Mike Green

Gentlemen, you can’t fight over this. This is a Peace Prize.

Paying £9< for a double rum the other day, not in London, but in the northern countryside.

Drinking out as much as I did as a student would probably bankrupt me now on a professional salary.

It's weird how the people who cry about judicial activism never seem to take issue with that time the Supreme Court just decided to functionally rewrite two Acts of Parliament from the bench.

Bold saying republic and not a Third Empire.

Enforcing existing provisions is terribly expensive Minister. Much easier just to pass a new Act.

See also: legislating in an area where there is already ample legislation.

I want to see fairly heated civil service country naming debate looks like.

Putting on a 700 but not the Deltic is a disgrace.

A striking dynamic in British political commentary is the people least likely to write about policy are incredibly prone to say that political parties can solve their problems with policy announcements.

Of course a concerning thing about Trump 2 is the speed to which those external institutions are weaker (and how weirdly often that's been by their own choice).

A point I made during the first Trump term was that one of the better contemporary reference frames was South Africa, insofar as you had a wannabe authoritarian and corrupt executive butting up against pretty robust external institutions (both constitutional and civil society).

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism

Bringing an ROI flag to a British nationalist march possibly even more baffling.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

An uninspire-off.

BBC News website screen grab with titled "analysis" This is extraordinary Chris Mason Political editor The current attrition rate of senior figures in government this autumn is running at one per week. Last week, the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigns - knowing she would be sacked if she didn’t. This week Lord Mandelson is sacked as the UK’s ambassador to the United States. And we are only 10 days into the new political season. Extraordinary.

Stuff that people say on air while they gather their thoughts to say something more intelligent isn't fecking "analysis"

Astonishingly poor judgment to not resign/fire him. Just mind boggling political ineptitude.

Well he wasn't wrong when he said more embarrassing things would come out *checks notes* earlier today.

"The second rule of politics is learn how to read" - LBJ, probably.

This is not a novel observation by any means but god the Azuma standard class seats are trash.

spending trillions of dollars of compute to find out the AI you have built is Gandhi from Civilization

As an active Lib Dem at that time I can say that the Green copium about this is absolutely fucking identical.

Darkly fascinating that the people who I met at Lib Dem Liverpool conference 2015 who'd go on to be most politically significant are Polanski and Darren Grimes.

Why were the grown ups not already in? You ran the election on a pitch to return grown ups. Why would you wait a year to deploy the grown ups?

the president is dead… that’s right! dead serious about going to itchy and scratchy land

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car.

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I love how Westminster Station is a perfect example, largely unique on the Tube, of what every station on the Washington DC Metro is like in terms of advertising purely based at members of the legislature and their aides, rather than the general public.