip Short’s Mitterand

Recommended reading for potential Labour leaders:

Reminder that Churchill paid a good deal of attention to operational code names and rejected those which were inappropriately (a) revealing of intentions, (b) trivializing, and (c) bombastic, the latter because of how ill-starred they would look if the operation ultimately went badly.

Councillors who’ll be essential for winning the next general election too

The best cross tabs we've seen basically suggest the main predictor of voting for the Greens or not was not religion, but age, and maybe housing status. This is not unexpected given who and how they ran, but somehow it has become entirely about Muslim voters. It's hard not to read into that!

Thoughts and prayers.

Surely by refusing American use of RAF bases, Starmer isn’t sitting on the fence? The COBR is just for monitoring the crisis?

Look what the Nobel Peace Prize committee made him do.

For the nerds

#Justice4JonathanPowell

Also, like, it’s not her choice…?

I would say it’s “traditional Labour in Blairite clothing”. Gives off the impression of being New Labour, has a few veterans of that era as window dressing, but otherwise not really Blairite at all.